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Inertial and non inertial frame of reference
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Universe expansion is accelerating?
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Definition of Torque: What Is Torque?
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Why hot water freezes faster than cold water?
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How Fast Must a Truck Travel to Knock a Motorcycle 3 Feet Away?
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Orbital Mechanics: Find Eqns of Motion w/ Initial Conditions
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Julian Barbour on Motion: Exploring the Illusion of Movement and Perception
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Why is tension present in the rope?
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CPU power consumed relates to information processed?
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Power of human Heart and Brain
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Can ponderomotive force induce motion in neutral gas?
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Why Is Time Represented as 2d/v in Kinetic Gas Theory Calculations?
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Speed of Water Wave: Frequency & Wavelength
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Measuring distance a sound wave travels
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How much does the McLane sampler weigh in water?
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Is Power only defined for nonconservative forces?
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Forces acting when we squeeze a ball?
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What is the influence of a lever arm's flexibility on torque?
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Contact pressure of piston rod onto a surface?
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Optimal distance to accelerate projectile
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Ellipse Collisions: Resolving the Paradox
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Does friction oppose force or motion?
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Wheels, car and friction concepts
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Acceleration decrease on inclined air track
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(Vector statics) Effect of a pulley on free body diagram?
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Speed of International Space Station
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What Are the Best Fluid Mechanics Textbooks for Self-Study?
May 3, 2015
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Rotational motion: air puck revolving Is it possible?
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Counterintuitive uniform bar torque question
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Does the angle of a ramp with the ground affect velocity?
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Pressure of a sphere on a regular surface
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How does Potential Energy converted into Kinetic Energy? ?
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Can You make an object move faster than the speed it was hit?
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Work Debate: Does a Tire Do Work on a Quarter?
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Kinetic Energy vs Momentum vs Power
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Venturi Vaccum increase in Momentum
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Exercises in Statistical Mechanics
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Hoyle's calculation of 7.65 MeV level of carbon nucleus
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Pendulum Damping force effect on amplitude over time
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Position vector in torque (and angular momentum)
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What is the role of friction between objects?
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Pressures indenting surfaces that are stone, metal or skin
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(Fluids) Difference in stress or pressure between setups?
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Issue with radiated field, conservation of energy and Poynting vector
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Calculating baseball pitch speed
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Obligatory Newton to g force question, accelerometers drop
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Is surface tension conservative?
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Kinematics: given 2 position vectors, time, and V of earlier
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Does v represent speed in kinetic energy formula?
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How would music sound in a different atmosphere?
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Wheel calculations (Power, torque, etc.)
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Describing a system by position and momentum.
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Does Rolling Necessitate Static Friction?
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Relationship between friction and weight
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Data for a potential and kinetic energy experiment
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Pressure per square inch to pressure per square foot
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Centripetal combined with Gravitational Force
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Centripetal Acceleration Outwards
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Conservation of Momentum and Lagrangian
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Is the tangential acceleration component always zero(wheel?)
Apr 28, 2015
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Rotational motion thought experiments
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Why will a pipe pulled around a curve rotate no torque
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The Fundamental Assumption of Statistical Mechanics
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Kgf/cm2 help (subsea pressure)
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Calculating power in a superconductor
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Annoyed about coefficient of friction -- What is lowest possible?
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Always 100% relative humidity over water? Supersaturation?
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Active force of spring on mass (D'alemberts)
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Rotational motion -- Ball rolling back and forth on a U-shaped ramp
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Why do the forces not net out to zero in a system in static equilibrium?
Apr 25, 2015
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Inertia of a Body: Explaining the Impact on Falling Passengers
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Anyone here know how a ranque hilsch vortex tube works?
Apr 25, 2015
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In space, an accelerating platform hit my feet from under
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Torque Required for Rotating a Cylinder
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The pendulum using Lagrange in cartisian
Apr 24, 2015
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Can a Frictionless Rollercoaster Theoretically Travel Indefinitely?
Apr 24, 2015
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Projectile motion sand bag drop
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Will a car battery be able to run this?
Apr 24, 2015
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How does mechanical energy work?
Apr 23, 2015
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Does a Moving Sphere's Kinetic Energy Affect Its Atomic Particles?
Apr 23, 2015
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Centrifugal force acting on fine particles
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Why is kinetic energy 1/2 mv^2?
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