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High School Coefficient of friction (mu) is not dependent on the area
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Undergrad Why Do We Measure Pressure in mm of Hg and Observe Changes with Area?
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Undergrad What are P and Pa in Gage Pressure vs Pa and P?
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Undergrad Collisions at high speed vs normal speed
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High School How Can We Adjust Spring Stiffness?
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Undergrad What Interactions Occur When an Object Falls With Friction?
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Undergrad How Do Ferrite Beads Suppress High Frequency Signals?
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Undergrad Why Was Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment Not Conducted in a Vacuum?
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Undergrad Mass and its relation to top speed in space/water
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Graduate Solving Spinal Cord Physics for Scoliosis Research
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Graduate Is reactive pressure as efficient as expansive pressure?
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High School Prove the Earth Rotates This Way?
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High School Does a Battery Deliver Constant Power in Circuits?
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Undergrad Different methods to produce ultrasound and its applications
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Undergrad Why Do Failed Breaks Hurt More Than Successful Ones?
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High School Gravity and Running: A High Schooler's Perspective
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Graduate How Does a Magnetic Field Possess Angular Momentum?
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Undergrad Calculating Buoyancy and Weight in a Sinking Ship Diorama
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High School Fog: How & Why Does It Form & Disappear?
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Undergrad Does Coriolis really cause water to drain one way?
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Undergrad How holography works (entire explanation)
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Undergrad Gyroscope/bicycle wheel question
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Undergrad Rotational Kinetic Energy: Multi-Axis Rotation of a Ball
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Undergrad Question on Direction of Tension in Rod of Uniform Mass
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Graduate Acoustic doppler effect at subsonic, sonic and supersonic speeds
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Undergrad Understanding Foucault Pendulums
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High School Designing Autos: Physics/Engineering Guide for Beginners
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Graduate Hamilton's Equations of Motion
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Undergrad Angular Range of Motion for 2 Limit Sensors in 83° Arc
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Graduate Car Aerodynamics: Experimental trials not agreeing with lift theory, help
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Undergrad Can an explosion outside an airtight tank affect the air pressure inside?
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Undergrad Understand Significance of Conservative Fields: Inspire Me!
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Undergrad How does friction affect snowboarding?
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Undergrad Aerodynamic phenomenon? Physics of bbs
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Undergrad What is the optimal barrel length for maximum distance in a blow-gun?
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High School What Causes the Strange Sensation of a Spinning Motor's Force?
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Undergrad Rotational kinetic energy of a solid disk
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High School How can we produce ultrasound?
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Graduate Vorticity is equivalent to angular momentum?
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Graduate Moment of Inertia of Cavendish pendulum
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High School If CG removed what will happen?
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High School The cause of Friction between objects
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Graduate Summary of Hamilton-Jacobi mechanics
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Undergrad How much buoyancy is needed for a floating dog ramp?
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Undergrad Finding Time for Instaneous Acceleration
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Undergrad Computer modeling of motion of planets
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Graduate Constructing a solution for an infinite number of point masses in equilibrium
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Graduate Speed of information in classical mechanics
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Graduate Newtonian Gravity: Describing as Vector Field
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Graduate Sound waves in a 1-molecule thick liquid
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Graduate Understand Vector Potential A Physically: Proof of E = ∂A/∂t - ∇φ
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia of Disk at any point
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Undergrad High school project - water bottle rocket
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Undergrad Physics: Linear Momentum & Angular Momentum of Rigid Body
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Undergrad Car Wheels Automatically Recenter
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Undergrad Question: How is the direction of friction calculated in snowboarding?
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Graduate How can 3D physics equations be converted to 2D for a 2D physics engine?
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Undergrad Role of pitch in swing and seam movement of cricket ball
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Undergrad How pipes in parralel works in comparison to pipes in series
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Undergrad Effect of Weight on Acceleration in Aircraft: Simplified Explanation
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Undergrad Calculating Energy Loss in Pool Table Cushion Collisions Using Hooke's Law
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Undergrad Do fluids have moment of inertia?
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Undergrad Forces and sitting on a chair with wheels
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Graduate Foucault pendulum - the physics and maths involved
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Undergrad Increase Velocity of Mass on String: Analyzing Kinetic & Potential Energy
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High School I need a answer from a physics profesor please
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Undergrad How Can I Burn Wood Anytime Using Solar Power?
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Undergrad Why Do We Assume Rotation About C.O.M of Sphere?
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Undergrad Strange Plane Behavior: Explaining Graphs from the Black Box
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Graduate Group Velocity: Estimating for Differing Wavenumbers
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Undergrad Understanding Tractor Sled Pulling Physics
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Undergrad Resonance and bridge collapses
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Undergrad Fluid Dynamics standard reference
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High School How do I tell whether a torque is clockwise or counterclockwise?
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High School Why We Accept Newton's Laws: 2/3 Reasons
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Graduate Prove Total Kinetic Energy of a Rotating System about 3 Axes
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Graduate Measuring Power Spectral Analysis in dBvolts vs Frequency: Tips and Techniques
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Graduate Torque in circular fluid motion
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Undergrad How many poles and lines would be needed to create a zipline around the world?
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Undergrad Bourne Ultimatum: Plunging Into Water - Estimating Force of Impact
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Graduate Oblique Colllisions between Paddle and Ball
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Undergrad Pure Rolling: Is Speed of Point of Contact Really 0?
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Graduate Kinetic energy from c.o.m frame
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High School Jumping on a Moving Bus: Conservation of Momentum?
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Graduate 2-D Waves: Relation of power with radius
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High School Simple Energy-Force-Distance Challenge
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Undergrad Modeling a bouncing ball with STELLA
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Undergrad What PSI Results from an 8 lb Thrust in a Closed Container?
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Undergrad The Feeling of Accelerated Motion
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High School Is a Perpetual Motion Machine Possible?
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High School What is the average friction force when a person has a usual 1 km walk
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High School Static versus kinetic friction
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High School Physics of a Vibration Dampener (Tennis shock absorber)
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Undergrad 50K Ft/Lbs explosive pile driver
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High School How come projectiles have parabolic path?
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Graduate Angular acceleration and velocity in 3D
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Graduate Is Kinetic Energy Linearly Related to Velocity in Different Reference Frames?
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Undergrad Gravitation and circular motion/ disintegration of earth
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Undergrad Car Collision: Acceleration vs Constant Speed Impact?
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High School Does Gravity mean gravitational force?
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