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High School Correct SHM Equation: Does € Matter?
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Undergrad Conservative forces and internal and external forces
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High School Lifting an Object: Work, Force, and Cosine
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Undergrad Resources to learn about particles on a grid/mesh
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Undergrad Vertical acceleration of the water bubbles in a kettle?
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High School Why doesn't wind drag a hovering Kestrel bird backwards?
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Undergrad Car drag coefficent vs fuel consumption link
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Graduate Normal force and force of friction inside a tube
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Undergrad Relationship between viscosity and velocity in fluid mechanics
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High School How do I calculate the apogee of a rocket before launch?
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Undergrad I would like a better understanding of friction and hysteresis
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Undergrad Extending Newton's laws -- Is the concept of force still defined?
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Undergrad Focussing on the Treadmill of Veritasium's Blackbird faster than wind
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Undergrad Can a Tower of Books Move with Lighter Forces?
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Undergrad Calculate torque of a motor from straight bar load cell
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Undergrad Stuck in understanding Newton's 3 laws
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High School Fundamental Problems With Exam Question: Moving Truck & Acceleration
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High School Irreversibility of Aristotle's law
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Undergrad Can the Inverse Tan Function Justify Phase Lag in a Driven Harmonic Oscillator?
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Undergrad Reaction force of and its relation to normal force and friction
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Undergrad What friction causes objects to decelerate?
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Graduate Calculate work done by a time-dependent pressure to a spherical hole
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Undergrad Torque and Rotational Kinetic Energy Relationship
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Undergrad Momentum of a Water Jet Impacting Plate
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Undergrad Need help in understanding friction
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High School Matter and Friction: Adhesion, Deformation & Hydraulic Press
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Undergrad Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics (Douglas Cline)
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Graduate Cause of upward motion of a nutating top
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High School Acceleration -- How is the intermediate displacement speed derived?
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High School A request regarding Newton's beads/chain fountain phenomenon
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High School Calculating Wind Turbine Torque - Get the Right Result!
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High School Concussion question regarding PSI for football helmets
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Undergrad Water powered funicular with equal masses?
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High School Can anyone tell me some formulas for acceleration?
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Undergrad Comprehensive List of Mechanics Formulations
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Undergrad Time dependence of kinetic energy in Lagrangian formulation
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Undergrad Effect of time on density distribution+shape of uniformly dense sphere
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Undergrad Transfer of electrical energy and transfer of air energy
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Undergrad Air friction in rotating ring magnet
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Undergrad Distributed Forces and force density....
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Undergrad Confusion about the equation KE=1/2mv^2
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Undergrad Questions about a spring and its principle
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Undergrad Magnus Effect experiment problem
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Graduate Calculate the work done by pressure rupturing a spherical containment
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Undergrad Degrees of freedom and constraints
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Undergrad Required Strength of a Strap connecting 2 Rolls
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Undergrad Why does Kepler's Third Law exist?
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Undergrad Virtual work and constraint forces
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Undergrad Constraints of a mechanical system
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Undergrad Integrating discs to find the gravitational force of a sphere
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High School This rocket physics problem seems unrealistic
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High School Why does increasing the height of a water tower increase water pressure?
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Undergrad Pendulum Tension Force -- How to calculate the full vector?
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Undergrad Looking for a trajectory integrator that also supports cubic potential
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Graduate Understanding Spatial Description: A Mathematical Perspective
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High School Proof of inverse square law for gravitation?
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Undergrad Acceleration From Rest Under Constant Power
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Undergrad How to interpret complex solutions to simple harmonic oscillator?
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Undergrad Why are there 2s -1 independent integrals of motion?
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Undergrad Can Gas be Weighed in a Vacuum?
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Undergrad Changes to a spinning skater's angular velocity
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Undergrad Car acceleration if resistance forces don't exist
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High School Which Energy Law is the Key to Understanding Work and Conservation?
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High School What's so great about Noether's theorem?
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Undergrad The speed of a waves on a string in Simple harmonic motion
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Undergrad Error tolerant normal mode frequency
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Graduate Principle of Virtual Work and the forces that DO NOT do work
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Undergrad (Airfoil) Why do boats have a pointy bow?
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High School Normal Force Discrepancy for Wedge Vs. Ramp
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Undergrad Can Leverages and Propellers Work Together to Create Efficient Movement?
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Undergrad Wave number, frequency, and velocity in dispersive waves
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Undergrad Flow rate calculation of coating application
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High School Rod resting against a smooth peg
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High School Why is static friction necessary for pure rolling?
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Undergrad Do objects of differing mass fall at the same rate in a magnetic field?
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Undergrad How does a screw roll down an inclined plane?
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Undergrad Uncovering the Secrets of Water Slide Physics
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Undergrad Elastic collision between two spheres
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Undergrad F= - mg - kv ? (forces of gravity and friction on a mass)
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Undergrad Difference Between Resistance Force and Friction Coefficient?
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Graduate Explicit non-holonomic equations of motion
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Undergrad Principle of Physics: Derivation of -dU/dx=F
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MHB How Do Conic Sections Relate to Orbital Mechanics?
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Undergrad Why do droplets of condensation run at an angle on a plastic sheet?
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Undergrad Magnus effect, what is the correct formula?
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Undergrad Drag equation - relative flow velocity
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High School Equivalence of Frictional and Applied Force
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High School Maximizing Mechanical Advantage in Levers: Investigating Size and Shape
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High School Rolling of non-deforming sphere on a non-deforming rough surface?
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Undergrad Ball free fall 100m at equator, where is the landing spot?
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Undergrad What is the purpose of the vector α in the rotational work integral?
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High School Is simple harmonic motion also a pure translatory motion?
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Undergrad Water flowing through a funnel
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Undergrad Steering a Car: Investigating the Forces of Rotation
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High School Pressure through a curved hose - expected results?
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High School Doubt regarding the terms used in the solution
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High School Unable to understand how these two forces are equal
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Undergrad General expression of wind force on a sail....
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High School Trouble understanding what rolling friction is
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Undergrad Is it possible to "violate" momentum at the expense of more energy?
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