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Undergrad Understanding the Science of Compressed Water: A Deep Dive with Bob
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High School Centripetal Motion and Masses at the Fair
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Undergrad Why is kinetic friction constant?
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Undergrad Will an object reach the other side of the Earth in 42 minutes?
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Undergrad Calculating Length of Barrel/Rails for Basic Newtonian Space Physics
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Undergrad How to Build a High-Quality DC Motor with Lego Technics | E&M and Motor Gurus"
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High School Discover the Smallest Possible Force: Physics Lab Demonstration Tips and Ideas
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High School Mastering Projectile Motion: How to Find Angle & Velocity of a Catapult
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High School Discovering Gravity: Galileo's Groundbreaking Findings
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Undergrad Understanding Orbital Decay: Kinetic Energy & Mechanical Energy
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High School How Do Sound Waves Travel Through Air?
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High School The effects of gravity on a pendulum
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Undergrad Firing Solution - Projectile Motion
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Undergrad Why Sound Cannot be Produced from a Motionless Speaker
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Undergrad Can spin result in an increase of velocity?
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Graduate How do neutral particle accelerators work?
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Graduate Would an unwrapping tetherball be able to steal all earth momentum?
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Graduate Getting energy from earths rotation with a giant powerball nailed to the ground
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High School Can a Ball or Bullet Accelerate After Being Released?
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High School A question posed in my calculus class
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High School What is the equation for calculating acceleration due to gravity?
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High School Freezing a cold bottle of water by slamming it?
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High School Random Physics Effect: Football Spin Experiment Results
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Undergrad Calculating Impact of Moving Object on Stationary One
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Undergrad Could You Survive a Trip Through the Center of the Earth?
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High School How can stacking boxes be done safely and efficiently to prevent tipping?
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Motion Cause Debate: Preparing for Debate on Motion's Cause
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Undergrad Second Moment of Inertia - Area Moment of Inertia
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Graduate Formalism of Newtonian Mechanics
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Undergrad Mythbusters Terminal Velocity Wind Tunnel
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Undergrad Elasticity in high water pressure environment
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High School Designing a Water Transport System: Up to 10L, 3 Meters, No Kits
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High School Newton's Laws: Examples to Explore
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Undergrad Calculating Properties of a Bottle Rocket
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Undergrad Inelastic collision of two soccer balls of different masses
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Graduate Not so simple buoyant forces in bubbling water
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Lifting Capacity of a Helium Balloon?
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Undergrad Position Vectors in Physics: r=(x,y,z) to r=xi+yj+zk
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Undergrad Spring, Damper, Mass: What does a Mass Do?
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Graduate Weightlessness and sound waves
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High School Water not conducting in my experiment
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Undergrad Classical mechanics: centripetal acceleration
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Undergrad Can a Car Perform the Same on a Planet with Less Gravity?
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Undergrad Sliding/rolling billiard balls
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Undergrad Inertia and Density question help
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Graduate Mechanical system clarification needed.
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High School Downforce for Cars: Help and Equations
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High School Will Swinging Frequency of a Bucket Decrease?
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Undergrad Reaction forces in ball and socket joints
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High School How to Build a Car That Travels 5 Meters and Shoots a Target Sideways?
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Undergrad Calculating air drag for a massive rocket
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Undergrad Gravity - Effective distance of center of earth
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High School Explore Newton's Laws of Motion with Dr. Donald Luttermoser of ETSU
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Is Water Really Blue? Explore the Mystery!
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Undergrad How Much Would I Weigh if I Dropped onto a Scale from 10 Feet in a Vacuum?
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Undergrad Last question about Motor pics diagram here
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Graduate Is C14 Carbon Dating Truly Inaccurate for Absolute Archaeological Dating?
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High School How can you design a science fair project on bullet velocity and impact physics?
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High School Hi - What is perpetual motion?
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High School Unit of Mechanical Advantage of a machine?
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Graduate Finding angle between hydrogens and oxygen in water molecule
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Undergrad What is the Physics and Math Behind Air Cushions Used in Vehicles?
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Graduate Motion in 2D: Dr. Donald Luttermoser, ETSU
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Graduate How do different hull treatments affect water flow and boat speed?
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High School Physics for Beginners: Vectors, Velocity, Gravity & Motion
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Undergrad Couples Rotate Objects: Understanding Rotation Points
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Undergrad What is the significance of centripetal force in the period of a pendulum?
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High School Building a Trebuchet - Seeking Advice on Slings
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Undergrad Does Newton's Third Law Hold in the Presence of Gravitational Fields?
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Graduate What is the relationship between elastic forces and relativity?
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High School Calculate Minimum Water Depth for Safe Cliff Jumping | Physics Help Needed
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Undergrad What are moments and shear in classical mechanics?
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High School Rolling Can with Rubber Band and Plasticine
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Graduate Phase Velocity of Plasma Wave > c
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High School Find Answer: How Does a Fan Work?
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Undergrad What is the significance of potential in physics?
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Undergrad Spinning Penny: Why Does It Take Longer to Decay?
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Graduate What was Einstein's Unification Theory?
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High School Ice Melts, Water Level Changes in Beaker
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High School Winning the Paper Tower Challenge
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Graduate Will particle accelerators destroy the Earth?
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High School Really n00bish beginners' question about motion
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Undergrad Weightlessness on Earth's Surface
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High School Speed & Stability: Bicycle Dynamics Explained
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Undergrad Artifificial zero gravity environment
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Undergrad How can hydrogen be used as a fuel for cars?
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Undergrad Basic question from well check the handle
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Undergrad How can the force of impact on a falling spring mass system be calculated?
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Undergrad Coefficient of friction in soap?
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Undergrad Measure Object Stability with Velocity and Disturbance
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Undergrad What Direction Will a Motorcycle Travel When Exiting a Van Moving at 100mph?
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Undergrad Can I Use a 3-Axis Accelerometer to Measure 2 Forces?
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Graduate Diff eq of mechanical system w/ friction with zero input
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High School How to maintain speed and momentum while spinning on a skateboard?
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Undergrad How does sound resonance work?
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Undergrad How does changing the moment of inertia affect angular velocity when spinning?
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Undergrad Distance Amplifiers: Mechanical Devices for Increased Distance?
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Undergrad Why wouldn't this device work?
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Undergrad Dot products - why does the vector become scalar
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