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Graduate Pi, momentum, and kinetic energy
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Undergrad Radians and the unit of rotational energy
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Undergrad How to calculate distance required for observable difference
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High School Can I get help with a car speed question? (to fight a traffic ticket)
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High School Acceleration of object at constant velocity in rotation?
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Undergrad Downforce, banked turns, and friction
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Graduate Why is D'Alembert's Principle stated in terms of virtual displacements?
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Undergrad Can a Bow Launch an Arrow at Supersonic Speeds?
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Graduate What is the minimum speed limit in the universe?
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Graduate Dependence of gravitational potential
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Undergrad Mysterious Low Frequency Horns: Real or Fake?
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Undergrad Confused about some details of potential difference
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Graduate Impact of 2 rigid beam without energy loss has multiple slns
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Undergrad Double Pendulum Potential Energy
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Undergrad Can I go up with a constant speed?
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Graduate Calculating Cyclic Energy from Acceleration (Relative)
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Undergrad Why is inertia not stopping acceleration?
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Undergrad Viscosity & Pressure: Can Hydraulic Resistance Prevent Boiling?
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High School How fast do we have to go if Earth had no atmosphere?
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High School How does an object's velocity change over time during constant acceleration?
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High School Speed, altitude, and horizontal distance
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Undergrad Force as a function of position, given x(t)
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Undergrad Conservation of energy in bouncing ball
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Undergrad Calculation of the energy from a pulse
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Undergrad Solving the Mystery of a Frictionless Ramp & Spring
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Undergrad Atwood pulley and calculating inertia based on slope (m)
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High School How Do You Calculate Water Velocity and Force of Impact?
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Graduate Derivative of angular momentum
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Undergrad Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics - Momentum and Impacts - Comments
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Undergrad Potential Gravitational Energy into Force
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Undergrad Positive work while lifting an object
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High School What is the pressure in Kilopascals on a vertical plate
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Graduate Deriving Torricelli's equation using calculus
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Undergrad Why does the soundwave reach its maximum at 3.5ms and a distance of 0.157m?
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Undergrad Integrating acceleration sin wave
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Graduate Expanding Universe Slowing Down and Then Speeding Up
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Graduate Calculating elliptic orbits in Cartesian coordinates
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Undergrad Understanding the Work Energy Theorem for a Spring
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High School A formula to calculate speed on loop de loop
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Undergrad Velocity Derivative of a Sinusoidal Wave (Counter-Intuitive)
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Graduate Dimension change of opening through concrete slab expansion
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High School Why does wind enter a car window?
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Undergrad How Can I Lift and Move a 400-Pound Load Without Wheels?
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Undergrad How to calculate the precession
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Undergrad Finding the Collision Point of Two Objects Using Velocity and Position
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High School If gas volume remains constant, it can do work?
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High School How to convert air flow into pressure?
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Undergrad Flow velocity out of a rectangluar nozzle
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Graduate Is distance between particles relative? Poincare invariance?
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High School What Type of Force Does F Represent in the Force-Momentum Equation?
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Undergrad What happens to energy in a complete inelastic collision?
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High School An experiement -- Would it work?
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Graduate Accelerating protons and antiprotons for pair production?
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Undergrad Does a car's speed change during a turn?
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Undergrad Atmospheric Pressure at Spout of Water Tank
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High School Does the Magnus Effect Decrease Speed in Sports?
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Undergrad How is Torque Shared in Equilibrium?
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Undergrad Conservation of momentum scenario
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High School Person moving Velocity question
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Undergrad Where is the Force Transferred in a Lathe with an Unbalanced Load?
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High School Gravitational Force of an object
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High School Projectile motion sample problems
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Graduate Precession: A picture using only forces
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Undergrad Why massless rope is required for making these two forces eq
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Undergrad How does Atmospheric Correction work?
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High School Can you close a car door underwater?
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High School Understanding Force: Defining F=ma and Other Equations
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Undergrad Direction of Burn while in Orbit
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High School Information regarding acceleration
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Graduate Translational Acceleration with No Rotation
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Graduate Normalization of 1D velocity boltzmann distribution
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High School What is the escape velocity of Earth?
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Graduate Friction in non-uniform circular motion of a car
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Graduate How do you calculate the energy required via torque when....
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Graduate What is the derivation of the rocket equation?
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Graduate Lanczos "Variational Principles of Mechanics" Problem
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Undergrad Question about speed of the flying body
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Graduate Friction on a particle on rough horizontal rotating disc
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High School What Happens When an Object Is Dropped from the ISS?
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Undergrad How to determine shape of surface of a fluid?
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Undergrad Measuring Mass without Newton's Law: Possible?
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Undergrad Increasing flow rate makes pressure drops larger
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Graduate Differential equation of frictional force
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High School Inertial and non inertial frame of reference
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Undergrad How is centrifugal force created in a cloud of gas in space?
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Undergrad How Does Wing Shape Affect Airplane Lift and Pressure Differences?
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Undergrad Oscillator/spring quality vs frequency....
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Undergrad Help with the Pendulum conical
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High School Understanding velocity=wavelength*frequency
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High School What will be tension on string pulled by equal forces?
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Undergrad Bending moments and points of contraflexure
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Undergrad What does the maximum work of a reversible expansion mean?
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Undergrad Friction Direction on Rolling Ball: Am I Missing Something?
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Graduate Gravity's change rate and the Centrifugal force
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Undergrad Collision between two identical objects
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Graduate Buoyance Force & Centripital Motion
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia of a Sphere derivation?
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Graduate Do we have momentum in traveling in time?
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Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics - Friction - Comments
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Graduate Contradictions in Irrotational Vortex?
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