Why do materials obey Hooke's law?
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Can Hooke's law be derived?
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Why is work scalar and the dot product of force and displacement?
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How does a small object move with constant velocity when drag force is equal to its weight?
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What is the cause for the validity of Newton's third law?
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Why doesn't the Young's modulus change when an alloy is strengthened?
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Explanation on Newton's second law
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Why are so many forces explainable using inverse squares when space is three dimensional?
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How do levers amplify forces?
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What is the underlying explanation behind fictitious/pseudo forces?
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Intuitive understanding of the elements in the stress-energy tensor
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Why is Newton's first law necessary?
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Why force $F$ is $ma$ but not $md$ or $mv$? How can I observe and understand "force" in real life?
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Is the electromagnetic force responsible for contact forces?
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Why do two bodies of different masses fall at the same rate (in the absence of air resistance)?
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Why do non-Newtonian fluids go hard when having a sudden force exerted on them?
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A question concerning the Galilean invariance of Newton's laws
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Why is the equation for friction so simple?