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Undergrad How Does Cutting a Circle from a Square Affect Its Center of Mass?
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Graduate Bernoulli's Principle and Static Gas Pressure
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Graduate Classical statistical mechanics: dimensions of partition function
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Undergrad How fast do impulses travel through a Newton's Cradle?
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High School Why Do Objects Bounce When They Hit the Ground?
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High School Can a Slingshot Accurately Shoot a Basketball into a Hoop?
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High School Weight of landing from jumping
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Undergrad What Are Some Innovative Topics for a Classical Mechanics Term Project?
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Undergrad Why does tension increase with distance
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Kiteboarding problem using weights and pulleys
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High School What Happens When You Fire & Drop a Bullet from a 2 Story Building?
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia and axis of rotation
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High School Why the net force is only from external forces?
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High School Increasing Spin: Ice Skater's Formula Revealed
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High School Center of Mass Help: Understanding Concepts & Equations
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Undergrad Work of Force: Understanding \int \vec{F} \cdot d\vec{r}
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Basketball Dribbling: Does the Ball Come to Rest?
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Graduate Regarding the density of an Object in another density layer
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Basketball Rules: When Does a Ball Come to Rest?
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Undergrad Testing of Impact Sensor-Verify G-Force Readings
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High School How can I double the distance of a pulled object using a scissor system?
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High School Exploring Hookes Law: Impact of Width on Elasticity
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Undergrad Position Function and its antiderivative
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Undergrad Does Weight Affect Friction in Winter Driving?
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High School The Physics of A Human Landing and Rolling
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High School Finding the distance an object will travel
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High School Solving Physics Problems: Gravitation, Upthrust & Buoyancy
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High School Are kinetic frictional forces always slowing down objects?
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High School Where to Find the Coefficient of Friction Between Paper and Plexiglass?
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Undergrad Understanding mechanical concepts
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Graduate The Drinking Straw, Vacuum and Hydrostatics
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High School Question about Friction and gravity
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High School How do gyroscopic forces affect a bicycle's stability?
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Undergrad Why does the drag force increase with velocity and viscosity?
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Graduate Question about Sonic Doppler Shift Speed Measurement
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Graduate HIlbert-Polya conjecture proof of RH through Quantum mechanics
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High School I am trying to do a research project for school
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Undergrad Calculating Energy for Water Propulsion with Circular Blades
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Undergrad How can one determine the weight of a boat submerged in water?
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Undergrad Determining Water Ratio for Rocket Launch
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Undergrad What is the Typical Coefficient of Lift for an Aircraft?
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Undergrad Why triple point of water is higher than freezing point
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Undergrad Basic Help - Incoming Force, Rotation and Translation
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Graduate Potential Energy of a compressed gas cylinder
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Undergrad How Does Arrow Mass Affect Penetration and Force in Archery?
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High School Maximum coefficient of friction physics problem
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Undergrad What makes a ball curve when thrown?
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Undergrad Air Cannon Theory Help (Internal Ballistics)
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High School Point Mass and Extended Objects
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High School Difference between static friction and kinetic friction
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High School Creating a Paper Egg Drop: Challenges & Ideas
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Undergrad Why Does Low Pressure System Amplitude Increase with Height?
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High School Distribution of weights and net force
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Graduate Power spectrum of short signals
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Undergrad Measuring Centripetal Acceleration Geometrically
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High School Question about Terminal Velocity and Net Force
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Undergrad Can you stand on a frictionless plane?
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High School What is the difference between inertia and Newton's First Law?
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High School Maximizing Launch Distance for a Penny Shooter
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Undergrad Weird looking version of angular velocity
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High School What Makes Water's Physical Properties So Unique Compared to Other Liquids?
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High School Does Velocity Remain Constant in Vertical Motion?
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High School How Do You Determine Clockwise vs. Counterclockwise in Torque?
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Undergrad Does air flow direction affect the speed of a spinning table tennis ball?
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Undergrad The Physics of Stopping: Mercedes Commercial 80 mph in 4 Sec
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Undergrad Drums rolling downhill scenario
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High School Why do astronauts feel weightless in space?
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High School A potentially retarded question.
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High School Mousetrap Cars, Various thoughts that need clarification
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High School Mouse trap powered car- with fast acceleration
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Undergrad Solving a Mercury-in-Glass Thermometer Problem: Advantages of Thermistors
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Undergrad Free Fall Calculation: Accurate Distance in Seconds
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Undergrad What causes the curve of a spinning table tennis ball?
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Undergrad Can Puddle Derail a Train? Physics Experts Needed
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Undergrad Kinematics of Rigid Bodies - Linear & Angular Velocity
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Undergrad How Does Shooting from a Treestand Affect Arrow Drop?
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Undergrad Sound pressure level and sound intensity level
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Undergrad Newton's Laws and Inertial Reference Frames
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Undergrad Dividing Torque: Tangent and Centripetal Force Breakdown
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High School Will a Wire Hanger Bowl Hold Water?
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Graduate Do Newton's Three Laws of Motion Hold True in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate What Forces Influence the Moon in the Sun's Inertial Frame of Reference?
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Undergrad Developing an Algorithm for Calculating Range of Oerlikon 20 mm Auto-Cannon
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Graduate Rotational Equilibrium and Dynamics
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Graduate The Psychology of Human Sexuality
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High School Can Two Objects Have a Change of Direction Without Speed Change?
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Undergrad Where is the Extra Force Coming From in this Over-Unity Pulley System?
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Path of a spinning ball as given by NASA?
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Undergrad Bosun's chair problem - force on the seat?
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Undergrad Is the Acceleration of a Rising Bubble in a Tube Simply Gravitational?
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Graduate Fusion a suicidal power source?
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High School Simple Forces: Add/Subtract for Net Force?
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Graduate Power Required for Rotating Vessel
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Undergrad Handling Penetration in Physics Demo with Cubes
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High School Inertia or Impulse: Which Explains the Phenomenon?
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Undergrad Is There a Difference in Gravitational Force When Lifting a Heavy Load?
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Undergrad Drag of a Stationary vs Moving Obstacle in Same Medium
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Graduate Inductive Acceleration: Free Coil Movement & Electric Energy
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High School Build a Ping Pong Ball Cannon with Limited Materials
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Undergrad Photon Speed in Matter: Always the Same?
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