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High School Is a 0.040V Reading on a Strain Gauge Before Force Applied Acceptable?
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Undergrad Systems and number of FBDs....
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Undergrad Which stick hits harder? (one is stiff and other can be bent slightly)
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Undergrad Using reference frames for derivation of Lagrangian
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Undergrad How does an object know how far to move when it's moving?
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Undergrad PIGA: Pendulous Integrating Gyroscopic Accelerometer
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Undergrad Distribution of torsion in a steel guitar string
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High School Difference between muscular and normal force
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Undergrad [Question] Calculating the force generated by a tarp hung between two walls
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Undergrad Calculating phase shift between two sinusoidal waves
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Undergrad Calculating Force for Garden Storage Box Lid: A Newton/Kilogram Question
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Undergrad Writing the Lagrangians for different frames depending on how "the ball is dropped"
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Undergrad Some doubts about determining experiments
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Undergrad Hamiltonian of the bead rotating on a horizontal stick
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Undergrad Does being surrounded by water affect collisions between 2 bodies?
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Undergrad Deriving formula for kinetic energy
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Graduate Estimating Pitch & Volume of Collision Sounds
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Undergrad An interesting question about another view of baisc mechanics'laws
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Undergrad Remark on centrifugal force in Heino Falcke's black hole book
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Graduate Virtual work of constraint forces in Hamilton’s principle
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High School Why don't two double pendulum apparatus follow the same paths? / Chaos
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Undergrad Maximum torque without wheel slip
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High School Does Pushing a Ship from a Ramp Affect Its Movement?
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Graduate Hamilton's principle and virtual work by constraint forces
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High School Estimate the difficulty of a mountain route
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Undergrad A Continuous Solution for Mass/Spring w/ Friction
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High School How Does Liquid Density and Viscosity Influence Free Fall Braking?
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High School Calculating g with a Conical Pendulum
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Graduate Are there real-world applications of Hamilton's Principle in mechanics?
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Undergrad Question about driven harmonic oscillator
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Undergrad Reference frames in terms of homogenity/isotropy
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Undergrad Summing and averaging RMS pressure (amplitude) of sound waves
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Undergrad Is there a list of root-power quantities? Or a rule of thumb?
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Undergrad Why is the driven gear's torque's direction clockwise?
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Undergrad Gyroscopic precession of a spin-stabilized bullet
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Undergrad [Questions] Modeling a Baseball Pitch Trajectory in 3D Space
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Undergrad Don’t understand the general form of the Sinusoidal Wave Equation
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Undergrad Calculating Combined Loading Stress: Neutral Axis and Bending Moment at Point A
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Undergrad Constraint Forces and Lagrange Multipliers
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High School Busting the myth about achieving artificial gravity by rotating a body
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Undergrad Intuition Behind Intermediate Axis Theorem in an Ideal Setting
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Undergrad Why do heavier projectiles tend to have higher momentum?
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Graduate What is the fatigue limit for copper pipe with a factor of safety of 5?
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Undergrad Importance of Moment of Inertia for designing helicopters and propellers?
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Undergrad Types of symmetries in Lagrangian mechanics
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Undergrad Lagrangian coordinate transformation (Noether)
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High School Circular wire center of gravity
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Undergrad Question about the velocity of the center of mass reference frame
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Undergrad Does gas flow from low to high pressure?
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Undergrad Mechanics problem: A Weight and a Mass Suspended from a String
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Undergrad Why Lagrangian includes 1/2m by Landau?
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Undergrad Help to model transmission of forces through a medium
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High School What will be the ball's velocity after a perfectly elastic collision?
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High School Moment of Inertia of Rectangles
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High School How Does Blackbird Leverage Wind Power to Move Faster Than the Wind?
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Undergrad Solving Wheel Coming to a Stop: FBD, Friction & Hysteresis
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Undergrad Trajectory collision calculation
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High School Hydrostatic pressure on top of a cone filled with water
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Graduate Why is Hamilton's Principle assumed to be valid for non-holonomic systems?
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Undergrad Does two-slit sound-wave interference pattern return to original form?
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Undergrad Calculating Force on a Golf Ball when Putting on a Level Green
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High School Jaan Kalda kinematics -- Radius of Curvature of a Cycloid
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Insights How to Apply Newton’s Second Law to Variable Mass Systems
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High School Moist air - does it rise or drop?
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Undergrad Effect of moving cargo on vehicle fuel consumption
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High School Why do we feel gravitational acceleration from the Earth and not from the Sun?
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Undergrad Paddle Wheel Torque Calculations
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Undergrad Hydrogen balloon experiment -- How high can it rise?
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High School How does Earth's rotation affect our movement?
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Undergrad Why momentum is conserved when a gun fires? (conceptual question)
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Undergrad Compressed air Pushing a Column of Water
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High School Is the Earth's gravitational pull constant?
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Undergrad Lagrangian symmetry for the bullet and gun
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Undergrad Inertia of body moving about two distinct parallel axes
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Undergrad When Water acts like Glue (flat surfaces)
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Undergrad Using Linear Algebra to discover unknown Forces
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Undergrad Newton's Second Law - variable mass case
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Undergrad If frictional force in system is <= us*N then there is no slipping
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High School Exact differential and work done
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Undergrad Sound pressure and inverse distance law
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Undergrad Change in Momentum from mass contribution to the moving object
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High School Question about real world examples of 2.7 megajoules
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Graduate Why are the Navier-Stokes equations inconsistent in this case?
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Undergrad Effect of Nearby Mountain on an Ideal Pendulum
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Undergrad Work-Energy Theorem for Moving Block and Spring System?
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High School Can a skateboarder ride faster by holding a water bottle?
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Undergrad Angular Momentum problem v2 (mass moving inward or outward)
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Undergrad Calculating actual weight lifted on a pulley weight machine
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Undergrad Noether’s theorem -- Question about symmetry coordinate transformation
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Graduate Double pendulum motion (and Lyusternik-Fet Theorem)
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Undergrad Proof that canonical transformation implies symplectic condition
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High School Finding Angle Between Fluid & Horizontal: Clarified
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Undergrad Tracing parabolic motion with only current velocity and position?
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Undergrad Making a "Planetary Gear Set" using a 3D printer and PLA material
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Undergrad Bead on a vertical frictionless ring
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Undergrad A pendulum with viscous friction
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Undergrad Find the constant acceleration of an object that slows down to a standstill
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High School Looking for help understanding scalars vs. vectors
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High School Water doesn’t fall in inverted half cup
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Undergrad Board Breaking: Why Strike Center for Good Break?
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