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High School What type of ball can bounce and travel the most?
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High School What Objects Can Survive the Deepest Water?
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High School Milky Way Velocity: How Fast Does Our Galaxy Move?
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High School Force equation: use mass or weight?
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High School Baseball Dad -- setting the speed of a pitching machine
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High School Does every object rotate around its center of gravity?
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High School Gravitational potential energy question -- Ojbect sitting on the Earth
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High School Why do we add Kinetic and Potential energy?
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High School Mechanical Advantage of a pulley with horizontal effort
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High School The sound that rushing water makes
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High School Myth: When you toss something, air aside, it follows a parabolic path
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High School How much salt/other product add to water so a medium acorn floats?
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High School How can I calculate the load on each line in a pulley system?
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High School Question about the role of mass in inclined planes
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High School Discover the Law of Levers: Uncovering Evidence and Documents | Prove It Now!
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High School How do surface piercing propellers work?
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High School Homemade cloud chamber not working
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High School Confused about some basic mechanics principles (force , PE)
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High School Looking for an example.... (misalignment of the Apollo 11 rocket)
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High School Gravitational force between two masses
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High School Coriolis effect and water experiment
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High School An arrow vane claim (fletchings as airfoils)
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High School When do I use this k5 Kinematic Equation
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High School Work by a Spring Force - Understanding Uinitial and Ufinal
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High School Question sound hammer damage objects in room
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High School Trying to understand the relationship between Newtons, Joules and Work
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High School What are your favourite classical physics puzzles?
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High School Could Archimedes' problem have been solved a little differently?
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High School Friction between pulley and rope
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High School Why is Young's modulus constant below the limit of proportionality?
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High School Why do we take k=1 in the derivation of F=k*ma?
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High School How do I know in which direction an object is moving?
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High School Mobility in a Strong Gravity Environment vs. Moving Mass?
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High School An amazing fact which I learned today about pressure
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High School How does water flow from a faucet?
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High School Dot Products -- Some questions to help my understanding
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High School Explore the Hypothetical: What Happens to a Spinning Top with No Forces?
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High School Clashing approximations for this precession problem
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High School Can pressing on a screw generate torque?
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High School How can an object move without acceleration?
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High School Does Gravity decrease at a steady rate as we go away from the Earth?
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High School Can I Generate Energy from Lakes to Clean and Revitalize My Backyard?
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High School Example of conservative and non conservative force
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High School What are the units for inertia?
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High School Keep that wheel a-turnin' -- How much energy is required?
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High School What is the purpose of a cosmology accelerator?
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High School Does ice melt faster in water because helps to change the phase
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High School How to Find the Center of a Ball Moving Forward
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High School How can I determine the parabola of a projectile?
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High School What Other Types of Motion Exist Beyond Translation, Rotation, and Oscillation?
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High School Thrust vs Gravity: What's Missing?
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High School Simple forces described in terms of fundamental forces
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High School Is the Braking Force of a Truck Really 0.8?
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High School Question about venturimeter formula
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High School Damage by tire blowing up at 203 mph
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High School Discover the Surprising Power of Water: Tap vs. Fire Hose vs. Pressure Washer
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High School Rigidity: Number of Newtons Required for a Material
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High School What Forces Cause an Airbag to Jump When Detonated?
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High School Mass of Hanging Rope: Calculate Easily
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High School Question: can we make wind during motion
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High School How does the weight on a scale change when an object is submerged in water?
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High School Energy to increase the radius of a circle composed of several disks
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High School Does sound pass through bricks? Can I deflect sound away?
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High School What is the entire gear reduction ratio of a vehicle?
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High School Where does the torque come from?
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High School Help please with a physics bet (2 cars colliding vs. 1 car hitting a wall)
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High School When is the parallel axis theorem not appliable?
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High School Is there a way to calculate the Drag coefficient from any given object?
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High School Significance of the solution of the Euler-Lagrange equation
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High School How scientists calculated the weight of Mars
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High School Why do we need a separate center of gravity idea when we have CoM?
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High School Hypothetical Gravity Question #2
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High School Control volumes and Reynolds transport theorem
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High School Gun Recoil: Will Wall Impact Momentum & Velocity?
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High School Why do beats sound pleasing to the ears?
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High School Action-Reaction forces and angles
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High School Question about Action-Reaction Forces
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High School If a wheel gets rid of friction, how does it move?
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High School Why does Greiner call them theorems?
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High School Momentum paradox: Why can't we write it as p=m+v ?
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High School What is wrong with following physics equations? (velocity and acceleration)
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High School Aerodynamics -- Warehouse fans blowing toward each other
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High School Understanding F=ma: Constant Speed & Acceleration
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High School Understanding Torque: Applying the Right Hand Rule in Real Life
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High School Mark Watney missed Ares III and died
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High School Why is the velocity (vector) the same value as the speed (scalar)?
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High School Newton's 2nd Law: Force, Mass and Acceleration
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High School Helix in intrinsic coordinates?
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High School Testing the effect of Gravity at home....
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High School A questionable statement in some FBD notes?
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High School Does Buoyancy Apply When Not Fully Submerged?
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High School Why is the kinetic energy equation multiplied by ½?
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High School What happens if you put a sphere (ball) on the top of a pyramid?
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High School Sound intensity - How to deal with decibels?
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High School Push from a Narrow Base vs Wide Base
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High School Clarification of coordinate fictitious forces
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High School Question about a Rotor Ride in a amusement park
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High School Question About Rotational Forces when Lifting Weights
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High School What is the relationship between mass and weight?
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High School Sinusoidal force mechanism for a swing
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