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Relationship between acceleration and slope

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What Determines the Direction of an Electric Field?

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Conservation of Energy With Loss Due to Friction

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Two protons moving toward each other

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Determining Electron Motion in Electric Field

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Charge Distribution Between Two Conducting Spheres

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Finding current from battery with capacitor in circuit

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Final Angular Velocity of a Top

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Finding the Net Force on a Rectangular Loop in a Magnetic Field

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Calculating Wavelength of Electron Emission

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Why Is Frictional Force Less Than Weight on an Inclined Plane?

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Ballistic Pendulum: Bullet Impact at 500m/s

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Using electric force to calculate number of protons

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Minimum charge needed to support a 4 kg chicken with electric field

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Spring/Incline plane kinematics/work problem

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Direction of the Magnetic Field due to a Wire

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Vector components - change in momentum

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Find the force on each side of the loop

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Finding velocity after 10 seconds with two different accelerations

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How Do You Calculate the X-Component of Force from Potential Energy?

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Uniform circular motion centripetal force experiment

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Work/force/kinematics slingshot problem

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Solving Tension Acceleration in Bungee Jump Apparatus

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Rotational Kinetic Energy of bicycle wheels

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Solving Thin-Film Problem with Wavelengths 690 and 575nm

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How far from the table does the block hit the floor?

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Calculating the Reading on Newton Meter with 3 Kg Masses

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Physics Motion Problem (Displacement)

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Average speed with an unknown distance

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Determining current and drift speed

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Current through a hollow copper cylinder

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Calculating the Height of a Window Using Kinematic Equations

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Circular Motion and Centripetal Force

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Rank Pendulums Based on Max Speed

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Integrating a Polynomial with Fractional and Negative Indices

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How Does Air Resistance Affect Cyclist Power Output?

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Calculating Wood Friction on Metal: Solving for Time

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Question Regarding Electric Fields

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I can't seem to figure out how to start this

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Calculate Total Collisions of Free Electrons in Extension Cord

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When is back coating on plane mirrors undesirable?

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Roller coaster speed at bottom of 50m hill with friction

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The magnitude and the resultant vector

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Kate's Bungee Jump: Calculating Distance Below Bridge

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Magnetic field from two parallel wires 4 cm apart

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Desperately on potential energy problem

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Coulomb's Law and electron placement

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Work on object lifted in a gravational field

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Conservation of angular momentum on low-friction bearings

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Energy and power dissipated in a toaster

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Electric potential/electric fields

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Pyrex glass rod is immersed into wesson oil

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Finding the magnitude and the angle

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Finding the graphical method for inverse proportional relationship

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Finding angle and magnitude of vector sums with unit vectors

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Solving for t in SHM (complex solution)

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Speed and accleration of a turntable

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What does height of a mercury column mean?

  • JWHooper
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How Deep Is the Lake and What Is the Initial Velocity of the Ball?

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Calculating Conical Acceleration for a Rotating Object on a Table

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Measuring Reaction Time with a Simple Device

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Calculating Bird Airspeed from Ground and Wind Speed

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Universal Gravitation and magnitude

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How Does Electron Movement Affect Magnetic Fields in a Hydrogen Atom?

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Calculating orbital parameters for Mars orbit insertion

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Change in Electric Potential Across R1 in Figure B

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What is the force on the exerted edge of the cap

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How Do I Find the Force of Friction for My Lab Report?

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Football Players: Solve Sliding Distance After Collision

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How is Gravitational Potential Calculated on the Moon's Surface?

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What is the final temperature of water when ice is added to it?

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How does this battery-circuit system work?

  • Gear300
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How Do You Calculate Flux Through a Box with Varying Electric Fields?

  • Jim Newt
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Constructive and destructive interefernec and a pair of speakers

  • TFM
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How Do You Calculate the Semi-Minor Axis for a Spacecraft's Orbit?

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Why does adding resistance change induced voltage in a pendulum coil?

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Electric Potential (Why the opposite sign?)

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How Do You Calculate Current and Voltage in Series and Parallel Circuits?

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Horsehoe Bats, Insects, Speed and the Doppler Effect

  • TFM
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How Much Steam Is Needed to Melt Ice into Water at 20 Celsius?

  • engineer2010
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Why consider only one mass in S.H.M. problems

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Hi and point charge vector question

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Lenses - Thin-Lens Equation and Magnification Equation

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Difficult kinematics/power question

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Calculating Final Velocity for a Dropped Golf Ball

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Rotational Motion Force Question

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Conservation of Energy and frictionless pulley?

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Polarizability of Liquid Helium

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Engery- Falling Coffee Filter Problem

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