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Undergrad Pascal's law and kinetic energy in pipes
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Undergrad Water pressure and flow restricton - does size matter?
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Undergrad Survive falling into water. Calm vs Disturbed
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Graduate How the wave impedance of free space works?
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Undergrad Function for the velocity of a bouncing ball
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Undergrad How does an angled rod behave upon collision?
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Undergrad Calculating Surface Tension Force in a Hemispherical Water Bulge
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Undergrad Direction of motion if there are two unequal opposite forces
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Graduate A Classical Mechanics challenge for fun
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Graduate Linear elasticity, strutural physics, pressure load
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Graduate How can rotation with same phase be possible?
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Undergrad Vacuum or pressure to move spaghetti through a hole
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Undergrad Can Camera Distance Affect Angle of Foreshortening in Video Measurements?
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Graduate Need help calculating acceleration out of a gravity well
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Undergrad Why Are Position Vectors Essential for Understanding Motion?
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High School Gyroscopic precession force diagram
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Graduate Conservation of momentum in antennas
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Undergrad Why are there modes in cantilever beam oscillation equations
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Graduate Lagrangian Function: Defining Potential Energy
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Graduate A Supposition of Angular Motion
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High School Where Does Our Energy Go When We Feel Exhausted?
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Undergrad Help in understanding sum of torque equation
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Undergrad Finding Torque Without An Angular Acceleration (stepper motor)
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Graduate How does Nucleation work? Relationship with vacuums?
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Undergrad Force generated by a solenoid on a moving steel ball bearing
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Graduate Does the Wavefunction Collapse Violate Information Conservation?
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Undergrad Newton's Estimates of Object Masses & Distances
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Undergrad Help in calculating the orbiting height of a satellite?
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Undergrad What is the kinetic energy of particles in plasma
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Undergrad Confusion with regards to power lines and the power lost
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Undergrad How much force is exerted at 200 PSI with a panel size of 12 x 18?
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Undergrad Use of forces to escape the Earth
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High School Equation to calculate torque to hold drill while drilling?
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Undergrad RMS speed in kinetic energy equation for gas
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Undergrad Potential inside a hollow sphere (spherical shell)
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Graduate How do tires create momentum and change axes in a car turning right?
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High School Potential In parallal combination of resistors
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Undergrad Pressure in Flow Work (u + Pv)
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Undergrad How Does a Bike Turn Mechanically?
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Undergrad Calculate Skydiver Deceleration Force
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High School RC Helicopter in a Train (Forces)
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High School Mousetrap race car is not working
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High School Does the weight of a lever influences the amplification?
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Undergrad Rigorous Explanation of dW in Problem 121
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Graduate Fluid mechanics in a water container, reference from Feynman
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Undergrad Friction on a flat rotating surface
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Graduate Behavior of an ultrasound wave on a particle
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Undergrad How To Create the Fastest Rolling Can Possible
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Undergrad Trip to Space -- Can ship with 1g acceleration escape Earth?
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If you fall down an escalator going up, do you ever stop falling?
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High School Wheres G (m1*m2)/r^2 come from?
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Undergrad What Is the Formula for the Position of a Mass Falling Towards a Planet?
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Undergrad Simplified: Equations of Motion of a Quadcopter
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High School What is the difference between Kinetic Energy and Speed?
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Undergrad Thrust/Force and Angular Velocity
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia of a Propeller?
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High School The amplitude of a forced undamped ocillation
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Undergrad Is my approach for pascal's law wrong?
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Undergrad Interpretation of the Reynolds Transport Theorem?
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Undergrad Why is force defined as the rate of change of momentum?
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Graduate Why is Newton's equation of motion invariant to time reversal
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Graduate What is the design for a heavy-duty scissor jack?
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Graduate Singularity also with Euler-Rodrigues parametrisation?
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Undergrad Harmonically forcing a drum membrane -- are the waves isotropic?
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Undergrad Can Dimensional Analysis Solve the Helicopter Hovering Dilemma?
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High School How Does Static Friction Affect Energy and Work in Physics?
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Undergrad Static friction being the force that opposes the reaction
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Graduate Deformation in static and transient case
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Undergrad How large of a flywheel can my motor spin?
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Undergrad Confusion about conservation of energy vs. momentum
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High School The Brachistochrone Curve - Which theories apply?
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Undergrad Power from mass and acceleration
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Graduate Is the Bernoulli Equation enough to determine pump selection?
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Undergrad How Do Relative Velocities Affect Collision Impact?
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High School Physical meaning of geometrical proposition
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Undergrad Physics in Everyday Life: Simulating Collisions & Forces
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Undergrad Earth Spinning: What Would Happen If You Were Left Behind?
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Undergrad Jumping off a moving cart on a frictionless track
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Graduate Work done by internal forces on a system of particles
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High School Friction Force: When Does it Provide Motion?
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Graduate Help understanding recent work on "Space-Time Crystal" and TTSB please
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Undergrad Leverage and Forces on a Pivot System
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Undergrad Galileo's experiment and a lack of understanding....
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Graduate Kinetic energy: Legal to use kinetically independent frames?
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High School What is the Relationship Between Interference and Wavelengths?
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Undergrad Understanding Newton's 2nd Law
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Undergrad Formula to determine effort to raise a ladder
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Undergrad Velocity Estimate from Schlieren Flow Visualization
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Undergrad Instant distance visualization
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Graduate Space station artificial gravity - how to spin up to speed?
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Graduate Effective Potential in Lagrangian & Hamiltonian Mechanics
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Undergrad Observed speed of pitch different than catcher's view?
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Undergrad Measuring Vectors: Defining Direction and Magnitude
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Graduate How is the momentum conserved inside of a fluid?
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Undergrad Why momentum is conserved for a jet of fluid?
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Undergrad How does a hollow fiber membrane work to filter water?
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Graduate Ballistic Lenz's Law: Magnet Induced Current in Copper Tube
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Graduate Work done due to static friction in a boat-man system
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Undergrad Does Compressing a Spring Decrease Its Potential Energy?
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Undergrad Is Gas Pressure in a Weightless Environment Mainly Due to Particle Collisions?
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