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Undergrad How Does Sound Behavior Change in Low Atmosphere?
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Undergrad Torque of two screws at 180 degrees
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Undergrad Find Frequency of Block Oscillation Due to Shear Force
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Undergrad Negative pressure from vacuum to shunt a object upwards?
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Undergrad Is the Earth's frame considered inertial in a moving car?
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Graduate How to determine the velocity of a gust of air caused by a falling object
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Undergrad Why in the steady flow of a fluid, the fluid cannot move through the wall....?
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Graduate Adding Torque to a simple physics simulation
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Undergrad Static, arrangement of block, a bit IQ style.
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Undergrad Predicting Motion of a Swing on a Non-Horizontal Branch
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Undergrad Sinking Object Motion Equations
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Undergrad Hydro Power is Actually Solar Power
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Graduate Binding energy or Kinetic energy?
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Undergrad Elastic Collision: how do the forces and work done make sense?
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High School What happens to energy when work is done?
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Undergrad Understanding Drag Force: Standard Formula vs. Alternative Formula Explained
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Graduate The bell-in-a-vacuum-jar sound experiment
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Graduate Can I determine mass & spring k from graph of wave, t, a, & vectors?
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Undergrad Is it possible to calculate pressure without a barometer?
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Undergrad Finding tangential force exerted by a rotating cylinder at a given point.
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Graduate Linear Momentum and the center of mass
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Undergrad Is there a violation in logic when we define notions of mass and force?
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Undergrad The time for a tilted brick to hit the ground
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Graduate Integral of Momentum - Questions Answered
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Undergrad Potential energy of transversal and longitudinal wave
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Graduate Relative acceleration between intertial reference frames?
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High School A few questions about Potential Energy
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Graduate Why Is Calculating Escape Velocity Different from Determining Orbital Speed?
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Graduate Calculate the circulation of vector field
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Graduate Analytical mechanics for dummies ?
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Undergrad Do action force and reaction force lie on same line?
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Undergrad Perfect Floating Ball Illusion (inspired by Jeff Koons' Art)
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High School Why pulling large objects is easier than pushing? Or vice versa sometimes?
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Undergrad Why does a helicopter float motionless but still consume gas?
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Graduate Probability density function in classical mechanics
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Graduate How to Zip Through a Rotating Tunnel Without Bumping Into the Walls
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Undergrad Internal forces and the work done by them
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Graduate Radiometer rotation speed as function of pressure
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High School Centripetal Force: What Happens When Force Increases?
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High School Help Needed: Solving Homework Assignment on Beat Frequency
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High School AC Generator Help: Get Answers for School Physics Assignment
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Graduate Conservation of momentum in a collision involving three objects
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Undergrad Predicting the future value using the past value
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Undergrad Mechanical Advantage for an Ebike Trailer
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Graduate Free body diagram for hinged rods
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Graduate Calculate Zip Line Physics: Live & Dead Loads, Speed, Stress
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Undergrad Conservation of momentum and springs
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Graduate The validity of classical physics (split from: DWFTTW)
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Undergrad Can counterbalancing a golf club improve consistency and distance?
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Undergrad Centripetal force on a vehicle while cornering
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Bicycle and tackling inertia at higher speeds
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High School Energy Efficiency of Compressed-Air-Powered Parabola Riding Vehicle?
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Undergrad Internal and external torques.
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Undergrad (simple problem) Impulse force caused by cube collision?
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Graduate Falling pole lifting off the ground.
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Undergrad Is Newton I independent of Newton II?
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Undergrad Speed of falling object underwater
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If this hand water pump was instead at the bottom of a well....
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Undergrad Rotational inertia of a square piece of wood?
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Graduate Calculate Skydiver's Velocity After 2 Seconds with k = 1/2 pCdA
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Graduate Introduce Newtonian Metric for SR & Lorentz
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Undergrad Ratio of Kinetic Energy lost in a collision.
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Graduate Coupled Oscillators Initial Conditions and Phase
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High School How Does a Man Accelerate While Climbing a Rope?
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Undergrad Using Vector in Determining Period of Pendulum Inside a Moving Train
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Undergrad Theme Park Physics: Calculating Velocity at 4.5 g
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Graduate N-Body Simulation using symplectic integrators
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Undergrad How does gravitational potential energy work?
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Undergrad Can Chaos Arise from Deterministic Dynamics?
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Graduate How to Simulate a Bouncing and Spinning Ball in Two Dimensions?
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Undergrad Choose a Damper: How to Find the Right One
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Undergrad Difference in energy not the same in different reference frames
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Undergrad Friction Paradox: The Mystery of Constant Speed Motion
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High School Anyone know how to calculate windspeed ?
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Undergrad Trying to calculate the forces in a rugby scrum
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Undergrad What Is the Instantaneous Center of Rotation and How Is It Chosen?
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High School Position sensor for moving projectile
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Undergrad What exactly is limiting frictional force?
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Undergrad Need help picking vars to integrate on a neg-acceleration prob
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Undergrad Triangle law of vector addition and the Pythagoras theorem
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Undergrad Spinning objects and angular acceleration
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Graduate Water Freezing in Space: Debunking the Myth of Instant Boiling and Freezing
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Undergrad Why does the apparent weight decrease when a body accelerates down a rope?
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Undergrad Torque, angular momentum and a fixed axis-of-symmetry requirement
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High School Trying to understand the basics of Hooke's law
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Graduate Coriolis and Centrifugal effects in balance
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Graduate Units For a Power Spectral Density (PSD)
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Undergrad Estimating the damage to a material based on force or kinetic energy
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Graduate Discontinuities in a Poincare map for a double pendulum
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Undergrad How can we inpretate for falling many sphere?
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Undergrad Mass compressing an unattached spring
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Graduate Is the Cauchy momentum equation the general form of Newton II?
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Graduate Where's my mistake? (Pendulum with gravity)
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Undergrad Unbanked Curve Motion: Friction vs Intuition
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Undergrad Calculate the *Acceleration* after a (mostly) elastic collision?
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High School Difference between frictional force and the force of friction
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Undergrad Rowing/swimming backstroke: optimal angle of oar/arm
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Undergrad Problem with the harmonic oscillator equation for small oscillations
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Graduate The derivative of velocity with respect to a coordinate
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High School Will a Vertical Spring Drop at the Same Time as a Horizontal Spring?
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