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How Does a Hydraulic Lift Maintain Equilibrium?

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Can Adding Ice and Steam Change Water Temperature?

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What is the current in this circuit?

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Angular Speed and Energy Conservation

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Astronaut propelling back to ISS by throwing tools

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Determining the Index of Refraction

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Calculating amount of compression a bone can withstand

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Changes of state and latent heat

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Predicting path/direction of a charge in a magnetic field (drawings included

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Calculating the Length of a Floating Soda Can

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Diving Depth for 1/20 Atmospheric Pressure Differential

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Charge of q Problem: Find q from Two 3.0g Spheres on 1.0m Threads

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Where should steel reinforcement bars be placed in concrete?

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How Much Energy Was Released in the Fuel Tank Explosion?

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How Does Wind Speed Affect Roof Pressure in a Storm?

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Acceleration of gravity , from a pendulum

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Sound Intensity pig calling contest

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Magnetic Field Inside Wire Quick Q - (I've asked 3 times and no answers)

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Simple Harmonic Motion of a wave

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L_{min}=56.7mAnswer: 340.7mSolve 2 Momentum Questions: Quick Answers!

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Maximum Force Analysis for FB and FC Limits in a Tension System

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Standing Sound Waves: Wavelengths in 121 cm Tube - SOLVED

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Gravitational field and spaceship

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How far does a trampoline with k=52000 N/m stretch?

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Speed and normal force for ball rolling down rough sphere

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RC Circuit Potential and Current Calculation at Time=0 and Infinity

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Calculating Tension Force: Cable Cars in San Francisco

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Waves on a String linear density?

  • just.karl
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Understanding Newton's 3rd Law: Reactionary Forces to Friction

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How Does a Spring Balance Measure Force in Different Elevator Scenarios?

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Superposition, amplitudes and superposed waves.

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Conservation of Energy Challenge Problem

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Power loss in transmission at different voltages

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Spring-launched plastic cube on friction slope: energy equation check

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Finding the coefficient of friction, ramps and acceleration

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Get a negative dot product is to have an angle larger than 90 degrees.

  • StephenDoty
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Determine the medicine's flow speed through the needle

  • LesVampires
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Threshold of Hearing for Sound Waves in Outdoor Concerts

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How fast is this jet (UFO?) traveling in this video?

  • SystemaNoob1
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Calculating New Rotation Period of a Star After Shrinking Diameter

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Finding mass with given stress, strain, and original area

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Calculate Rotation Period for Amusement Park Ride

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What Are the Speeds of the Fragments After an Explosion?

  • StephenDoty
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Energy density of electric field

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Find the magnitude of the acceleration of the particle.

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Eardrums "Pop" Outward on a Train - Bernoulli's Equation

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Spring collision between two carts on frictionless surface

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Solving a Model Trebuchet Problem - Physics Coursework

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Calculating Angular Momentum: Particle+Meter Stick

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Center of Gravity for nonuniform plank

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Electromagnetism, force between dipole and grounded plane

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Apollo 1 command Module Pressure/Force

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How to Calculate Maximum Induced EMF in a Rotating Coil Gaussmeter

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How to solve for the work done by a force on an object in the x direction?

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Can You Tune an Organ Pipe Without Altering Its Physical Construction?

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Can Gas Become Solid at Absolute Zero in a Bottle?

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Finding Electric Forces Between Identical Spheres

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Help with Gauss's law and RC circuits

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What Is the Minimum Spring Constant Needed for George's Safe Bungee Jump?

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What is the energy requirement for traveling from Earth to the Moon?

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How Do Temperature Changes Affect Ultrasonic Distance Measurements?

  • JSapit
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What was the speed of the projectile when it left the cannon?

  • msattar07
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Calculate the change in potential energy

  • killa0587
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Universal Gravitation and spheres

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Rotational/Tangential Motion Problem

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Motorist's 7 min trip: displacement, average speed and velocity

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Sphere projected up incline with friction: total motion time

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Car Crash Collision - Calculating Velocity

  • StephenDoty
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Force between two electrons separated by one meter

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Changes in Resistance due to Temperature

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Friction, object at rest then accelerates.

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Calculating the Net Force of Bruce Nuclear Development

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How Do You Calculate Accelerations and Distance in Gyroscope Dynamics?

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Solving a 2.1x10^3 kg Car Motion Problem

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Find Force Exerted on Blocks Sliding Down a Rough Incline

  • koolbaseman
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How to Derive the Differential Equation for Forced, Damped Oscillations

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Finding acceleration from two forces on a 3 kg object

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Mistake in solving for work in physics?

  • princesspriya
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Finding the slop of a string (Waves)

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Finding kinetic friction coefficient from angle, distance and time

  • Will M
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Understanding Momentum in Collisions: Truck vs. Car Velocity Change

  • StephenDoty
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Energy from 110m Dam: Cv=4.2kJ/kg/°C

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Estimate the velocity of each stone have just after the collision

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Force on vertical walls of L-shaped water tank with d = 4.0 m

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L-C-R Circuit - finding current

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Quick vector question (involving coulomb's law)

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What is the electric field at the center (in N/C)?

  • NegaChin
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What is the Specific Entropy of Ice?

  • physics_newbi
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What is the electric field at point P with given coordinates?

  • ~christina~
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Carnot engine working in reverse poblem-

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Deriving formulas for radial visualization of 3D and 8D samples

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Derive an expression for the tension in the cord

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Max Power of Resistor in 3-Resistor Circuit

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Max Initial Separation for Meeting of Two Moving Bodies

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Websites about velocity of sound for Report Intro.

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Maximum height an insect can crawl up a hemispherical bowl with friction

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