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High School Simple question about choosing coordinates
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High School Can someone explain the following terms such as inertia momentum
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High School What is the maximum altitude for an industrial grade weather balloon?
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High School Can a Single Force Maintain Equilibrium?
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High School Force over a frictionless Surface
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High School Difference Between Harmonic & Nonharmonic Motion: Explained
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High School Sign convention for work of a gas
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High School How does a stop-start-stop car conserve momentum?
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High School Torque is defined about a point?
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High School Understanding the concept of relative motion
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High School Can the shape and amount of water in a glass affect the sound it produces?
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High School Calculate KE of Projectile after Passing through Object.
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High School Is There a Time Lag Between Force Application and Motion?
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High School Water desalition: Verify request to new Idea for desalination
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High School Friction & Wheels: An Overview
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High School I can't quite understand the concept of force.Force = Mass *
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High School If a wire is stretched to double of its length.What will be the strain
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High School Can I Turn a Car Upside Down Wearing the Crysis 2 Suit?
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High School The Mysterious Stabilization of a Spinning Top
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High School Bouncing ball and coeff. of restitution
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High School Question related to the pressure of water
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High School Need information regarding accelerometers
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High School Lab Question - Pulling wire under tension
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High School How far can a modern arrow penetrate through steel?
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High School Slinky on an Escalator: Will it Move Forever?
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High School Drawing a Wheel Under Acceleration - RWD Car
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High School Sound waves to test for faults in girders
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High School Possible to break a glass if you emit a loud sound?
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High School Projectile Motion comparing height and initial velocity
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High School Vertical and horizontal motion
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High School Why Does Oil Float Above Water?
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High School Spring Constant and cord length? * Need explanation*
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High School What way could I estimate, easiest and quickest, the area underneath a curve?
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High School Freshman Looking for a Project
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High School Average Velocity in One Dimension
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High School How much do you weight in an elevator?
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High School Calculating work done with angles
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High School Direction of frictional force in wheels
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High School Is there lag as force is converted into acceleration?
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High School Creating a simple Friction model
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High School Angular momentum linear momentum
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High School How to calculate momentum at right angle
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High School Efficiency of a hollow sphere of bouncy balls?
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High School Jumping perpendicular out of a fast spaceship will retain your speed right?
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High School Need a definition of Translation
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High School Does marbles have friction or not?
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High School How is acceleration possible if there is an everpresent equal+opp force?
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High School What is center of gravity espcially for triangles
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High School Gimbaled Gyroscope: Do I Need Constant Torque?
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High School Why is strain greater in longer wires?
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High School Struggling with 2D and Projectile Motion for Your Test?
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High School What is the relationship between Earth's kinetic energy and a falling object?
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High School Why does water travel up in fabric/paper?
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High School Confusion over Newton's 3rd law
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High School The difference between sound and music
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High School Weighing Floating Cork: Does Upthrust Affect Weight?
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High School How 'pressure' is a scaler quantity?
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High School Does salt added to water decrease the time needed to reach boiling point?
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High School Law of inertia states roughly that an object will remain
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High School Does a bass speaker create equal sound and pressure at both ends of a pipe?
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High School Spherical Coordinate Systems(Cartesian, i think it called)
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High School Find the Meaning of "Thrust" in Mechanics Questions
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High School Are Bullets Really Flying? The Science Behind Projectile Motion
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High School At instances farmers have been injured when their tractors suddenly
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High School Space Experiment: Will Man Move When Weightless?
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High School Question regarding pulse waves
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High School Brain Teaser: Gun Fired on Moving Train - What Happens?
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High School Finding the Center of Mass for a Group of Masses
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High School Understanding Rest, Stillness, Stationarity, Motion, Movement, and Travel
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High School Friction & Rolling: Flat Surface, Constant Speed
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High School Solving Speed, Road and Time Equations
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High School What can I do with a CENCO High Pressure Mercury Arc Lamp ?
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High School Are only vectors capable of being negative in physics?
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High School How Do Satellites Stay in Orbit with Centripetal and Gravitational Forces?
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High School How does an object float on water?
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High School Mechanical Energy in Bomb Blasts: Is it Conserved?
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High School Understanding Torque: The Basics and How It Relates to Rotational Force
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High School Tension at two points on a string? (Tension in general)
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High School Does Changing the Idler Diameter Affect Record Player Speed?
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High School Draw displacement time graph from velocity time graph
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High School Free falling object and tension on rope
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High School Exploring the Speed of Sound: Explosive Examples and Visual Demonstrations
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High School Can a Force on the Top of a Canister Move the Bracket Inside?
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High School Using a pendulum to find the distance to the sun
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High School Acceleration and coefficients of friction
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High School Problem on momentum, finding mass, in order to find the velocity.
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High School How to Find Δh for Gravitational Potential Energy Using Trigonometry?
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High School If vector A=10i+49j, and vector B=vector A/2, then does vector
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High School Why does the front end of the car lift up when accelerating forward?
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High School Why Does a Hard Boiled Egg Spin and Raw Egg Won't?
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High School How to calculate displacement from distance?
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High School Understanding Escape Velocity: What Exactly is It?
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High School Creating a Partial Vacuum with Water and Air
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High School Origin of RMS Speed: Unveiling the Story
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High School How fast would an object have to be moving to
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High School How Can You Determine the Mass of a Car Using Basic Physics Principles?
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High School ZIPLINE PROJECT, make object travel 7.4 meters and back on a horizontal zipline
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High School Tension same at both ends of the string?
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High School Why Does Density Matter for Buoyant Force?
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High School How Are Simple Harmonics Related to Circular Motion?
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