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High School Understanding Angular Momentum and Its Effects on Spinning Objects
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High School How can I calculate underwater pressure quickly
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Undergrad Definition of potential energy
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High School How Is m1 Isolated in Newton's Law of Gravitation Equation?
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Undergrad Friction of objects sliding down a ramp -- does mass matter?
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High School How do I calculate the acceleration of gravity underwater?
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High School Why wouldn't this space propulsion work?
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Undergrad Circular motion and acceleration
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Undergrad Shattering windows with explosives
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Undergrad How is the center of mass determined independently of the coordinate system?
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High School Pressure underwater and equivalent weight
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Undergrad My Physics Professor says Newton's laws are wrong?
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Graduate Throw of a die: Dependance on initial conditions and chaos
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Undergrad Can you find tension on a string without mass
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Undergrad Derivative of Force in terms of distance?
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Graduate Gibbs Free Energy and maximum work
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Undergrad Which Stress vs Strain Curve Has a Larger Slope?
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High School Is there just one correct way to calculate wing lift?
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Foucault pendulums -- ordering the part that connects the string to the ceiling
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High School What is sign of y if ball is thrown up?
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Undergrad Is Drag Coefficient Constant for same shape, different size?
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Graduate Prerequisites needed to grasp virtual displacement
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Undergrad Question regarding coefficient of static friction
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Undergrad Chain rule and Kinematic quantities x,v,a
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Undergrad UCM to Projectile: Optimum Launch Angle/Velocity Dependence?
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Undergrad I want to create an ultrasonic generator amplifier w/ MOSFET
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High School Negative sign or not in calculations?
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Undergrad What stress tensor components mean?
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High School If there is no acceleration, does that mean no force?
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Undergrad Form taken by potential energy
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Undergrad Real World Physics and my Wheels
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Undergrad Viscosity Displacement Velocity Time relation
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Undergrad Calculating the energy in a part of a rollercoaster
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Undergrad Positive work:direction of external force
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Undergrad Is my pressure calculation correct?
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Graduate Euler, Tait, Gyroscope: Rotations that cover it all
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Undergrad The Physics Behind Applying Force with a Load Cell
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Undergrad Herodotus Machine: Tilting & Force Calculation
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High School Why Does Everything Stick to Your Fingers?
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Graduate Consequences of Choosing Incorrect Variables in BuckinghamPi
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Graduate Drag force of a cylinder with it's axis parallel to the flow
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Graduate What is the solution to the cow tipping problem?
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Graduate Bifilar pendulum experiment
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High School Will an object accelerate only while a force is acting on it?
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High School Discovering Earth's Escape Velocity: The Ultimate Measure of Gravity's Power
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Undergrad How Much Energy Does a Fire Truck Generate in a Crash?
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Graduate What is the smallest ball that can carry one esu?
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Graduate ONiel Cylinder Worlds: Rotation to Imitate Gravity?
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Undergrad Why does it seem all bodies oppose acceleration?
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Undergrad Building an air cannon that shoots a wad of paper
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Graduate Simple Euler (Tait-Bryan) rotation question
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Graduate Lagrange's Equation with Multiple Degrees of Freedom
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Undergrad Is Contact Force Responsible for Molecular Bending in Objects?
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia of a sphere with different methods
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Undergrad Overhead power lines wires and strings deviation
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High School Water Bottle illuminates partly hidden image
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Graduate A Question on Goldstein and D'Alembert's Principle
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Undergrad Dynamic pressure and pitot tube
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Undergrad Moving object using buoyancy for project -- Help appreciated
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Where can I buy a powerful solenoid?
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Graduate Suggestion of a topic for a Statistical Mechanics project
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Undergrad G-Force Definition: Acc & Weightlessness
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Undergrad Pressure exerted by a fluid in a closed container
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Graduate Exponential behavior in elasticity?
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Undergrad Discovering Lift Force in Case 2
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Undergrad How to find the power of a wave
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High School Velocity versus speed and philosophizing thereof
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Undergrad What is the math behind the physics of an air cannon?
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Undergrad Predicting Initial Length of String Needed Before Stretch
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Undergrad Significance of negative potential energy
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High School Why can't a rocket continue to travel without fuel?
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Undergrad Conservation of momentum and % of energy loss
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Graduate What formula defines the power (i.e. horsepower) of gravity?
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High School Constant Velocity : Does it means objects is at Rest
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Undergrad Throwing a ball from a train at an angle
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Graduate How does angular velocity affect the density of water in a rotating container?
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High School Will the time of landing be the same if ....
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Undergrad Classical mechanics - hunter and monkey - frame of reference
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Graduate Law of the lever: Conservation of energy or angular momentum
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Undergrad Help with Banked turns - Physics
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Graduate Dangling block attached to rotating block
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Undergrad Solving the Mystery: Plane of Reference Question
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Undergrad Am I the only one who enjoys solving Harmonic Oscillators?
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Undergrad Trying to Calculate The Minimum Force For Skateboard.
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High School Can a Van De Graaff Generator Create Sparks Inside Its Dome?
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Undergrad Error in Wikipedia Cavendish article
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High School For what angle is horizontal speed fastest -- How measure ramp angle?
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Undergrad At what speed does stuff burn up?
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High School Acceleration Question -- How to label the vectors of motion....
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Undergrad Questions about thrust in pressurized environment
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High School Why water making white matirials become transparent?
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Graduate Centripetal Force: Inertial vs Non-Inertial Frame Time
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Undergrad Using Right Hand Thumb Rule to Determine Resultant Force
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Graduate Camera on Airplane: Extrinsic plus Intrinsic 3D Rotations?
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Undergrad Calculating Inertia in 3D: What You Need to Know
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Undergrad If momentum is always conserved....
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Undergrad Calculating sand penetration of ice solid from height X
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