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Graduate Atmospheric drag on an artificial satellite orbiting the Earth
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Undergrad Radio Carrier Signal Trouble Understanding
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Graduate Absolutely rotationless reference frames?
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Graduate Classical mechanics: Jacobi variational principle
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High School Car acceleration on concrete and on asphalt
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Undergrad Confusion about work performed by a horizontal push or pull
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High School Would it feel like it takes more energy or not?
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Undergrad Formula for concentration of force (battle axe vs. a mace)
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High School Momentum Conservation & External Force: Explained with an Example
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Undergrad Moment of inertia for a fidget spinner....
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Undergrad Impulse and Momentum: What's the Difference?
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Undergrad Particle accelerators and timing for particles
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High School Newbie question -- A train in space with a ball floating in a train car....
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Undergrad Motion analysis of an accelerating wedge and a block
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Undergrad Is Pressure Drop Measured at Pipe Centreline or Averaged Over Surface?
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Graduate Physical interpretation of the "total potential energy"
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Undergrad Is my equation for projectile trajectory accurate?
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Undergrad Will a Massless Pulley with Friction Rotate with Unequal Masses on Either Side?
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Undergrad Bicycle tire width vs. pressure for identical comfort
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Graduate Shockwave of mushroom cloud rising at supersonic speed
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High School TagEqual force for different times: Pushing a car slowly vs quickly
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Graduate Final velocity of an air rifle pellet from compressed gas
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Undergrad About centripetal acceleration
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Undergrad Is true force just "accepted" if it satisfies Newton law?
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Undergrad Correct formula for deflection of a falling object
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High School Why Is Tension Equal in a Frictionless and Massless Pulley System?
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Undergrad Conservation of momentum and Moment of Inertia
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Undergrad Confusion about gravitational acceleration
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High School Trebuchet Physics: Calculating Baseball Acceleration
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Undergrad Are the Reasons for Pendulum's Mass and Amplitude Independence Contradictory?
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Graduate How Can Medical Students Enhance Their Understanding of Physics and Math?
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Undergrad Why is it quieter to lower your hand when you catch a falling ball?
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Undergrad Torque to rotate pulley with equal mass on each side.
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Undergrad How does the physics of a rubber band plane affect its flight?
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Undergrad Why Doesn't a Spinning Wheel Drop Due to Its Own Weight?
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High School How did Newton explain his laws of motion?
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Undergrad Math Foundations -- Sign conventions in this soil pressure graph
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High School Clarifying Young's Modulus and Stiffness Equations for Cantilever Oscillation
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Undergrad "The law of mutual interaction"
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High School Is Velocity Equal to a*t in an Acceleration vs Time Graph?
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Undergrad Reduction of the Centre of Gravity
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Graduate Lift: Probably my last question
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Undergrad Bernoulli's equation, Venturi effect, hydraulic head, nozzle
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Graduate Bernoulli equation derivation with added mechanical work
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High School Confusion About Oscillating Mass
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Graduate LeSage gravitational theory: Can it be made to work?
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Undergrad How Does EMF Maintain Potential Difference and Charge in a Circuit?
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High School Why does water seek its own level?
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High School A site that explains the physics behind particle Accelerators?
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Undergrad How Does Applying Forces to a 3D Axis System Affect Its Motion and Stability?
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Undergrad How to calculate Drag Coefficient?
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Graduate Is work a function of state in adiabatic processes?
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Undergrad Understanding Stopping Distance & Its Relation to Speed and Angular Movement
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Undergrad Speed of a wave on a string w.r.t. which reference frame
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Undergrad Finding Impact Depth: Most Realistic Way Possible
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Graduate Falling time for a free falling object through large distances
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Graduate Phase velocity and wave velocity
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Undergrad How Does the Distance y Change When Mass x Varies in a Pulley System?
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High School Can a Circular Flow of Water with Turbines Generate Sustainable Energy?
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Graduate Azimuthal Symmetry in fluid flow
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High School Regarding the Galilean transformation of x'=x-vt
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Undergrad Great Turkish Bombard vs. a tank
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High School Coefficient of Restitution in x and y
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Graduate Problems with ideal fidget spinners
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Graduate Aerodynamics slipstream and drag
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Undergrad How far will a toy car travel with a small rocket motor
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Undergrad Can someone help calculate pressure drop ?
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Undergrad How do we decide dimension of motion?
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Graduate Deriving equation of wave motion
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High School Falling question about terminal velocity
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Graduate Ball bouncing on a planet (no atmosphere) follow up questions
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High School What will happen if i throw a cricket ball through Saturn's ring
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Undergrad Writing Velocity as dx/dt in K= ∫mvdv = ∫m dx/dt dv - Does it Make Sense?
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High School Will a Rigid Ball Bounce off a Wall?
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Motion/Period of a Physical Pendulum
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High School Explain FBD in vertical circle
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Undergrad Pressure, surface area and force in tire
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High School Motion on a frictionless Surface
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Undergrad Mechanical energy to kinetic energy storage....?
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High School A Question about Effect of Force on Rigid Bodies....
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Undergrad Simple question about acceleration from accelerometer
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Undergrad Why is work done expressed as F.dx instead of x.dF?
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High School Vacuum & Sound: What Happens to Energy?
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Graduate Work-Energy theorem if the particle´s mass depends on time
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Undergrad Would this device(pic inside) work for boiling cold water?
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High School Rolling a spray paint cap on a surface
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Undergrad Use a level to test the Earth's curvature?
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High School You've probably seen something like this....hovercraft
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Graduate Stress-strain; strain-displacement in 2-D; uniqueness
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Graduate Can you know which reference frame is accelerating?
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Undergrad Force exerted by a jumping dog
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Undergrad Getting energy from deep ocean pressure
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High School Can a plastic container break from having too much water
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Graduate Calculating Filling Time for a Diving Tank with Changing Hydrostatic Pressure
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High School Why Does the Sign of 'g' Change in Physics Equations?
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High School Floating 0.5 Density Wood Beam: Potential Energy Explained
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Graduate Galilean invariance: Newton's 2nd Law of motion
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Undergrad Gaussian gun: Where does the extra kinetic energy come from?
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Undergrad Solving Car Collision: Velocity Impact of 40cm Rear End Impact
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Graduate Is this constraint nonholonomic or not?
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