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I Importance of Moment of Inertia for designing helicopters and propellers?
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I Work-Energy Theorem for Moving Block and Spring System?
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I Noether’s theorem -- Question about symmetry coordinate transformation
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Double pendulum motion (and Lyusternik-Fet Theorem)
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B Why is speed constant when centripetal acceleration is constant?
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I Should we consider GPE in the vertical case of SHM?
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I How come you have to use work energy to find v0 of spring?
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I Stribeck v.s. Coulomb friction law
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I Why can centripetal force balance out gravity?
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B Why does torque increase with increasing moment of inertia?
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I Two beams joined after bending
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B Need help understanding some concepts about friction
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I Where is the centripetal force acting on mass M?
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I Reaction moment on I.C. engine when we increase RPM
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B Two points of contact in rolling
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I Force Required for Gas Struts on 1972 VW T2 Danbury Pop top campervan?
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I Fuel paradox arising from Galilean transformation?
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B Thoughts about Galilean transformations
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I Force on Body Attached to Spring at Displacement x - A.P. French
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B Is the Physics of the Frog Jump Important in Taekwondo?
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I A specific case of an exception to Archimedes' Principle?
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I The Hamiltonian and Galilean transformations
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I The effect of a field on a particle depends on the particle velocity?
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I Force Generated By Leg Muscles in Free Body Diagrams
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B How does the front wheel have no friction?
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A Aligning effect in uniform field
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I How to use physics to prove historical events?
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Is the water pressure below ocean waves constant?
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B Springboard physics questions for diving coach at YMCA
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A Fatigue Failure in Structural Elements: Axial, Shear & Torsional Loads
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I Does a person standing up on a swing in oscillatory motion do any work?
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I Angular velocity of a rod and what formula to use while solving.
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I Meaning of the terms in the formula of the net external force
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B Understanding Physics for Coding Collision of 2 Balls
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I Question about a Rotating system with mass moving inwards
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Weight distribution on both ends of a ramp?
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B Vacuum in tanks similiar torricellian vacuum
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Car Silencer Mud: Is It Normal or Threatening?
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B Pressure of air inside a glass
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I Why does the end of the fracture have a branch? (Fracking)
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I Rolling ball, change of direction
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B Newton's second law -- rockets
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A Regular vs stable orbits in spherically symmetric potentials
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I Calculating Force Applied to an Object of 100kg Moved 1m in 5s
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B Calculating Leverage & Force in Lower Leg Squat
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A Order of rotations due to torque in 3DOF in simulations
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I Effect of vent ratio on the drag coefficient of round parachutes
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Optimal Size of Rocket Engine Nozzle for Vacuum Performance
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A Do moon phases affect weighing precision on the microgram range?
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Memory and Performance: The Role of Abstraction in Athletic Success
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Increasing the output torque of a DC motor with gears
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I Change in orbit when mass is doubled
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How does a 1-wheeled motorcycle turn?
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I How to Land a Tree Flat in 3/4 Rotation: Solving the Equations
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I Filling a rigid tire from a pressure regulated compressed air line
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I Let a standing wave of length L go, get traveling wave of length 2L?
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I The Feynman way of explaining Symmetry in Physical laws
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I How can I integrate variable velocity in fluid mechanics?
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B Rotation is absolute, linear motion is relative?
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I 3D Printed Piston | Lower mass = Power
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B Understanding the Rheopectic Properties of Blood: Fact or Fiction?
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Why do objects always rotate about their centre of mass?
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I Calculating Mass Inertia Product - Examples 1 & 2
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An isolated object can rotate only about its center of mass
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What's the terminal velocity of a Boeing 737 in free fall from 12.496km
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I Equation of motion for a simple mechanical system
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