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Undergrad How do you deal with commas in vector equations
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Undergrad Filling a Tractor Tire Up With Two Tanks
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Graduate Dynamically balance and angular momentum
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Graduate Four things -- Normal force, friction, Pressure, breakage
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Rare Kinematic Formula - Comments
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Undergrad Relationship between frequency, wavelength, and speed
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Graduate Using orbital spin to accelerate an interstellar launch
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High School How did Newton come up w/ 1st law? Why does friction exist?
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Undergrad What pressure not increases if I seal the container?
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High School Calculating Stopping Force for an Object in Motion
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Undergrad Can we lift water more than 10.3m using atmosphere pressure?
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Undergrad Integral form of Navier-Stokes Equation
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High School Explaining the Difference between Static & Dynamic Friction
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Graduate Confused about Reynolds Number- Fluid Mechanics
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Undergrad How can the 0.5 in the acceleration and distance formula be explained?
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Graduate Motion of rotating and sliding metal bar for robot combat
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Undergrad Classical mechanics confusions
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Undergrad Vulcan howl - aerodynamic calculations
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High School Understanding Work Done: A Bicycle Puncture Example
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Graduate An application of free fall (DE) model to industry
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Graduate Bottomless Water Barrel: Observing the Falling Chasm
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High School A formula for conservation of energy
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Undergrad Force exerted on the ground by pushing, pulling and striking
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Undergrad Making Eulers eqs. comply with Lagrange eqs.
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Graduate Additivity of mass: provable from Newton's laws?
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Undergrad Why is ##2 \pi /T## multiplied by R for v?
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Undergrad Definition of force over an area
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Undergrad What is the moment of inertia of a sphere and how is it derived?
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Undergrad The law of conservation of energy is wrong?
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Undergrad Questions about understanding circular motion & the forces involved
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Undergrad Car Acceleration - Torque Balance
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Undergrad Unraveling the Confusion: Coriolis Effect on a Frictionless Air-Hockey Earth
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Undergrad What does moment of inertia depend on?
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Undergrad Does ice do work when it melts or freezes?
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Undergrad Is angular momentum position specific?
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Undergrad Conservation of angular momentum
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Graduate Examples of systems which cannot receive work adiabatically?
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Graduate Internal energy loss and momentum conservation question
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Graduate How many constants-of-motion for a given Hamiltonian?
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Undergrad Why is the velocity of fluid on top a hydrofoil higher than on the bottom?
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Undergrad Question about potential energy
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High School Does more angular monentum mean faster spin?
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Undergrad Spring transferring half its energy to each mass?
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High School Could a person do this? -- Push a cruise ship by hand
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Undergrad How Does the Coriolis Effect Influence Great Circle Motion on Earth?
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Undergrad Proving Innocence with Physics in Accident
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High School Stick-Slip with Chalk: Understanding the Physics
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Undergrad Integrating Force: Is F=(m/t)*v Correct?
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Undergrad Explore How Physicists Prove Energy Conservation
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Undergrad Calculating the propulsive force acting on a car's wheels
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Graduate Why does the Dzhanibekov effect occur in rotating tennis rackets?
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Graduate Liénard–Wiechert potentials: Local or Material derivatives?
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Undergrad Why is acceleration due to gravity constant?
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High School Understanding Point Mass: An Example
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Undergrad Finding Maximum Strain with Cantilever Beam
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High School Upside down Cup with water to hold the plate
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Undergrad Calculating Impact Force When Force Is Not Constant
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Graduate Normal applied by a disk on a rod
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High School Which material combination has the highest coefficient of kinetic friction?
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Graduate Velocity of liquid from bottom pinhole of closed container
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Undergrad Physics of Outfielders Diving for Waist High Balls
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High School Non-dissipative losses in elastic collisions between rotating discs?
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Undergrad Relationship between power usage and time
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High School Does the Soccer Ball Move If I Kick It with Equal Force?
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Undergrad Sound Wave Energy loss question
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Undergrad Bifilar investigation compared with real lifesituationbridge
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Undergrad How does anything slow down if kinetic friction is low?
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Undergrad Mass and two springs in series: How to solve acceleration
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Graduate How distance from CoG affects acceleration over time
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Undergrad Relation of shape of bottle to water pressure
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High School How constant acceleration affects the tripulation of a spaceship?
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High School Hammer & a nail -- Calculating penetration depth into wood for first strike
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Undergrad Car Wing Design for Downforce: Efficiency Explored
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Undergrad What will be the flow direction?
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Undergrad Does mass density affect load distribution on barbell?
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Undergrad Coefficient of restitution of a ball question
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Graduate Hydrostatic stress on cube placed in deep sea
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Undergrad Coefficient of Drag on a model rocket
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Undergrad Does energy or force provide a better understanding of fluid dynamics?
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Undergrad Model Rocket- What does the 'v' in drag=kv^2 really mean?
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High School Friction and conservation of energy
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Undergrad Is 5,400 Horsepower Enough to Lift a 760,000Kg Rocket into Orbit?
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Undergrad Can a Vacuum in Space Create Drag on Moving Objects?
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Undergrad High Pressure Sodium and Metal Halide lamps near plasma ball
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Graduate What is the cause of the increased B-field in a rotating conductor experiment?
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Undergrad Plane slides on ice because of wind
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Undergrad Angle of Deflection in Elastic Collision
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia of a System - Disk with separate masses
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Graduate Is irrotational flow field a conservative vector field?
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High School How to calculate center of mass & centerline a of a boat?
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Undergrad Vapor pressure in open container
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Undergrad Fictional physics problem -- Firing projectiles into Earth orbit
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Undergrad Body rates from Euler angles....
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High School Understanding ABS Systems: How Do They Work and What Types Are There?
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Undergrad Need help with Newtonian equations with angular momentum
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Undergrad Why is acceleration independent of reference frames?
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Graduate Photon Momentum/Energy: Is It Equal?
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Graduate Deriving Kinetic Energy in a Double Pendulum System
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Undergrad Difference between Partial pressure and vapor pressure
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Graduate How water flows even after adverse pressure gradient?
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