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High School Centripetal Force: What Happens When Force Increases?
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High School Help Needed: Solving Homework Assignment on Beat Frequency
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High School AC Generator Help: Get Answers for School Physics Assignment
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High School Energy Efficiency of Compressed-Air-Powered Parabola Riding Vehicle?
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High School How Does a Man Accelerate While Climbing a Rope?
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High School Anyone know how to calculate windspeed ?
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High School Position sensor for moving projectile
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High School Trying to understand the basics of Hooke's law
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High School Difference between frictional force and the force of friction
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High School Will a Vertical Spring Drop at the Same Time as a Horizontal Spring?
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High School What is Work? Understanding the Concept of Work in Physics and Everyday Life
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High School What happens to buoyancy when a non-uniform force is applied to the liquid?
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High School Trying to better understand sound & vibration on textured surfaces
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High School Why does a rubber band's tension grow when stretched?
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High School An intuitive understanding of momentum and kinetic energy
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High School Elementary question on car crashes and momentum
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High School Laws of conservation of momentum?
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High School For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
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High School Did Netwton actually think "gravity " was "absurd"?
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High School Calculating the air pressure exerted on the body
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High School Ground for a Van de Graaff Generator?
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High School Energy conservation in simple pendulum
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High School Why doesn't the gravity vector contribute to KE sliding down a ramp?
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High School At what wind speed will salt water "boil"?
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High School Expression where a certain quantity is proportional to the force squared
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High School Unable to clearly understand relative velocity
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High School How could Class III Levers till be considered Levers at all?
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High School Experiment: Finding Relation and Constant for Alarm Clock
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High School Attitude Control Gyroscopes on Spaceships
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High School Understanding G-Force: x,y and z Components Explained
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High School Optimizing Weight Distribution for Dog Agility See-Saw Compliance
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High School UK A level Physics question & Marking scheme question
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High School Is the Motion of a Pendulum Described by a Harmonic Oscillator Model?
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High School Coefficient of Static Friction
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High School Static and dynamic spring constants
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High School Understanding Pressure and Its Relationship to Force: A Simple Explanation
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High School Can Pi Help Us Understand Velocity and Acceleration?
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High School Understanding the Concepts and Formulas for Energy: Potential and Kinetic
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High School Is this Simple Harmonic Motion?
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High School Proving the effects of gravity by using the scientific method
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High School Buoyancy and Pressure Interactions in Fluids
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High School Does dropping a Jupiter from the Pisa tower still accelerate at g = 9.81?
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High School Unanswered Questions about Tossed Coins
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High School Why do things produce sound even though no pressure is applied to them?
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High School How to work out Joules needed to perform work
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High School Why do position vectors have an arrow on top of them?
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High School How Can You Model a Man Sliding on Rough Ice with Intermittent Pushing?
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High School Modeling Quickly Pushed Boxes: A Beginner's Guide
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High School Why Does a Spinning Object Wobble but Not Tumble?
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High School 'IdealFluid' Describe Behavior of Matter in Phase State of liquid/gas+
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High School Questioning Forces: A Physics Teacher's Ambiguity
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High School Does an orbiting mass exert force on what it is orbiting around?
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High School How Fast Must a Grasshopper Jump to Reach the Other End of a Straw?
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High School Why is Kinetic Energy a scalar quantity?
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High School Confusion about the Strain Energy when loading/unloading a sample
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High School Forced Oscillation: Understanding Force & Mass
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High School Atmospheric pressure per square cm
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High School Movement in a Vacuum: Does Acceleration Show Anything?
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High School Is it possible to "redistribute" the weight of the table....?
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High School Acceleration and Velocity: Understanding the Relationship
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High School Identifying forces (normal force, weight, gravity)
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High School Need Help Regarding a U Shaped tube problem
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High School Constant Off-Center Propulsion (without gravity)
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High School Understanding gravity: mass and gravity relation
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High School Gyro stabilized two-wheeled toy : Why the gimbal?
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High School Mousetrap car won't roll on ground but will when being held
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High School Suction Through Small & Large Pipes
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High School P = F Sin/Cos Angle / A: Explained!
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High School Potential Energy Explained: In-Depth Guide
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High School Would this work? (air filled tube inside a water filled container)
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High School Understanding the Work-Energy Theorem
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High School Why does water not follow the law of motion?
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High School What's the importance of a spring force constant of 1634N/m?
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High School Bernoulli Principle vs. Coanda Effect
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High School How do we calculate kinetic and potential energy in physics?
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High School ΜStatic = μDynamic: Easier to push a moving object?
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High School Angle required to hit coordinates x, y, z with air ressitance
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High School Projectile motion problems with No horizontal acceleration
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High School Why is the balloon sticking to the wall?
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High School What is and some explamples of inertial frame of reference ?
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High School How will melted ice in a pool change the water level
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High School Physics Extended Essay Research Question
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High School Understanding Work Against Friction in Physics
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High School Is the inverse square law exact near a spherical body?
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High School Simple derivation of the Equations of a Gyroscope
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High School What is the equivalent in kg of the force exerted on a plate
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High School Where does potential energy come from?
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High School The squirrel jumps horizontally form the top of the 25m tall tree
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High School Grams vs. Newtons: Why Do I See Weights Measured in Grams?
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High School Question about forces in a gearbox
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High School Force exerted at the end of a beam
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High School Hooke's Law and Restoring/Applied Force
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High School Gravitational attraction of 2 equal masses
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High School How does liquid starts moving when there is Pascal's law
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High School F=ma -- How did Newton find this?
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High School Why Is the Third Pendulum Traveling the Fastest?
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High School Direction of buoyant force on sunken object?
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High School Does Acceleration Depend on Instantaneous Velocity Changes?
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High School Why do ultrasound waves not travel through air well?
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High School Does greater acceleration result in more work done?
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