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Graduate Constructing a 5-Sided Pyramid Die for Equal Probability
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High School For a sound wave how/why does the compression and rarefaction occur?
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High School Are Atoms Lopsided in Weight Based on Neutron and Proton Placement?
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Undergrad Storing Energy in a Rubber Band: Does Mass Increase?
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Graduate Statistical mechanics, bernoulli's forumula - collision freqency
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Energy And Work Done
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Undergrad What is the air pressure in a PVC pipe with weight on top?
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Graduate Water Pressure in a Sealed Vessel
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Graduate How Can the Positions of Two Internal Masses in a Sphere Be Determined?
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Graduate Virtual displacement and D'Alembert's principle
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Undergrad Does kinetic energy depend on position as well as velocity?
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High School How skin reduces impact force on bones
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Undergrad Understanding Kinetic Energy and Momentum Conservation in Colliding Masses
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Undergrad How does the Random number generator works?
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Graduate Reduce angular momentum from Iw to mvr
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Graduate Moment of Inertia of Hollow Cylinder Derivation
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Graduate Deriving the Relationship Between Pressure, Boiling Point, and Height
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Undergrad From Infinity to Here: Explaining Objects, Escape Velocity & More
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Graduate Force exerted by one molecule on container wall
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Undergrad Why fluid transmit for or less force ? Why it is not act like rigid bo
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Undergrad Balance Beam: Why Does It Stay Horizontal?
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Undergrad Equivalence principle to argue mass and weight are the same?
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High School Gravity at the center of the Earth
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Undergrad Amount of pressure at the bottom of a tank from water
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Graduate Potential Energy Approach to Derive Spring Element Equations
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(HELP) How to smash ice or glass with sound
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High School New to building a wind generator -- Need help
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Graduate Initial Velocity and Changes in SHM Formulae
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Graduate Puzzling precession of the torque-free symmetric top
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Undergrad Aircraft lift - is it all Bernoulli's principle?
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Graduate Does potential energy have measurable corresponding mass?
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Graduate How Are Impulse and Work Methods of Applying Force to a Body?
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Graduate Conceptual questions on Lagrangian formalism
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Undergrad How work is done on an ideal gas?
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Undergrad GPE Deriv.: Integral Limits & Why Keep Inf. as Lower Limit?
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High School Hello I am confused calculating torque
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Graduate Interpretation of vorticity with non-vanishing strain tensor
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Undergrad Friction : impulsive or non impulsive?
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Graduate Can four-potential be uniquely defined?
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High School What Are Lift and Drag Coefficients?
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High School Non-Inertial Frame: Key Clues & Examples
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Graduate What's the Next Good Book to Learn About Nonlinear Dynamics?
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High School How Does a Water Pump in a Water Cooler Operate and What Are Its Components?
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Undergrad What was the impact force of a truck hitting my car at 35-40 mph?
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Undergrad Optimal Paths: Comparing the Motion of Two Balls on Different Trajectories
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Graduate Can the four potential be fixed?
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Graduate Trajectory of projectile with considerable drag
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Undergrad Solving a Lever System: Lever Arm and Load Lengths
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Undergrad Calculate forces and speed on a zipline
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Graduate Equation of motion for a particle in a potential V(x)
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Undergrad How can I simulate buoyancy of water on a solid structure using COMSOL 4.4?
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Undergrad Mouse Glide Science: Investigating Friction
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Graduate Solve Disk Rotation Problem: Conservation of Energy vs Momentum
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Undergrad Uniform Circular Motion vs Circular Orbit due to Gravity
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Undergrad Why Is Inertia Crucial in Understanding Rotational Motion?
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Undergrad Why is Buoyancy Force = to the density of the liquid * Vobj(submerg)*g
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Graduate What Is Motion and How Is It Defined in Modern Physics?
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High School Does Buoyancy Affect the Weight of a Beaker?
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Undergrad Understanding Hammerthrow Forces, (no friction with ground)
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Undergrad Related to Kinetic Molecular theory
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Undergrad How do I measure drag force on an airplane wing?
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Undergrad Air Pressure vs Liquid Pressure
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High School How does altitude affect the speed of sound and the creation of sonic booms?
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High School Why Is Lifting a Box Considered Work in Physics?
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Undergrad Question about the stretch of rope
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High School Is it possible for liquid hydrogen to exist in space?
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Undergrad Flap deflection angle of a wing on lift to drag ratio?
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Undergrad Why Do Parachutists Feel Weightless Despite Gravity's Pull?
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Undergrad Why Is Average Velocity Calculated Differently in Various Scenarios?
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Undergrad Circular Motion angle b/w acc and velocity etc.
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High School What exact speed point does shock wave start to appear
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Undergrad What Does an Observer Hear When Traveling at the Speed of Sound?
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High School Does a terminal velocity exist?
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Graduate Effects of Earth's rotataion on a simple experiment
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High School Determining Compass Bearing from Resultant Angle
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Undergrad What is the balance point between 2 gravitational bodies called?
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Undergrad How Does Mass Leakage Affect the Velocity of a Cart?
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Graduate How to re-size a sound's wave length
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Undergrad Two different masses in an elastic collision
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High School The distribution of pressure across a surface
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Undergrad Potential energy difference related qs
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Undergrad "Rest is a special case of motion" ?
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Undergrad The wording "just begin to move" for the force of static friction?
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Graduate "Lost work" and irreversibility
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Undergrad Static air pressure for flying
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Undergrad Counting uncertainty in pendulum experiment?
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Graduate Formulating the control volume for a mechanical system
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Undergrad Understanding Drag in Water: Calculation and Hypothetical Scenarios"
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Undergrad Is this a valid formula for calculating the displacement of a 2D projectile?
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High School Understanding the Water Pump: Gravity and Atmospheric Pressure
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High School What is the difference in torque produced by a wrench versus a belt?
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Undergrad Help: The physics behind the throws of judo?
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Undergrad Friction + Bernoulli's Equation
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Undergrad Conservation of energy/momentum and difference reference frames
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Undergrad Truck Bed Cover and Gas Spring Forces
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High School Acceleration due to gravity question
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High School Two Balls on a Bus: Inertia Impact
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Undergrad How to measure angle of rotation of sucrose
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Graduate How Does Non-Uniform Circular Motion Align with Complex Plane Calculations?
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Undergrad Is the Moment of Inertia strictly different
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