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Graduate Compton Generator: Understanding the Physics Behind Coriolis Force
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Graduate How Does Angular Momentum Around the Center of Mass Work in Particle Systems?
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High School Jumping, weightlessness and movement in tennis
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Undergrad How Much Energy to Create a Vacuum in 1 Cubic Meter at Sea Level?
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High School Solve the Riddle: Can You Average 60 MPH Over a 2 Mile Trip?
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High School Understanding Momentum: Comparing Mack Trucks and Small Trucks
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Graduate Induction and anguler momentum
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High School Center of Gravity: Where Does it Lead?
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Graduate Understanding the Proof for F=dp/dt: Common Mistakes and Troubleshooting
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Graduate Radio Frequency Acceleration Scheme?
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Undergrad Understanding Friction in Spinning Wheels: Debunking Misconceptions
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Undergrad Is the relationship between water pressure and gravity a direct correlation?
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Graduate Two things colliding at a imaginary moving surface
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Undergrad Physics of Trebuchet: Argument with a Friend
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High School Answer to Interview Question: What Happens to a Helium Balloon in a Car?
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Undergrad Do All Points on a Rotating Rigid Disk Experience Centripetal Acceleration?
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Undergrad Ball Fountain Physics: Understand Equilibrium & Water Force
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Undergrad How Does Mathematics Explain the Mechanism of a Cartesian Diver?
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Undergrad Candle Flame in Upward-Accelerating Lift: Why?
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Undergrad Collision between photon and atom
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Graduate Still don't understand why we need F=dp/dt
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High School Why Do Ripples Form on Water's Surface?
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Graduate Solve Counterintuitive Space Vehicle Problem w/Two Thrusters
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Undergrad Centrifugal Gravity: Understanding Its Effects on Objects
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High School Rube Goldberg Machine Project Help
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Undergrad Bernoulli's Pressure Drop Segregated from Friction Pressure Drop
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High School Helicopter Questions - Get Answers Now!
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High School What can you tell me about the tension in a string?
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Graduate Validate Collision Theory: Spring Model Simulation Results
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High School Gravity: Rock vs Asteroid | Which Falls Faster?
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Undergrad Question from watching a water fountain today
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Graduate How does Velocity Verlet integration improve accuracy in modeling fast dynamics?
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Undergrad Calculating Movement: Pool Ball Physics Problem
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These animals had an uplifting experience.
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Graduate Energy-Momentum Relation | Learn Physics
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High School Re-Entry into Earth's Atmosphere: Understanding Space Ship Speed
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Graduate Cyclotron Motion: Does Charge Require Energy to Move?
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Undergrad Apply kinetic theory to solids and liquids?
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Undergrad .Comparing Wave Reflection in Strings and Wires
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Undergrad What Happens to Acceleration When Two Equal Masses Attract Each Other?
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Undergrad Do i have to be a grad student in order to understand lagrangian
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Graduate Response of a Single Degree of Freedom System to HArmonic Excitation
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Graduate Learn Lagrangian Mechanics: Understanding Virtual Work on Wedges
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High School Are Inertia and Momentum the Same in Physics?
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Undergrad Collisions: Subatomic vs Non-Subatomic Particles
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Dyson's 1951 Lectures on Advanced Quantum Mechanics Second Edition
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Undergrad Why Does Distance From Axis Affect Moment of Inertia?
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Undergrad Need desperate help on fluid dynamics
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Undergrad Calculating Impact Force: Travis Struck by Object at Work
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High School Real Life Situations? Static vs. Kinetic friction
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Graduate What forces must be considered in non-inertial rotating reference frames?
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Undergrad Aircraft Design - Reynold's Number & Stalling Speed
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High School What is the Formula for Acceleration in Physics?
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Undergrad Don't quite understand precession
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Undergrad What the IB thinks of friction
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High School Centripetal vs Radial: Explaining Difference to Understand
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Undergrad Single Degree of Freedom System-Video Simulation
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High School Jumping inside a moving train
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Undergrad Difference between Traction and Tractive Force ?
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High School What happens when wind affects the motion of a ball heading towards a wall?
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Undergrad Physics of Motorsports: Seat Bounce Debate
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Undergrad Critically Damped systems and Overdamped Systems
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Undergrad Dynamics-Critical Damping Coefficient
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Graduate Is the Stress Tensor Symmetric? Examining the Physical Meaning and Implications
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Undergrad Air tightness vs Water tighness
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Undergrad Answer: E = mv2: Understanding Anti Newton's Equation
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Graduate Question about momentum transfer from fluids to discrete particles
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Undergrad Why Don’t Satellites Fall to Earth Despite Constantly Falling?
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High School Find Out How High Bungee Jumper Rebound After First Jump
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High School Why Does a Boomerang Return?
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Graduate Can gravitational force be reactive?
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High School Galileo's Pendulum Timer Invention
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High School Measuring Inertial Mass: Force, Acceleration and Mass
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Graduate Kinetic energy of a moving rotating rigid body
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High School Coefficient of Friction Lab: Can Static Be Less Than Kinetic?
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Undergrad How Transformers Work: Explaining Ohm's Law
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High School The Great Marble Race Physics Project
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High School Why does a spinning object change direction before stopping?
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High School Golf Ball Bouncing: What Force Causes It?
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Undergrad Friction and fictitious forces
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High School Build a Mouse Trap Car: Backwards Motion Help
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Graduate Problem understandinging laws of motion
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High School Egg Breakability - Why Is It Almost Impossible?
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High School Can Battlestar Galactica's Maneuvers be Realistic?
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Undergrad How can I calculate the burst speed of a rotating disk?
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High School What does a vertical line on a velocity versus time graph suggest?
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Undergrad How Is Downforce Calculated on an Inclined Plane Using Aerodynamics?
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Undergrad Questions on Jerk: What Occurs in Nature?
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Undergrad Inelastic Collision Derivation Help
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Time in a Motionless World? - Share Your Opinion
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Undergrad Another discussion with a friend
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High School Speed vs Acceleration: What's the Difference?
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High School Why does a surface of an object generates sound?
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Graduate Periodic Orbits: The Role of the Coulomb Potential in Producing Periodic Motion
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High School What is the true definition of inertia and where can it be found?
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Undergrad Circular motion of earth and gravity
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Undergrad How Does the Force Between Two Spheres Relate to Their Potential Energy?
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Undergrad How Does Cart Acceleration Affect Tension in a Moving Pendulum?
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Undergrad Which Gear and RPM Range Yield Faster Acceleration in a Mazda RX-7?
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High School Best way to launch a marshmellow?
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