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How Do You Solve the Equations of Motion in a Gravitational Field?
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Gravitational potential energy confusion
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Moment of Inertia of Curves and Surfaces
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Potential energy of gravitation
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Inclined Plane Experiment: Iron Ball Attraction and Stopping Behavior
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Hydrostatic Pressure: Height vs Volume
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Soap Box car - heavier better ? Part II
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Weight Force: Definition & Freefall Questions
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Conservation of mass and energy
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Understanding the Difference Between Kinetic Energy and Momentum
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Why and How are Mechanical and Kinetic Energy different?
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Conservation of Energy Equation
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Velocity of a particle exposed to a shock wave?
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Specific Volume water antifreeze mix
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How to correctly find total drag?
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Modelling Acceleration to Constant Velocity
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Kinetic friction or static friction
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Force on Car's Tyres: Turning Right - Left or Right?
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Work is force into distance or displacement
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When a ball hits the ground, where in the ball is potential energy = 0
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Power of an Object: Desk Force & Newton's Law
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What is Negative Work and Energy?
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Multi-Body Friction: Acceleration Impact
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Shear and tensile force questions
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Kinetic Energy of many-particle systems
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Just a thought experiment on fluid mechanics.
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Effect of Rotational Direction on a Football.
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Drag Force on a Streamlined Body
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Why is potential energy negative?
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Difference between Work and Energy?
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Angular momentum conservation of two point masses
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How fast can a particle rotate?
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Is Internal Kinetic Energy Directional at a Macroscopic Level?
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Is Infinite Work Possible in a Frictionless Vacuum?
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How does frame dragging affect the trajectory of a falling bullet?
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Understanding the Motion of a Falling Rod on a Frictionless Surface
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Inertial forces in crank slider mechanism
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Force from a Kinetic Energy Function
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Can a Klein Bottle Manifold Describe Certain Mechanical Systems?
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Is Sound Energy a Factor in the Lack of Conservation of Momentum in a Collision?
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Understanding constant velocity, inertia and rest
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Why Does Toilet Water Splash Back Up?
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How to calculate motion of object pushed by force?
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Aerodynamic Lift/Kutta-Zhukovsky theorem
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Momentum of 3 Balls: Ball 1 & Triangle
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For a ball falling through a fluid, does the ball do work on the fluid
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Working substance of a refrigerator
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Wavelength of sound and windspeed
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Geometries of potential theory (fluid mechanics)
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Why weight change when I put effervescence tablet ?
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How Is Equation (3.102) Derived in Electromagnetism?
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