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High School Perpetual motion (please just give me a chance, it's just a few questions)
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High School Submersible Water Pump, 4.3 amps, must work in the water,
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High School Dechlorinator Dosing Pump: Research & Considerations
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High School Comparing 'Moment of Force' and 'Moment of a Couple
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High School Why must vertical acceleration always be negative on projectile motion?
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High School What is Duty Cycle and How Does it Affect Motors?
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High School Power Supply Output: Connecting + and - to Plates
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High School Building a science exhibit demonstrating Bernoulli's Principle
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High School Pressure reqd. to rupture a tube
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High School Time of a toy car travelling over a surface
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High School Newton's Law Of Universal Gravitation
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High School How Does Force Transfer Between Bodies?
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High School Maximizing Water Rocket Glider Performance in High School Project
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High School What Are the Best Books to Understand Pseudo Forces in Physics?
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High School Rolling a half full water bottle and simple harmonic motion
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High School How to calculate the speed of the moving point
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High School From where does earth get energy for rotation?
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High School Friction on on circular objects while rolling?
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High School The relation between frictional forces and their angles.
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High School Windtunnel Experiment: Calculating Drag Force on Airplane Body
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High School Earth Rotation: Impact on Stationary Helicopter Position
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High School What causes springs to wear out?
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High School Would the different weight affects the speed of bicycle when coming down slope.?
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High School How does a cyclotron work?what can it be used to make?can it be made
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High School PLEASE help can't answer my little sister's question
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High School Hollow Pipe or Solid Rod: Which is Stronger?
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High School What stops the earth from colliding w/ moon?
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High School Simple Harmonic Motion: Acceleration Max/Min
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High School Cosine Theta in Work: Force Angle Relation
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High School Throwing a ball in a moving train
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High School What happens when you drop magnets in aluminum and glass tubes simultaneously?
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High School Captain America's shield bouncing
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High School Should work done be written as negative value?
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High School What happens to us/earth if the earth suddenly stops rotating?
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High School Sound of symphony from single source
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High School Experiments regarding Soundwaves and Frequencies
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High School Net Torque: Calculating Momentum & Time
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High School Leaving car in gear when parking on a hill
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High School Understanding Work in Physics: Explained by the W=FD Formula
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High School If you travel around the world, what would the velocity be?
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High School Gravity Question: Acceleration of Ball After Release?
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High School Using a Power Supply - Questions & Answers
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High School About expt re Newton's 2nd law
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High School Period and frequency of a pendulum doesn't depend on mass?
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High School SHM: Frequency & Period Unaffected by Amplitude
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High School Angular velocity and those damn radians
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High School Water balloon slingshot velocity question
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High School Confusion about liquid having more pressure at the bottom
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High School Calculating Curve Line in a Graph: An Example
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High School Motor and alternator in same shaft
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High School Acceleration when an object hits the ground
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High School What is Air Pressure? Understanding the Weight of the Atmosphere
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High School Fly Behavior in a Car or Glass Bottle
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High School Difference between inertia and momentum?
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High School Does the mass of a wheel affect the length of time that it spins on an axis?
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High School How do I find the distance traveled if I know the acceleration and time?
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High School An object in motion going over a jump. Physics of height and distance traveled.
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High School Street tire static and kinetic friction coefficients?
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High School What Happens to the Bee When a Jar Falls?
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High School Can You See the Back of Your Vehicle While Traveling at High Velocity?
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High School Understanding Friction and Normal Force on Inclined Planes
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High School Is mass a scalar or a vector in physics?
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High School Momentum in a mass resting on the Earth's surface
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High School Weight Change of Coke Can When Opened: Explained
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High School Fluids mechanics is also gas mechanics?
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High School Does Mg Stand for Newton in Scientific Contexts?
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High School The Physics Behind Bungee Jumping
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High School Acceleration due to gravity pendulum
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High School Defensive Driving: Reduce Impact Force in Collision
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High School What is the Formula for Calculating Force of Friction on an Inclined Surface?
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High School Calculating Force from Water Flow: Math Help
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High School Forces needed to move a sliding door, from the physicsly challenged
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High School How Does Suction in Bongs and Hookahs Influence Smoking Dynamics?
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High School Pressure & Velicity Relation in Fluids/gases
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High School What is the time and velocity of a falling helicopter wheel?
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High School Inertia in the case of sudden stops?
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High School Gravitational force between everyday objects
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High School Calculate Earth's Gravity Equation: 9.81
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High School Change in direction and acceleration
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High School Non-symmetric nature of the Doppler Effect with sound
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High School Calculating Block's Backward Pull in Physics Problem?
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High School Need extra practice for Newton's laws?
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High School Can Sound Really Exist in the Vacuum of Space?
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High School Non-instantaneous model of applied force?
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High School Angular forms of acceleration, velocity and displacement
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High School Fas-Moving projectiles-Satellites
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High School Question about Forces and Couples
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High School Falling objects: remedial education desperately needed
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High School Weight vs Water Resistance: Comparing Exercise Challenges
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High School Can you break the sound barrier under water?
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High School Why are micrometer calipers preferred for measuring diameters?
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High School Proof and challenge about projectile motion
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High School What is the Young's modulus of balloon?
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High School Does a bottle of water or a bottle of ice roll downhill faster? [Video]
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High School Derivation of expression for force
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High School New to Physics. Can you explain?
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High School Dense Helium Balloons: Will They Rise or Fall?
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High School Powering Propeller with Pulley
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High School Projectile motion experimental vs theoretical results
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High School Simple pulley question- single fixed
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