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Simple Harmonic Motion: Why is acceleration positive at maximum displacement?
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Confusion with the centrifugal foce and potential energy
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Understanding Projectile Motion: A Grade 11 Student's Perspective
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How to find the muzzle velocity of a launcher?
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Inelastic collisions, impulse, energy, and swordfighting.
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Frictional Force in Circular Motion
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Rigid body, torque and moment of inertia
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Work done by gravity - what is wrong?
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Hamiltonian in Classical mechanics?
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Boiling point Atmospheric/hydrostatic pressure
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Determine particle position knowing the velocity field
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How Does Releasing an Object Affect Tension in a Pulley System?
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Centripetal force of a ball swinging
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Understanding Angular Displacement in Weakly Damped Harmonic Oscillators
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The Field Equations of Newton: Understanding the Basics
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Why Is Weight Always Considered Positive?
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Melting point of ice decreases with increase in pressure
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Finding the optimal launch for a projectile?
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A problem about virtual work principle
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Hinged rigid beam vs mass free fall
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Apparent weight and kinetic energy
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Using Newton's 2nd to find optimal launch angle
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Why does water boil faster in high region than low region?
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Deriving gravitational potential energy (by bringing mass from infinity to r)
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Calculate speed of vehicle vs distance of pedestrian traveled
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How to calculate maximum surface pressure a silicon wafer can withstand?
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Mass vs Inertia: Is Inertia Necessary in Physics?
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If an object rolls off a tabletop is the vertical velocity initially 0?
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How much farther will more aerodynamic object fly at higher speeds
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Is Centripetal Force Affected by the Earth's Rotation?
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Kinematics: Initial Velocity, Acceleration, Displacement & Time
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Acoustic pressure & particle velocity phase - plane vs spherical waves
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Angular momentum - kleppner and kolenkow - derivation or definition?
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Impact on glass and consequences of said impact
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'Direction' of Angular Momentum
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Circulating a fluid at a very high speed in a spiral pipe
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Acceleration And Velocity Problem
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Variables in lagrangian vs hamiltonian dynamics
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Pulley Equations: Learn How to Calculate Lifting Power
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Torsional Oscillator: Historical Background, Applications, and First Physicists
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Potential energy for a spring law
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Energy and work of wind turbine
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Which Object Travels Further: Mass or Velocity?
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How the velocity of rain relative to the driver in car increases?
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Time period of a heavy spring with an attached mass at the end
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Calculating Torsional Force - Compression Springs
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How to develop a Parabolic Velocity Profile in 3D tube/channel flow
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Friction force without coefficient of friction?
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Can Kinetic Energy Be Transferred Without Direct Contact?
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Help with Pulleys: Weight on Anchored Rope?
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How torque and friction cause wheel to roll
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Eulerian vs Lagrangian approach in fluid mechanics (wave example)
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Conversion of KE when a force does not do work
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Calculating rotation based on multiple accelerations
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Why does wave speed affect wavelength but not frequency?
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Lagrangian Dynamics: Potential Energy formulation with spring and gra
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Vertical spring and unattached mass
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Could transverse wave on a string could be used to produce sound?
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How Does Momentum Compare to Kinetic Energy in Stopping a Vehicle?
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Full solution for the simple pendulum
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Potential Difference in Circuits
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In a barometer, if we replaced the mercury with alcohol and water?
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What is the Relationship Between Friction and Mass of an Object on a Slope?
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Confusion about gradient in classical mechanics
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The application and Significance of group velocity
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This webpage title could be: Understanding Differentials in Fluid Mechanics
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Direction of radial acceleration
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Explaining usefullness of displacement and velocity
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Query regarding to the state of frame of reference for the ball
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How Do Voltage and Frequency Affect AC Power Supply in Schering Bridges?
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Speed, Velocity, Acceleration, etc. at t=0
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Velocity versus Time Graph help?
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Units square root of a Newton
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Recombination time for ionized atoms in a low pressure gas?
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Elastic vs inelastic collisions
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Escape velocity of an artificial satellite
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Pinball's "Live catch" defies physics
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Is Average Speed a Scalar quantity?
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Need help understanding relative motion and frame of references
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Would a uniform circular motion frame be inertial if ω is constant?
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Why do bubbles form when we hit the surface of water?
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Where should hydrogen be placed in the periodic table?
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The neutrinos of anomalous speed
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Investigation of a Rotating Cylinder
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Why Is the Mass of a Wheel Concentrated on the Rim?
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Free Energy from the Earth's Rotation
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Q:Is it possible to do a coordinate transfomation in momentum space?
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How can momentum be conserved in an inelastic collision?
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Can motion be turned into matter?
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Frictional force nonrelated to N
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Downward force from hovering toy greater than weight?
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Frictional force opposes relative motion?
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Difficulty following example in Taylor's Classical Mechanics
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Find Minimum Acceleration from Graph
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Hamiltonian mechanics: ∂H/∂t = ?
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Find Symmetry for Lagrangian in 3D Cylindrical Coordinates
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Angular Momentum Term Equals Zero?
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Cubic lattice, masses and springs, fire little mass at it.
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Under-damped simple harmonic motion solution derivation
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See an object clearly in fluid like water
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