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High School How 3D Movies Work: Explained in Detail
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High School Tying knots in rope(s) - tension, weakened strength
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High School Understanding Weight Distribution on Beams: The Role of Rigid Body Moments
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High School What is the Origin of Tension Force?
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High School Why Do Contacting Bodies Exert Normal Force on Each Other?
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High School Centrifugal Force: Is it Radially Outwards?
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High School Calculate Impact Speed of Car Hitting Sign
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High School Understanding the Impact of Friction on Object Rolling Distance in Physics
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High School How smoke travals at 70mph or dose it?
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High School Is Newton's Law of Gravitation Flawed?
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High School Simple Physics Help: Understanding Force in Motion | Refresh Your Memory
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High School I have a stupid professor and need clarification on Newtons 2nd law
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High School Calculating Wavelengths of Soundwaves: v = λ*f
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High School When I do the math, GPE does not equal KE after an object drops.
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High School Is the Potential Energy of Earth Infinite or Zero?
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High School Clarification needed about accleration
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High School Gamma Ray Speed: How Fast Do They Travel?
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High School I don't understand the equation for angular momentum?
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High School Are potential energy and gravitational potential energy same?
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High School Why is earth considered to have zero potential potential energy
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High School Is Gravity the Same as Acceleration?
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High School How does my energy saving meter work?
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High School Designing a Height and Distance Adjustable Spring-Loaded Projectile Launcher
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High School Conservation of angular momentum.
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High School Graph Velocity-Time of Usain Bolt 200m Race
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High School The Harmonic Overhang Effect in Stacked Books
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High School How does Zeno's paradox apply to a bouncing ball?
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High School How to Convert Displacement to Velocity and Acceleration Graphs?
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High School Additional Force Required for Inclined Planes
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High School What is the Centrifugal Force in Relation to Inertial Frames?
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High School How Fast Can Humans Accelerate to 45 Miles Per Second While Remaining Safe?
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High School Transparency of water, glass and plastic materials
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High School AP Physics: Horse Pulls Cart - Is My Thought Process Right?
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High School Why are atoms in constant motion?
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High School Weird words. Someone please clarify.
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High School How to connect a wireless moderm(internet) to cabled network
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High School Can a person slow down their free fall by pushing a heavy box?
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High School Help (required force to move a sliding door weighing 100 kg with two rollers)
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High School Assertion when assuming g = 9.8 or 10
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High School What is the relationship between osmotic pressure and osmolarity?
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High School Finding Acceleration Experimentally
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High School Equation Q: Ma=T-W & Ma=W-T | Tension Differences
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High School Draw the position time graph of a body moving with zero velocity.
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High School Law of conservation of 'force'.
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High School Understanding Propeller Speed: Explained for Beginners
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High School Is Newton's Second Law the Definition of Force and Mass?
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High School Calculating Thrust for Rocket Weight & Altitude
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High School Pull Force vs Tension: Toy Car on Pulley
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High School Calculating Force Between Two Blocks on a Frictionless Surface
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High School Understanding Gravitational Potential Energy
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High School Efficiency of Pendulum: Factors Affecting Amplitude
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High School Rotational motion of a cylinder
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High School Air Compression vs Water Depth
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High School Mass +Displacement: Find Acceleration
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High School What comprises the mass of the earth?
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High School A mini project regarding soundwaves?
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High School Can an object have both potential and kinetic energy?
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High School Conservation of momentum in Car Vs. Wall
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High School Can Sound Waves at 1100Hz Be Received and Emitted Effectively?
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High School Velocity, speed, acceleration and ?
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High School It is an interesting point you raise, though.Why do objects have inertia?
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High School Why Don't We Feel the Earth's Movement When We Jump?
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High School General Question Kinematics Units
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High School Laws of Conservation of Energy
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High School Propelling Vehicles with Light: A 15-Year-Old's Idea
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High School Grab a bag of sugar and say this weighs 1KG
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High School Calculating Helium's Pushing Force Against Gravity
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High School How to find radius if I know angle and velocity
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High School Apparent Suspension of Gravity
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High School Can the direction of friction force be opposite to the direction of motion?
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High School Solve Your Kinematics Problem: Understanding Jumping on a Moving Object
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High School What air pressure can the human body survive?
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High School Do the body have potential energy.
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High School Fluid under centrifugal force (Basic)
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High School Conservation of Momentum for Inelastic Collisions
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High School Kinetic friction vs static friction?
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High School Ball and chain- (kidding, no chain)
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High School Q: Pilot in a Plane - Which Ball Hits Ground First?
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High School Pilot Gravity: Which Direction Feels Most Gravity?
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High School Lifting Weights on a Single Pulley System
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High School Launching a Penny Accurately - Advice Needed
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High School Aeroplane & Cloud Mysteries: How Planes Pass Through Clouds
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High School Acceleration has nothing to do with mass, but
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High School Does the earth rotate and undergo revolution with the same speed?
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High School Unbelievable: Motorcycle T-bones Ford Expedition
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High School Metal Ball & Ring: What Happens When Heated?
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High School Protection of car from thndrstrom
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High School Does Spring Length Affect Its Extension?
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High School Jumping out of a moving bus (quick question)
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High School Is the Coefficient of Static Friction Always Higher than Kinetic Friction?
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High School Vector addition using graphical method
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High School Would you run faster in lower air pressure?
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High School Need formula/help with mass air flow
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High School Calculate Pressure of Air in a Cylinder
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High School Force & Momentum: Understanding Newtons & Mass in Motion
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High School HELP: How would you measure the force of an expolsion?
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High School What is the Impact of an Apple Falling on My Head?
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High School Quick question about a train/car problem
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High School Why Does the Acceleration Formula Work?
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