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Graduate Acceleration at the tip of a rotating flexible rod
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Undergrad What Is the Speed of Sound and Vibration in Solids?
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Graduate Does the sequence of a deck of cards have significance?
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Graduate Classical position/velocity probability
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Graduate Atwood Machine Inertia Friction and directional forces
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Graduate Changing Momentum p -> L -> -p?
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Undergrad Air mattress pressure question regarding partial inflation
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Undergrad Gravitational acceleration (g) is used as constant, but is it?
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Graduate How Can I Verify My High Velocity Impact Test Results?
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Graduate Finding uniform transmission condition
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High School Can Earth Rise Upwards to Touch an Apple?
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Undergrad Does the force applied to an object depend on its mass and velocity?
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Graduate Solution of unsteady linearized potential flow PDE
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Graduate Conservation of Energy for the Universe
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High School Shock absorbent material to protect an egg
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Undergrad Force required to move a object on slope with rolling tyres
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Undergrad Is Acceleration Due to Friction Constant Regardless of Speed?
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Graduate Forced oscillations and resonance (bis)
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Undergrad Vector Force - Supporting Vs. Hanging
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Undergrad Hot water freezing faster than cold water
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Graduate How Does Angular Momentum Affect the Behavior of a Rotating Drone System?
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Undergrad Linearising Graphs: Need Help with Height vs Velocity Relationship
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Undergrad What is the Exact Meaning of F=dp/dt?
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High School Which GPE formula is right and when do I use this other
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Graduate Power: energy transfer per time, without mass displacement?
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Undergrad Finding complex power in AC circuit
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Graduate Calculate Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio
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Undergrad Momentum Conservation: Large vs Small Car
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Graduate Terminal velocity in space, is there one?
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High School WHy is kinetic PE assigned K, instead of U_k?
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High School Direction of Kinetic Friction and Static Friction
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High School Mastering Newton's Laws for 9th Grade Talent Exam: Overcoming FBD Problems
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Graduate Resolving Phase Ambiguity in Pulsed Doppler Ultrasound
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Undergrad If i have no velocity in one direction then there is no
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Undergrad Calculate the force of an explosion from chemical reaction?
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High School How can boiling water freeze faster than water at room temp?
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Undergrad Calculate CFM on Hydrogen Vent Pipe
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Undergrad Flywheel that will simulate a load of .104 slug-feet squared
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Undergrad Gravitational pull of Earth and escape velocity
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Undergrad Can the Euler Method Accurately Solve Orbital Gravity Equations?
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Undergrad Ball equilibrium between 2 slopes
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Undergrad Is maximum human torque limited by body weight? (cycling)
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Undergrad What equations are used for coupled pendulums?
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Graduate Calculating particle velocity along crystal direction
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High School What is the relationship between mass, velocity, and force in a collision?
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Undergrad Inertia: What Causes Resistance to Motion Change?
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Undergrad What is the formula for spacing wire around a conical Christmas tree?
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Undergrad Solve Orbital Mechanics Problems: Calculate Satellite Energy
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Graduate How much mass with the centrifugal forces of earth to break gravity?
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Graduate Non-Central Forces in N-body Problems?
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Graduate What is the fastest speed we can travel in space?
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Graduate How Do You Calculate Pressure in Supercritical Water Syntheses?
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Undergrad How to calculate Young's Modulus for flat spring
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Graduate Do Water Immersion and Advanced Technologies Enhance G-Force Tolerance?
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High School What Causes the Vibrations in a Spinning Toroid?
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Undergrad Why does height affect the amount of damage an object does?
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Undergrad How is Stress Generated in a Body Despite Equal Opposing Forces?
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Undergrad Does a standing wave have zero momentum?
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Undergrad Rotation Work Equation: Torque x Displacement = Rotational Equivalent
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Graduate Does Absolute Zero Equal Zero Weight?
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Undergrad What is the final velocity of a particle in a force field around point O?
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Undergrad Can the gravitational force between supertankers affect their steering?
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Undergrad Understanding Centripetal Force: Free Body Diagram of a Roller Coaster Loop
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Undergrad Can I Tip a Can By Spinning a Weight? An Arduino Experiment
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Graduate Understanding the Moon's Changing Angular Momentum and Its Impact on Eclipses
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Undergrad Need a little help, please -- Calibrating ballistic gelatin
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Undergrad [Help] creating the biggest force with air pressure?
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Graduate What exactly is meant by potential energy in the Lagrangian?
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High School Does the scalar of Weight (W) = mg all the time?
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Undergrad Effect of wind speed on running
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Graduate Attempting to Predict Tension on a Circular Membrane
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Graduate Determining Analytic Orientation from Angular Velocity
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Undergrad Why Temperature Depends on Internal Energy, Not Pressure/Volume
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Undergrad Derivation of orbital velocity formula
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Undergrad Wave Potential of Slamming a Household door?
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Graduate Hooke's law for vibrating massive spring
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Undergrad Does Moving in the Same Direction Affect Work Done by an Electric Field?
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Oxygen + Hydrogen from water, it safe?
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Graduate Deflection of gravitational acceleration vector due to Sun or Moon
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High School Conservation of Energy -- does it ever not apply?
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High School Will Dropping a Cinder Block Really Only Destroy One Block?
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Graduate A question on a notation used in hyperelastic literature
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Undergrad Representing Free body diagrams
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Graduate Correcting a mass estimation under acceleration
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Undergrad Will there be a rotation around z axis?
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Undergrad How to derive the velocity's direction from a potential
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Undergrad Gravity on air molecule vs. diffusion into vacuum
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Undergrad Pressure at different points in vacuum system
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Graduate Problem 2 rigid rods - Greenwood - Classical Dynamics
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Undergrad What about potential energy in the Work Kinetic Energy Theorem?
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High School How Does Height Affect the Impact of Falling Objects?
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Graduate String theory & Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Hydraulic Force: Input & Output of Multiple Pistons
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Undergrad Work is positive/negative potential energy
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High School Work Done: Understanding the Definition and Maths
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High School Are Waves Accelerated When They Start to Propagate?
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High School A powered toy car moving at a constant speed
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