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Undergrad Isn't the force calculated twice?
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High School Pitot Tubes and Static Pressure
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Undergrad How much force (N) would it take to rotate this object?
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Bank Angle to Counteract Centrifugal Force in Turns?
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Graduate What are the problems with a path dependent potentials?
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Undergrad Variation in pressure in a rotating tube?
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Undergrad Can Adding Alternators to Car Wheels Save Energy?
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Graduate Quantum mechanics -- explanation of exothermic reactions
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Undergrad Is it possible for two waves travelling at different speeds
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Undergrad What defines an isolated system and the role of external forces in momentum?
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Undergrad How to calculate air volume of a fan using pressure?
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High School Question about a bob held by string in a bell jar spinning
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High School Reaction Force, Centripetal Force
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Graduate Particle collisions - a question on angles relative to beam
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Undergrad DIY Heavy Bag Base Calculation: How Much Weight Do You Need to Prevent Toppling?
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High School Force required to move an object upwards
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High School Energy release from 75c drop in water temp, 1L?
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Undergrad Calculating Added Mass: What is the Correct Approach?
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Undergrad Mass on a string-harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Fluid Boundary Layer Mathy Question
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Undergrad Calculate pressure on surface moving in water
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Undergrad Calculating Height of a Free-Falling Body Over Time
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Undergrad Does the apparent length of an object change in water?
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High School What factors affect the rate of sinking objects in water?
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Graduate Different forms of Bernoulli's equation
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Undergrad Does 1 mole of all gas exert equal pressure
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Graduate Conductor thought experiment: Speed of E field
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High School What Axis is Used When Calculating Torque?
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Undergrad Conceptual Force of Gravity Acceleration 2 vs 3 objects
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Undergrad Pressure at the closed end of a pipe with a leak?
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Undergrad Is the Proof Behind Choosing Any Point on an Axis to Calculate Torque?
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High School What is the effect of centripetal force on velocity?
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Undergrad Physics of the mountain car problem
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Undergrad How does gauge pressure affect the buoyant force on a submerged object?
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High School String constant of a folded and a cut up rubber
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Graduate No Potential Energy due to Sphere of Mass?
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High School What cause the pizza dough go to circular motion
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Graduate Variational calculus or fluid dynamics for fluid rotating in a cup
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Undergrad Centripetal Force, Friction, Loop de Loop, and Normal Forces
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High School Direction of acceleration, vector quantity
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Graduate Speed of gravity and planetry orbits
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Undergrad Force exerted by air in an inflated unloaded tire
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Undergrad Problem - Different weights on a swinging rod
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Graduate Question based on non inertial frame of reference
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Graduate Conservation of Momentum Degrees of Freedom
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Undergrad Forces of gravitation of moon and earth + Newtons 3rd law
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Undergrad Let's change the definition of 'weight'
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Undergrad Finding Moment of Inertia of a wheel experimentally
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Undergrad Why is it harder to run underwater but easier to lift
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Undergrad Static friction vs kinetic friction in Tablecloth trick
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Undergrad Force Applied to Chain at Max Length
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Undergrad Why conservation of angular momentum is not applicable here
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Undergrad Is there any systematic approach to calculate friction?
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Undergrad Can Rotating Objects Store Potential Energy Like Springs?
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High School Relative speed : Two trains crossing each other
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Graduate Positions of nodes on a resonating wine glass & symmetry
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Graduate No slip condition in an ideal fluid- Perpendicular pressure
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Graduate Equations about this torsional spring and movements
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Undergrad Speed of box from ramp to floor
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Undergrad How Does Friction Work in Rolling Objects with Zero-Dimensional Contact Points?
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Undergrad Rolling with slipping sliding friction....
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Undergrad Why is it so hard to explain friction?
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Undergrad Velocity vs displcement graph
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High School Buoyant Force: Pressure, Gravity & Upward Thrust
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Graduate Displacement graph of an orbiting body
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Graduate Centripetal Force and Pascal's Principle
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High School Frictional force and surface area in contact
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High School Sign Convention for Projectile Motion on an Inclined Plane
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High School Confirm: Upward Force > Weight of Object
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Undergrad Why is change in potential energy is always negative?
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Undergrad Constant Ratio of Drag coefficient and terminal velocity
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Undergrad Difference between Young's Modulus and spring constant?
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Undergrad I want to clear my doubts (friction and work)
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High School Why don't bowed musical instruments deaden their sound?
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High School Does the gravitational force change for a spinning wheel
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Undergrad Storing Kinetic & Mechanical Energy
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Undergrad How do you calculate the moment of a spinning wheel
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High School Helicopter Spin: What Makes Objects Fall Out?
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High School Could this book be Shaum's Outlines Theoretical Mechanics?
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Undergrad About which axis the moment of inertia of A body is minimum
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High School Airplanes stay level at higher velocities?
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High School Gravity between objects on Earth
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High School How much force was applied by the horse?
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Undergrad A gyroscope as weight for a lever
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Examples of Creative Problem-Solving
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High School Difference conservative and non-conversative force
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High School Calculate Speed over Time: Net Thrust of 5.25 m/s & 124 Secs
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High School What is Galileo's Law of Inertia and How Did He Prove It?
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Graduate Cart with Pendulum | Tension expression
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Graduate The relationship between limits and motion? (Limits in calc)
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High School Why Use Dot Product vs. Cross Product for Vector Calculations?
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High School Why do we multiply force and displacement in physics?
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High School Driving a nail into a wooden block
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Undergrad Proportion in 2D and 3D static equilibrium?
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High School Kinematic equation without time
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High School Does the mechanical advantage change if the load applies force?
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Undergrad Firing a pistol in an environment with no external forces
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Undergrad Can an object dropped from a moving plane achieve purely vertical motion?
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Undergrad Is it possible to use gyroscopic force instead of a mass?
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Graduate Method to calculate work while moving two walls
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