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Graduate Regular vs stable orbits in spherically symmetric potentials
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Undergrad Calculating Force Applied to an Object of 100kg Moved 1m in 5s
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Undergrad How to Calculate force exerted on a falling body?
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High School Leg muscles’ force as a system of levers
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High School Basic Angle Explanation for Statics
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Undergrad When does the instantaneous velocity exist?
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High School Calculating Leverage & Force in Lower Leg Squat
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High School In uniform acceleration, mean velocity ##\bar v = \frac{v_0+v}{2}##?
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Undergrad Can free body diagrams be used if friction at pivot is not negligible?
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High School Discovering the Mystery Behind the Direction of Water Swirl in Your Sink
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Undergrad Understanding cymatics physics
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High School Why does ##F## often appear as inverse square laws such as Newtonian gravity?
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Undergrad Which is Better for Measuring Vibrational Systems: Free or Forced Vibration?
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Undergrad Bernoulli and Momentum Disconnect?
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Undergrad Distance traveled by a ball down a ramp and on a flat path
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High School Rope wrapped around a rod - belt friction
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Graduate Lame parameter mu = shear modulus derivation (rogue factor of 2)
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Graduate Order of rotations due to torque in 3DOF in simulations
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Undergrad Load on leaf blower as function of outlet shape
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Undergrad Lacking intuition with partial derivatives
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Undergrad Checking if a stationary point is a minimum using Lagrangian Mechanics
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Undergrad Question about Moon's gravitational effect on tidal bulge
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High School Car Crash Physics: Deceleration Calculations
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Undergrad Effect of vent ratio on the drag coefficient of round parachutes
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Undergrad Why do phase trajectories point upwards and downwards in a quadratic potential?
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Graduate Optimal Size of Rocket Engine Nozzle for Vacuum Performance
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Graduate Do moon phases affect weighing precision on the microgram range?
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Undergrad How Can a Table Float with Buckets?
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Undergrad Why do rockets turn horizontally so soon after launch?
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Undergrad Memory and Performance: The Role of Abstraction in Athletic Success
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Undergrad Increasing the output torque of a DC motor with gears
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Undergrad Change in orbit when mass is doubled
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Graduate How does a 1-wheeled motorcycle turn?
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Undergrad How to Land a Tree Flat in 3/4 Rotation: Solving the Equations
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Undergrad Filling a rigid tire from a pressure regulated compressed air line
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Undergrad Let a standing wave of length L go, get traveling wave of length 2L?
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Undergrad Work done "against centrifugal force"
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Undergrad Explaining how a Vortex Tube works
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High School F=ma Applied to a Billiards Cue
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High School Greater momentum on impact means greater force?
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Undergrad Measuring Model Rocket Velocity: Is it Possible?
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Undergrad The Feynman way of explaining Symmetry in Physical laws
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Undergrad How can I integrate variable velocity in fluid mechanics?
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High School Rotation is absolute, linear motion is relative?
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Undergrad 3D Printed Piston | Lower mass = Power
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High School Understanding the Rheopectic Properties of Blood: Fact or Fiction?
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Undergrad Why do objects always rotate about their centre of mass?
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High School Trying to understand some basics about Gravity
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Undergrad Calculating Mass Inertia Product - Examples 1 & 2
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Undergrad An isolated object can rotate only about its center of mass
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High School Minimum Velocity Required for Loop-The-Loop Problem
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Undergrad Difference between δ and ∆ variation?
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High School Football padding against forces -- What is the appropriate amount?
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High School Lagrangrian and Hamiltonian mechanics: A historical picture
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Undergrad Is There a Better Model for the Relationship Between Friction and Velocity?
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Undergrad X*t, what is position multiplied by time?
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High School Very basic acceleration problem (from a video on The Physics Classroom website)
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Graduate Is there a stagnation point in turbulent flows not involving solids?
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Undergrad Getting sailboat velocity from wind speed and direction
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Undergrad What's the terminal velocity of a Boeing 737 in free fall from 12.496km
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Undergrad Equation of motion for a simple mechanical system
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Undergrad Analyzing Infinitesimal Motion
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Undergrad Equation for power required to overcome drag
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High School Mathematics involving a gravitational force
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Graduate Finite-Discrete Element Method (FDEM) software recommendation
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Undergrad Can we solve this Morin's problem without conservation of string?
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Undergrad Effective mass from the Lagrangian
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High School Verifying AI Chatbot's Answer on Brachistochrone Curve Formula
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Undergrad Question about pressure cooker "jiggler weights"
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Insights Subtleties Overlooked in Friction Questions: Object Slides Down Ramp
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Undergrad How hard of a Hit force does it take to make a mass jump?
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Undergrad Force required to pull a cruise liner or cargo ship
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High School Hanging beads in vehicle turning on horizontal road (constant v and r)
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Undergrad The Force Of The Ladder Against The Wall
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Undergrad Is the Coriolis Force a Real Phenomenon or Just an Illusion?
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High School Time for which a vertical projectile stays motionless in midair
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High School Need help designing a clock with a repeating signal
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Undergrad Predicting the spring constant theoretically
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Graduate Wave energy dissipated due to geometry
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Undergrad How Does Air Resistance Relate to Hooke's Law?
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Undergrad Bicycle front tire wobble due to weight on the back of the bike
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Undergrad About torque and moment of inertia
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Undergrad Satellite mechanics: linear and rotational momentum
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High School Falling Cat - Rotation with Zero Total Angular Momentum
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Undergrad How to find the equation of motion using Lagrange's equation?
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Undergrad Power available to a wind powered vehicle traveling directly downwind
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Graduate Question about Damped Oscillations
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High School Air pressure generated by driving at 60mph
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Undergrad How to flatten the surface of a viscous gel?
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Undergrad Fluid flow through a pin-hole of x diameter in a closed container
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Undergrad Finding the center of area (centroid) of a right triangle
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Undergrad Equation of motion: choice of generalized coordinates
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Undergrad Alternative Approach to Solving Foucault's Pendulum Behavior
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High School Can an Hourglass on a Balance Scale Create Equilibrium?
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High School In what ways do the three terms differ?
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Undergrad What does vector subtraction for two non-perpendicular vectors look like?
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia about an axis and Torque about a point
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Undergrad Does Pulse and Glide only work with manual transmissions and a kill switch?
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Undergrad Car low average speed vs aero drag relation
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