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High School How Can You Calculate the Force of Impact Without Knowing All Variables?
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High School Measuring Force of Expansion When Water Freezes - DCM
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High School Understanding of projectiles from physics
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High School Torque,flywheels and angular acceleration
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High School Equal Forces - Bullet and train (opposite directions)
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High School Frictional force is independent of the area of contact
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High School Research F1 Physics: Basics & Beyond
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High School Can You Lift Yourself on a Pulley?
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High School General question about floating/sinking objects
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High School Possible Explanation for Candle Generator?
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High School Rotational Mechanics:Small Problems
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High School Radio in my car bad due to antenna
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High School Can a Fly Lift a Balloon with Human Breath?
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High School What is the highest power in physics equations?
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High School How to Label a Simple Motor Diagram?
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High School Is frictional force really a force?
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High School If the object ends up at its initial point
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High School What advantage of oil in hydraulic brake over air?
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High School Does Reversing Battery Terminals Affect a Potential Divider Circuit?
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High School Understanding Zero Velocity and Non-Zero Acceleration: Explained
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High School Does Walking on Creaky Floorboards Consume More Energy Than Normal Floorboards?
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High School Object Velocity 0.00: How to Tell if It's Not Moving
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High School Battery Basics: How Alessandro Volta's Invention Works
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High School Object's Speed: Does Force Double Speed?
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High School How Can Gravity's Constant Be Considered Uniform Near Earth's Surface?
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High School Can You Pop an Underwater Air Bubble by Poking It?
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High School Comparing Planetary Orbits & Rotations in Pictured Figures
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High School Why Do Some Objects Bounce While Others Don't?
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High School Kinematic Equations: View List & Explanations
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High School Static Friction: Energy Conservation Explained
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High School How do velocity and angle relate in projectile motion graphs?
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High School Sun vs. moon - affects on tides.
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High School Calculate Height of Object in 9 secs
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High School Friction: Newton's Laws & Applied Force
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High School What Happens When Non-Newtonian Fluid Is Placed on a Speaker?
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High School Paintball impact with stonger Gun
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High School Experimenting: Finding Out What Affects Wood Block Tip Height
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High School Something I have always wondered.
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High School Pushing At Different Heights with Same Force: Ideas
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High School How can you see raindrops if water is transparent?
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High School Calculating Pressure in Liquids: What Formula Can You Use?
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High School Weighing a Ladder While Leaning Against a Wall?
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High School Does Newton's 1st Law Apply to the 2nd?
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High School Accelerating speed to cover specific distance
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High School Why is there a force between two objects?
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High School Simple question about water pressure in a cylinder
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High School Understanding Submerged vs Underwater Objects: A Quiz and Explanation
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High School Plane after take-off to heavy to climb to cruising altitude?
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High School In what condition is the acceleration of a falling parachute is zero?
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High School Why Does a System Return to Its Original Position After Force is Removed?
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High School Object on a string with a string wrapping around
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High School How does a body have zero weight in free fall?
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High School Why do water drops bounce on hot surfaces?
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High School Can High-Speed Blending Heat Up Water Due to Molecular Friction?
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High School Calculating Force of a 600ml Bottle Underwater
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High School How do wheels decrease the amount of energy needed to move an object?
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High School Understand Velocity & Acceleration: Questions Answered
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High School How many times more powerful are gammaray bursts than supernovas
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High School Displacement & Work: An Intro to Physics
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High School Inertia: Jumping in a Moving Train - Results?
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High School Calculating Force Exerted by a Moving Train on a Track
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High School Conservation of Energy Tutor | Physics Problem | x162,x163
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High School Potential vs. Potential Energy
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High School The most basic question re: acceleration, velocity, and force
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High School Direction of an object when the net force is 0
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High School A rod which flixed in only 1 direction.
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High School Elliptical movement of a svinging pendulum
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High School Find density on dropping a ball
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High School How Does Wrist Rotation Power a Powerball's Rotor?
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High School Running Before Jumping - What's the Explanation?
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High School How Do Newton's Laws Explain the Impact of Bird Strikes on Aircraft?
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High School Graphing Problem: Rearrange to a Straight Line Graph
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High School Initial velocity be larger or smaller once its calculated?
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High School Physics of riding a motorcycle
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High School What Happens to Water Pressure in a Glass When Inverted?
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High School Angular momentum vs. Linear momentum
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High School Why is average velocity=(v+u)/2
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High School Where Will the Ball Land After Passing Through Earth's Core?
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High School A simple practical answer needed
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High School Measuring Force Exerted by Dropped Objects on a Surface
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High School Why Does a Ball Stay Still on a Flat Surface?
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High School Does Gravitational Force Decrease When Used to Move a Mass?
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High School Why does a whistle sound louder when you blow harder?
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High School Pure water doesn't freeze at 32F ?
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High School What if there was a pole, whose length was the circumference of the Earth?
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High School Conservation of Mass - Does Burning Wood Convert Mass to Energy?
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High School How much force or speed is needed to jump
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High School Who introduced the concept of variable velocity?
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High School How to determine air-resitance for a dropped coin
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High School Student Struggling with Hookes Law - 18 Year Old Physics Student
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High School Spaceship hit the ground with a velocity of 100 m/s
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High School Does a car's speed change when it hydroplanes?
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High School Why do car wheels spin backwards
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High School Are generators efficient when powering only one small appliance?
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High School The mud flies off the tyre of a moving motor cycle in the direction:
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High School Can a Cone Save an Egg from a 15-Meter Drop?
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High School Weight=mg and if g is the acceleration due to gravity
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High School Flame becomes larger with water mist
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High School Discover the True Weight of Air: Experimenting with Gas Molecules"
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High School Acceleration Due To Gravity: Why Is It the Same for All Bodies?
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