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Graduate Relation between Group velocity and Phase velocity
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Undergrad How to Calculate Energy Required to Accelerate a Roller Coaster on a Flat Track?
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Undergrad Does Hydrostatic Pressure Follow the Same Rules for All Shapes of Containers?
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High School Understanding the Football Rotation Axis: A Gr. 10 Student's Explanation
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Undergrad Understanding Physics of Arrow Flight
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Graduate Solid angles and position vectors
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Undergrad Vertical flow rate of water stream under gravitation
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High School How to Design an Egg Crash Landing Device Using Limited Materials
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Graduate Feather Terminal Velocity Comparison: Mars vs. Earth Atmospheric Conditions
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Undergrad Does a hydrogen baloon ascend faster than a helium baloon
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Graduate Explaining motional emf in terms of the hall effect?
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Graduate Movement of connected masses under external force
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High School Good video about relative motion
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High School Is this correct? Does we can say the body stops?
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High School What Is a Non-Newtonian Liquid?
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Undergrad Resolving power webpages' link
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Graduate Electrostatics Problem - Understanding Inertial Systems in Mechanics Discussions
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Undergrad How Much Force Does a Travel Trailer Without Brakes Generate?
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Graduate Am I understanding what phase velocity is?
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Graduate Justification of Newton's model
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Undergrad Understanding Conservation of Energy: Time vs Distance vs Position
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Undergrad Why a generator slow down with resistive loading?
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Undergrad Finding the Angle of a Banked Curve for Roller Coaster Design
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Undergrad How far away from earth before the pull is negligible?
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Undergrad Discover the Physics Behind the Pen Revolving Around Your Finger
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High School Motor run as a circuit element?
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High School How Fast do Human Feet Travel When Passing Each Other?
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Undergrad Frictional Force on an Inclined Plane: v=0
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Graduate Variable acceleration terminal velocity
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Undergrad Gravity and periods of oscillation
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Undergrad How Does the Velocity and Radius of a Toilet Paper Roll Affect Its Tearing?
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Undergrad Green power project - little hydrogen cruiser
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High School Water's Property: Droplets Stay Stuck in Inverted Tumbler
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Graduate Question About Energy Conservation Of Gas Clouds
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High School Which Voice Reaches Further: Low Bass or High Soprano?
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Graduate Navier Stokes, separation steady/non-steady
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Graduate What is the distance covered by an object thrown in viscous matter?
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Undergrad Hydrogen combustion net momentum
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High School Solving for Center of Mass: Equation and Explanation for 2 and 3 Masses
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Undergrad Estimating Pressure Loss in Closed Tank: Hole Size vs. Time
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Graduate Point on wheel with constant velocity
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High School How does relative motion affect speed calculations?
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Graduate Is the First Expression of Central Force Always Conservative?
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Graduate Period of a Pendulum (VERY TOUGH differential equation)
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Graduate Photons and zero chemical potential ?
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Undergrad Throwing A Pineapple Through A Floor
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High School Why Is My Trebuchet Projectile Velocity Calculation Incorrect?
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Graduate Classical two-body problem-understanding
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High School Applying Physics to Pinball Machines: A Comprehensive Guide
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Graduate Two-Wheeler Dynamics: Stability and Equations
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TV gets lines when I drink water.
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Undergrad What is the maximum angle that can be reached by a pendulum in an accelerometer?
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Undergrad Frictional force between pool table surface and cue ball?
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Graduate Why can't a three/more body problem be reduced to a one-body problem?
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Graduate Rotational energy from linear fields
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Undergrad Safety question: joules to pounds per square inch
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High School How Can I Understand and Apply G-Forces in Different Situations?
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High School Can you push down more than your weight?
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High School Simple question about projectile motion
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High School Understand Archimedes' Buoyant Force Concept
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Graduate How Does the Rocket Equation Apply to Average Force in Elastic Collisions?
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Graduate Contact between skewed cylinders
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High School Paperairplanes and Physics behind it?
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Undergrad Shocked by Van de Graaff Generator
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Graduate Understanding Angular Velocity and Orientation in Kleppner's Textbook
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Undergrad Calculating G Force of Golf Swing: Markus' Question
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Undergrad Volume of Frozen Water: Effects on Water Level
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Undergrad Do Sound Waves Interact to Reduce Freeway Noise at Night?
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High School Centripetal Force: Explaining Why Satellites Orbit the Earth
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Undergrad Applied Physics: Weight-Lifting Work
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High School Newbie Needs Help: If F=ma, what gives?
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High School Why coefficient of friction is less than 1
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High School THe question in air pressure lesson .
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Undergrad Solid Propellant Burn Rate Sensitivity
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Undergrad Linear momentum and angular momentum
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Graduate Help make working with anesthetics safer
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Undergrad How fast does a human sink in h20?
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Undergrad Solve Water Pressure Problem: 6000ft Pipe 3.5in Dia
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Undergrad Calculating initial velocity of a bouncing object
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Undergrad About Water - Boiling and Freezing
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Undergrad The Unpredictable Nature of Human Movement: What Causes Our Actions?
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Undergrad Hard equation (for me anyways) help
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Undergrad Is Fick's Law related to the mass transfer coefficient in water evaporation?
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Undergrad Angular momentum newbie question
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High School Why Does an Object Far Away Seem Slow?
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Graduate Beam Splitter: were is the power?
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Graduate Perpetual Motion: U-Tube Water Capacitor Experiment
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Undergrad Sinusoidally oscillating spring
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Undergrad How High Should I Drop My Weapon Sights for a 2.2 M/S Recoil Simulation?
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High School Speed = Distance / Time. HELP Basic grade school math.
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High School How does water repel for a split sec?
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High School Who Defined Angular Momentum as r x P?
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Graduate Does force of impact increase when an object is dropped from a height?
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Undergrad Programming a Small Car Simulator in Belgium
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High School Can Recoil on a Wheel Replicate Regular Guns?
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High School Motion Similar to Popcorn Popping: Explained
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Undergrad Classic buoyancy demo discussion on fluid dynamics
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High School Gearing Mechanics: Torque/HP & Gear Ratio Explained
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High School Do They Have a Point? Analyzing Train Deceleration Problem
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Undergrad If object with no gravitational attraction
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