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Undergrad Amount of energy in wind blowing through a tube
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Undergrad How Can Boundary Layer Suction Reduce Flow Separation in Pipe Expansion?
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Undergrad Fluid speed in a straight pipe
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Undergrad Prove mass, velocity and KE are their respected quantities
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Undergrad Name of the forces caused while driving a car
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Undergrad What's the best way to visualize a soundwave? and more.
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Undergrad How to calculate increasing force
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Graduate Coriolis effect causes in motion of a free falling object
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High School Is it possible to run as fast as a car?
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Undergrad Why can't a piece of yarn be used like a bullwhip in fly fishing?
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Graduate Coriolis force and conservation of angular momentum
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Graduate Forces that cause acceleration due to conservation laws
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Graduate High-pressure compression of liquids
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Graduate Satisfying the wave equation with 2 different speeds
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Graduate Proof derivative of a vector following precession motion
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Undergrad What is the relationship between force and time in simple harmonic motion?
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Undergrad Angular acceleration in rigid body rotation due to a torque
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Graduate What is a very weak shock wave? (Gas Dynamics)
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Undergrad Why are some systems defined with the name "variable mass"?
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High School What Initiates Particle Motion in the Universe?
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Graduate Equation for spring force for a cylinder on compressed air
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Graduate How can work be done during collisions?
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Graduate Falling to a Star With Varying Acceleration
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Graduate Trajectories of planets using reduced mass and CM frame
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Graduate Centrifugal term in mechanical energy in gravitation
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High School Connetion between centrifugal force and weight force
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Undergrad Properties of body with spherical symmetry
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Graduate Acceleration only due to conservation of angular momentum
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Undergrad Question About Work-Energy Theorem
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High School Why Does a Football Rotate in Flight?
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High School Possible explanation for kinetic energy
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Undergrad Coriolis effect deflects falling objects eastwards to westwards?
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High School Difference between momentum and linear inertia
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Graduate Rotational Inertia Gas vs Liquid
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High School Funny similarities between a ball and the expanding universe
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Graduate Divergence and transversal extension integral definitions
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High School Maximum Radius for Wall of Death
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High School Force and rate of change of momentum
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Undergrad Understanding Multiple Harmonics in Sound Quality
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Undergrad Simple Fulcrum Force Calculation Question
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High School Is gravity ever negative here?
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High School Bubble of water in zero gravity
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Graduate Calculating Drain Time of a Tank with Closed Outlet: What is the Formula?
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High School Rate of Force Development in athletes
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Undergrad Interpretation of kinetic energy
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Graduate How much energy dissipated in a nail gun?
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Graduate Component of angular momentum perpendicular to rotation axis
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High School What kind of force acts in the center of the Earth?
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Graduate Doubts on Work-Energy theorem for a system
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Graduate Can I add centrifugal acceleration?
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Graduate Partial derivative of potential energy and work
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High School Help with rolling cars -- science project
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High School Is pressure a qualitative property?
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Graduate Is there a difference between redirection and converging flow in fluid dynamics?
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Undergrad Second moment of area of a quad copter arm?
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Graduate Deriving Expression for Average Drag on Object - Help Needed
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High School Can someone explain to me the work equation for springs?
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Undergrad Rotational work and forces like static friction and tension
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High School Why is there a negative in Hooke's Law (F = -kx)
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High School Gravity in the center of the Earth (a confusion)
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High School Explanation please -- public bus induction power -- into basic physics?
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High School Dynamics and Kinematics Interview Question Examples
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Undergrad Why do conservative forces try to reduce potential energy?
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Graduate Cation/cation repulsion in salt water solution
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Graduate Extremum of thermodynamic potentials: confusion
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Undergrad Energy & Power: Calculating Force & Choosing Engines
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Undergrad Pole Dance & Physics: Understand Momentum & Gravity
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High School What is the true cause of friction?
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Undergrad How to calculate compression of a spring
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Graduate Torque on rigid body when angular momentum is not constant
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Undergrad How do guitar strings produce harmonics?
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High School Inverse Kinematics: Understanding the Math Behind Building Virtual Arms and Legs
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Undergrad Graphs of Gravitational Potential and Field Strength
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Undergrad Initial height of a bouncing ball and energy lost
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Undergrad Work function of conservative forces
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Undergrad How Does Vapor Pressure Cause Water to Boil?
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Undergrad Can any object have moment of inertia greater than that of a hoop?
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Graduate Can Scalar Field Exert Torque on Particle?
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Graduate Violation of conservation of momentum?
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Undergrad Acceleration of air threw a funnel
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High School Conservation of Momentum on Inclined and Flat Surfaces
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Undergrad Breakdown Potential of Parallel Plates Capacitor
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Undergrad Bernoulli vs Energy Conservation?
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Graduate Feynman:"Laws of Dynamics" vs "Law of Dynamics"
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Undergrad Does an eductor work on the Bernoulli equation?
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High School What Happens When an Object on Earth Loses Mass Suddenly?
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Undergrad Bubbles travelling through viscous liquids
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Undergrad Normal Modes: Finding Eigenfrequencies
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Undergrad Help with force & pressure on spine while bench pressing weights
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Graduate Relation between position vector and velocity vector
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High School Why Doesn't Atmospheric Pressure Deflate Basketballs and Footballs?
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High School How do Nerf Whistler Darts work?
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High School Why is the Black Piece on this Mechanism Made of Plastic?
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Undergrad Does the Amplitude of an Undamped Driven Oscillator Stay Constant Over Time?
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Undergrad How can a medium carry multiple sounds at once?
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Undergrad Problems with understanding the force of tension
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Undergrad How does gravity hold onto the atmosphere
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High School Kinematics Equation: Solving for t
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Graduate Where Does the Term "Kinetic Potential" Come From?
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Undergrad Is Velocity Equal to Work Divided by Impulse in Physics?
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