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High School What is the scientific explanation behind the functioning of a waterpipe?
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Undergrad Can You Calculate How Far a Person Can Be Thrown in an ATV Accident?
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Undergrad What is the Significance of Geometrical Moment of Inertia?
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Undergrad Question About Recoil: What Causes It?
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Undergrad Simple pendulum, a conical pendulum and a compound pendulum?
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Graduate Fluid Mechanics - Equations of motion circular flows
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Undergrad Torsion Springs: Finding Formulas & Understanding Their Function
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High School Bullet & String: The Impact on Bullet Velocity and Trajectory
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High School Conservation of linear momentum
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Undergrad Is Centrifugal Force a Real Force in Circular Motion?
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Undergrad Projectile lauched to the east of the earth has a reach R
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Undergrad Circular Motion: Acceleration & Electron Orbit
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Undergrad Inertial & non-inertial frames
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Graduate Mach 1 Torpedoes - Supercavitating Projectiles Underwater
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Undergrad Deriving Friction Force: uN | F=uN
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Graduate Universal speed of gravity attraction?
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Undergrad Need a confirmation. Bernoulli.
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High School Air pressure: water through a straw
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Undergrad What is the linear acceleration of the .67kg mass?
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High School Experiencing Newton's Law: Why Do Passengers Jerk Forward?
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Graduate Can Oscillating Charges Emit a Hydrogen-Like Spectrum Through Prism Dispersion?
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High School Question: Is the statement regarding the sound frequency true or false?
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Graduate What is the true nature of forces in physics?
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High School Distinction between forces by contact and forces in distance?
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Graduate Unifying Classical mechanics and QM?
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Undergrad If i know velocity, then i know acceleration right?
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Undergrad Climbing with Rope: Shock Dynamics Explained
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Undergrad How to calculate the motion of this object?
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Undergrad Pascal's Principle: Fluid Force Transmission Efficiency
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High School 80 g of lead into 80 g of water boiling at 100 degrees
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Undergrad Energy from Sound Waves? Is it Possible?
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High School My weight cancels out the normal force from the floor
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Undergrad Pole Vaulting - Momentum vs. Force
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Undergrad Perpetual Motion - Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Calculating Force of Impact from Unfortunate Fall
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Undergrad The earths OLD moment of inertia?
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High School Tsunami increased the speed of our planet
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Undergrad Need help quick with rotational acceleration
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High School Why doesnt the moon just fall to the earth?
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Undergrad Does alcohol really help to evaporate water?
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Undergrad Task on MTV Battle of the Sexes : Obstacle course atop moving trucks
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Undergrad How Do Lunar Tides Influence Earth's Rotation?
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High School What's the difference between Mechanics, Dynamics and Kinematics?
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Undergrad Central force - circular motion
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High School Can We Move Earth? Physics Explored
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High School What causes the ticking sound in a wood stove?
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Undergrad Calculating Water Speed & Volume from Pressure
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Undergrad What is the relationship between group and phase velocity?
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Graduate Water content in compressed air
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Graduate Vlad Arnold's book on Mechanics
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High School Can Supersonic Wind Create Sonic Booms?
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Undergrad Rolling and Friction: Explaining the Paradox
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High School Is the Fifth Wheel Pulled or Pushed?
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Undergrad What Happens to Energy in Out-of-Phase Sound Waves?
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Undergrad Is Snooker's Momentum Transfer Real?
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Undergrad Examining Density's Impact on Projectile Motion
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Undergrad Where Does the Cooling Effect Impact Most When Propane Gas is Released?
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Undergrad Containers Structurally Able to Hold Freezing Water?
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High School Brownian Motion for the School-Going Child
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Undergrad How Does Submerging a Thistle Tube Affect Gas Escape in Acid-Metal Reactions?
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High School Feather vs Anchor: Drop Test Explained
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High School Why there is no horizintal acceleration?
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Undergrad How Do You Determine the Final Velocity of a Cylinder on a Moving Conveyor Belt?
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High School How does temperature affect grandfather clocks with brass pendulums?
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Undergrad How Do Forces Transmit Through a Chain When One Link is Disturbed?
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Undergrad Angular Momentum: Physics Demonstration & Math Behind It
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High School How Do Relative Velocity and Relative Path Differ?
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Graduate Energy Conservation + Lagrangian = Big Headache
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Help with Upper Hinge Screws Ripping Off
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High School Swirling water while draining?
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Undergrad Why Does Doubling Velocity Increase Kinetic Energy by Four Times?
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Undergrad Best use of Microsoft Excel for Numerical Analysis of Classical Mechanics?
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High School What Causes Buoyancy in Water? Answers and Explanations
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Undergrad How Does Gravity Affect the Fall of a Yo-Yo?
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Undergrad Projectile Gun Semester Project: Shooting a Box on an Inclined Plane
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Graduate Oscillating rectangular plate
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High School Motion Under Gravity: Constant Velocity Explained
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High School Gravity and Helium: Why Does Helium Float Up?
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Undergrad Perfectly elastic collisions (proof)
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High School What happens when I throw a ball in the air?
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Undergrad Questions on Sound Waves in Solids | Abdullah
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High School Why the tread on tires appears to travel backward.
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Graduate Spring equation proof and work question
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Undergrad Inertia & Swings: How to Swing Higher
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Graduate Deriving the Speed of Shallow Wave Formulas
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Graduate Kinematics: Defining an Absolute Frame of Reference
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High School Plasma Ball: How Does It Work?
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Undergrad This is probably going to sound retarded, but
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High School Construct a car which is propelled solely by wind energy
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Undergrad Calculate Force/Pressure of Inflating Balloon
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High School Calculating the Height of a Flowerpot in Free Fall: A Kinematics Problem
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Graduate Problem with friction in a physics modeling computer program
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Undergrad Earth's varying centripetal acceleration
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Graduate Classical mechanics derived Lagrange's Equations
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Undergrad Could Water on Mars Have Drifting Away as Its Only Explanation?
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High School Gravity: A Force of Pull or Push?
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High School Elastic Collision: Momentum or Energy?
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Undergrad Would the friction be in the plane?
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High School Car accelerating behind me up to 40mph
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Graduate Gyroscope for SUV roll protection
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