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High School Calculating Wind Turbine Torque - Get the Right Result!
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High School Concussion question regarding PSI for football helmets
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High School Can anyone tell me some formulas for acceleration?
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High School This rocket physics problem seems unrealistic
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High School Why does increasing the height of a water tower increase water pressure?
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High School Proof of inverse square law for gravitation?
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High School Which Energy Law is the Key to Understanding Work and Conservation?
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High School What's so great about Noether's theorem?
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High School Normal Force Discrepancy for Wedge Vs. Ramp
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High School Rod resting against a smooth peg
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High School Why is static friction necessary for pure rolling?
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High School Equivalence of Frictional and Applied Force
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High School Maximizing Mechanical Advantage in Levers: Investigating Size and Shape
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High School Rolling of non-deforming sphere on a non-deforming rough surface?
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High School Is simple harmonic motion also a pure translatory motion?
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High School Pressure through a curved hose - expected results?
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High School Doubt regarding the terms used in the solution
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High School Unable to understand how these two forces are equal
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High School Trouble understanding what rolling friction is
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High School Friction on pure rolling non deforming sphere?
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High School Displacement of Hanging Mass - Simple Pulley System
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High School Why does a stiff boat rudder produce forward thrust when pumped left to right?
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High School Harmonic oscillator and simple pendulum time period
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High School Understanding Newton Force: Real World Examples
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High School Why doesn't static friction move the other object?
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High School Applying the distance formula d= v*t + 1/2a*t^2
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High School How does the Paper Spiral work?
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High School Why is KE not conserved when momentum is?
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High School Question about collisions -- Knife point piercing a ball of clay
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High School Questions about Feynman's contrasting Definitions and Laws in physics
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High School Does a body behave as a point mass even at rest?
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High School Angled Rod w Float Attached -- Force of Float
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High School Rolling Motion Test: Take the Challenge and Justify Your Answers
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High School Wanting to do some impact force experiments
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High School Understanding Average Velocity in Linear Motion with Constant Acceleration
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High School Mouse Trap Car, Materials Decision
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High School Conservation of Momentum for system of particles
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High School Strapped to a quadcopter in zero gravity
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High School Difference Between Potential and Potential Energy
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High School Conservation of momentum and conservation of energy details
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High School K Energy & Momentum: Driving Force or Lost Heat?
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High School Will a round-headed rod topple if it slides down a frictionless slope?
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High School How come friction can make a car turn?
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High School Newton's third law (equal and opposite force)
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High School Centrifugal force spinning Basketball
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High School Potential energy and lifting an object vertically
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High School How to Calculate Power and Torque for a 15kg Load at 15 RPM?
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High School Why don't guns kill the shooter?
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High School How does the size of pool balls affect the amount of force needed for a shot?
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High School What are the energy conservation principles at play in a catapult launch?
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High School Calculation of displacement of an object
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High School Do forces of attraction really exist or are they just an illusion?
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High School Newton's second law about cars
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High School How is efficiency defined in rocket propulsion?
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High School Is this determinable? (Size of this Russian patrol boat)
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High School Upwards movement -- Lifting weights while standing on a scale
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High School Why does friction decrease with repeated force application?
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High School Understanding Momentum: The Relationship Between Mass, Velocity, and Force
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High School How to find the Moment of Inertia for a Sphero robot?
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High School Hi, I'm learning physics -- Why do things near me not fall toward me?
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High School Calculating the Distance that a Catapult can launch a Projectile
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High School Understanding Friction: The Impact of Inter-Molecular Bonding on Movement
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High School Why does ice have more friction when it's solid compared to when it's melting?
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High School What is the relationship between force and distance in planetary motion?
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High School Analysis vs arithmetic approach to solving motion
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High School How to shoot longer shots in basketball
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High School Swimming pool in a rotating space station
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High School Rolling without slipping in non-sloping surface
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High School Centrifugal Force on Rotating 4" tire / wheel @ 100mph
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High School Does air resistance have a max value?
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High School Confusion with orientation of coordinate axis in inclined plane
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High School How to calculate torque on a body falling freely through the sky?
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High School Conservation of Energy and Momentum in an Explosion
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High School What sort of can would roll the fastest?
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High School What is my apparent weight in water?
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High School Propagation speed of movements of a fluid in a pipe
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High School Understanding Weight and Inertia: A Comparison of Mars and Earth
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High School Does the Bernouli Effect Work On Cars?
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High School About actually touching something and sound made by collision
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High School Can I hold down more than my body weight on a 1 to 1 system?
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High School Does more energy mean more work?
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High School Gravitational acceleration in circular motion
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High School Does weight affect the acceleration of an object?
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High School Is Gravity Impacting Projectile Range Beyond Air Resistance Effects?
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High School Can You Use a Rubber Bracelet as a Buoyancy Reference for Freediving?
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High School To displace the Earth from its orbit
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High School Is the final velocity of a Tossed tomato the same as its initial velocity
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High School Work energy theorem by variable force
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High School Why does the work done by a weightlifter result in a net energy loss?
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High School Misleading Textbook Equation for vf^2=vi^2 + 2ad
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High School Defining Impulse: The Importance of a New Quantity in Physics
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High School Questions on how helicopters fly
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High School What Happens to a Ball's Energy When Thrown Upwards?
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High School Same case of Newton’s third law
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High School Work done in lifting and lowering an object
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High School What is the need for the concepts of Work and Energy (KE)?
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High School About verification on Kinetic energy and work
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High School What is tension and how does it affect a rope?
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High School Newton’s second law as one complete law
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High School Calculate needed dimensions of table - Center of mass, levers etc
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