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Undergrad A doubt from Kinetic Theory of Gases
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Graduate How photons exceeds their velocity?
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Undergrad About the equation for work done on gas
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Graduate Understanding Complex Variables and Derivation of the Red Box Explained
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High School Why Does a Ball Bounce Back After Hitting a Wall?
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Undergrad How Is Net Work Calculated on an Incline?
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Undergrad Water evaporation by negative pressure and 0% of RH
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Undergrad When does potential energy change?
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High School Why sound produced by rapids varies in pitch based on height
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Undergrad Why not use the product rule to expand Newton's 2nd law?
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Graduate Instantaneous centre of rotation
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High School Is centripetal force greater than centrifugal force?
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Undergrad Amplitude of Piston in Horizontal Cylinder
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Undergrad EMI potential difference question
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Graduate How to apply Newton's laws to non-rigid bodies?
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Graduate Angular momentum conserved for central forces not at origin?
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Graduate What equilibrium distance to use for E of a vertical spring
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Undergrad Angle of repose - Trying to understand the formula
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Undergrad Pressure should decrease in zero gravity?
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Undergrad Confusion with Lagrangian function in a calculation example
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High School Kinematics: Understanding Trajectory Equations
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Graduate Calculating Acceleration Limit Near 10 Solar Mass Object
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High School Why does a falling object experience constant acceleration due to gravity?
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Undergrad Does speed increase ionizing power
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Graduate Fluid mechanics : Two dimensional converging flow
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High School Why Doesn't a Helicopter Drift Away as the Earth Spins?
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Undergrad Find Well Depth from Time Taken to Hear Stone Hit Bottom
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Undergrad Is the Dot Product of Unit Vectors Related to Magnitudes and Angle Between Them?
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High School Pressure from a fluid on a solid piece of metal
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Graduate Trajectories never cross in phase-space
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High School "Force Coupling" and "Force Decoupling"
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Undergrad Pressure Causes: Weight vs Molecules Motion
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Undergrad How does pendulum go slack above the horizontal?
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Undergrad Friction and turning angle relation
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Undergrad Derivation of angle of repose - Friction
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Undergrad Determining the period of a pendulum with an accelerometer
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High School I need the name of this equation for my IA?
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Undergrad Confusion about centripetal force
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Graduate Chemical potential at equlibrium
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Graduate Sliding without friction pedagogy
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High School Cooling and its effect on particle speed
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High School Proof / derivation of d'Alembert principle?
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Undergrad Contact Patch and Friction: The Impact on Stopping Distance
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High School Why won't two objects stick when put tightly together?
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Undergrad How much power required to generate a particular pressure
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High School Can you me understand free body diagrams
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Undergrad G force and rate of deceleration
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Undergrad Resultant force after adding a force to a couple moment?
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Undergrad What does gravitational potential mean ?
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High School On what area is the pressure of the gas acting?
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Undergrad Would it be correct to think of force, work and power as....?
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Undergrad Deriving Lagrange's Equation: Help Understanding Chain Rule
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Undergrad Why are Trebuchets better than Torsion Catapults?
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Graduate Generalized Forces: Understanding i & j - Physics Help
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Undergrad How Does Stickiness Influence Static Friction?
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High School Calculating Linear and Angular Quantities from Applied Force
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Undergrad Isolation transformer: Potential difference to the earth
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Undergrad What Resources Help Build Mechanical Devices for Vacuum Evaporation?
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Undergrad How does a whip break speed of sound?
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Undergrad Movement caused by Centripetal Force
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Graduate Radial flow between two circular discs (fluid mechanics)
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Undergrad Can different forces cancel themselves?
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Undergrad Torque Calculation without a gauge
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Undergrad Can a force generate rotation with moment arm=0 ?
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Undergrad Vehicle speed calculation from pedestrian throw distance
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Graduate Applicability of potential flow theory (fluid dynamics)
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Undergrad Where does the energy come from?
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Undergrad Physics behind shooting a basketball.
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Graduate What do we know about the formula for air drag force?
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Undergrad How Do You Convert 250 Degrees to Radians for Resultant Forces?
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Undergrad Does Potential Energy Depend on Reference Point or Force Nature?
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Undergrad Conservative forces and conservation of mechanical energy
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Graduate Lagrangian at a rolling sphere
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Graduate Forced vibration on mass between two pull springs
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Undergrad Hurricane Mathew: Force of Wind & Its Impact on People
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High School How much could heaviest flying animal weight?
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Undergrad Where does kinetic energy go in inelastic collision?
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High School Energy vs. Force: Understanding the Relationship and Implications in Mechanics
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Graduate Bernoullis & Pressure Gradient force
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Graduate Bathtub Vortex Pressure difference
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Graduate Large Amplitude Pendulum Equation
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Undergrad Does a humam body movement generate a vacumm trail? and more
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High School A statistical definition of Young's Modulus?
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Undergrad Is Torque the Same as Moment of a Force? A Confusing Semantic Issue
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High School Net force on 'ground' with object on top of it....?
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High School Conservation of Angular Momentum
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Undergrad Water wicking up porous media and air humidity ?
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Graduate Unsteady Pipe-Flow Momentum Balance: Solving for Volumetric Time Rate of Change
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Undergrad Lifting a car of 1500 Kg through air compressor
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High School Do We Include Signs in Conservation of Momentum Equations?
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Undergrad Can anyone evaluate this integral?
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Undergrad How Is Acceleration Calculated for Space Travel Via Cannon?
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Graduate Why does Planck's BB emissive power increase with n?
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Undergrad Conservation of Momentum with Friction?
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Undergrad What is the Relationship Between Amplitude and Speed in SHM?
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High School Confusion about Newton's laws, sum of forces equals zero
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Undergrad To stop a moving object -- Momentum or Kinetic Energy
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Graduate Generalized version of work-energy theorem
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Graduate Bernoulli Equation and Navier-Stokes
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Graduate Does Temperature Affect the Work Function in Photoelectric Cells?
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