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Undergrad Floating an Upside Down Bucket: Water Displacement Explained
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High School Moon pull on the earth with one-sixth the force that the earth exerts
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Undergrad Acceleration of Gravity: Value in Low Earth Orbit
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High School What Causes an Object to Float?
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Undergrad A different kind of solar power
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Undergrad Kinematics Software Solutions for Software Engineers
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Undergrad Calculate Wall Flip Height: Person & Speed
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Undergrad Why do conservation laws in mechanics lead to symmetry principles?
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Graduate Will my water filled pipe freeze?
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High School As the waves travel through a medium, they lose velocity
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High School Why does hot water visually separate from cold?
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Undergrad Surface Tension: Estimating Droplet Radius with a Sprayer
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High School Constant water drop rate (via diffusion)?
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Undergrad Burning Hydrocarbons with by products
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Undergrad Calculating angle needed to return spin
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High School Potential energy of a shoelace
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Undergrad Calculating CO2 invassion/diffusion into water
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia: Understanding the Confusion
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Graduate Is Gravity Instantaneous or Does it Travel at the Speed of Light?
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Undergrad The Pressure Excess Notion: Why is the Formula Multiplied by 2?
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Graduate Impluse from spinning a wheel while standing on a skateboard
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Undergrad What happens when a person punches a spinning wheel on a skateboard?
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High School What Does Kepler's Third Law of Planetary Motion Mean?
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Undergrad Parachuting from 20 miles altitude
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Undergrad Calculating direction of pull on Earth
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Undergrad Coriolis force effect on skydivers?
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Undergrad Car Physics Questions: Gear Shifting, Aceleration, Ground Resistance
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Undergrad Hydraulics equilibrium and the straw in my drink
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Graduate Calculating MI of a Uniform Rod: Understanding Differences in Axis Placement
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Undergrad Constant Properties of Sound Waves
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Undergrad Audibility of Sound at Mach 2: Inside the Car
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Undergrad Kilograms & Slugs: Solving the Units Paradox
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Undergrad Gas pressure and fluid question
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High School Protecting Eggs with Tape and Balloons: A Scientific Approach
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Undergrad Identify Fan Power with Ohm Meter: AC Power Supply
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High School What do 'perfect elastic' and 'perfect inellastic' collision mean?
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Undergrad Finding a Conservative Force: Math Solutions
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Undergrad What is the pressure of the universe?
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High School Crumple Zones & Balloon Compression
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High School Wave Speed on a Spring: Is It True?
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Undergrad Discover the Physics of Stopping a Baseball: Time and Distance Calculations
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High School Factors affecting the spring constant
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High School Possibly incredibly stupid question about gravity in an aeroplane
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Undergrad Doubling the kinetic energy of an object does what to momentum?
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Undergrad Confused with DC motor equations when accelarating
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High School Could use help before Sunday the 15th
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Undergrad Principle of Virtual Work and Feynman
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Undergrad Energy expended, no work done?
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Undergrad Why is velocity squared in the equation for kinetic energy?
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High School Building a vandergraph generator
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Undergrad Understanding Motor and Inductor Emf
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Undergrad A question of lifting bodies underwater
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Undergrad Simulating Thrown Sphere: Find X,Y Positions & Add Drag Force
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High School Why gravitational potential energy is negative?
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Graduate Deriving Distance Change from Newton's Law of Gravity
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Undergrad Does Applying Force Away from the Center of Gravity Affect Energy Conservation?
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Undergrad Understanding Rotational Acceleration: Linear vs. Angular Momentum Derivation
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Undergrad Torque: Understanding Direction & Significance
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Graduate Friction between two rotating cylinders
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High School Does increasing mass reduce the bounciness of connected car tires?
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Undergrad Understanding Pressure in Outer Space: Equilibrium and Volume Variations
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Undergrad Marking system for ballistics pendulum
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Solutions to RK Pathria Statistical Mechanics Chapter End Problems
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Undergrad Satellite Help: Will it Stay on Earth's Orbit Forever?
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Graduate Explicit vs implicit time dependence in Lagrangian mechanics
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Graduate Three body problem and numerical method
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High School Can the formula for G be used to measure gravity using a mass and spring system?
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Undergrad Help with pressure differences-sponge and wood
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Graduate Rate at Which 2 Masses & Springs Exchange Energy
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High School What Causes Whirlpool Formation in Draining Water?
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Undergrad Unleashing the Power: Weightlifting and Physics of the 85kg Class"
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Undergrad Spin reduction & bouncing ball
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Pendulum Impact Force in G's?
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Undergrad Is the Newtonian theory still being used?
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High School Rotation and Poles: Water Draining Equator - True or Farce?
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Graduate Coefficient of Restitution for a 2-dimensional physics simulator
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Graduate Principal Axes: Understanding the Confusion
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Undergrad Can Massless Photons Carry Momentum?
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Graduate Understanding Orbital Speed and Energy Dynamics
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Undergrad Traction Force simplification, what variables?
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High School Tips for preparing for the AP physics C mechanics exam
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Undergrad Discover the Best Sound Frequencies for Shallow Water Fishing with a Fish Finder
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Graduate Is Perpetual Motion Possible with a Pendulum and Balance System?
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High School Volume of Water Displaced by Mass: Does Height Matter?
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High School Impulse is the product of force and time
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Graduate Residual stress in 3 layer cantilever beam
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Graduate Do metal springs really store sig work as potential?
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High School How Do You Calculate the Energy Stored in a Mousetrap for a Physics Project?
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Undergrad Calculating Impact from 80K lb Truck - dad52002
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High School Building a Balloon Car: Increasing Speed
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Undergrad Free energy? increasing speed of a fluid in a nozzle
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High School What are the Two Forms of Acceleration in Circular Motion?
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Undergrad Pinning a gyroscope will resist change in orientation
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Undergrad Construct Lung-Powered Infrasound Didgeridoo Emitter
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Undergrad Hooke's Law and stretched fabric
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High School Can sound travel faster than a speeding jet?
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Graduate How Does Pyrex Affect the Permittivity of Water in Capacitance Experiments?
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Graduate Symmetry and conservation of momentum
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High School Gravitational potential energy and Kinetic Energy
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Undergrad Why Inertia is so interesting?
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