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High School I am doing a science experience prooving giant ships can float
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High School How Water Can Form "Reverse Bubbles" - Explained
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High School What Factors Influence a Boat's Trajectory Under a Bridge?
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High School Use of capillarity in pumping water
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High School Understanding the Incompatibility of Oil and Water: A Scientific Explanation
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High School Inelastic Collisions: Momentum Conservation
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High School Gravity Acceleration: Is it Proportional to the Strength of Gravity?
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High School Concept of 'work done' on a smooth slope (high school-level physics)
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High School How can an object have an acceleration of 9.81m/s^2 when there is
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High School Kater's Pendulum Vs Bar Pendulum
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High School Foucault pendulum string medium
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High School What is the difference between one-dimensional and two-dimensional motion?
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High School Who was the creator of principle of inertia
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High School Does the mechanical advantage of a pulley change when lifting yourself
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High School Is a 12V car battery more powerful than a 12V power adapter?
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High School Projectile Problem: Aim 10 Meters Above Target?
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High School Some confusion about balanced forces
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High School How pressure is measured using a manometer
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High School Which freezes faster Hot or cold water?
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High School How do you find terminal velocity?
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High School Force exerted over a small time and big time frame
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High School How to interpret a Free Body Diagram for a Kite in Flight?
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High School How Do MRI Scans Work? Explaining the Basics
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High School Where Does an Object Move in Space?
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High School Clarification between average velocity and average speed
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High School If a ball is thrown upward with velocity of 1m/s, is vx = 0 while vy= 1?
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High School Working of a calibrated hall probe
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High School Please help; Explain phenomena about collision and water.
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High School What exactly is centrifugal force
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High School Will a ball on a string spin around its own axis when released?
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High School Finger on the top of the straw, keeping the liquid in
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High School How does a transistor work as a switch and amplifier?
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High School Understanding Potential Energy: FAQs & Tips
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High School Basic Fluid Dynamics: Calculating Exit Velocity & Mass Flow Rate
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High School Make solid ice from supercooled water?
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High School Are ping-pong balls hydrophobic?
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High School Weight of a fluid when I put my finger in it
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High School Different Methods for Physics Experiments?
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High School Understanding the Relationship between Work and Power in Accelerating Objects
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High School Help with Physics signs and directions
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High School Brush DC Motor Science Project HELP
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High School Question about springs in series
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High School Question about Inertia: Force to Overcome Mass of 1kg?
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High School Calculating Speed for Warmed Brakes on a Hill
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High School Calculating Force to Move Block Horizontally - Abraham
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High School Problem with the word (deceleration)
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High School Freezing Salt Water Experiment
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High School Why longer arms allow you to throw further
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High School Springs in Parallel? | Visualizing Compressed Springs
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High School Forces Acting on Accelerating Car
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High School Work Energy Power: Where Does the Energy Come From?
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High School Will this aerofoil generate lift, Bernoulli
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High School How can you make it go a certain distance?
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High School Avoiding a Wall with Circular Motion: A Physics Exercise
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High School How Close Can to Perfection can a Bouncy Ball get?
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High School Help understanding a physics inertia experiment(Hammer and a heavy block)
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High School Understanding Work Done and the Role of Force in Solving Problems | 360J Example
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High School How Can A High-Torque Motor Have Low a low RPM
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High School Law of Gravitation: F=G.m1.m2r^2?
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High School Can a body be both solid and rigid?
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High School Why Can't I Understand the Equation for Calculating Distance in Physics?
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High School Difference between weight and mass?
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High School Terminal Velocity: What is it?
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High School Finding t in a Projectile Motion Equation
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High School How do gears provide a mechanical advantage?
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High School Physics: Comparing Stone Drops from 100m Building
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High School Why does a stream change trajectory?
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High School What is the difference between SHM,oscillation and vibratory motion?
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High School What Happens if Earth Suddenly Stops Rotating? | Expert Teacher Insights
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High School Can iPads be used as motion detectors for AP Physics labs?
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High School Why is the energy stored in a spring proportional to 1/2 * distance * force?
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High School Double slit experiment doesn't work
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High School How friction depends on surface area
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High School How to determine the angular acceleration using the right hand rule?
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High School When does the normal force act on something?
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High School Please help me figure out what this graph is called
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High School To pull a wagon we need a force of 300 N. How much work is done if we
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High School Work done as a function of time
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High School Having trouble understanding what tension is
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High School I have a question, if i throw the ball upward, how to get or derived a
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High School Why does density affect the acceleration of falling objects?
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High School Rear-end collision - thrown forward at all?
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High School What happens to the helicopter when
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High School Is it possible to push Earth down more than you weigh?
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High School What Would Happen If You Drilled to the Other End of the Planet?
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High School Normal Force While Going Up Stairs
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High School Displacement and arc length problems
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High School Is Work a Scalar Quantity Despite Being Composed of Vectors?
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High School Inelastic Collision on an inclined plane
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High School What is the mass of the Earth?
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High School Why is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion important in physics?
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High School Solving Physics Questions: Scalars, Vectors, Displacement, Paths & More
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High School Maximizing Distance on a Slope: Tips for Designing a Winning Car
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High School Power needed to climb constant slope at constant speed
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High School Potential difference vs Potential energy
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High School Questions about basic physics concepts
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High School Gyroscope Precession Explained: Simple Explanation
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High School When to Use Kinetic vs. Potential Energy: Explained
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High School How would I calculate water pressure in a vertical column?
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High School Acceleration v Constant Velocity
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