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Undergrad Projectile Prediction with Acceleration & Delay
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Undergrad Doubt about irrotational flows
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Undergrad Center of Mass Velocity in Multiple Dimmensions
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Undergrad Velocities when generating an Archimedean spiral trajectory
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High School Elevator Free Fall: Understanding the Physics and Sensation of a Cut Cable
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Graduate Conservation of Energy for Unwinding Mass
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High School Quiz Question -- What happens to the cork?
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Undergrad No Slip condition in an Inviscid Fluid
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High School Equal Forces in Tug of War: Shared vs Separate Lines
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Graduate Accelerating a satellite in a circular orbit
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Graduate What is pressure when there are no container walls?
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Undergrad Confused about tension in strings
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Graduate Why does the ball need to be rotating before colliding with the surface to skid?
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Undergrad Intuitively, which of these coroplast fins has less drag?
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Undergrad Time for Hot Water to Cool -- Calculation....
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High School Would a straw work in a vacuum?
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Undergrad Why don't we feel the Earth's rotation?
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High School What is the reaction to gravity's pull in a vacuum?
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Undergrad Determining Acceleration due to gravity using a Spring
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Undergrad Bernouilli effect in CO2 fire extinguishers
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High School Countering the Movement of the Ocean & different size boats/ships
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High School Mastering the Physics of Table Tennis: Understanding Forces and Flight Dynamics
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Undergrad Difference between angular frecuency and velocity pendulum
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Undergrad Why does atmospheric pressure increase as you go closer to the Earth's surface?
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High School How Did This Guy Make a Soccer Ball Wobble On the Ground?
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Graduate Inductor behaviour in an AC power supply
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Graduate Space elevator wondering about torque
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Undergrad The shell strikes the water at the same speed?
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Undergrad Understanding Conservative and Velocity Dependent Forces in Physics
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Undergrad Is my intuition about torque and acceleration incorrect in this scenario?
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Graduate How can a Photon apparently transfer Momentum without any Mass?
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Graduate Potential Energy in 3D: Partial Derivatives
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Undergrad Find final velocities after elastic collision
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Undergrad Understanding the force on an item placed on a spring
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Undergrad Stress tensor and partial derivatives of a force field
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High School Does Mass Affect the Rate of Free Fall?
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High School A Question about Loudness of Sound....
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Graduate Where is the work done coming from in Helmholtz free energy
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Undergrad Another 'Gravity Battery' Question
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Graduate Calculating Shaft Velocity from Torque: A Scientific Approach
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Undergrad Instability of a Rigid Untethered Ring Around a Planet
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High School Claude Dechales anti-Copernican arguments question
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Undergrad Uniform circular motion -- How can radial acceleration have a calculated value?
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Graduate Virtual work and D'alembert's principle
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Undergrad Can a 63mm Bore Pneumatic Ram handle the required weight at an angled position?
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High School Acceleration & Force: Lesser Force Impact on Mass
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High School How Do Missiles Reenter Earth's Atmosphere?
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Graduate Can you change a planet's orbit by reducing its velocity?
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Undergrad Buoyancy of Helium and Hydrogen Balloons: Calculations and STP Considerations
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High School Question about gravity, water and snow
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Graduate Directional conservation problem with E=cB?
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Undergrad Does Reducing Reciprocating Mass in Firearms Affect Recoil?
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High School G-forces exposed during maximum perfomance Takeoff (Heli)
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Graduate Are Non-Sinusoidal Sound Waves Just Magic?
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Undergrad Calculating Impulse and Force: Understanding the Concept Behind It
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High School What is the force acting on a seesaw?
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Undergrad Ceiling fan and impact force on the blades
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High School Friction guiding a car around a curve
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High School Ride a Supersonic Rocket: Can You Hear Your Friend?
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High School What is the deceleration rate of a fidget spinner?
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Undergrad Question about bicycles and inertia
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Undergrad How Can I Integrate the Equation for a Rocket's Velocity?
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High School What Forces Affect a Motorcyclist's Cornering Performance?
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Undergrad Acceleration of a gas into a vacuum
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High School Water Container Force: Impact of Finger Dip on Scale Measurement
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Graduate Determine Mass moment of inertia about any axis given Ixx...
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Graduate Hydrostatic equilibirum in slowly rotating star
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Undergrad Sound Waves -- propagating, dispersing, volume effects?
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Undergrad Pressure Chamber with Flat Door
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Undergrad Calculating Torque on a Rod: Net Torque, Mass & Distance
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Undergrad Potential energy and equilibrium
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Undergrad What is the smallest possible velocity?
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Graduate The Lagrangian a function of 'v' only and proving v is constant
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Undergrad Understanding the Venturi Effect
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Graduate Expected decay time of a sound based on its relative volume?
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High School (Hypothetical) 6ft hardened-steel cube dropped at 100 meters
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High School What property of a fluid determinates rising and sinking Velocities
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Undergrad Calculating Projectile Force from Rotational Velocity of a Throwing Sling
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Graduate Derivative of angular velocity of rotating co. system
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Graduate Compressing a bottle with water - initial velocity of water
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Graduate Spin angular momentum converted to orbital energy
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Undergrad Predicting lift on an Aerofoil with varying Angles of Attack
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High School Air movement in an exhaust systems
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Undergrad Rotation vs Translation for elbow joint
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Undergrad Initial Velocity of a dropped object problem
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Undergrad Car - brake locking, stopping distance
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Undergrad Weight measurements and gravitational acceleration
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Undergrad How can two equal and opposite forces produce motion? [EM]
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Graduate What is the correct calculation for angular momentum of a planet?
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Graduate Where Can I Find a Tutorial Animation for Damping of a 1D Oscillator?
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Graduate Sound: How pleasing to the ear
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High School Understanding Nuclear Fission in Power Plants
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Graduate Momentum density in a Divergent Beam
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Graduate Can proton mass be measured without assuming inertia?
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Graduate Solve the positions of two masses gravitating toward each other
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High School Can someone explain to me these equations of sound waves?
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Undergrad General question about how objects move nature (discrete or continuous?)
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High School What does y-intercept of a (a vs F) graph represent?
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Undergrad Calculating Gravity: Mass, Radius & Wall Thickness
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Undergrad How can gravity be greater than the centripetal force?
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