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Frictional Force: Static to Kinetic Conversion
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Can a Ship Experience Maximum Roll and Heave Accelerations Simultaneously?
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EM: Vector potential vs. Field tensor: Which is fundamental?
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Load moving horizontally across bridge, speed affect loading
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How Is Energy Expended When Holding a Bucket Stationary?
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Is force an accelerating mass?
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Accelerating and Non-accelerating Coordinates - Fluid flow
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Pressure variation across streamlines in a free jet
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Change in potential of terminals of batteries
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Regarding the "acceleration" of the EM field
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Wireless transmission of power along a railway track
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Faster, narrower fluid same pressure as slower, wider fluid?
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Projectile height formula based on distance?
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Relative velocities of balls on reaching the ground.
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How can I determine the drag coefficient of a cardboard propeller?
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Fluid Mechanics: Constant Pressure and Incompressible flow
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Momentum, position vector dot (scalar) product action
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What does it mean to connect something to a potential V?
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Weight Transfer in Car Tires, and Suspension
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Orthogonality from infinitesimal small rotation
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Velocity of the pressure change
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How a Ballistic Pendulum works.
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When do time dependent constraints mean energy conservation?
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Regarding to the speed of information.
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Why does the weighing machine show different values when jumping vs standing?
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Troubleshooting a Simulation: Acceleration & Velocity Lost in a Jump
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Multiple-spring system problem....
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How Does a Scale Work? | Curious Posts
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The invention of a Newton, how was it measured back then?
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Would I be able to see a ball passing next to me at 340m/s ?
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Two cars turning into a corner.
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What happens if the new ARX bullet breaks the sound barrier?
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Car C1 Speed Needed to Rotate C2 180 Degrees
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Dot product in the Gravitational Potential Energy formula
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What's the error in my derivations? (impulse/momentum)
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High power bushing (HV power line insulator shapes)
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Air speed after it passes a tunnel
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Time to fall through a hole in Earth, but not through center
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Will absolute zero change with pressure?
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Pi, momentum, and kinetic energy
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Radians and the unit of rotational energy
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Can I get help with a car speed question? (to fight a traffic ticket)
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Acceleration of object at constant velocity in rotation?
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Downforce, banked turns, and friction
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What is the minimum speed limit in the universe?
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Dependence of gravitational potential
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Mysterious Low Frequency Horns: Real or Fake?
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Confused about some details of potential difference
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Impact of 2 rigid beam without energy loss has multiple slns
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Double Pendulum Potential Energy
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Can I go up with a constant speed?
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Calculating Cyclic Energy from Acceleration (Relative)
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Why is inertia not stopping acceleration?
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Viscosity & Pressure: Can Hydraulic Resistance Prevent Boiling?
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How does an object's velocity change over time during constant acceleration?
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Speed, altitude, and horizontal distance
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Force as a function of position, given x(t)
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Conservation of energy in bouncing ball
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Calculation of the energy from a pulse
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Solving the Mystery of a Frictionless Ramp & Spring
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Atwood pulley and calculating inertia based on slope (m)
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How Do You Calculate Water Velocity and Force of Impact?
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Derivative of angular momentum
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Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics - Momentum and Impacts - Comments
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Potential Gravitational Energy into Force
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Positive work while lifting an object
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What is the pressure in Kilopascals on a vertical plate
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Why does the soundwave reach its maximum at 3.5ms and a distance of 0.157m?
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Integrating acceleration sin wave
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Expanding Universe Slowing Down and Then Speeding Up
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Calculating elliptic orbits in Cartesian coordinates
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Understanding the Work Energy Theorem for a Spring
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A formula to calculate speed on loop de loop
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Velocity Derivative of a Sinusoidal Wave (Counter-Intuitive)
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Why does wind enter a car window?
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Finding the Collision Point of Two Objects Using Velocity and Position
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If gas volume remains constant, it can do work?
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How to convert air flow into pressure?
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Flow velocity out of a rectangluar nozzle
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Is distance between particles relative? Poincare invariance?
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What Type of Force Does F Represent in the Force-Momentum Equation?
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What happens to energy in a complete inelastic collision?
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An experiement -- Would it work?
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Accelerating protons and antiprotons for pair production?
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Does a car's speed change during a turn?
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Atmospheric Pressure at Spout of Water Tank
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How is Torque Shared in Equilibrium?
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Conservation of momentum scenario
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Person moving Velocity question
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Projectile motion sample problems
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How does Atmospheric Correction work?
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Can you close a car door underwater?
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Information regarding acceleration
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Translational Acceleration with No Rotation
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Normalization of 1D velocity boltzmann distribution
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What is the escape velocity of Earth?
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Friction in non-uniform circular motion of a car
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How do you calculate the energy required via torque when....
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Lanczos "Variational Principles of Mechanics" Problem
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Question about speed of the flying body
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