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Undergrad Can Newton's Laws Be Applied in a Rotating Cabin?
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Undergrad Why Can a Sound Wave Not Travel Faster than the Average Molecule Speed?
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Graduate Conservation of energy in a bullet-wooden block impact system
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High School Who Does the Work When a Ball is Kicked: The Player or the Ball?
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Graduate Conservation of Angular Momentum
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Graduate The Laplacian of the potential q*exp(-r)/r
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Undergrad I'm searching for a specific book with the derivation of ##E\propto v^2##?
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Graduate Negative carbon emissions to fight ocean acidification?
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Graduate Salt water and potential difference
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Undergrad Best way to learn fluid mechanics while in high school
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Undergrad Rolling friction and static friction....
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Undergrad A thought I had about inertia, and derivatives of acceleration
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Undergrad Potential difference: positive or negative?
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High School Measuring the coefficient of friction
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High School Pressure generated by a column of air
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Graduate Inverted pendulum -- What force is applied at the center of mass?
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Undergrad Intuition problem about an accelerating barometer
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Undergrad New coordinate system and point location in new system
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Undergrad How many Gs can a person pull during a punch
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Graduate How to calculate the damping factor for a vibrating string?
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Graduate What is the difference between gauge potential and gauge connection?
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Undergrad How can we say we do work in walking up stairs or similar?
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Graduate How Does String Tension Affect Audio Output Amplitude in Synthesizers?
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High School Do Wedge Constraint Relations Affect Velocities Parallel to the Contact Surface?
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High School Why does energy transfer during collisions?
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Opposites of Speed, Mass, Pressure & Momentum - Things I Wonder Of
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High School Does a strong wind slow down your free fall?
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Graduate Calculating the average linear speed of all points in a rotating sphere
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Undergrad Translational and rotational velocity
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Undergrad Viscosity Term in Navier-Stokes Equation
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Undergrad Why does torque increase as we increase distance from the centre axis?
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Undergrad Is the equation Velocity = Distance * Trigonometric Function valid in physics?
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Graduate Tension of a rod rotating on a horizontal table about a vertical axis
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Undergrad Rolling without slipping down an inclined plane
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Undergrad Jumping up on a rotating Earth
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Undergrad Why v vs. t graph signifies but s vs. t^2 doesn't ?
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Graduate Does an impulse contribute to both linear and angular momentum?
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Undergrad Pressure on a sample of fluid (at rest)
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Undergrad Is force a a bound vector or a free vector?
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Graduate Addition of Harmonics in a string wave
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High School How to Calculate This Horsepower from a flywheel?
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Undergrad Calculating Torque for Rotating Wheels: Factors to Consider
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Undergrad How to Measure Impact Force / Energy Absorption
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Undergrad Find the natural frequencies of small oscillations
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Undergrad Need to find the spring constant to achieve Max Velocity
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Graduate A physics perspective needed on how the Mitochondria machine works
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Undergrad Throwing a ball out of the end of a moving train
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Undergrad Question about the Derivation of the Equations of Vibration
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Graduate Is rotation a relative property?
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High School Acceleration of a pumpkin from an air cannon
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Undergrad Fluid Mechanics: Wooden plank floating in water at an angle
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Graduate How can a reaction force do work on someone who is jumping?
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Graduate Classical hydrogen "molecule" - can it be stable?
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Graduate Rotation of a roll by a driving wheel
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Graduate Fluid Dynamics and Global Warming
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Undergrad How do I Calculate the Spring Constant of a Piece of PVC pipe?
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Graduate How fast will two spinning weighted wheels propel a 7 lb cylinder?
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High School Is the Spinning Wheel's Rotation Maintained? | Investigating Kinetic Energy
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Graduate Momentum from static E and H fields? (So this video claims)
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High School A glass and bottle of water moving on their own
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Graduate Fluid Equilibrium Interface Shape
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High School Difference between static and kinetic friction
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Undergrad How can the pressure be more in liquid flowing with less speed?
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Undergrad Does the spring force do work on the spring itself?
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Undergrad Work-Energy Theorem: Is Lifting a Rigid Body Really 0 Work?
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High School Is Normal Force a Contact Force Despite Atomic Repulsion?
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High School Science history, falling objects before Galileo
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Undergrad Would a giant orbital gravity battery be a good future power source?
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High School If the pedal crank arm length of a bicycle increases....
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Undergrad Coanda Effect and relevant maths
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Graduate Can a Y-joint at high flow velocity create negative pressure?
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Undergrad Surface Tension: Why Tangential and Not Downward?
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Undergrad How Does Viscous Force Relate to Velocity Gradient?
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Undergrad What does jounce help us to do in physics?
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Undergrad Newton's law of cooling - formula for constant k
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High School Determining ansatz for forced oscillations in SHM
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Graduate Can this machine produce more work than consumed?
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High School What is pressure energy in Bernoulli's theorem?
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Undergrad How to Calculate Weight on Pedals from Watts?
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Graduate How to Calculate Underwater Force for Displacement?
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Undergrad Why doesn't pressure depend on the shape of the container?
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Graduate Coriolis force caused by tangential velocity
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Undergrad Understanding the Concept of Recoil in Relation to Momentum and Force
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High School Disproving perpetual energy and perpetual motion machines.
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Undergrad Why does a paper roll unwind in jerks?
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Undergrad Quantifying deformation of a shape
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Graduate Foucault Pendulum Release Velocity in Spherical Coordinates
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Undergrad Why do we feel pressure from the downside in a liquid
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Graduate Retarded and advanced potentials
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High School Confused about Newton's 3rd law
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High School Does Force Become Infinite on a Donut-Shaped Planet?
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Graduate Unusual escape velocity derivation
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High School Pressure Change: Understanding the Physics Behind Closing a Valve
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Graduate Free Falling powder in a vacuum
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Undergrad Intermediate Axis Theorem - Intuitive Explanation
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Undergrad Rolling Without Slipping: What Am I Missing?
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Graduate Potential Energy and Potential -- Systems versus Particles
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Graduate Rigid body motion - thin disc
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Can a Fish Move a Ball in Water?
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Graduate Rotating planet moving through space
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