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High School Superposed loads (gunpowder and bullets) igniting simultaneously in a barrel
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High School Help Scaling Gravity Simulation
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High School Elevator Question -- What does a downward acceleration mean?
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High School How to Calculate Hand Force to Close a Hatch Door Against a Gas Spring?
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High School Fluid Flow Deflection Bending Ahead of Airfoil?
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High School Where does the 1/2 in 1/2 at^2 come from?
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High School Is a 0.040V Reading on a Strain Gauge Before Force Applied Acceptable?
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High School Difference between muscular and normal force
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High School Why don't two double pendulum apparatus follow the same paths? / Chaos
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High School Does Pushing a Ship from a Ramp Affect Its Movement?
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High School Estimate the difficulty of a mountain route
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High School How Does Liquid Density and Viscosity Influence Free Fall Braking?
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High School Calculating g with a Conical Pendulum
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High School Busting the myth about achieving artificial gravity by rotating a body
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High School Circular wire center of gravity
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High School What will be the ball's velocity after a perfectly elastic collision?
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High School Moment of Inertia of Rectangles
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High School How Does Blackbird Leverage Wind Power to Move Faster Than the Wind?
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High School Hydrostatic pressure on top of a cone filled with water
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High School Jaan Kalda kinematics -- Radius of Curvature of a Cycloid
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High School Moist air - does it rise or drop?
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High School Why do we feel gravitational acceleration from the Earth and not from the Sun?
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High School How does Earth's rotation affect our movement?
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High School Is the Earth's gravitational pull constant?
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High School Exact differential and work done
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High School Question about real world examples of 2.7 megajoules
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High School Can a skateboarder ride faster by holding a water bottle?
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High School Finding Angle Between Fluid & Horizontal: Clarified
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High School Looking for help understanding scalars vs. vectors
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High School Water doesn’t fall in inverted half cup
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High School Looking for help Understanding Inertia
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High School Why is speed constant when centripetal acceleration is constant?
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High School What is the total kinetic energy of the Earth relative to the Sun?
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High School How is an unstable object balanced?
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High School How will object's velocity change when a frictional force increases?
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High School Elastic collision - should final velocities be asymmetric?
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High School Force transition through spring
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High School Why does torque increase with increasing moment of inertia?
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High School Need help understanding some concepts about friction
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High School Things giving rise to static and dynamic coefficients of friction?
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High School Two points of contact in rolling
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High School Velocity of freefalling bodies after 1s, 2s, 3s, etc
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High School Thoughts about Galilean transformations
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High School Maximum velocity for projectile motion?
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High School Is the Physics of the Frog Jump Important in Taekwondo?
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High School In the equation x = x₀ + vt, 'x₀' means what?
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High School Pressure in a viscous liquid versus non-viscous fluids
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High School Some Questions About Drag (for ships in water and airplanes in air)
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High School Does the inverse square law equalize gravity at different spots?
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High School Model rocket physics: Why doesn't the motor go through the nose cone?
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High School Understanding air flow and resistance
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High School How does wind affect a turn for an aircraft?
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High School How does the front wheel have no friction?
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High School How do I calculate the drop force on a cord and eye bolt?
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High School Archimedes Principle - A Rock and Water Magic Trick
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High School Springboard physics questions for diving coach at YMCA
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High School Understanding Physics for Coding Collision of 2 Balls
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High School Does Mass Matter in Free Fall?
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High School Vacuum in tanks similiar torricellian vacuum
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High School Is the Definition of Work Done Applicable to Free Fall?
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High School Pressure of air inside a glass
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High School Acoustic levitation: high or low pressure?
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High School Newton's second law -- rockets
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High School Leg muscles’ force as a system of levers
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High School Basic Angle Explanation for Statics
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High School Calculating Leverage & Force in Lower Leg Squat
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High School In uniform acceleration, mean velocity ##\bar v = \frac{v_0+v}{2}##?
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High School Discovering the Mystery Behind the Direction of Water Swirl in Your Sink
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High School Why does ##F## often appear as inverse square laws such as Newtonian gravity?
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High School Rope wrapped around a rod - belt friction
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High School Car Crash Physics: Deceleration Calculations
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High School F=ma Applied to a Billiards Cue
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High School Greater momentum on impact means greater force?
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High School Rotation is absolute, linear motion is relative?
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High School Understanding the Rheopectic Properties of Blood: Fact or Fiction?
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High School Trying to understand some basics about Gravity
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High School Minimum Velocity Required for Loop-The-Loop Problem
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High School Football padding against forces -- What is the appropriate amount?
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High School Lagrangrian and Hamiltonian mechanics: A historical picture
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High School Very basic acceleration problem (from a video on The Physics Classroom website)
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High School Mathematics involving a gravitational force
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High School Verifying AI Chatbot's Answer on Brachistochrone Curve Formula
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High School Hanging beads in vehicle turning on horizontal road (constant v and r)
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High School Time for which a vertical projectile stays motionless in midair
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High School Need help designing a clock with a repeating signal
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High School Falling Cat - Rotation with Zero Total Angular Momentum
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High School Air pressure generated by driving at 60mph
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High School Can an Hourglass on a Balance Scale Create Equilibrium?
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High School In what ways do the three terms differ?
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High School Correct SHM Equation: Does € Matter?
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High School Lifting an Object: Work, Force, and Cosine
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High School Why doesn't wind drag a hovering Kestrel bird backwards?
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High School How do I calculate the apogee of a rocket before launch?
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High School Fundamental Problems With Exam Question: Moving Truck & Acceleration
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High School Irreversibility of Aristotle's law
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High School Matter and Friction: Adhesion, Deformation & Hydraulic Press
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High School Acceleration -- How is the intermediate displacement speed derived?
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High School A request regarding Newton's beads/chain fountain phenomenon
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