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Mass of earth to use in calculation?

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What Speed Keeps Theme Park Ride Cars on Track?

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I am having some trouble with conservation of energy

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Capacitance vs. Distance of separation

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Helium balloon rises to lower pressure altitude

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Swinging physics teacher problem

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2 focal points, find image distance.

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Calculating Focal Length for Presbyopia Glasses

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Motion of a particle along a curve under gravity

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A question on The Focal-Length of a Lens

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Spring Force and Restoring Motion on XY Plane

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What Is the Area of This Complex Shape?

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Archemedes Principle: Water Level Impact Analysis

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Plank on ground and frictionless roller at wall angle 59°

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Simplify boolean expressions and implement with logic gates

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Net work on plane diving and climbing with given thrust and weight

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Mutual Induction - Transformers

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How to Find the Inductance of a Long Solenoid?

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Questions about circular motion/ centripetal acceleration/force

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How Is the Work Function of Silver Determined from Cut-off Wavelength?

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How does an ideal gas temperature change when it goes through a cycle?

  • ~christina~
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How Much Volume Does an Iron Anchor Displace in Water?

  • A_lilah
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How Do You Calculate the Slit Spacing in a Double-Slit Experiment?

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Calculating Diffraction Orders for a 513 line/mm Grating

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Does a hole in steel shrink when heated?

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How Do You Calculate the Width of a Slit in a Diffraction Experiment?

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Optics Question Solved: Image Location and Size of Robin in Convex Mirror

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Archimedes principle problem? *1 fluid, 1 solid*

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What is the difference in height between two liquids in a U-tube?

  • jrrodri7
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Radius of proton motion in Magnetic field

  • gills
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Calculate Electric Field at Point .033 cm from q2

  • sachemeast
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Position vector and velocity vector

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Current in a wire perpendicular to Earth's magnetic field

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Can Machine Gun Bullets Propel a Vehicle to Required Speeds?

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Moment of Inertia and pivot joint

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Beam selection for footbridge with distributed load and self-weight

  • danago
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Calculating Latent Heat of Water Vaporization

  • series111
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Circuits: Power, Voltage, Resistance

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Simple velocity vector problem; IS MY SOLUTION MANUAL WRONG OR AM I?

  • HelpMeWIN123
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Special Relativity, accelerating frames, proper time

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Motion with two constant acceleration phases

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How High Does the Tennis Ball Rebound After Elastic Collision?

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Confusing System of Masses Question

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Thin film interference with phase changes at reflections

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How Does the Sun's Gravitational Pull on the Moon Compare to Earth's?

  • girl_saint86
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Finding direction of acceleration vector from component

  • HelpMeWIN123
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Binary star system and Apparent magnatudes

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Show that the energy of a charged conducting sphere in vacuum is kq²/(2R)

  • jennyyyy
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Calculating the electric field from the potential

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Find Resistance Between A and B - 5.0Ω, 98.0Ω, 16.0Ω

  • n77ler
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Power of a Pump draining a flooded basement

  • physicsfan01
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Solve 2D Motion Problem: Initial Velocity 8.40m/s, Angle 17°

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Find the magnitude and sign of the point charge at the origin

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How does the right-hand rule for cross products work?

  • elephantorz
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Total vector displacement from three legs of travel

  • HelpMeWIN123
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Raindrops striking car - find impulse

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How Much Heat Does a Weightlifter Produce in a Lift?

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What is the efficiency of a solar collector made of an aluminium canister?

  • johnboy11
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Electronics converting sine waves to current

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Calculating Forces and Work in a Radon Gas Transmutation

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Finding the direction of the resultant vector of three vectors?

  • HelpMeWIN123
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What is the net force on a weather rocket during its flight?

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Falling coffee mug, time of descent

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Do exploding bodies gain the same kinetic energy?

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Why Do Signs Matter in Calculating Forces Between Charges?

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What Causes the Unique Shadows and Light Effects of Water Striders?

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Is a reversible isothermal process truly without energy change?

  • chukie
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Solve Momentum Problem: Find Ball Velocities

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Why Do Dynamic and Static Methods Yield Different Tension Results?

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What is the electron and beta rays?

  • samar
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Magnetic field curvature question

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How to expand (Pi + mc - Pf)² in Compton scattering

  • xinlan
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Resistance between points A and B with three resistors

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Conservation of momentum astronaut problem

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Calculate Power Absorbed by Each Element in Circuit

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What Are Heavy, Light, and Split-Off Bands in Bandstructure?

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Barrier tunneling - Intro to QM

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Rotational Energy and Moment of Inertia of a nitrogen molecule

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Find n of a mass confined between 2 rigid walls?

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Parallel capacitor problem with electrons and positrons in special relativity

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What Motor Power is Needed to Move a Cylinder Drum?

  • zexonsmart
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Solving Energy & Work Homework Problems

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Electric Field of +4.0*10^-9 C in 1600 N/C Field

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Torque, energy, and average power

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True/False: Theory of Relativity Questions

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Airplane dropping supply crate from 1001 m

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How Does a Rolling Ball's Velocity Change with Constant Acceleration?

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Relativity, space contraction and rotation

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Ball oscillating through a straight tunnel in Earth

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Electric Potential: Calculating Work to Move Charge from P to Infinity

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Equilibrium and Elasticity problem hw due tomarrow

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Gravitational force between 2 people

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How do I find the work and power if I have a mass in Newtons?

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Finding vertical force component with center of mass offset

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