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Undergrad Water Pressure and Internal (Air) Pressure
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Graduate Center of mass and center of gravity don´t match, why?
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High School Force of Gravity: F=mg and MmG/h2(sqared)
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High School Direction of Forces on an Euler Spiral Path | Intuitive Explanation
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Graduate What is the significance of quadrature in rigid body rotation?
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Undergrad Sound as compression or rarefaction of air
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Graduate Frequency of a wire/spring system?
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Graduate Isochoric depressurization of distilled water question
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Undergrad Human Energy, Work Done and Declining results
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High School Does centrifugal force caused the tides?
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Undergrad Effect of friction on total energy?
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Undergrad Can you merge these equations and get acceleration
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High School Understanding Newtons vs Joules - Beginner
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Undergrad How did scientists define mass and force back in the days?
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High School Could Reducing Gravity Impact the 'Burping' of a Bottle?
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Undergrad Flowmeter Impact from Changing Pressure
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Undergrad Understanding Vector Multiplication
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Undergrad Tidal Acceleration: What & Why + Formula
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High School Question on distribution of weights
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Graduate Can molecules travel "into" a high pressure region?
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High School Pressure: Rate or Distributed Force?
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High School Why Do Water Droplets Behave Differently Based on Size and Surface?
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Graduate The meaning of 'Extension' in History of Physics
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High School Difference between X and Amplitude (Simple Harmonic Motion)?
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Undergrad Tug of war weight bias vs seated tug of war
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High School Mass of a body when Acceleration is 0 and Force is 0.
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High School How to calculate the force needed to get out of bed?
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Undergrad Understanding Power Dissipation in Electric Wires
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Graduate How Can Vibration Damping Materials Reduce Machine Noise?
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Undergrad Verification of Conservation of Energy
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Undergrad Levitation/orbital speed and rotating objects
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Undergrad Anchoring a Swim Platform: Calculating Wind Force on Raft at 6000 ft Elevation
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Graduate Relationship between inertial and gravitational mass?
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy and Reference Frame
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Graduate Can anybody help with group velocity simulations?
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Undergrad Torque / HP to move a disc with 20,000 lbs on it
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Undergrad Speed of Sound in Different Mediums
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Undergrad Forces on the top of a bullet train
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Undergrad Clarification on some Variables
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High School A question regarding action and reaction
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Undergrad Is Inertia a Universal Force of Resistance?
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Graduate Optimizing High Speed Transit for Comfort and Safety: A Scientific Approach
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Undergrad Why is the shape of an object not considered in motion on an inclined plane?
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High School Why are Newton's 3rd law forces equal?
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Graduate Jerk, Jounce, Snap, Crackle, Pop: What's the Motion?
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High School Can an Aerodynamic Tent Shape Prevent Wind Tipping?
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High School Frictional Force: Static to Kinetic Conversion
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Undergrad Did the experiment, now more confused
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Graduate Can a Ship Experience Maximum Roll and Heave Accelerations Simultaneously?
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Undergrad Is this correct reasoning? Questions on the physics of pneumatic spud gun.
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Graduate EM: Vector potential vs. Field tensor: Which is fundamental?
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Undergrad Load moving horizontally across bridge, speed affect loading
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High School How Is Energy Expended When Holding a Bucket Stationary?
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High School Is force an accelerating mass?
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Undergrad Spectroscopy hookes law, derivation?
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Undergrad Effect of air bubbles in a paste when subjected to spinning
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Graduate Accelerating and Non-accelerating Coordinates - Fluid flow
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High School What is the Physics behind Thor's Hammer?
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Graduate Time derivative of 3D Spherical Coordinate
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Graduate Pressure variation across streamlines in a free jet
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High School Mystery of the Sink Vortex: Investigating Why Water Spins
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Undergrad Change in potential of terminals of batteries
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Graduate Regarding the "acceleration" of the EM field
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Undergrad Wireless transmission of power along a railway track
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Graduate Ring Suspension Between Binary Masses
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High School Faster, narrower fluid same pressure as slower, wider fluid?
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Undergrad Projectile height formula based on distance?
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Undergrad Relative velocities of balls on reaching the ground.
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Undergrad How can I determine the drag coefficient of a cardboard propeller?
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High School Did I Neglect the Skier in the Resistive Force Calculation?
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Graduate Fluid Mechanics: Constant Pressure and Incompressible flow
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Graduate Momentum, position vector dot (scalar) product action
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Undergrad What does it mean to connect something to a potential V?
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High School Are the Forces in These Equations Different?
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High School Does a truck's load affect its braking distance?
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Undergrad Weight Transfer in Car Tires, and Suspension
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Graduate Orthogonality from infinitesimal small rotation
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Graduate Velocity of the pressure change
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Graduate Choked flow out of air compressor and wind tunnels
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Undergrad How a Ballistic Pendulum works.
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Graduate When do time dependent constraints mean energy conservation?
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Undergrad Regarding to the speed of information.
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Undergrad Why does the weighing machine show different values when jumping vs standing?
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Undergrad Supersonic wave and distance calculation
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Graduate Gyroscopic Precession: Find Speed & Frequency of Nutation
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Undergrad Troubleshooting a Simulation: Acceleration & Velocity Lost in a Jump
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Undergrad Multiple-spring system problem....
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Undergrad Forces acting on a static trolley suitcase
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High School How Does a Scale Work? | Curious Posts
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High School The invention of a Newton, how was it measured back then?
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High School Would I be able to see a ball passing next to me at 340m/s ?
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Undergrad Question about translating frame
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Undergrad Calculation of different natural frequencies of a material
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Undergrad Question regarding artificial satellites
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Undergrad Two cars turning into a corner.
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Undergrad What happens if the new ARX bullet breaks the sound barrier?
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Undergrad Car C1 Speed Needed to Rotate C2 180 Degrees
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Undergrad Dot product in the Gravitational Potential Energy formula
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Undergrad What's the error in my derivations? (impulse/momentum)
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Undergrad High power bushing (HV power line insulator shapes)
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