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Graduate Calculating the time for a pressure change
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High School Acceleration and Velocity: Understanding the Relationship
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Graduate Rigid Body Rotation relative velocity question
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Undergrad Damped Oscillations: Does a Pendulum Ever Truly Stop?
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Undergrad Pressure Difference Between the Inside and Outside of a Balloon
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Undergrad Effect of the Location of the Center of Mass on the Falling Time....
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Undergrad Volume of air flow through an orifice at speed
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Graduate The Oberth effect and multiple orbits
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Undergrad Are angular & vertical velocity the same if the objects are connected
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Undergrad Can you change the state of matter by increasing the speed?
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Undergrad Law of conservation of angular momentum
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Graduate Water vapor absorption in THz range
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High School Identifying forces (normal force, weight, gravity)
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Undergrad What are the physics behind a bell siphon in an aquaponics system?
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Undergrad Tracking Spread of a water jet out of a downward-facing pipe
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High School Need Help Regarding a U Shaped tube problem
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Graduate How Do Resonant MEMS Accelerometers Detect Changes in Acceleration?
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Undergrad What's wrong with this approach to the ant on a rubber rope problem?
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Graduate Uncovering the Origins of Dynamics: From Lucretius to Hobbs and Beyond
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Undergrad Showing that planets follow elliptical orbits
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Graduate What is the kinematics of a rolling disc on a tilted plane?
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Undergrad Coriolis force, real or just an illusion?
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High School Constant Off-Center Propulsion (without gravity)
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Graduate Newtonian Physics: Is it Compatible with Relativity?
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Undergrad Conservation of Energy and a billiard ball
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Undergrad Equvialence of Gravity Weight and PSI
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High School Understanding gravity: mass and gravity relation
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Undergrad Is there a terminal velocity upwards?
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Undergrad How Is the Position Function H(t) for a Yo-Yo Derived in Calculus?
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Graduate Modeling torque on a half car model
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Undergrad How to calculate pulse energy?
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Undergrad Absorption rate of CO2 in water
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Graduate Why do we need the hyperbolic excess velocity?
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Undergrad Why Does Acceleration Decrease When Velocity Increases in SHM?
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Undergrad Proof Acceleration in SHM - Get Help Now!
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Graduate Pressure exerted by a gas (derivation using the kinetic theory of gases)
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Undergrad Is This a Valid Derivation of Kinetic Energy from Work?
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Graduate Equivalence of msd and velocity autocorrelation
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Undergrad Find the Acceleration and Distance from the Output of an Accelerometer Sensor
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High School Gyro stabilized two-wheeled toy : Why the gimbal?
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Undergrad Pressure drop as volume changes
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Undergrad Adhesive force between cutting oil and metal chips?
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High School Mousetrap car won't roll on ground but will when being held
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Undergrad Friction in a simple mathematical pendulum
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High School Suction Through Small & Large Pipes
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High School P = F Sin/Cos Angle / A: Explained!
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Graduate Kinetic theory of gases and velocity correlations
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Undergrad I want to understand this equation - Fluid Mechanics
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Graduate Distance over which friction acts to make object roll
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Undergrad Percent error in conservation of momentum lab confusion
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Graduate Cart-Pulley-Hanging Mass Dynamics
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Graduate Why is angular momentum conserved?
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Undergrad Calculating S Using Fm in a Magnus Force Equation
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Undergrad Wrong solution in the book? Calculating force projection.
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Undergrad Galilean transformations x Galilean Group
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Undergrad Is it possible to integrate acceleration?
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Undergrad Tangential Component of Centrifugal Acceleration
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High School Potential Energy Explained: In-Depth Guide
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Graduate Revolution under the influence of a central force
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Undergrad Terminal velocity of two balls with different masses
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Undergrad What is the definition of moment M_z in Arnold's book on classical mechanics?
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Undergrad Fictitious forces -- name convention
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Graduate Newton's law of conservation as it applies to the big bang
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Undergrad Small size Motor to generate this torque
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Undergrad Speed of a cap when released from a pressure vessel
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Undergrad Resonant frequencies of a membrane, dependance on Young's modulus?
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Undergrad Question About the Escape Velocity from Different Mass Planets
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Graduate Elasticity (Yield Strength) of Carbon Nanotubes
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Graduate Intrinsic coordinates and an intrinsic description of motion
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Graduate Can Scalar Fields Be Decomposed Similar to Vector Fields?
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Graduate If a particle was at position X for zero time, was it there?
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Graduate Radial and tangential components of acceleration
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High School Would this work? (air filled tube inside a water filled container)
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Undergrad What is the tangential component? Taylor p.347
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Undergrad Calculating the drag force on a spherical object with holes
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Graduate Rotating physicist and momentum conservation
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Graduate Virtual work in Atwood's machine
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Undergrad Piston in a tube connected to a vessel filled with air
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Graduate Position formula in a non-inertial frame
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Undergrad Time till the air pressure is gone
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High School Understanding the Work-Energy Theorem
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Undergrad Why does water evaporate when it's less than 212 F outside?
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High School Why does water not follow the law of motion?
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Graduate Flow of Water into a Bowl with Holes
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High School What's the importance of a spring force constant of 1634N/m?
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High School Bernoulli Principle vs. Coanda Effect
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Undergrad Why does radial acceleration act toward the center?
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Undergrad How long does it take for gravitational effects to work?
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Undergrad Pascal's law (fluids): Derivable from fundamental laws?
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Undergrad Alternative approach to analyzing a massless string
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Undergrad Pressure / Volume Gas relationship Pendle Hill experiment
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Undergrad How to select gear/sprocket ratios for vehicle?
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Graduate Moment of inertia of a branched cantilever beam
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Graduate Energy requirements for creating water mist
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Graduate Total Work versus External Work
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Undergrad What is the gravitational component in the radial direction?
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Graduate Buoyancy, incompressibility and G forces
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High School How do we calculate kinetic and potential energy in physics?
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High School ΜStatic = μDynamic: Easier to push a moving object?
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