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High School What happens when sound wave loses energy?
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Undergrad Chemical reaction metal underwater
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Graduate Zeno's Arrow Paradox: Resolving Motion Impossibility
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Undergrad Maximum bending Moment and Maximum Shear Stress Question
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Graduate Rotating disc of radius R spinning at constant angular velocity
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High School Why does an object spin at a different axis at high speeds?
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High School Work done on a stationary bicycle?
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Graduate Arrows vs. Plate Armor: Kinetic Energy & Momentum Test Results
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Graduate Retarding Force proportional to the velocity falling particl
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Undergrad Vehicle turning radius and path projection
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Undergrad Projectile motion maximization
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Graduate Does Kinetic Energy Indicate Temperature or Velocity Based on Scale?
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Undergrad Substituting r/t for v or dr/dt?
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High School Neutral Buoyancy: How Does it Affect Subs?
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High School Friction Calculation: Formula for Determining Wheel-Surface Friction
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Undergrad Mini Auger Torque Requirements: Kris's Questions Answered
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High School Does initial speed of a gun affect bullet velocity?
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Undergrad Initial pressure to launch ball at Velocity Z
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High School Why Does x = 1/2(vi + vf)t Hold True?
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Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics - Springs - Comments
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Undergrad Direction of Friction for Rolling Spheres on Rough Surfaces
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Undergrad Pascal's Principle: Valid w/o Gravity?
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Undergrad Docking with ISS: Questions on Orbital Mechanics
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Graduate On a conceptual level, what's happening in this equation?
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Undergrad Is a car's top speed the same on a wet road?
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Undergrad Fluid Dynamics - Pressure at the end of a syringe
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Undergrad How Can I Create Water Pressure in a Vessel Without a Standard Pump?
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High School Acceleration in terminal velocity?
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Undergrad Forces exerted somewhere other than CM
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Undergrad Real world applications of Jerk and Cons. Acceleration?
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Undergrad Human Power (Cycling) & Energy Expenditure
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Undergrad Chord length and radius of a wind turbine rotor blade
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Undergrad Uncovering Strange Spirals on Old Courthouse Tiles - A Gyroscopic Exploration
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Undergrad Car on road with "infinite" friction
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Graduate Understanding Water Fountain Dynamics: Air Dilatation and Temperature Effects
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Undergrad What is the formula for variable mass systems and rockets?
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Graduate Calculating Pipe Diameter for Desired Pressure in Inclined Fluid Flow
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Undergrad Is the classical formula for kinetic energy wrong?
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Undergrad How does normal force makes us feel our weight?
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Undergrad How Do Isobaric Work and Charles' Law Coexist in Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Difference between Group and phase velocity
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High School Question about objects falling at the same speed
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Undergrad Is Impulse the anti derivative of momentum?
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Undergrad Aerodynamics of a paper rocket
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Graduate How Does Rocket Momentum Conservation Work in Burst Thrust Scenarios?
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High School Why are work and energy different even though they have the same units?
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Undergrad Instantaneous Speed = Instantaneous Velocity?
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Graduate Power and Change of Kinetic Energy in Variable Mass System
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High School Kinematic Equations: Vector & Scalar Formulas
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Undergrad Choosing best path of travel that maximizes certain parameters....
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High School Large Mass But Low Kinetic Energy
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High School Is the water pressure of a cone greater than a cylinder?
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Undergrad Solving Oscillation & SHM Difficulties
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Undergrad How to calculate angular acceleration of crankshaft?
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Undergrad Torque from a frame of reference
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Undergrad Phase constant in simple harmonic motion
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High School How can you ensure you pull a mass at a constant velocity
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High School Why do balls of different sizes fall at different speeds in oil?
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High School How to deploy parachute after balloon pops
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High School Does the inertia of an object ever change?
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High School How many Newtons would it take to damage a car?
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Graduate Mean velocity for parabolic velocity profile
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Undergrad How Does Mass Distribution Affect Rotational Inertia?
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Undergrad Work Energy Theorem in Spring Block System
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Undergrad How can I accurately plot the trajectory of a spinning ball on a spreadsheet?
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High School Momentum vs Inertia: Is Momentum a Measure of Resistance?
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Graduate Negative Pressure in a 10mL syringe containing 2.5mL water
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Undergrad Rockets and inverted pendulums
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Undergrad Role of force in oscillatory motion?
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Undergrad Effect of internal forces on the weight of a body.
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Undergrad Relative speed and coin dropping
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High School Why do some experimental bikes use an alternate form of steering geometry?
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Undergrad Asymmetry in the Doppler Effect for sound
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Undergrad Hydrostatic Pressure Curved Surface
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Undergrad What is the significance of Max Q in rocket launches and disasters?
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Undergrad Need help understanding a lift coefficient formula
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Undergrad Object in orbit vs. object falling through a planet
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Undergrad How does a DC motor work without a commutator?
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High School One dimensional Elastic collision of two identical particle
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Undergrad Phasor angular velocity for a triangle wave?
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High School Why do spheres roll easier than cubes?
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Undergrad Centripetal forces in our solar system
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Graduate Will this rope break due to the tidal forces or not?
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Undergrad What does mg(theta) means in the equation of motion?
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Graduate What is the Q Factor of a Bowl of Water at Resonance?
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Graduate Why is dispersion important in wave propagation?
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Graduate Calculate Flow Rate of a Syringe: Poiseuille's & Bernoulli's Laws
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High School How can you create sustainable plasma without a plasma ball
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Undergrad Fluid Statics and Dynamics: P Equation
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Undergrad Why is it difficult to determine the center of a Newton's ring pattern?
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High School Difference between running up and walking up?
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Undergrad Newton's cradle: Glue balls together
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Graduate Can the kinetic energy be a function of the position vector?
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Undergrad How much petrol does a car consume?
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Undergrad Directions of centripetal acceration and gravity on Earth?
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Undergrad Paper Plane Distance Experiment: Power & Energy Calculation
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Graduate About the propagation of sound
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Undergrad Deriving Torque=(Force)(Distance)
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Undergrad Is Momentum Conserved When a Spring Unloads Between Two Masses?
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High School Does every orbiting object have spin
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