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High School Clapeyron's Theorem: Explaining the 1/2 and Why It Matters
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High School What is the condition of true weightlessness?
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High School Would a smaller fan blade be more efficient?
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High School How Do You Calculate the Final Vector of a Rock Ejected from a Spaceship?
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High School Hear Through Walls: How & Why?
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High School Is Work the Same as Kinetic Energy?
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High School Is the weight of a small satellite in its orbit zero?
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High School Calculating tangents from a table
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High School How to specify the direction of an area vector?
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High School Force at which a cutting disk comes off from an angle grinder
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High School Why does flowing water cast a shadow?
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High School Kater's Pendulum: Why Wooden/Metallic Masses Matter
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High School Needing to know the pressure in a water tank
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High School Calculating the P.E. of a system
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High School Why is force vector F but acceleration vector a not A?
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High School Gravity Constant: How Calculated & How to Measure Planet Weight
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High School Pressure & Gravity: Help for Vietnam Student
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High School Airsoft bb and the Magnus effect, probaly very dumb but
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High School The impulse of an object during deployment
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High School Can I Apply Physics Concepts to a Zipline Ride?
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High School What's the "d" in that formula? (work formula)
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High School How does weightlessness work and can we create it on Earth?
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High School Do Materials' Elastic Properties Influence Motion and Force Equilibrium?
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High School Confusion regarding the coefficient of restitution
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High School Net force on an object and its motion....
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High School Why does my phone remain connected to its cable when being lifted by the cable?
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High School Is F=Kx Always Necessary for Spring Forces?
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High School How to calculate the deceleration of the object
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High School Phase angle and Phase in Simple harmonic motion
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High School Building a Mousetrap Car for High School Physics Class
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High School Understanding the Parallelogram Method for Solving Forces
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High School The concept of a force lifting a weight and the work done
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High School Why is there a reverse wind current inside my convertible?
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High School "A sharp sound is perceived as being more intense than low"
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High School Measuring the weight of gas in an inflated balloon
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High School Confused about equation solving
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High School Is Equilibrium a Scalar or Vector Quantity?
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High School Simple Pendulum: Oscillatory & Periodic Motion
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High School Why is 'the velocity' in circular motion changing?
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High School The formulae for kinetic energy and Joules
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High School Does the speed of sound change in metal when heated?
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High School What is water impact velocity formula?
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High School What is the moment of inertia for a water bottle?
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High School How to make my Kelvin's Water Dropper work?
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High School How/Why Is So Much Force Generated In A Bender?
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High School Weight of a box with a flying bird
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High School Maximum Overhang in Static Equilibrium
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High School The Dependence of Angular Acceleration on Moment of Inertia and Mass
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High School What is the relation between Bernoulli's principle & Pascal?
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High School Why does the force increase when holding a bag at an angle of 45 degrees?
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High School Will Block M2 Move Left? Understanding Forces in a Connected Spring System"
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High School What does it mean by 'a is constant' in motion..........'?
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High School Friction Force: Why do we walk?
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High School Negative Velocity or Acceleration
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High School Thought Experiment from a Non-Physicist
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High School Addition of Perpendicular Vectors in two ways
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High School Spiral piece of wood moves upstream
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High School In circular motion, What does it mean s = r.θ?
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High School Speed of sound in steel vs air
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High School Will gravity affect the splash of a pebble in the underground lake on Mars?
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High School Cavendish experiment help for a dummy please
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High School Can you stop rubber from bouncing?
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High School How to find the surface density for a given linear density
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High School Why do modern wind turbines have 3 blades?
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High School How Does Energy Transfer Work in Pendulums?
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High School Distance traveled in the nth second
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High School Representing Vectors in Newton's Notation: How to Use Overdot and Arrow Symbols?
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High School Why work is force times distance?
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High School In projectile motion, why we take y-component for 'TF'?
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High School Lead vs. Rubber Bullets: Which is More Effective in Stopping a Bear?
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High School Can I use three equations for the same concept?
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High School List of drag coefficient for basic shapes has no angles
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High School What does it mean by "the body covers equal distance''
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High School Move a mass on frictionless surface in a vacuum chamber
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High School Can this scenario produce enough energy to be useful?
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High School L bracket vs reverse L bracket
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High School No sound in vacuum? So can I clap more?
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High School Can Forces be Used to Derive the Equation for a Rocket?
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High School Speed of the brain/ Speed of thought: How to determine them?
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High School Question regarding projectile motion
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High School Key equation with uniform acceleration and projectile motion
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High School Friction in Everyday Life: Walking & Knots
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High School 2 large objects of equal mass, Will they move each other?
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High School What are non-inertial frames of reference?
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High School Low Air Pressure Training (exercise)
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High School Movement of a balloon in dead air
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High School Where's the action force if the normal force is a reaction force?
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High School Question about the validity of Coefficient of Restitution
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High School Simple cheap method of measuring mass distribution of object
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High School Does Standing on a Cliff-Top Decrease Force but Increase Energy?
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High School Water tower: Why is all the water at the top?
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High School Is airspeed irrelevant in determining airplane travel time?
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High School How do helmets help prevent injury to the head?
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High School Calculate Gravity with Ruzanna from the Netherlands
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High School Calculating Coefficient of Friction with Practical Investigation Results
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High School Creation of PE - WHEN is it created?
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High School Question: Helicopter over a scale
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High School Jumping from a chair while falling from a building
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High School If you threw a warm water balloon into space, would it boil?
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High School How does the mass of an object affect its fall time?
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