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Graduate Is the Approach for Verifying Lagrangian Acceptable?
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Undergrad Is Transverse Strain Zero at the Bolts of a Clamped Circular Membrane?
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High School Force Profile of a Hinged Rod on the Ground
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Undergrad How Does Moving a Gooseneck Trailer Connection Rearward Affect Hitch Load?
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Undergrad Moment of inertia of human body with limbs at an angle
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Undergrad Drag Coefficient of a 'flexible' object (e.g. a piece of paper)
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Undergrad Why L=L（v^2) in inertial reference system?
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Undergrad Velocity transformation between frames rotating relative to one another
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Undergrad Car, gas and total energy calculation
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High School Allegedly "debunking" the Cavendish Experiment
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Undergrad Optimizing Drumstick Bounce: Finding the Magic Fulcrum Point
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Undergrad Help with some confusions about variational calculus
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Undergrad Is it possible to create linear acceleration using nothing but different moments of inertia beteen a wheel and axle?
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Undergrad Is angular momentum perpendicular to fixed axis of rotation constant?
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Undergrad Behavior of Clamped-Edge Circular Membrane
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Undergrad In a closed loop system with a pump, how can we control the pressure?
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Undergrad Question about an example in Newton's Principia
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High School Amplifier or oscillator for a vibration generator
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Undergrad A strict proof of "why the Earth is a ball"
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High School What forces are required to tumble a block?
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High School Why doesn't the Navier-Stokes equation have a solution?
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High School Will the wrench move clockwise?
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Undergrad Is the Blade Loading Sufficient for Minimum Sliding Resistance at Top Speed?
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High School Kinematic equations ##\textbf{purely}## from graphs
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Undergrad Circular orbits aren't minimas of lagrangian for Kepler problem?
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Undergrad What is the Purpose of Torque?
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Undergrad What part of momentum moves the boat in the inclined plane paradox experiment?
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Undergrad Energy of spinning objects as axis of rotation moves
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Undergrad Kepler´s 2nd law -- Do any two planets sweep out equal area in equal time?
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Undergrad Explanation of parallel axis theorem
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Undergrad Solutions to Simple Harmonic Motion second order differential equation
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Graduate Pair of interacting systems, driven coupled harmonic oscillators
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Undergrad Pulley question -- Three pulleys lifting a mass...
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Undergrad Dynamics of systems of material points
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Undergrad Doubt about variable mass systems
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Undergrad Calculating Water Pool Depth: Factors to Consider in Fluid Dynamics
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Undergrad Forward kinematics of a snake robot
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Undergrad What is the correct statement of Varignon's theorem?
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High School How to Calculate Hand Force to Close a Hatch Door Against a Gas Spring?
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Undergrad Pressurized containers: Stress distribution and large displacements
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Undergrad Conservation of Momentum versus Conservation of Velocity
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Graduate How much thickness for sphere to withstand atmospheric pressure?
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Undergrad Von Mises stress and real failures: Triaxial tension
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Friction of a Wheel on the Axle?
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Undergrad Which stick hits harder? (one is stiff and other can be bent slightly)
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Undergrad Using reference frames for derivation of Lagrangian
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Undergrad How does an object know how far to move when it's moving?
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Undergrad PIGA: Pendulous Integrating Gyroscopic Accelerometer
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Undergrad Distribution of torsion in a steel guitar string
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High School Difference between muscular and normal force
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Undergrad [Question] Calculating the force generated by a tarp hung between two walls
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Undergrad Calculating phase shift between two sinusoidal waves
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Calculating Force for Garden Storage Box Lid: A Newton/Kilogram Question
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Undergrad Some doubts about determining experiments
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Undergrad Hamiltonian of the bead rotating on a horizontal stick
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Estimating Pitch & Volume of Collision Sounds
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Undergrad Remark on centrifugal force in Heino Falcke's black hole book
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Graduate Virtual work of constraint forces in Hamilton’s principle
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Undergrad Maximum torque without wheel slip
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High School Does Pushing a Ship from a Ramp Affect Its Movement?
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Graduate Hamilton's principle and virtual work by constraint forces
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High School How Does Liquid Density and Viscosity Influence Free Fall Braking?
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Undergrad Reference frames in terms of homogenity/isotropy
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Undergrad Summing and averaging RMS pressure (amplitude) of sound waves
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Undergrad Is there a list of root-power quantities? Or a rule of thumb?
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Undergrad Why is the driven gear's torque's direction clockwise?
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Undergrad [Questions] Modeling a Baseball Pitch Trajectory in 3D Space
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Undergrad Don’t understand the general form of the Sinusoidal Wave Equation
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Why do heavier projectiles tend to have higher momentum?
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Graduate What is the fatigue limit for copper pipe with a factor of safety of 5?
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Undergrad Importance of Moment of Inertia for designing helicopters and propellers?
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Undergrad Types of symmetries in Lagrangian mechanics
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Undergrad Lagrangian coordinate transformation (Noether)
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Undergrad Why Lagrangian includes 1/2m by Landau?
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High School Moment of Inertia of Rectangles
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Undergrad Solving Wheel Coming to a Stop: FBD, Friction & Hysteresis
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Undergrad Trajectory collision calculation
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Undergrad Does two-slit sound-wave interference pattern return to original form?
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Insights How to Apply Newton’s Second Law to Variable Mass Systems
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Undergrad Effect of moving cargo on vehicle fuel consumption
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High School Why do we feel gravitational acceleration from the Earth and not from the Sun?
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Paddle Wheel Torque Calculations
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Undergrad Lagrangian symmetry for the bullet and gun
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Undergrad Inertia of body moving about two distinct parallel axes
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Undergrad When Water acts like Glue (flat surfaces)
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Undergrad Newton's Second Law - variable mass case
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Undergrad If frictional force in system is <= us*N then there is no slipping
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Undergrad Sound pressure and inverse distance law
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Undergrad Effect of Nearby Mountain on an Ideal Pendulum
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Undergrad Work-Energy Theorem for Moving Block and Spring System?
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Undergrad Angular Momentum problem v2 (mass moving inward or outward)
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Calculating actual weight lifted on a pulley weight machine
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Undergrad Noether’s theorem -- Question about symmetry coordinate transformation
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Double pendulum motion (and Lyusternik-Fet Theorem)
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Undergrad Proof that canonical transformation implies symplectic condition
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High School Finding Angle Between Fluid & Horizontal: Clarified
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Undergrad Tracing parabolic motion with only current velocity and position?
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Undergrad Making a "Planetary Gear Set" using a 3D printer and PLA material
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High School Looking for help understanding scalars vs. vectors
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