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High School What happens when the coefficient of friction is 0?
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High School Why doesn't atmospheric pressure crush us?
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High School Is my elbow the point of application of force of a torque?
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High School Energy changes that result when something drops from a height
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High School Understanding Earth's Spinning Speed: A Simple Explanation
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High School Recoil dampening in silencers and supressors
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High School Question about acceleration and movemenr
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High School Derivation of Wheel Relationship Formulas
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High School Derivation of Cosine and Sine Method of Vector Sum
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High School Moment of a force about a point
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High School Silly question -- Perpendicular forces have no effect on speed?
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High School Conservation of Energy: Why are Normal Forces Zero?
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High School Blunt force vs cutting force in penetration
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High School How to calculate jump height from the force and a person's weight
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High School What does the scalar product of two displacements represent?
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Mass and Acceleration
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High School Sign problems with vectors, how can we "resolve" this....
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High School Can we say that work done can be used only for mechanical energy?
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High School Ideal Ball weight to get the maximum range from a ball launcher?
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High School Ambiguity when labeling arrows
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High School Do fluid oscillation characteristics depend on the viscosity of a fluid?
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High School Semantic question about equilibrium
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High School Kinematics and displacement, who is right?
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High School Why does water freeze differently when leaves are present on a shelter roof?
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High School Sailboats providing their own wind
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High School Why does an increase in surface area lead to a reduction in pressure?
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High School Forced Oscillations: Pendulum 1 Driving Neighboring Pendulum
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High School When an object is tossed up from the ground
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High School Can the Normal Force Produce a Torque on an Object on an Incline?
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High School What happens to a ball thrown forward vs. backward in a moving train?
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High School What force causes a balloon to float?
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High School Can a Fire Tornado Flip an 8 Ton Truck?
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High School Why does a spinning top balance better when it is spinning?
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High School Radial acceleration derivation with minimal knowledge
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High School Deliberate riseball (dimple) from a baseball pitch
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High School Conservative and Non Conservative Forces
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High School What is the reason behind including ##2π/T##?
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High School Can a blow dryer make a ping pong ball hover and spin?
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High School Why Does a Rope Bend? Understanding the Tension and Forces at Play
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High School Need someone with some good CAS
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High School Is there an analytical solution to this equation?
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High School Resistive force that a nail will have to overcome to penetrate a piece of wood
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High School How does the Gallilean Invariance Puzzle challenge our understanding of motion?
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High School Calculations relating to a pneumatic launcher
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High School Coriolis problem - Point mass movement upon release from Earth
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High School What does this mean ##U=\int F\times d\vec{r}## in the Work-Energy Theorem?
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High School Gravity on the surface of hollow spheres
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High School Good equation for calculating RPM of a wheel?
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High School Factors affecting surface tension
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High School Uncovering the Complexities of Streamlined and Steady Flow in Fluid Dynamics
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High School Forces inside a moving elevator
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High School Who Does the Work When a Ball is Kicked: The Player or the Ball?
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High School Measuring the coefficient of friction
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High School Pressure generated by a column of air
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High School Do Wedge Constraint Relations Affect Velocities Parallel to the Contact Surface?
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High School Why does energy transfer during collisions?
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High School Does a strong wind slow down your free fall?
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High School How to Calculate This Horsepower from a flywheel?
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High School Acceleration of a pumpkin from an air cannon
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High School Is the Spinning Wheel's Rotation Maintained? | Investigating Kinetic Energy
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High School A glass and bottle of water moving on their own
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High School Difference between static and kinetic friction
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High School Is Normal Force a Contact Force Despite Atomic Repulsion?
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High School Science history, falling objects before Galileo
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High School If the pedal crank arm length of a bicycle increases....
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High School Determining ansatz for forced oscillations in SHM
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High School What is pressure energy in Bernoulli's theorem?
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High School Disproving perpetual energy and perpetual motion machines.
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High School Confused about Newton's 3rd law
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High School Does Force Become Infinite on a Donut-Shaped Planet?
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High School Pressure Change: Understanding the Physics Behind Closing a Valve
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High School How to make a Velocity Time Graph For Data?
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High School Understanding Stress Transfer in Pin-Tied Stone and Wall Interfaces
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High School Would my turning mechanism for my robot work?
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High School How to advoid water condensation in compressed air piping
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High School What's the Difference Between Contact Force and the Normal Force
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High School What does a rocket push against?
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High School Force Needed to Push Bodies in Space: 100kg vs 1kg Mass
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High School Sound waves: why do air molecules oscillate?
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High School NASA: Hurricane Anatomy - Understanding Angular Momentum & Air Motion
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High School Simple problem for experts.... (work done lifting weights at the Gym)
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High School Feeling Forces (like feeling gravity while in free-fall)
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High School Question about net work and displacement
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High School Debate over the experimental procedure for Newton's 2nd Law
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High School Calculating Stress on Car Motors with 4 Wheels
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High School Pressure of captured air under water
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High School What causes that water kettle sound?
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High School Normal force of a body over a circular bridge
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High School How does inertia cause the water to stay in the bucket
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High School What happens to the energy when you are holding a book?
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High School What is the angular velocity in the center of a rotating disc?
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High School Help -- I don't understand work
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High School Hydrostatic behaviour - water in tube
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High School Are Brake Pads Affecting My Car's Stopping Distance?
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High School Why do some heats of matches go down first in a Cartesian diver experiment?
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High School Is acceleration still g if an object is dropped at a speed v?
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High School What happens to energy when work is done?
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High School A few questions about Potential Energy
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High School Why pulling large objects is easier than pushing? Or vice versa sometimes?
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