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Having problems with my physics class

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How to Calculate Tire Contact Area from Weight and Pressure

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Very Simple = a negatively charged rod will only attract what?

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More than one dielectric ibetween a parallel plate capacitor

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Electric Potential Energy of a Charged Particle in an Electric Field

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Solving Rotational Force in Beverage Engineering

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What is an overtone in sound waves?

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Lowest final temp when adding substance to hot water

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Help studying physics for an important test

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How Is Work Calculated in a Two-Rope Tension Problem?

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Centripetal Force and G Forces while travelling over a hill

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Find the distance traveled by the block

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Calculating the mass of a comet using the impact method

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Finding tension in ropes supporting a person in equilibrium

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What is the electric field at a point midway between two charges?

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Threshold Energy Calculation for Proton-Proton Collision

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Integration Center of Mass Problem -Really frustrated

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Can a Man Swing Across a 50m Canyon with a 30m Grapple Hook?

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Relativistic rocket with photon exhaust momentum and energy

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Spacecraft Deep Impact - Comet's mass

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Understanding Wave Phase: Definition and Equations

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SHM horizontal spring mass system

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Fluid Mechanics of a diving bell

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Two cars braking toward each other 275 m apart

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Energy required to place a satellite in orbit

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Density of a planet using orbit of a satellite

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Force perpendicular to ramp to keep 22 kg box at rest on 45° incline

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What Is the Intensity of Sound at 123 dB?

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Finding acceleration of a box pulled by a rope at an angle

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Induced current in coil surrounding a solenoid at t = 1.22 s

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Mass of star HD 179949 from hot Jupiter orbit and ISS orbital height

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Is the Mass of My Birthday Pulley Evenly Distributed?

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How to calculate tension in hanging ropes

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Solving a Trajectory Problem Involving a Watermelon

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How Do You Calculate Hydrostatic Pressure in a Spherical Water Tank?

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Why Does the 1/3 Factor Appear in the Moment of Inertia Calculation?

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How Much Work Is Done by an Olympic Triathlete Accelerating on Her Bicycle?

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Solve Balmer's Formula for Wavelengths

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Volume of a liquid in a container

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How Much Space Does 0.736 kg of Oxygen Occupy at 1°C and 105 Pa?

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Temperature in Thompon's experiments.

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Differential equation for parallel R'LC resonant circuit

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Current of a coil surrounding a solenoid

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Smooth slope - A level question.

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Radio Transmission: Jupiter-Earth Time for Response

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Explain why the average velocity of the gas molecules in a container is zero

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Magnetic Force on a Vertically Moving Electron Near the Equator

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Net flux through cube faces with point charge at edge

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Center of Mass of compound cylinder

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Time between equal kinetic and potential energy in SHM

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Angular Velocity of a swinging Sphere

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Does This Van de Graaff Generator Question Make Sense?

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Gravitational Potential Energy of a rope

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Electric Field Between/Above Parallel Charged Rods

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How Do You Calculate Displacement from Town B to Town C?

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How Does an Airplane's Aluminum Antenna React to Earth's Magnetic Field?

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U-tube pressure balance and steam-ice equilibrium temperature

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Can Watts Be Converted into Ohms?

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How Many Extra Electrons Does a Latex Sphere Have in an Electric Field?

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Electric Potential Car Battery Problem

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Rotational KE of rolling onion and angular momentum of rotating astronauts

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Linear Mass Density of current and wires

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What Distance from Earth Achieves Weightlessness for Astronauts?

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Charge movement in a magnetic field along the z-axis (into page/out of page)

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How Much Fresh Water Is Needed to Submerge a Submarine in Salt Water?

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F(avg) and Fmax during collision

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Converting 26.6 mA to Amps: .026 or .0026?

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Determine the distance of this point from the center of the Earth.

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Calculating the Refraction Angle of a Light Ray Incident on a Prism

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Slopes of a Force vs. Charge and Force vs. Distance Graph

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5.76x10^-3 NRadiation Force on Echo II Satellite Ballon

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Parallel plates with a mass m at an angle

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Heat flow through a rod element with given thermal gradient

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Conservation on Angular Momentum

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Finding iceberg volume from height and submerged depth

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Wavelengths of lowest and highest audible frequencies

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Center of Mass: Weight Distribution for Bob & Charlie

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How far can four stacked bricks overhang without tipping?

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Oscillation frequency of circuit

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Ampere's Law-when does it work?

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Radius of Curvature for Mirror w/ 10.0cm Candy Bar

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Learning about emission spectra for an independent project

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Finding velocity with changing distance and acceleration

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Finding net magnetic field, charge, and electric field for moving particle

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Solving Kepler's Equation for Comet Orbit Time Around Sun

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Carbon-14 Dating Age Calculation

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Certain isotope tell you that the decay rate decreases

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Lead bullet melting on impact and ice cube in calorimeter

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Electric field and potential on x-axis from y-axis dipole

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Electric Circuit Connected to Ground

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Calculating EMF from Magnetic Flux and Time

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Is RMS Voltage or Peak Voltage Used for Working Resistance?

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