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High School Understanding Normal Forces: Explained and Demystified
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High School Vertical lines on postion vs. time graphs.
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High School What are causing the cup to fly out?
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High School Is Motion Scalar or Vector in Nature?
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High School Is Centrifugal Force Responsible for Falling Out of a Car on a Sharp Turn?
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High School Constant Acceleration Downwards
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High School How to measure speed without knowing the distance?
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High School Why can't gravity be modeled as a frictional force?
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High School Doubt in uniform circular motion
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High School Rearrangement of spring equations not making sense
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High School Calculating Air Volume for a 1000 lbs Boat Floatation
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High School Difference between Impulse and Momentum
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High School Very basic phisics, hydraulics and weights, wrong diagram?
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High School Understanding Rifling: How Does it Work?
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High School Calculating the force of applied by a vise jaw
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High School Why don't objects with greater mass fall faster?
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High School Basic question regarding gravitational acceleration
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High School What creates a partial vacuum when a fan is in motion?
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High School How to calculate pressure inside an internal combustion cannon
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High School Is uniform circular motion perpetual?
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High School Why is it possible to ride a bike?
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High School Kinematics displacement question
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High School Speed = Distance/Time: Explained
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High School When you drop a ball from above, why doesn't it drill through earth?
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High School Understanding the Increase in Rotation Speed of a Coin on a Table
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High School What is Space, Is it Transparent, Does it Weight Anything?
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High School Pulley system with one mass and apparently independent forces?
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High School How does the Venturi effect work in a Geyser Water Cannon toy?
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High School V^2 is used in certain formulae. Physically, what does it mean?
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High School Not able to understand weight on the surface of earth
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High School I don't understand how torque works
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High School Floating and Sinking in a Liquid
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High School Design experiment to determine bending strength and torsion of ruler
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High School Why are Normal forces not constant?
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High School Solving Elevator Problem: a-g Acceleration
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High School How does water exerts pressure on any object that is immersed in it?
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High School Exploring Motion in One Dimension: Understanding Ascent and Descent Times
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High School Why does a bicycle rolling down a hill stay upright?
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High School Is All Work Mechanical or Are There Alternative Forms?
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High School Question About Conservation of Momentum
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High School Would lots of sounds tend to cancel out?
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High School Understanding Work with Human Words
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High School I understanding Archimedes' principle.
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High School How much power do you need to hover? (human powered helicopter)
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High School Understanding Stress & Strain in 9th Standard Physics
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High School Understanding Torque: Why is it Outward/Inward?
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High School How does density affects gas pressure?
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High School The attraction between every two objects
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High School Torque Calculation: Direction of F1 & F2
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High School Calculating Centripetal Force for Circular Motion: Tips and Tricks
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High School Why does pressure in liquid not dependent on the surface area?
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High School Centripetal Acceleration definition help
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High School What are contact forces, really?
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High School What is the momentum of an 80 car freight train traveling at 40km/h?
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High School Elastic vs inelastic collisions formulas
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High School Acceleration in circular motion
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High School Why Is Total Mass Used as the Denominator in the Center of Mass Equation?
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High School Why Does Hooke's Law Involve Potential Energy? Explanation Needed!
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High School Which is Stronger: Rope of 100k Hairs vs Single Hair?
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High School What's affecting the friction?
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High School What if earth's rotation stopped
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High School Coolant & Fridge Cooling Explained - Can Anyone Help?
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High School How do airplanes fly with heavy weight and air resistance?
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High School If water is clear why does it make materials appear dark?
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High School What is the difference between water evaporation and boiling?
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High School The Magnus Effect, what is the formula/equation?
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High School What is the definition of center of mass?
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High School How do I calculate the work done against gravity?
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High School Can colored gas help us see sound waves?
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High School What exactly happens when the area is reduced? (forces & pressure)
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High School Effective spring constant of two springs latched headon
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High School Frictionless incline and required force
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High School Help needed to convert angular velocity to angular acceleration
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High School What are the forces acting between two masses?
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High School Friction & Gravity: Relations & Independence
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High School What is Gravitational Potential and How Does it Vary with Distance?
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High School Why do collisions cause more pain than forced movement?
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High School Why there is no force acting in an object with constant velocity?
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High School Why Does Inertia Affect Movement of Coin on Paper?
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High School Work against gravity confusion
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High School Terminal Velocity of rain drops
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High School Staying at rest or moving at a constant velocity
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High School Friction - exists in a vacuum?
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High School Mass gets cancelled out on downhill slope
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High School Is acceleration related to distance traveled?
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High School Gravity's Acceleration and its Effect
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High School Questions on Vectors: What Method is Used for 2D?
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High School Calculate Balance Point Distance: A, B, C & D
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High School In SHM , can we have maximum positive acceleration?
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High School Momentum Conservation Between Two Masses
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High School Free body diagram - Weight and normal reaction
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High School Explaining Inertia: Box B Moving Left When A Moves Right
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High School Power of Crane: Changing Resultant Force & Acceleration
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High School Moments/torque in relation to laws of motion
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High School Power & Velocity: Physics Explained
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High School Direction of force acting on a body in uniform circular motion?
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High School Why Does Sound Not Generate When Metal Ball Rolls on Cloth?
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High School Understanding Vector Addition in Physics
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High School Posibility of sound to put off fire.
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High School Understanding Significant Figures in Physics: Why Only 2 Sig. Figs. for t?
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