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Graduate What is the true nature of gas pressure and its energy mechanics?
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Undergrad Gravitational Field and free fall
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How do we get to the concept of kinetic energy?
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Graduate How do you add angular momentum in different dimensions?
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Graduate Proton Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
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Undergrad Solving Impact Force Equation: Tips & Explanations
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Undergrad Normal reaction of a circulating object on a planet
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Undergrad Tension force and a board fixed to a flat surface
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High School Understanding Power Ratings and Energy Usage: A Case Study
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High School Why is mass dependent on inertia and not vice versa?
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High School How to determine the "a" in f=ma or, a=f/m. If a 2200 lb car
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Undergrad Impulse. Change in Momentum vs Ft
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Undergrad Calculating Vehicle Speed and Acceleration Curve for Game Programmers
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High School Will Igniting Hydrogen and Oxygen in a Strong Metal Chamber Cause an Explosion?
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Undergrad Can Gyroscopes Revolutionize Motorcycle Balance?
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Graduate Mathematical proof of statement
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Graduate Angular Momentum Conservation in Gear Interactions
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Graduate Exploiting time varying B field to employ vacuum acceleratio
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High School How is internal energy affected when water is boiled?
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Graduate Buoyancy in Differential Forms
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Graduate Work term in Poynting's theorem
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Graduate Which is the correct explanation for lift?
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Undergrad Bernoulli's Principle equation help
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Graduate Lifting of submerged pipe, ventilation area calculation
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High School Looking to understand Apollo 15 and density
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Graduate Can the Earth sustain the weight of another Earth?
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Undergrad How Does Omega Squared Equal k/m in Simple Harmonic Motion?
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Undergrad What is the maximum distance my PSE Drive LT compound bow can shoot an arrow?
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Undergrad Krichhoff's law & Conservation of Energy
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Undergrad Why a small wall falls apart on being hit by a bullet?
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High School Zero Acceleration in Running and in a Car
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Undergrad How Does an Additive Constant Impact Potential Energy Calculations?
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Graduate Calculate elasticity of rubber balloon
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High School Converting Planetary Gravity to Pounds of Pressure: A Conceptual Understanding
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Graduate Potential Energy of Nearly Hovering Rocket
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Graduate Is strain always recoverable in a viscoelastic solid?
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Undergrad Exploring the Speed of Signals and Charges
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Undergrad Mechanics ( velocity - time graph )
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Undergrad Is the Pulley Reacting to Tension in Lifting Rope?
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High School Weight or Force of Gravity: Which is Applied to a Man Lifting a Mass?
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Graduate Can you explain the lever using Newton's Laws?
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Undergrad Potential difference in a simple circuit with transistor
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Undergrad Landspeed volume weight Buoyancy
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Undergrad Question on a Spaceship Drive -- changing acceleration is called what?
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Graduate Effects of sawtooth wave on a gyroscope
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Graduate Total derivative involving rigid body motion of a surface
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Undergrad Trajectory of raindrop with horizontal wind
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Undergrad How weight of an object divides into components
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Graduate Poisson's equation for gravitational field
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Undergrad My Kids ask - Does wind help reduce power consumption
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Insights Frequently Made Errors - Pseudo and Resultant Forces - Comments
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Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics - Kinematics - Comments
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Undergrad Mechanical advantage of a mountain climber (pulley)
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Graduate How does flow enter a venturimeter when inserted in a potential flow?
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Undergrad Can a sound wave be both standing and traveling?
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High School Does a Scale Measure Our Weight or Mass?
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High School Is f = a X m X 1 X 1 X 1 X 1 Valid?
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Undergrad Newtonian space in modern physics
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Graduate How Does Viscosity Influence Pressure Drag in 2D Airflow?
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Undergrad What Damage can happen to a 110 pound man jumping from 80ft
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High School Falling objects: Tennis ball vs. feather
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Undergrad Sound Doppler shift asymmetry confusion
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Graduate Is my procedure correct to compute this moment of inertia J?
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Undergrad Liquid CO2 Volume\Weight Measurment in Cylinder
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High School Acceleration of gravity and Newton's laws of motion
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Undergrad Conversion of g acceleration into "body weight"
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Graduate Flow work and kinetic energy in fluid flow
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High School What is the formula of tractive force?
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High School Distance traveled given acceleration?
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High School Finding change in momentum in 2-dimensions.
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Undergrad Gear Ratio in Bicycles using Rotational Motion
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Graduate Moving center of mass, torque and axis of rotation
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High School What happens if you hit a bullet from the side?
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Undergrad How to Reduce Air Drag for Vehicles?
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Undergrad Confused abt derivation of centripetal acceleration
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Undergrad Archimedes Derivation: Law of the lever
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between a Compressed Spring and Attached Wall
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Undergrad Regarding root mean square velocity
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Undergrad Rate of Acceleration: Find Unit of Change
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Undergrad A simple physics model for vehicles on different surfaces?
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Undergrad Displacement in SHM: Arc or Line from Mean Position?
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Undergrad Reversible Vs Irreversible Gas Compression/Expansion Work - Comments
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Graduate Why are the conditions of ΔG° partial pressure fixed at 1bar
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Undergrad Change of state and potential energy
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Undergrad How calculate the total energy of a collision?
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Graduate Why is the work done by gravity not equal to the -ΔGPE? (unrolling carpet)
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Undergrad What is the reaction force of centripetal force
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Graduate Relating Power output of a sound wave to the pressure....
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Undergrad Relationship between radius and force under constant torque?
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Undergrad Determining Minimum Height to Complete a Loop
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Graduate Rotation of fluid like a rigid body in a cylindrical contain
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Undergrad Rotating Rod Tension: Variations with Rotation Angle
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Undergrad Impact forces feet can receive without get injured
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Undergrad Why Are There Different Units for Moment of Inertia?
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Undergrad Relation of pressure with mean-free-path
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Graduate Fictious forces and calculation of energy + c.o.m. question
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Undergrad Hydrogen Bonds in Water and Ice
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Undergrad Force required to destroy identical objects....
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Graduate Is there a new equation for projectile motion?
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Undergrad About controlling collision conditions experimentally
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