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Graduate Conservation of energy in a moving frame
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Undergrad How Does Distance Affect Wind Force from a Fan?
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Graduate Why Does Air Flow Faster Along S-T-E on a Aerofoil?
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Undergrad Why does bringing an object closer to Earth do negative work
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Graduate Explore Tidal Forces in Earth-Moon System
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Undergrad Is mass relevant on a frictionless surface?
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Undergrad Which Cup Shape is More Prone to Spilling?
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Undergrad Who Performs Work in EMF Generation with Changing Magnetic Fields?
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Undergrad Calculating Impact Forces on a Human Being Struck by a Moving Vehicle
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Graduate Is Kinetic Energy Misunderstood in Relativity?
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Undergrad Calculating Speed: Understanding the Rate of Motion in a Jumping Dog
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High School Speed of Sound and its relation to weight?
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Graduate Q: Fokker-Planck (Brownian motion) for undergrads?
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Graduate Cool question/scenario involving friction, motors, gearbox,
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Undergrad Can you combine two accelerations together?
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Undergrad A question about "semantics" ["Rational Mechanics"]
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Graduate What are some applications for the Dirac delta function in classical mechanics?
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Undergrad A theoretical question about forces
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Undergrad Short Track Inline Speed Skating - 110 mm Wheels vs. 125 mm
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High School Bicycles and Mechanical Advantage
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Undergrad Why Does Flow Rate Remain Constant When Reducing Orifice Size in a Water Tank?
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Undergrad Static friction in two block problems
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Undergrad Why is higher density causing higher surface gravity?
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Undergrad Question about movement in isolated system
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Undergrad Force Vector Accuracy: Building Bicycle Racks
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Undergrad How space works:Why does an asteroid crush a human in space?
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Graduate Force on a body due to pressure of a fluid
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High School What does 'velocity is derivative of distance' mean?
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Graduate Gyroscopeic Precession: How Does Angular Momentum Arise?
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Undergrad Confused - Pressure in a canister?
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Graduate Effects of External Pressure on a Cone
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Undergrad Instantaneous Acceleration Calculation
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Graduate Euler equations in rigid body: Taylor VS Kleppner - Kolenkow
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Undergrad Is Centrifugal Force at Play in Pottery Making?
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Undergrad Relationships between these variables in a gyroscope?
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Undergrad Energy consumed by variable drag force when stopping?
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Undergrad Archimedes principle with a completely submerged ball
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Undergrad Confusion with work and energy
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Graduate Intro statistical mechanics question
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Graduate Lagrangian of 3 masses connected by springs, non-parallel.
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Undergrad Drift Speed of Electrons in Conductor with Applied Field
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Graduate Finding the Speed of a System of Three Bodies Before Collision
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High School How can I make my spinning ring last longer?
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Graduate PSI needed to move torpedo (expanding gasses)
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High School Calculating frictional force given mass and coefficient?
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Undergrad Water pressure drop when 1 pipe splits into 3
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Graduate Molecular desgin for a narrow potential surface curve
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Undergrad Solving the Rotation Problem in Physics | JeepPhysics Group
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High School Will this gyroscope spin forever?
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High School Pressure: Doubts & Explanation - Why Liquid Falls
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High School G force calculation of hitting the head
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Undergrad Physics of handgun recoil (John Browning's tilted barrel)
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Undergrad Will a Vacuum-Sealed Bottle Move Forward or Backward When Opened Underwater?
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Undergrad Acceleration detection accounting for rotation
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Undergrad Hearing a Sound Wave: Does Intensity Matter?
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Undergrad How can shock waves travel faster than sound?
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High School How to calculate average velocity?
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Undergrad Why does the centre of gravity shift when a rod is displaced?
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Undergrad Why is the net force on block A twice that on block B?
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Undergrad Visualizing Centripetal Accelearation
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High School Understanding Position-Time Graphs: Can They Determine Speed?
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Undergrad When to apply conservation of angular momentum?
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Graduate Musical instruments and mechanics
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High School Torque: Applied Forces Pos/Neg?
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Undergrad Tension in a Mass-less String: Explained
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Graduate Is there any pressure inside the free falling fluid?
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Undergrad Classical mechanics - Energy balance confussion
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Undergrad Hydrostatic and atmospheric pressure
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Undergrad Power of Transformer: Primary & Secondary Light Bulb
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Undergrad Why is it easier to balance on a moving bike than a stationary one?
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High School Did the Object Change Direction When It Stopped?
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Undergrad Impulse/final velocity question confusion
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Undergrad Water Pressure, small inlet vs. large outlet
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Undergrad What happens to acceleration upon exceeding static friction?
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Graduate When a gyroscope precesses, what is pushing it along?
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Undergrad Why does an object tip over instead of sliding
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High School What is dynamic equilibrium in laymen's terms?
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Undergrad How to Find Force on Rubber Tube from Piston System?
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Undergrad What force(s) make(s) change of direction in a pulley
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Undergrad Force Question -- Solidworks model of a pulley system
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Undergrad Why is torque perpendicular to the force applied?
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Undergrad Determine equivalent vacuum for water depth
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Undergrad Does a Step-Up Transformer Really Increase Light Bulb Brightness?
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High School Which Triangle Experiences Greater Force in a Water Tank?
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Graduate Force, linear and angular acceleration, car & wheels help
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High School Reason for body to slip away from centre of a rotating disc
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Undergrad Stopping Potential in Photoelectric Effect Experiment
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High School How fast do subatomic particles move?
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Graduate Tangential and Centripetal Acceleration in Circular Motion
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Undergrad Violation of Energy conservation by use of pulley
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Graduate Can a beam of photons accelerate an atom or object?
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High School Property of for same acceleration
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Undergrad How to calculate the impact energy of a door hitting a door
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Undergrad Mass is independent of tendency to break static friction?
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High School What's the work done moving an object up and then back down?
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Graduate Velocity distribution of evaporating water molecules
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Undergrad Question: Gravitational Potential Energy in a Ball-Earth-Moon system?
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Undergrad Can Pure Water Fluoresce Under UV Light?
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Undergrad Will a Ball or Newtonian Liquid Bounce Indefinitely in an Isolated Container?
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High School Can you have negative acceleration?
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