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Graduate Use of Lagrange's equations in classical mechanics
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Undergrad What Does a Graph of Sound Wave Pressures in the Atmosphere Reveal?
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Graduate How Does Specific Gravity Impact NPSH in Centrifugal Pumps?
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Graduate Can a Hypothetical Device Save a Human from Extreme G-Force Acceleration?
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Undergrad Velocity of compressed air through pipe
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Undergrad How Does Movement Affect Heat and Thrust in Rocket Engines?
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Undergrad Potential energy of a massive string
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Undergrad Why is a Newton of force .225 pounds?
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High School Wind speed versus the force on objects like flower pots and deck boxes
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Graduate Pressure variation during resonance?
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High School Will a Ball Thrown in a Vacuum Move Forever Without Gravity?
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High School Why does water level stay the same when ice melts inside the water?
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Undergrad Determining energy from spring arrangements (parallel&series)
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High School Effects of wind on a moving person
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Undergrad Constant acceleration changes direction twice
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Undergrad Will a Dense Green Object Sink in a Sealed Water-Filled Pipe?
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High School Why Does F Equal (mdv/dt = dmv/dt)?
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Undergrad Can force be understood in terms of time/speed?
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High School Why are accelerating cars less fuel efficient?
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Undergrad Are Both Formulas for Work Done in an Electric Field Correct?
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Motion: conceptual idea of angular frequency
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Graduate Can Macroscopic Objects Tunnel Through Walls According to Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Newton's law of equal/opposite reaction, and bullet impact...
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Undergrad What is the pressure in a closed container dependent on?
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High School How exactly does torque apply to gymnastics?
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Graduate Calculating Equations of Satellite Motion for Scientists
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Undergrad How Can Bernoulli's Principle be Related to Fire Hoses
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Graduate Net force from a varying speed non-uniform rotating wheel?
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Undergrad Questions involving ballistic missiles
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Undergrad Why does a ball move in your hand when net forces are 0?
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Graduate A Few questions about how a refrigerator works
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Undergrad Solving the Mystery: Which Tank Fills First?
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Undergrad Estimating Torque from Power over Time
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Graduate Large deformation in solid mechanics
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Undergrad When simple motion begins is there acceleration and jerk
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Undergrad Free body diagram of a sailboat
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Graduate 3D sphere oblique impacts calculations
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Graduate How do the motors for read-write heads in HDs work?
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Undergrad Important formulas in college mechanics?
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Undergrad Newton's 3rd law and an impulse
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Graduate Obtaining position in a dipole field
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High School How can I derive the hydraulic equation using conservation of energy and work?
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Undergrad How Can I Relate Measurements from a Gyroscope and Accelerometer?
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Undergrad GPE and Escape Velocity: Understanding the Relationship for Moving Objects
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Graduate Intuition on integral term in D'Alembert's formula
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High School Can someone help me find a method to measure water level in a tank
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Undergrad Lifting an elephant with hydraulics
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Undergrad Why Is the Derivative of the Function Set as a Constant in Classical Dynamics?
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Undergrad Circular Motion: Why an Object Moves When Acceleration is Perpendicular
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Undergrad Question about an armonic sound wave
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Graduate Is average time between and after collision same for a gas?
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High School Why is the acceleration in the same direction as the net force and friction?
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Graduate Spin created due to an Elastic Collision of two solid balls
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Graduate Pressure drop across a valve in tank
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High School Why it's easier to push the door from the furthest distance
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Undergrad Understanding Linear Motors: Right Hand Rule & Current Flow
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High School Why will an object in space continue moving foever?
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Undergrad How to calculate the maximum RPM of a motor?
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Undergrad Is the Work Done by Static Friction Always Zero in a Round Trip?
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Graduate Formula of potential energy of a nucleus
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Undergrad How Does a Clockwise Spinning Gyroscope Stay Upright?
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Undergrad Can 2 spheres orbit each other say inside ISS?
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High School The load of an object on a pivot
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High School How does force transfer through an object microscopically?
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Undergrad How to count the bicycle wheel revolutions by accelerometer
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High School What is the drag coefficient of a windsock?
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Graduate Why Do Quadcopter Control Equations for Roll and Pitch Exclude Aerodynamic Drag?
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Undergrad Why Does a Water Stream's Pattern Change When Interrupted?
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High School What takes longer? With airdrag or without?
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High School Damage height versus waterline when ships collide
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High School Can a 747 Take Off on a Conveyor Belt?
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Undergrad Drag in water - object in a tunnel/tube
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Undergrad A Question about Sound Waves Propagating Through a Large Metal Cube
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Graduate Rotational kinetic energy decreases, internal increases?
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Undergrad Calculate Rotational Torque: 8700 kgm2 @ 18 RPMs
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Undergrad Gravity between extended bodies
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Undergrad Conservation of angular momentum - change of inertia
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Undergrad Calculating amount of sag and tension for 1/8 steel cable
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Undergrad Optimizing Rotating Mass Balancing: How Many Mass Blocks are Needed?
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Graduate Does the Kinetic Theory of Gases have an analog for solids?
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High School Measuring Gravity: Using Direct Motion Videos to Estimate g
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Graduate Moment of inertia changes during rotation -- Calculate work?
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Undergrad Calculating Speed at Time of Collision
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Undergrad Does the normal force really equal mg on earth? I think not....
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High School Understanding velocity and acceleration
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High School What is the formula for calculating RPM of a gear with a known force?
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High School Whether constant acceleration and zero acceleration are the same
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High School Rotation problem - AP Physics 1
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Undergrad Calculate the power generated by a rotating rod turning a generator
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Graduate How to derive the slip angle for a trailer-car system?
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Undergrad Physics of legwrestling and Mas wrestling
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Undergrad Physics of a Particle Collision
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Undergrad Meaning of potential with respect to Earth
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Undergrad Theorem behind Archimedes principle of buoyancy?
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Undergrad The acceleration of two colliding particles
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Graduate Can we say Angular Velocity is a 'moment' of tangential velocity?
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Undergrad How do you calculate moment of inertia for circle?
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High School Why is resistivity important in solving this problem?
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Graduate The differential equation of Damped Harmonic Oscillator
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Undergrad Capillary and liquid tension problem
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