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What is the relationship between force and gravity?
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What is gravitational potential energy?
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How is the fluid nature of air critical to heavier than air flight within Earth's atmosphere?
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Why are spacecraft fast?
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How is buoyancy different from Archimedes Principle?
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What is weight determined by?
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How does an airplane stay aloft? How can something as insubstantial as air support all that weight?
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Why is gravity important?
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What is the meaning of hydrodynamic pressure of fluid? Is it same as static pressure? How can hydrodynamic pressure be defined at a molecular level of fluids?
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What is mass?
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