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Undergrad A Question About the Physical Explanation Behind Torque
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Undergrad What Happens to Rotational Velocity When AC Part is Dropped?
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High School Would the following test be proof of a successful propulsion system?
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High School Two-body Kepler problem where the Sun is at rest in a coordinate system orbited by another body
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Undergrad Finding yield strength with a load/displacement curve
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Undergrad Excel projectile trajectory
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Undergrad Presentation of the Dehavilland Comet crash due to metal fatigue
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High School How's it possible to push on systems with 2 parts? (Newton's third law)
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High School How Much Mass Required to Demonstrate Gravity?
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High School Normal force in case of inclined plane and banked turn
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Undergrad Why does my ball launcher spin the ball and not launch it (air)?
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Undergrad Find Best Water Nozzle Type & Pressure for Longest Distance
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Graduate Modeling the damping of a physical rigid pendulum
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Undergrad Derivation of Fluid Pressure In A Gravitational Field
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High School How can tension apply torque on a simple pulley?
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Undergrad Understanding Bolted Joints: Shigley's Explanation & Real-Life Testing
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Undergrad Generate a trackmap with speed and g forces
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High School Why don't cars accelerate according to F = ma?
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High School Diving into ellipsoid swimming pool at one focus
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High School Why does a coin take 2 full rotations around another coin?
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High School Shortest distance between two points
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High School Speed is distance multiplied by time -- Is this correct?
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Undergrad Cavendish balance and mass of objects
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High School A car collides with a bus, who experiences a greater change in momentum?
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High School Is the time derivate of force equal to the position derivative power?
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Graduate Pressure on a Capsule within an Enclosure (Underwater @ 500m)
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Undergrad Origin of Centripetal force when the net force toward the center is 0?
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High School Why is my experimental spring constant an order of magnitude off?
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Undergrad Question Regarding Force Being Equal, Even Moving Upwards (if V=0)?
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Graduate Decoupling of a spring mass system
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Undergrad Archimedes' principle and the column of water
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High School Parcel theory -- how can there be buoyancy with miscible gases?
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Undergrad What is the actual definition of the position of an object?
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High School Energy required to bring 1 kg 1000 meter above the surface of the Earth
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Undergrad How is the net force on the system equal to 0 initially?
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High School Action-reaction of a sailing boat and wind
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High School Sign conventions in torque and non-uniform circular motion
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High School Rotational Dynamics: Confused about the tension in this string pulling a mass up an incline
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Undergrad What is the zero point for Potential Energy and how to find it from integral limits?
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Undergrad Looking for a formula for damage when sliding to a stop
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Graduate Rotation speed for a particular system under gravity
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High School Question about the nature of an implosion of a vacuum chamber
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High School How to characterize a rubber ball moving horizontally and bouncing off of a vertical wall?
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High School Conceptually understanding change in potential energy with 0 net work
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Undergrad Newton's 2nd law for an object in free fall
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Graduate Equations of Motion for Torsional Inverted Pendulum on a moving cart
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Undergrad Optimal space between anchor points on a long piece of material
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High School What forces act on a bar when you do pull-ups?
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High School Fulcrum point loads
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Undergrad Air pressure question for two different water columns
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Does a bug hitting your windshield slow down your truck?
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Undergrad Range of projectile launched from a non-rotating spherical planet
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Graduate Question about Kelvin’s circulation theorem
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High School Inertial Mass vs Gravitational Mass
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High School Conservation of KE in a moving frame
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High School How does gravitational field exert gravitational force on a body?
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Undergrad Why Does Differential Pressure Vary As The Square Of The Flow?
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Undergrad Equations of motion of an electron emitted from a surface
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Undergrad Frame Transformation in rigid bodies
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Undergrad Transmission of torque using friction
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Undergrad Why are the accelerations not equal?
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Graduate Rigid body motion (RBM) transformation
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High School Need help finding the G1, G2, etc... drag coefficient functions
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Undergrad Dropping an extended Slinky -- Why does the bottom of the Slinky not fall?
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High School How Does Inclined Load Affect Weight Distribution When Moving a Cabinet?
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High School What sound frequencies can pass through a hole in a wall?
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High School Non-physicist needs your help torquing a nut!
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Undergrad How Does Torque Affect Balance on a Self-Balancing Electric Unicycle?
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High School Inertia and flying
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High School Coefficient of friction in sea water
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High School Do Objects in Free Fall Encounter Air Resistance?
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Undergrad How to find moment of inertia of an insect?
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Undergrad Express drag force/acceleration/velocity as function of time
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Undergrad Effects of the centre of gravity on aircraft's stability
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Undergrad Fluid dynamics of sailing boat when steering
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Insights The Slinky Drop Experiment Analysed
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Undergrad The far reaching ramifications of the work-energy theorem
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Undergrad How Does a Polygon Topple Without Sliding or External Force?
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High School Slack vs tight rope at the start of a pendulum
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High School Can Unequal Masses in a Tethered Spacecraft Simulate Gravity Effectively?
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Graduate The effect of perpendicular wind at channel inlet
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High School The inclined plane paradox (proved)
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Graduate Stress tensor and pressure relationship
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High School How Do Diameter, Focal Length, and Distance Affect Whisper Dish Efficiency?
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High School Doubts about the definition of a linear system
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Undergrad How Does Friction Function in the Movement and Turning of a Car?
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Undergrad Static sphere with gravitating fluid
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High School Newton's 3rd Law interactions with 2nd and 1st Law Partners
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Undergrad Work done by a non constant force over a non constant angle
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Undergrad Newton's second law for rotations
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Undergrad Hydrostatic pressure inside an inverted tube
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Undergrad How long would a tuning fork vibrate in vacuum?
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Undergrad The direction of three forces acting on a line has to be concurrent?
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Undergrad Coriolis effect and the acceleration experienced in a rotating frame
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Undergrad Newtonian path of light in a gravitational field
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Undergrad Sound between two rooms - closing which door affects the sound most?
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Undergrad Calculus Question within Lagrangian mechanics
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Graduate Is the Approach for Verifying Lagrangian Acceptable?
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Undergrad Is Transverse Strain Zero at the Bolts of a Clamped Circular Membrane?
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High School Help with science experiment magnets/force/acceleration/speed
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