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Graduate How does thermionic emission work?
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Graduate Why is the specific angular momentum equal to this?
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Undergrad Vector addition and Newton's law
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Undergrad Understanding Rotational Movements: A Comprehensive Guide to Key Terms
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High School Does Standing on a Cliff-Top Decrease Force but Increase Energy?
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Undergrad Radius of Gyration: Dist to Axis & Mass Concentration
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Graduate Trajectory of a particle under the given force
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Undergrad How does a force get transmitted through power lines?
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Undergrad Work done running on an inclined treadmill
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Undergrad Maximizing rocket velocity - shoot fuel at once, or slowly?
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High School Water tower: Why is all the water at the top?
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Undergrad Hooke's Law: Changes for Large Displacements
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High School Is airspeed irrelevant in determining airplane travel time?
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Undergrad Help getting started with a numerical solution
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Undergrad Physics EE (Extended Essay) on Bicycle Stability
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High School How do helmets help prevent injury to the head?
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Graduate Possible webpage title: Does Increased Inertia Lead to Higher Capillary Numbers?
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Undergrad How long will the ball and the spring be in contact?
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High School Calculate Gravity with Ruzanna from the Netherlands
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Graduate Can energy conservation be violated?
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High School Calculating Coefficient of Friction with Practical Investigation Results
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Graduate How was Newtonian relativity ruled out in EM propagation?
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Graduate Work done in reversible and irreversible processes
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Undergrad How to get tangential velocity
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Graduate Escape velocity when the rocket's mass is not small compared to the asteroid
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Graduate Calculating air gun energy vs PSI & bore diameter
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Undergrad Momentum Conservation: Ball Hitting Pivoted Rod
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Undergrad Is this expression for Mass Flowing Out of a Bottle correct?
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Undergrad Conservation of Energy: Kinetic & Reference Frames
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High School Creation of PE - WHEN is it created?
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Undergrad How does this spectroscope work?
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Graduate Can the Speed of Sound Be Measured Using Frequency and Time Delay Data?
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High School Question: Helicopter over a scale
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Undergrad Design load of a water tube ride, such as on a cruise ship
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Graduate Vector potential of an infinitely long cylinder
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High School Jumping from a chair while falling from a building
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Undergrad Radial movement in a gravitational field
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Undergrad A1v1=a2v2? pressure and velocity are inversely proportional?
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Undergrad What does steady state mean for a pendulum?
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Graduate Speed of sound: viscosity dependece in liquids and solids
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Graduate Kinematics: A Complete Picture of Motion Without Causes
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High School If you threw a warm water balloon into space, would it boil?
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High School How does the mass of an object affect its fall time?
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Undergrad Question regarding pressure and energy
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Undergrad Calculate the Resultant Force Between 4 Points
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Graduate Symmetries and Conservation Laws
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High School Health Risks Living Near Power Lines
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Graduate Boundary conditions errantly applied to pressure across flui
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Graduate Is work on Unified physics happening
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Undergrad Is the momentum of a system conserved even with friction?
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Graduate Relative velocity of exhaust in Ideal Rocket Equation
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Graduate Is the Vector Potential of a Toroid Nonzero Outside the Toroid?
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Undergrad Hydrostatic pressure distribution despite fluid motion
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Undergrad Does an airplane have to nose down in order to follow a curve?
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Undergrad Where does the missing energy go in an inelastic collision?
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Undergrad Exploring Types of Acceleration in Rotational Movement of Rigid Bodies
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Undergrad Reduce Kinetic Energy Losses when Two Objects Collide
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Undergrad Measuring Velocity of a Sphere - Impulse & Energy Conservation
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Graduate Van De Graaf Generator & Gauss's Law
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Undergrad What does a body "emits" when falling down?
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Undergrad Why does an artillery shell rotate when fired?
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Undergrad Longitudinal Wave Velocity: Why it's Greater in Solids
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Graduate Stress Used in Lagrangian Equation for Solid Mechanics
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Undergrad Please help. Skating physics question I can't answer.
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Undergrad Question about the physics of sound
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Graduate Cannot understand dL/dt (angular momentum changes)
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Graduate "Classical Physics Is Wrong" Fallacy - Comments
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Graduate Instantaneous Speed of Gravity Experiment
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High School Why do rockets explode so easily when they tip over?
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Graduate Vector potential in spherical coordinates
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Undergrad Potential ##V## and potential energy ##E_{pot}##?
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Undergrad Shear force and bending moments graph
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Graduate Infinite pulleys problem, why doesn’t this technique work?
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High School Why do cars crash? (Instead of passing through each other)
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Undergrad How does rotating a coordinate system affect vector direction and components?
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Undergrad Calculating Viscous Damper Energy in Spring-Mass Systems
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Undergrad How kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared
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Undergrad Calculating water pressure and the required mass of water
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High School How does running in a moving train affect race times?
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Undergrad When to apply Pascal's Law vs Bernoulli's equation
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Graduate Cyclotron Frequency: Is it Truly Independent of Energy and Mass?
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High School Car Collision While Turning: Understanding the Outcome at Low Speeds
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High School Grokking the 1/2 * a * t^2 product
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Undergrad Why can we survive much more, but not much less pressure?
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Graduate Limits of the classical oscillator
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Undergrad Question regarding boat weight and paddling on the water
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Undergrad Pressure of 11,000m Water Column: Crushing or Equal to Bottom of Ocean?
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Undergrad What happens to air in a hydrostatic test
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Undergrad Variation of Torriceli's theorem?
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Graduate Show that a rotating (fluid) planet is an oblate spheroid
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Undergrad Understanding Liquid Pressure in a Cone: How Does It Compare to a Cylinder?
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Undergrad Surviving the Pressure: Trapped Inside a Sinking Ship
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Undergrad Why do radio transmission harmonics occur?
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Graduate More rotating toilet bowl insanity
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Undergrad Different answers from equation of continuity and Bernoulli
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High School How does hovering and constant climbing differ?
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Graduate Statistical Mechanics: Can one assume an idealized gas is non-relativistic
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High School Speed of a wave when crossing a boundary vs. not
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Undergrad Static analysis of bicycle frame - Need some clarification
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Undergrad Normal modes of a system of springs
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