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Graduate Centripetal force and spinning discs
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Undergrad Why is there a time unit in some inertia units and not in others?
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High School Change in direction affecting velocity
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High School Can't get this tension derivation........
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Undergrad Real World Gravity on an incline question
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Undergrad Do Birds Flying in a Truck Affect Its Weight?
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Undergrad How to calculate force on stationary wall?
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Graduate Doppler effect with moving medium but no relative motion
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Graduate Potential Energy: Dependence on Position, Not Velocity
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High School Analysis Of Stilts Movement Research
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High School How a net force acts on 'Earth'?
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Undergrad The role of reaction to the gravitational force on a body
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Graduate Work done by a van der waal gas/real gas in a expansion
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Undergrad Why do tightrope walkers carry a rod?
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Undergrad The result would have units of kg*m^4.
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Undergrad Torques in a Pump: Understand Opposite Signs
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Graduate Continuity equation in Lagrangian coordinates
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Undergrad Static Problem for Upright Vessel
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Undergrad Is aeroelastic flutter a type of resonance?
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Graduate Can the work of a counterclockwise cycle be positive?
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High School Why do waves form in a glass of water when hitting the table?
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Graduate Area of sphere-continuum mechanics
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Undergrad Power vs BTU: Is There a Direct Relationship?
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High School Why Is It That An Apple Will Fall To The Earth?
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High School A 100 metre potato drop will it be unharmed (check)
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Graduate Work in a process which is both adiabatic and isobaric?
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Undergrad Two-Wheeled Car Race: Friction - Help or Hindrance?
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High School Gravitational attraction between two masses
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Graduate Rolling without slipping and friction
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Graduate Creating controlled cavitation underwater (bubbles)
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Graduate Why Prandlt Mixing Length Theory works at all?
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Undergrad Forces acting on body placed in meniscus
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High School Ping-pong balls, Bernoulli, and water
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Graduate Doppler shift and change in intensity of a sound wave
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Undergrad Question about vapor pressure....
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Undergrad Sound waves and speed of it in different reference frames
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Undergrad Why is DNS more computationally expensive than k-ε?
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Undergrad Yuri Milner Breakthrough Starshot - Nano Craft hitting Earth
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High School Is a Spaetzle Maker a Lever? The Science Behind Noodle Extrusion
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Undergrad Calculating Minimum Hole Size for Steam Pressure Relief in a Sealed Container
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Undergrad Determining the potential energy
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Graduate Change in angular velocity of the following system
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High School Does a force have to *cause* motion to do work?
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Undergrad What Causes the Horizontal Force in a Hanging Ball Scenario?
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Undergrad The pressure term in Bernoulli's equation
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Undergrad Static friction vs. Normal force on an incline
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Undergrad Why is gravity the only force that doesn't cause acceleration based on mass?
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Undergrad Question about the formal definition of conservative force
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High School Why Do Objects Move? | Molecule Physics
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Why doesn't this mp3 player work in the car?
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Graduate Generalized Coordinates and Porn
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High School Acceleration for Position-time graphs
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High School How can kinetic friction force be constant if....?
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Graduate Can the work in a isochoric process be non zero?
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Undergrad Pulley systems and friction (simple or compound)
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High School Understanding Momentum & Force: Self-Studying Physics Tips
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Graduate Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics - Moments - Comments
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Graduate Is the Near-Field Regime the Result of the Velocity Field?
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Undergrad Help Calculating Pressure of Seawater against a flat surface
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Undergrad Questions about this question on Hooke's Law in Balloons
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High School Difficulty in understanding graphs in kinematics
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Undergrad What are Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics?
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Graduate Use of Bernoulli equation for pumps
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Graduate A discord in analysis of a closed vs. open system model
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Undergrad Pressure required for air flow through nozzle
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Undergrad Understanding Circular Motion: The Relationship Between Force and Velocity
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Undergrad What is the maximum height reached by an object with air resistance?
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Undergrad Manometer reading doubt in the case of viscous fluid
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Undergrad Roll Angle of a Ship: Simple Equation Explained
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Undergrad Does Pressure in Phase Diagram refer to vapor pressure?
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Graduate Confusion regarding the speed of sound in wind
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Graduate Solve Acceleration of Hinges Problem on Brilliant.org
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Graduate Why does atmosphere rotate w/ constant angular velocity?
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High School Finding Horizontal Force in a Crank at 10N
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Graduate Elastic energy stored in a balloon
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Undergrad Normal contact force for a sliding slope
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Undergrad Buoyant force and ambient air pressure
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Undergrad Eco-Cooler Physics: How It Works and Air Flow Dynamics
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High School Finding range of a projectile from a graph
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Undergrad Work when lifting weights- fast vs slow
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Undergrad Water column pressure question
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High School Gravitational field strength calculation
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Undergrad How to lift water up to 5 metres without using a pump?
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Graduate Generalizing collision normal between two arbitrary shapes
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High School Momentum Conservation: Ball & Wall Impact
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High School Why atmospheric pressure does not crush us?
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High School How do forces propagate through the chain?
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Graduate Q: Stokes paradox (flow around a cylinder)
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Undergrad Calculating Force Components in a Rotating Link System
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Graduate Sound in a gas of non-interacting particles?
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High School What are the forces involved in the following case?
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Undergrad Can "extremal" strain tensors be in the interior of the body
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Undergrad William skinner Machine gravity
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Undergrad Multi-level extendable hammock posts
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Undergrad Sound Wave Energy Loss due to thickness of aluminum
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What is causing strange sounds from glasses in my apartment at night?
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Undergrad Time taken for free falling objects to travel a set distance
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Undergrad Using mesh as a waterproof material
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High School How does rainwater compare to home water in terms of potential harm?
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High School Can Reversing an Airfoil on a Prop Plane Still Create Lift?
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