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High School How does acceleration= final velocity - initial velocity divided by time work?
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High School Falling: How Our Body Absorbs Force & Reducing Impact
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High School Calculating Tension & Buoyancy in Water
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High School Work Done When Walking: Yes or No?
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High School What Are the Energy Differences in Compressing a Spring by Hand vs Using a Clip?
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High School Difference between these equations?
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High School Falling from a Mountain: The Impact of Using a Stone to Break a Fall"
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High School How does an object move up with the same force as weight?
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High School Equation for Ball Deflection at Corners in a Breakout Game
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High School Where does ocean pressure come from?
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High School Question about fluids and Bernoulli's Equation
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High School Potential energy and kinetic energy
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High School What is the Law Behind Earth's Force on Falling Objects?
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High School What is the reason behind the stress being zero when stretching a rod?
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High School Why does a=g*sin(theta) on an inclined plane
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High School Can a Self-Supply Gravity Motor Generate Infinite Energy?
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High School What is the Unit of Angular Acceleration in SI Units?
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High School The battery and its potential difference
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High School Parachute Equations: Calculate Rate of Descent
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High School Conceptual Normal Force Question
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High School Calculating Kinetic Energy with P=1/2Aρv3
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High School Grade 11 Physics Final Project. Help (Kinematics)
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High School Contraption to apply constant force
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High School Circular motion of ball and string question
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High School Communicating vessels(experiement)
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High School Understanding Coefficient of Friction: Answers to Common Questions
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High School What Is the Maximum Height Air Pressure Can Support?
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High School Bottomless fish tank pressure brainteaser
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High School Enhancing a Catapult Project: Ideas for Angle Adjustment and Trigger Mechanism
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High School Hydrostatic Pressure: Height vs Volume
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High School Soap Box car - heavier better ? Part II
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High School Law of Hydrostatic Pressure: What is the Significance of Height?
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High School Conservation of mass and energy
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High School Kinetic friction or static friction
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High School Force on Car's Tyres: Turning Right - Left or Right?
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High School Work is force into distance or displacement
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High School Why can't we lift objects while sitting?
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High School When a ball hits the ground, where in the ball is potential energy = 0
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High School Power of an Object: Desk Force & Newton's Law
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High School What is Negative Work and Energy?
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High School What will happen when a body is equally dense as the liquid?
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High School Difference between Work and Energy?
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High School Projectile Question: Intital Velocity & Angle
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High School What is the significance of the constant G in Newton's gravitation formula?
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High School Sound Travel from Water to Air - Visualizing the Possibilities
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High School Why Does the Steering Wheel Self-Correct?
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High School Why and How are Mechanical and Kinetic Energy different?
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High School When is g (9.8) negative or positive?
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High School Understanding constant velocity, inertia and rest
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High School Pump Pressure and Flow: Understanding Rated Pressure and Flow
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High School Momentum of 3 Balls: Ball 1 & Triangle
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High School Stable Equilibrium: Definition & Physical Meaning
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High School Undestand that Kinetic(max) = Dynamic(max)
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High School Is there a difference between a car fuel pump and a water pump
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High School Heavier object has higher inertia
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High School Momentum is conserved in a collision
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High School Solving the Debate: How Fast Am I Going?
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High School Moments - How are they actually calculated?
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High School Rethinking Newton's Equation: Re-writing F=MA with Reduced Mass
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High School Supose a car, going at a constant velocity
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High School What causes a thrown baseball to curve?
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High School Does Potential Energy Always Decrease with Conservative Force?
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High School What are the mechanics of gravity?
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High School Possible forces acting on the ball rolling down a slope?
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High School Weights at different altitudes
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High School Please help me understand this velocity time graph
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High School Does weight of an object chance in uniform upwmotionard motion
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High School Explosions and Damage: How Does Size Affect Impact?
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High School Rotation of a non pivot object
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High School Calculate speed and height in given time for motion
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High School What is the speed of the river in km/hr?
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High School Question about the units of acceleration?
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High School How much pressure is needed to lift water from 800 feet below ground?
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High School Friction: Force & Electromagnetic Nature
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High School Understanding Forces and Energy in 2nd Grade Homework
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High School Speed Pertaining to Circular Motion
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High School Cylinder on frictionless surface
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High School Trying to recall an old experiment
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High School How do gasses in a bottle have the atmospheric pressure
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High School Moment of inertia of a point mass
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High School Fundamental Forces: Explaining to a 13yo
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High School Why perpetual motion machine wouldn't work.
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High School Physics turns and centripetal force on flat roads
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High School Understanding Doubling a Release Load: Physics Basics
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High School Basic question about kinetic energy and momentum
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High School Can Final Velocity Be Higher Than Displacement? | Explained"
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High School Mastering the 5 Kinematic Equations: An In-Depth Look at Motion Rules
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High School Does the gas inside a balloon affect the buoyancy?
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High School How to determine direction of forces?
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High School Gravity Law: Force & Mass Relationships
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High School Solving Kinematics w/ Negative Acceleration: Meaning of Negative Root?
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High School Two object run together to the earth despite of their mass
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High School Rotational speed at axis of rotation?
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High School Why Does One Side of a Belt Fall When Hung Unevenly?
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High School Basic question regarding dynamics concepts?
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High School Random number generator circuit
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High School Measuring Speed of Objects as They Approach You
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High School Graphs of acceleration, velocity, position
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High School A spring attached to the other side of the galaxy
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High School Sound vs Distance: Why Do We Hear It Better Closer?
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