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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Counterweight Needed to Balance an L-Shaped Bar?
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Graduate Would there be turbulence around objects w/o boundary layers
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High School Maximum Overhang in Static Equilibrium
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Undergrad How does a fluid behave inside of a spherical cavity?
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Undergrad Source of Energy in a Field of Forces
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Undergrad Momentum vs Work: Find Out in Super Hero Experiment
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Graduate Bulk Angular Momentum: Definition & Explanation
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High School The Dependence of Angular Acceleration on Moment of Inertia and Mass
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Undergrad What is pressure accourding to Bernoulli's theorem?
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Undergrad Using the lift equation, can you make anything fly?
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Undergrad Why do sound waves not bounce off of each other?
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Graduate Solving the differential equation of planetary motion
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Undergrad Inertial Integrity in Space Flight: Questions Answered
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Undergrad 3D coordinates vector calculation
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Undergrad Force of a Punch to exceed the Max Static Friction Force
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Undergrad Why is T+f=Ma in Cylinder Roll Without Gliding?
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Graduate Why do we need the Lagrangian formulation of Mechanics?
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Graduate Pendulum Work: Calculating the Net Force and Work Done
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Undergrad Is there so-called "optimal traction" for vehicles?
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Graduate Is the Pressure in Paradoxical Euler Flow Fictitious?
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Undergrad Where does static friction come from in ABS?
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Undergrad Confusion about the work done by an ideal gas
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Undergrad Why is angular momentum conserved?
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Undergrad Regarding the radius in the orbital velocity
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Undergrad Gravitation & Orbital Mechanics: Is One Method More Correct Than the Other?
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Graduate What is the force acting on a rotating body in a non-inertial frame?
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Undergrad Calculating Free Body Diagram Forces
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Undergrad How Does the Chain Rule Apply to Newton's Second Law in Calculus?
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High School What is the relation between Bernoulli's principle & Pascal?
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High School Why does the force increase when holding a bag at an angle of 45 degrees?
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Undergrad Forces of Constraint: Solving Euler-Lagrange Equation
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Undergrad Medical Physics: the spine as a pivot
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Undergrad Distance Traveled by an object on a pulley
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Undergrad Impact of speed on the coefficient of rolling friction
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Graduate Theories in physics that seemed to work but were wrong?
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Undergrad Torque & Rotation: 2 Axes, Tilting Possible?
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High School Will Block M2 Move Left? Understanding Forces in a Connected Spring System"
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Graduate Statistical Mechanics Part II: The Ideal Gas - Comments
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Graduate The approximation of classical mechanics
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Undergrad Technique to find CG seems like should be for C.M. instead
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Undergrad Various Pressures in mass transfer
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Undergrad How does a the vertical force of gravity end in horizontal motion?
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High School What does it mean by 'a is constant' in motion..........'?
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Graduate Formulating the kinetic energy of an object - helical motion
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Undergrad Does an ideal fluid have zero surface tension?
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Undergrad How Does Changing Propeller Weight Affect Max RPM?
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Undergrad Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration (non-intuitive)
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Reference Point
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Motion: What is Superposition of SHM?
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Graduate The math around the windbag or Bernoulli bag experiment
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High School Friction Force: Why do we walk?
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Undergrad Work Lifting Things With and Without Torque
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Undergrad How does carbon monoxide cause soda cans to explode?
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Graduate Equivalence of tipping conditions on an inclined plane
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High School Negative Velocity or Acceleration
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High School Thought Experiment from a Non-Physicist
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Undergrad Force of friction in turning cars
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Undergrad A cube tipping over on an inclined plane
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Graduate What causes a spinning ball to bounce forward?
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Undergrad Description of physical system help
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Undergrad Spinning bicycle wheel in air and letting it go
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High School Addition of Perpendicular Vectors in two ways
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High School Spiral piece of wood moves upstream
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Undergrad Air drag force: Why heavy objects accelerate faster?
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Graduate Why do hurricanes rotate counter-clockwise?
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Undergrad Quick clamp wedge/friction lock calculation
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Undergrad People pulling rope, one in a perpendicular direction
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Undergrad Difference between angular velocity and angular frequency
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Undergrad Answer: Terminal Temperature of Water with Ice Cube
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High School In circular motion, What does it mean s = r.θ?
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Undergrad Delta V Calculator: Launch in an Atmosphere & Orbit Dimensions
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Undergrad Two blocks connected with a fragile rope
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Undergrad Static and Kinetic Friction vs Normal Reaction Graphing
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High School Speed of sound in steel vs air
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics, What is it exactly?
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Undergrad Dependence of force on relative position and velocity
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Undergrad Work done under constant velocity
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High School Will gravity affect the splash of a pebble in the underground lake on Mars?
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Undergrad Force acting on a stationary object in a flowing pipe
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Undergrad Dependence of friction on area.
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High School Cavendish experiment help for a dummy please
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Graduate Experiments about impact of mass in different areas
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Undergrad Why is momentum conserved in elastic and inelastic collisions?
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Undergrad Is the Sum of Torques Zero in a System with Equal Forces and Moment Arms?
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High School Can you stop rubber from bouncing?
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High School How to find the surface density for a given linear density
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Undergrad Why does friction play the role of centripetal force?
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Undergrad Solving Lagrangian Equation: Confused About Term Missing?
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Graduate Projectile orientation near apogee
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High School Why do modern wind turbines have 3 blades?
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Graduate A x ds = v x dv or a • ds = v • dv?
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Graduate How to calculate each car tyre load during cornering?
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Undergrad Gravitational acceleration based on density
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Undergrad What does the direction of angular velocity indicate?
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High School How Does Energy Transfer Work in Pendulums?
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Undergrad Does Increased Pressure Affect Buoyancy?
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High School Distance traveled in the nth second
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High School Representing Vectors in Newton's Notation: How to Use Overdot and Arrow Symbols?
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Undergrad What is the equation for friction's role in walking?
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