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Undergrad Pitch and amplitude of sound wave Vs its volume
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Graduate Representation of Rotating and Translating Body
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High School Finding the mass of gas ejected by a rocket
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Undergrad Newton’s Laws and Point Particles
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Undergrad Force & Torque: Acceleration, Power & Angular Velocity
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Undergrad Methods of rotational energy harvesting and storage
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Undergrad Time for Free Fall from Great Distances
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High School Understanding the Physics of a Ceiling Fan: Basics & Beyond
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High School How Much Force to Draw a 16-Pound Recurve Bow 1 Meter?
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Undergrad Thought experiment - water at the bottom of the sea
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Undergrad Way the cornering forces are felt when riding a motorcycle
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Graduate The method of finding periodic three-body orbits
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Undergrad What is causing those patterns on the glass?
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High School Why does a frozen balloon have this structure?
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Undergrad How Is Simple Harmonic motion possible here?
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Undergrad When is Gravitational Potential Energy Considered in the Work-Energy Theorem?
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High School Is the lift generated by a hummingbird's wings an example of Newton's Third Law?
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High School Basic average acceleration confusion
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Undergrad Pressure Gradient for Nitrous Flow
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Undergrad Acceleration in a circular path
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High School Is Constant Velocity Essential for Understanding Work in Physics?
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Graduate Coriolis effect example: ball tossing on rotating carousel
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High School How do sound waves interact when two radios are facing each other?
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Undergrad Maximizing Flow: Understanding the Impact of Fittings on Water Velocity
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Undergrad Can a loud inaudible sound drown out audible noise?
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Undergrad Can waste CO2 be used to turn generators?
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Undergrad Fusion power, still the king of power?
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Undergrad Fall down of an long elastically vertically placed rod
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Graduate What causes pressure and is it isotropic in a moving fluid?
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Undergrad Vertical spring, the relationship between potential energies
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Undergrad Logarithm and statistical mechanics
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Undergrad Newton’s Laws and Euler’s laws
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High School Can you separate hydrogen and oxygen molecules?
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Undergrad Pressure in Gases: Boiling Water in a Can Explained
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Graduate Angular Velocity Vector; Relationship to Angular Momentum
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Graduate Can a Self-Gravitating Gas Ball Simulate Stellar Formation Dynamics?
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Graduate Velocity needed to escape gravitational potential
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High School Why Does a Cube Float When Dipped in Water?
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High School Ways to Spin a Flywheel using linear motion
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High School Can water vapor go directly into a solid
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High School Forces acting when turning a circle on a unicycle
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Is there a material or an element that can repel hydrogen?
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Undergrad Would a Very Large Mass (e.g. the Moon) Fall with g?
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Graduate Principle of virtual work for continuous systems
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Graduate Fake forces on rotating frames of reference.
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Undergrad Relative velocity of two cars crashing into each other
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Undergrad Why does it get harder with time to rotate a screw?
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Undergrad Shape of water in a rotating container along A vertical axis
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Undergrad Understanding of gravity in the Middle Ages
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High School Why does egg float upwards in stirred bottle of water?
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Undergrad Torque produced by friction when braking in a car
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Graduate Appearence and reality -- centripetal and centrifugal forces....
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Classical Mechanics Exercises from MIT: Solutions Included
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High School What is the Effort in a Hand Holding a Tray?
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Undergrad Is it physically possible to climb up a building like this?
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Undergrad Kinetic energy, size of object, and force applied
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Undergrad Splitting force vectors into components
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High School When did hydrogen combine with oxygen
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Graduate Two-Body-Problem with Changing Mass
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High School What is the relation of mass and power?
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Undergrad Applying Computational Physics to Car/Bicycle Accidents
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High School How to calculate the distance that a bungee will extend....
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Undergrad Can a bicycle be tipped over by only applying rear brake?
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Undergrad Cooling of vegetables with water
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High School Uniform circular motion - origin of speed
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Graduate Motion of a particle from its momentum distribution
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Undergrad Object suspended over an empty bucket
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High School What potential difference actually means
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Graduate Fluids: Continuity and Conservation of Mass
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Undergrad A Question about potential difference in Wire
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Undergrad Slackline Balance: How is it Possible?
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Graduate Potential of particle - why is there a scalar product here?
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Undergrad Matter density on the bottom of a liquid container vs hanging in the middle of it
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Graduate Anamolous Aerodynamic behaviour of small spheres?
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High School Troubleshooting Mass & Spring Dynamics
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Undergrad Could tide-powered buoyancy be a viable source of energy?
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Graduate Dirac's Generalized Hamiltonian Dynamics Theory?
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Undergrad Work & Momentum: T, F, r, sinθ
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Undergrad Derivative of (v)^2 with respect to position
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Undergrad What in gravity makes water on Earth into a ball?
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Undergrad Having a hard time remembering what this equation is
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High School Uses of the average velocity/speed
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High School Forces between two immovable objects
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Graduate Instantaneous center of rotation
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Undergrad Energy required to accelerate itself
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Undergrad Equivalent mass of rotating parts
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High School Knowing if the elevator is moving or not
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Graduate Any plans to expose exact force and torque added during collisions
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Undergrad Calculate Pressure Needed to Move Grease
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Undergrad What is the final velocity of a ball rolling through a tube?
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Undergrad Working on a simple(ish) projectile motion problem for a gaming program
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Undergrad What do you think about gyroscopic propulsion? possible?
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Undergrad What is the difference between Mach cone and shock wave in aerodynamics?
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High School Physics Behind Weebles: Can You Build One?
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High School Motion of a Door as I Walk by it Quickly (no contact)
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High School Rates of Change and Multiple Dimensions
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Undergrad Unclear on interpretation of equation - oscillation maybe?
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Undergrad Quick Question about Pendulum Graphs
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Graduate Potential energy and annihilation
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Graduate Do force drifts occur in highly collisional plasmas
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