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Undergrad Does Conservation of Momentum Apply to an Object Moving on a Rigid Surface?
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Undergrad Uses of Lift Force for Plane Surfaces
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Undergrad Confusion with Potential Energy and Work
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Undergrad Sizing fan static pressure to open a cover
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Undergrad What is the length described in surface tension?
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Graduate On the relativity of time and speed
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Undergrad Confusion about work done by friction as negative or positive
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Undergrad Force required to indent a volume of material
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Undergrad Is there a contradiction in Halliday and Resnick?
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Graduate Information Conservation in Logic Gates and Computer Components
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Undergrad Optimizing Projectile Range: The Physics of Mass and Launch Velocity
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Undergrad Cylinder Beats Sphere in Race (weird case)?
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Undergrad Conservative force for an elastic force?
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Vertical Displacement from Experimental Data with Noise?
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High School Sliding on an object on an inclined plane
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Undergrad Curved Tube For Constant Pressure Increase?
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Undergrad Potential difference in an alternator
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Undergrad Friction in a hemispherical bowl
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High School Differences between Centre of Gravity and Centre of Mass
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Graduate Conservation of energy across the universe
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Graduate Is the normal force just kinetic energy?
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High School Calculating Power with Solar Cells: Series vs. Parallel
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Undergrad Do Electrons Travel from the Positive to the Negative Terminal in a Battery?
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia: Rules & Usage Guide
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Graduate How does linear velocity of a spinning object affect its rebound
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Undergrad How is Angular Momentum conserved in orbits?
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Undergrad How would one calculate pressure increase in cooker
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Undergrad Where does the sense of weight come from?
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Undergrad How to know if all the strings have the same tension or not
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Graduate Pressure Gradients along an angle pipe
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Undergrad How Does Increased Surface Tension Affect Liquid Surface Area and Volume?
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How can you identify the type of gun by the sound it makes?
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Undergrad Angular momentum for these strange nonplanar gears?
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High School Is Center of Mass a vector or scalar quantity?
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Graduate Do Gravitational Field Lines Change Instantly for an Accelerating Mass?
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Graduate Anti-hydrogen molecular spectra?
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Undergrad How would a person under water see sunset and sunrise?
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Undergrad What is the Relationship Between Inertia and Moment of Inertia?
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Undergrad Is Kinetic Energy Really Constant in Constant Velocity Motion?
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Undergrad Measuring changes in barometric pressure without a barometer
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Graduate Penetration of falling object into sediment (after water)
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Graduate Can a simply supported beam be a cylinder?
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Undergrad How do you find the force that will be exerted by something?
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Graduate Slipping vs No Slipping Ball Race
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High School Is the value of g negative or positive?
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Undergrad Rocket-Powered Dragsters: Faster than Wheel-Driven?
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Undergrad Perpendicular loading exerted by a moving fluid to a solid
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Undergrad How Does Splitting a Mass in Midair Affect the Center of Mass's Trajectory?
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Undergrad Solve Boom Crane Position with Lagrangian Equation | Wind Loading Included
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Undergrad Work: Isolated & Non-Isolated Systems Difference
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High School FPS System: Why 1 Slug = 15.59 kg?
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Graduate Change in the height of a fluid vortex
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High School Why removing and replacing remote battery makes it work?
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Undergrad Two discs connected by a stiff spring
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Graduate Answering Sound Wave Questions
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Graduate Bernoulli's Princple vs Flow Equation (deltaP=QR)
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High School Can someone explain elastic band physics
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Undergrad Centripetal Force - same thing as gravitational force?
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Undergrad Shouldb constant acceleration when simulating magnus effect?
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Graduate Problem with 2 cars on almost masless spining platform
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Graduate Total angular momentum is the sum of angular momentum of CM and that about CM
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Undergrad Blowing between two objects -- Why is the pressure low?
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Graduate Does rotational motion affect the translational motion?
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Undergrad How can a ball rise higher than originally dropped?
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Graduate Classical mechanics formulations?
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Undergrad Is the trajectory parabolic or elliptical?
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Undergrad Spring Displacement in Moving Part: Constant Pressure?
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Undergrad Jumping straight up while skateboarding downhill
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High School What (if anything) is sound made of?
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Graduate Rotational Vectors not merely a bookkeeping device?
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High School Kepler's Law of Areas: Radially Directed Force
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Undergrad Force Analysis of a compressed spring
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Undergrad Direction of friction on a rolling body
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Undergrad Question about torque (I think) and a gymnastic exercise
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High School Hardware that can produce sound waves with frequencs 0-200hz
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Graduate Rigid body with center of rotation other than CoM
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Undergrad What is the correct way to calculate the power required to lift a mass?
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Undergrad Why is there a set speed of sound in a certain medium?
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Graduate How can the end of a rod accelerate faster than g?
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High School A doubt about tangential and normal aceleration, pilot g forces
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High School Exploring the Concept of Moment Conservation in Structural Engineering
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High School Would a Feather Experience Gravitational Attraction to a Battleship?
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Graduate Is there a true upward force on a rotating object?
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High School How does a Triple Beam Balance work?
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Undergrad Pressure distribution on an air mattress
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Undergrad Is there impulse during a collision only?
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Undergrad How comes friction is not contact surface dependant?
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Graduate Gravitational potential between two massive particles....
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Graduate Shield against induction of sounds from remote source of RF
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Undergrad How high does a pendulum go after pushing at equilibrium?
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Graduate Calculating Angular Momentum Reduction in Rotating Rockets
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Graduate Rolling Pendulum: Solving the Dynamics Equations
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Undergrad Question on convention - R vs r using universal law of grav.
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Undergrad Calculating power spectral density from FFT
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Graduate Approximating a spring constant for an air leg
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Graduate Deriving continuity equation of phase space in Statistical Mechanics
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Graduate Is Jules Verne's space cannon posible with a breathable fluid?
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Undergrad Gas Kinetic Energy: Monatomic or All Gases?
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Undergrad Acceleration as a function of x to a function of time
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Graduate I fail to see how two counterrotating gyroscopes behave
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