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Undergrad Why Is Mass Halved in the Work-Energy Theorem Derivation?
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High School Can objects that have different masses/velocities have equal momentum?
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Undergrad Aerodynamics of gliding - simplified?
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Undergrad How does weight add up to press on things?
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Graduate What happens when the velocity of a revolving satellite/body changes?
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Graduate Is Energy Conserved When Changing Frames of Reference in Space?
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Undergrad What Does FWHM of a Velocity Distribution Reveal?
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Graduate Water vapor below 100 degrees?
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High School Atmospheric pressure - questions
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Undergrad Trying to Understand the Coriolis Effect: Why West-to-East Air Parcels Go South
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Undergrad Why Do Objects Only Reach 95% of Their Terminal Velocity?
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Undergrad Lever and Acceleration: Greater Mass or Greater Accel?
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Undergrad Water pressure in different shaped tanks
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Undergrad Effects of Wings in a closed environment
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Undergrad What Causes the Hydrodynamic Paradox in Water Springs?
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Graduate On the acceleration of energy.
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High School Weight of Horizontal Projectile
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Undergrad Why do all objects fall with the same acceleration regardless of mass?
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Graduate Conservation of quantized energy
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Undergrad Why does a spinning hemisphere right itself?
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High School If water molecules are so smallwhy don't they go through skin pores?
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Undergrad Collision -- why there is no parallel component?
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Undergrad Analyzing a String System: Calculating M for Equilibrium
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Undergrad What does cross product of vectors actually mean?
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High School Value of g at the center of the earth
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Graduate Is Work Done a Meaningful Concept Beyond Conservative Fields?
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Undergrad J.J thomsons Catode ray - Why hydrogen gas?
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Graduate How is Eikonal Equation analogous to Newton's Law?
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Graduate Why Does Relativistic Kinetic Energy Reduce to Classical Kinetic Energy?
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Graduate Sign of potential energy of SHO
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Undergrad How to measure angular velocity and what is the unit of angular veloci
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Undergrad Can underwater pressure be equated with weight? (after conversions)
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High School Work problem, physics solution
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Graduate Radially symmetric "Breathing" resonance of a sealed water filled tube
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Graduate Hammer and sickle on the Moon, dropped from different heights
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Undergrad Potential difference and battery
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High School Action and reaction are equal and opposite,but why dont they cancell ?
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Undergrad Weight needed to launch object to a certain height
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Graduate The impact of a rope versus the stagnation pressure of a fluid
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Undergrad Coefficient kinetic friction and kinetic friction
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Graduate Vertical spring statistical mechanics
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Undergrad Forming a standing sound wave in a wind instrument
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High School Work done = force x displacement?
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Undergrad Conservation of momentum in perfect elastic collisions
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Graduate Equilibrium Stat Mech Vs. Kinetics
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Undergrad What are the velocities of two objects after they collide?
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High School Types of Pressure: Static, Dynamic, Total & More
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Undergrad Question about maintaining centrifugal force
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Undergrad Will the material in a cathode be carried to the anode?
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High School Possible to see a water molecule?
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Undergrad Collision of two initially moving objects
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Graduate Shape and Position of a Descending Rope Over a Drum: A Surprising Solution
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Graduate Impact of trolley - hand calculation method
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Oscillator on a smooth surface
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Undergrad Inertia of door vs. braking torque?
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High School What is the difference between centrifugal and centripetal forces?
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Undergrad Three or more isolated elastic point mass in the universe
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Undergrad Rotational frictions relationship to surface area
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Graduate Is the Barycentric Escape Velocity Truly Mass-Independent?
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Undergrad Ball rolling down a ramp time difference
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Undergrad Resultant of Three Forces and a Moment?
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High School What are the coefficients of friction between various surfaces and concrete?
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Undergrad Simple harmonic motion and circular motion
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Undergrad Experiment - beer bottle and ping pong ball
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Graduate Rayleigh Dissipation function for aerodynamic Drag
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High School How can people float or sink in the water with no volume changed?
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High School Buoyant force on a submerged cube
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High School Why does atmospheric pressure not keep liquids inside upside down cups?
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Graduate Vector Calculus Question in Lagrangian Mechanics
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Undergrad Calculating Force, Work, and Power Values For A Lifting Movement
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Undergrad Oscillation of a liquid in U -tube
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Undergrad Why the kinetic energy is same as internal energy of ideal gas?
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Graduate How do neutrons bounce off one another?
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Undergrad Earth's Rotation: Questions & Answers
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Undergrad Is the Derivative of Speed the Magnitude of Acceleration?
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Undergrad Disc brake effectiveness varies on rotor size?
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Undergrad Simple harmonic motion and positive constant w^2?
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High School Why is it to fill a balloon hard initially ?
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Graduate Spring Energy Thought Experiment
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High School Spring scale w/ Different Forces
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High School Difference Between Acceleration and Gravity
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Undergrad Understanding Velocity: ds/dt and dr/dt in Particle Motion
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Undergrad Find the potential difference between 2 junctions (nodes)
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Undergrad Kinetic energy of molecule depends upon?
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Undergrad Can Bernoulli's Law Increase the Depth Range of Submarines?
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Undergrad How would air flow be effected in these scenarios with a fan
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High School Bottle. sound by blowing across the top
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between Power Input and Torque in Wind Turbines
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Undergrad Wine glass sound physics behind
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Undergrad How Does a Slow Spinning Gyroscope Behave Compared to a Fast One?
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Undergrad Surface tension object targeted
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Graduate Is Electron Motion in Flat Spacetime Perpetual?
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Graduate Planar motion in central forces.
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Undergrad Equations for cannon ball on a planet
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Graduate Optimizing structure for toppling
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Undergrad Newton's 3rd Law: The Rocket & Ground Reaction Force
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Graduate Discovering Liouville Integrability in Classical Mechanics
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High School What is the difference in force between the first impact and water resistance?
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Graduate Effects of size and speed on model airplane crashes
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High School How to understand Newton's 3rd Law
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