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Undergrad Why Does Heat Generate When Mixing Ethanol and Water?
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Undergrad Does Pascal's Law Apply to a Sealed Fluid System with Gravity?
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Undergrad Does Launch Angle Affect Speed at Impact with Air Resistance?
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Undergrad Gravity problem I need to solve
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High School Why does water from surface water bodies evaporate?
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Undergrad Calculate Horsepower to Velocity for Model Train Control
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Undergrad Water Slide Projectile Experiments: Launch Angle vs Distance
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Undergrad How to find the movements of lying person in bed
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Undergrad Why is it easier to undo a bolt with a long lever
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High School How does varying roof angle affect lift in wind
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Undergrad Block on inclined plane - pushing vs pulling
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Undergrad Prove that acceleration and gravity are really the same?
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Graduate NASA confirms ‘impossible’ thruster actually works
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Graduate How Does Kinetic Theory Apply to Real Gas Behavior with Few Atoms?
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Undergrad How can I calculate the maximum safe drop height for a laptop rated at 1500 gs?
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Undergrad Elastic collision against a wall
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Undergrad What is G-Force Before Engines Turn On?
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Undergrad Energy content of air at pressure
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High School Swooshing noise as car drives near obstacles
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Graduate Understanding the Significance of Vector Potential and Gauge Choices in Physics
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High School Rotations Per Minute Needed to Balance a Top
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High School Why Does a Wheel Travel 2*pi*r in One Revolution?
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Graduate Velocity uniformity of rotation in dynamos and DC motors.
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Undergrad Which Athlete Can Do the Most Work? | Jimbo
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Undergrad Power generated by elite runner.
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Undergrad Applying Newton's 3rd Law after an object breaks
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High School I have a few questions about the joule/Newton
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Undergrad What forces do flanged bushes on a door hinge experience?
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Graduate Variation of potential and kinetic energy over distance in SHM.
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Undergrad Limitations in Experimentation?
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Undergrad Calculating Tension in a Nonmassless Rope with Unequal Vertical Forces
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Undergrad Does hooks law appy to leaf springs?
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Undergrad Torque & Normals: Why Do We Ignore Normals?
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High School Why does a helicopter lift off the ground?
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Undergrad What technology could make a cricket ball stop and hover in mid-air?
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High School Styrofoam cup in pressure cooker
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Undergrad Fluid mechanics: books and other learning resources
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High School Earth is rotating around the sun?
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Undergrad Calculating speed of specific Rising Gas
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High School Does Falling Speed Differ from speed?
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High School Sit around all day gargling ice water instead of exercising or dieting
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High School Flip vs. Rotate: Which is Spinning an Object 360º?
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Undergrad The Earth: An Inertial Frame of Reference
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High School Where did the velocity formula come from?
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Graduate Kindly rectify my notion of sliding friction
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Undergrad Newton's LAW vs Einstein's THEORY
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Graduate Algorithms for atmospheric water balance method
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Undergrad Flow rate is calculated using only the parallel velocity
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Undergrad Crazy Hovercraft Stunt (Physics + Tech)
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Graduate Why is the mathematical model favored over the mechanical model?
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Undergrad Torque in one end of a rod in free space
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Undergrad What Causes Raindrops to Follow a Tail on a Train Window?
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Undergrad Angular acceleration and centri fugal/petal Force
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Undergrad Spacecraft Take-Off from the Moon - Apollo Landing Module
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Undergrad Debunking the Myth: Can a String of Bucky Balls Stretch to Infinity?
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Undergrad Reading Newton's Principia: A Modern English Translation
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Graduate What is the definition and significance of torque in physics?
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Graduate Stress and Strain Tensor Basics: Definition, Equations & Moduli
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Undergrad What is a simple harmonic oscillator
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Graduate How Do Rotating Reference Frames Affect Physics Calculations?
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Graduate Rolling: Definition, Constraint, Mass, and More
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Graduate Definition of Pressure: Force, Work Done, & Mechanical Energy
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Graduate How Do Poisson Brackets Function in Classical Mechanics?
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Graduate What is Poincare's Integral Invariant
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Undergrad What is Potential Energy? A 5 Minute Introduction
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Undergrad Definition of Momentum in Physics - Mass, Velocity, Angular Momentum
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Graduate Definition of Moment & Explanation of Vectors, Forces, & Angular Momentum
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Undergrad What are Moments of Area and How Do They Measure a Body's Resistance to Stress?
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Undergrad What is the Moment of Inertia? A 10 Minute Introduction
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Undergrad What is Kinetic Energy? Definition, Equations & Explanation
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Undergrad Inertia: Definition, Equations, and Laws of Motion
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Undergrad How Do Inelastic Collisions Work?
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Undergrad Force & Impulse: A Summary of Equations & Concepts
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Graduate Hydrogen-like Atom: Definition and Equations
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Graduate What are the Hamilton equations of motion
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Undergrad What is Friction? Definition & Explanation
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Graduate What are the Principles and Equations of Euler's Theory in Physics?
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Undergrad What is Escape Velocity and How is it Calculated?
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Undergrad What is the difference between elastic and inelastic collisions?
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Undergrad What is the direction of friction
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Graduate What is the Effect of Coriolis Force on Rotating Frames of Reference?
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Undergrad How Do Equations of Motion Apply When Acceleration is Constant?
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Undergrad What Defines a Conservative Force?
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Undergrad Understanding Centripetal Force: Definition, Equations & Free Body Diagrams
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Undergrad What is centripetal acceleration
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Graduate Is Centrifugal Force Real or Fictitious?
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Undergrad Buoyant Force Definition & Explanation - Archimedes' Principle
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Undergrad Composite moment of inertia question:
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High School Air Inside Bus: Common Phenomenon Explained
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Graduate How Does Bernoulli's Equation Explain Fluid Dynamics?
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Graduate What is the Definition and Summary of Angular Momentum?
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Undergrad What is Airspeed? Definition, Explanation, and Equations
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High School In dire need of some help on understanding gravity
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Undergrad Can We Calculate the Momentum of a Mechanical Wave?
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Undergrad Phase Velocity: What Does it Tell Us About Waves?
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Graduate Free Fall and Inertial Frames?
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Undergrad Function describing Potential Energy
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Undergrad Why torque is moment of force & angular momentum is moment of momentum
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Undergrad Explosion force inside gun barrel
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Graduate What are the underlying principles of hydrophobicity at the molecular level?
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