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Drag Coefficient out by a factor of 10, can anyone help?
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Internal energy present, is there conservation of energy?
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Water waves accelerate in deeper water.
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Is my derivation of circular motion equations correct?
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Does tangential acceleration have direction like regular acceleration?
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Total energy produced by sound source
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Can someone please explain this remark in Landau-Lifshitz's *Mechanics*?
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Is this sorta mechanical component ever made?
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The value for normal room pressure?
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