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Graduate Second moment of area about Y-Y
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Graduate Supressed harmonics with certain initial conditions
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Undergrad What is the Physics Behind a Jumping Spider's Impressive Leap?
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Undergrad Kinetic theory of gases: rebound speed and force questions
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Undergrad Simulating Plant Evolution: Branch Bending Physics
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High School Looking for a Gyroscopic Simulator program
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High School Understanding Newton's Third Law: Investigating the Equation F=Rv(m1m2/l^2)
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Undergrad Solving a Physics Problem: Ladder Facing a Wall
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High School Gravitational force between two objects?
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Graduate Driven Harmonic Oscillator where Mass Hits Ground
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Graduate Using a centrifuge to extract heavy water (help with the calculations please)
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Graduate Creating an Energy Shield for Cars: Innovative Safety Technology
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Graduate Equation for Brownian Motion Trajectory
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High School Sound propagation with altitude/height
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Air pressure on planes and leak-proof containers....
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Undergrad Gun-projectile Elastic Collisions
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Undergrad Why Earth has constant acceleration?
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High School Need help with gravitational acceleration SI units
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High School Fly in Elevator: Does Compression Affect Hovering?
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Undergrad Surface Tension of a soap film
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High School Can a bullet hit someone while free falling?
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Undergrad Perpendicular force pulley system
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Graduate Underpinnings of conservation of energy/mass
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High School Can the normal force be in vertical direction?
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Undergrad Understanding Orbital Momentum: The Mysterious Formulation Explained
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High School A Question about the Speed of Waves....
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High School Adding a nacelle in front or behind the fan?
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Undergrad Are the energy requirements the same for moving masses in different scenarios?
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Undergrad Is my Cyclette Generating Enough Power at Resistance Level 4?
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Graduate Transfer of Momentum during a collision
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Undergrad Can you find orbital velocity from circle equation y^2+x^2=r^2?
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Undergrad Can a sheet of paper cut something if thin enough?
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High School GMm/r^2 for r=0? Force at Center of Object?
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High School Why is it harder to break tied spaghetti compared to separated spaghetti?
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Undergrad Calculating the Speed of a Ball Rolling Down a Hill
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Graduate N-body random peak velocity of passing particles
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Graduate How Does Box Size Affect Kinetic Energy Calculations in Gas Molecules?
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Graduate Apparent violation of momentum conservation in EM
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Undergrad Explaining Siphon Mechanics with Bernoulli's Equation
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Graduate Question about torque and center of mass
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High School Breaking a granite surface plate....
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High School Kinematics Equations: When to Use Each?
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Undergrad What happened to the boiling water
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Graduate Question from Velocity-Dependent Potential in lagrangian (Goldstein)
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High School Newtons and Newton meters for pushing a weight
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Experience Hydrodynamic Levitation: A Simple yet Mesmerizing Effect
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Undergrad Doubt with rotating body and force
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High School General Physics Question -- Max height of a projectile
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High School How to track the center of mass of a human in a video
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Undergrad The Physics Behind a Ceiling Fan: Understanding Angular Momentum and Stability
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High School Question - Distributed weight on Camper Tires
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Undergrad Second order, non-linear, non-homogeneous differential eq.
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Undergrad Equalizing Pressure in Pipe for Safe Container Design
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High School Velocity of Sphere Falling from Rest in Oil-Filled Beaker
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Undergrad The Physics Behind Why a Rope Breaks When Falling from a Cliff
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High School Poisson's ratio, steel rod for example
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Graduate Are sounds louder under water?
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Undergrad Potential energy vs position curve
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Undergrad Water speed and bullet penetration
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Graduate Cannonball - time required to stop its horizontal motion
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High School Can Velocity and Mass Alone Create Force?
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Undergrad Car behaviour on a straight road with a rolling road
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Graduate Does air flowing through a tube cause a pressure change?
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High School Does Increasing Potential Energy Affect the Gravitational Pull on an Object?
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High School How much force would it take to jump on air?
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High School Volume Compression in Cylinders: Does Diameter Affect Rate of Loss?
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Undergrad Planetary Orbits: Force needed for circular orbit
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Undergrad Stress exerted on a wooden cube dropped on concrete floor
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Undergrad Strange behaviour of roulette ball falling
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High School Need a bit more clarification on W=F.ds
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Graduate Kinetic energy and potential energy look very dissimilar
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Undergrad Ponderomotive Force - What is it?
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Undergrad Question of Leverage in Rotating Mechanisms
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Undergrad Does Rotating a Gas Container Increase Its Temperature?
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High School Why does Fdt go away during collisions while Fdx does not?
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Graduate Invariance of elastic potential energy
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Graduate Getting energy from kinetic motion of air particles
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Undergrad Pulleys, Pulleys, and More Pulleys
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Undergrad Derivation of non-dimensional Navier Stoke equation
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High School How Do Gyroscopic Forces Affect the Spin of a Figgit Spinner?
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High School How do rockets propel themselves up?
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Undergrad Maximum Amplitude of Sound Wave?
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Undergrad Speed of pendulum at certain angles
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High School Pulley Carrying Capacity: Can It Handle 150 lbs?
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Graduate Newtonian vacuum: what to call it in thought experiment
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Undergrad Collision between moving walls
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Graduate Hydrostatic equilibrium and Navier-Stokes equations
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Undergrad What is the impact of different powder burn rates on rifle bullet pressure?
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High School Can the speed of sound in air be faster?
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Undergrad Coriolis effect on ballistics and old chart
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Graduate Reasoning behind predicting a gyroscope's motion
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Graduate Force acting on the center of mass of a rolling disk
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Graduate Pressure and the Young-Laplace Equation
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Undergrad Relationship between work and force
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Is it possible to double jump in real life?
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Undergrad Momentum of a Pendulum: Angular and Linear Changes
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High School Moment of Inertia: Definition & Physical Meaning
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High School Is it possible for a feather to lift a car?
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Undergrad Energy required to slow mass falling from "X" height
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