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Melting Ice Cube: Time Needed for 3-Ton Ice Cube with Golden Bars

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Solving for Initial Velocity: When Angles, Distances are Given

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How Does Wind Affect the Flight Time of a Plane on a Square Route?

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Total displacement for a train journey with two parts and a stop

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How to Determine Angular Speed with Only Rotational Inertia?

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A fixed string in the third harmonic

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Relative velocity of two speeding cars

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What is the thickness of the copper layer on a constantan wire?

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Finding the drag constant C from terminal velocity data

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Loudspeaker Design: Calculating Angle of First Minimum

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How Do Rack and Pinion Gears Translate Motion in Physics?

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An experiment to determine the speed of sound using a closed pipe.

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Why are my two-slit diffraction minima shifted toward the origin?

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What determines the net work on a hockey puck in circular motion?

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Finding perpendicular distance from object heading to target GPS

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Calculate Theta for 0 Vertical Component of P

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(101)Conservation of linear momentum

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How Does Adding a Capacitor Affect Current in an AC Circuit?

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How Do You Calculate the Equivalent Resistance in This Circuit?

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Water Surface: Is it Flat or Rounded?

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Average Speed? How do I calculate?

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Finding Max Height and Velocity of Thrown Kong

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Calculating Earth's Orbital Speed Using Star Spectra

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Does the Lorentz Force Law Affect Charged Particles' Speed and Direction?

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How Does Snell's Law Explain Light's Unchanged Direction Through a Glass Plate?

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Work and Kinetic Energy: Calculating Work and Speed with Varying Force

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Electric Forcs and Work (Algebra based physics)

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Coal energy and heating a home. .

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Block hitting a spring down an incline

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Center of mass of concrete wall

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How Does Angular Velocity Affect Circular Motion?

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Deriving Electric Field from Voltage

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Surface Charge Distrib on Plane

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Finding the potential difference?

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What Is the Speed of Water Leaving the Nozzle?

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How Do NPN Transistors Function in a Circuit?

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Gun and Shell: Calculate Velocity and Force

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How far up the incline will the block move before coming to rest?

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Body with constant velocity and accelerating body catching up

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Circular Motion Problem: Finding Angular Velocity with Maximum Tension of 50 N

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How Is Kinetic Energy Calculated at Point A in a Loop-the-Loop?

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What is the Speed of a 420 g Particle at t=2 Seconds Under a Sine Wave Force?

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How do you calculate work in a vertical rope and mass problem?

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Finding thumb and finger forces on a tilted lunch tray

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How Does Braking Affect the Temperature of Car Brakes?

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Rotational Kinematics of bicycle breaks

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Are drag coefficients negative?

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Instaneous Power in a standing Wave

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Potential difference problem (important)

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Why is wave mechanics needed if Bohr theory gives the same energies?

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Solving Neuton's Second Law: Mass and Tension Calculations for Hanging Objects

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Do Photons from White Light Emit Randomly with Specific Lifespans?

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Plane landing time and distance with maximum deceleration

  • chocolatelover
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Helicopter Physics: Finding Time to Reach Ground from Release Point

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With what speed does the car then strike the tree?

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Atwood Machine and block acceleration

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Why does a blackened spoon appear glossy when immersed in water?

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Circular Motion: Change in Height, Box Struck by Arrow

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How Many Turns of Wire Does the Coil Have?

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Starting from rest several toy cars roll down ramps at different

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Uniform circular motion radius

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I have to make sample questions for class

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Is there any online sites that simulates circuits

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Quiz: Calculating Gravitational Forces and Orbital Speeds

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What Causes Kinetic Energy To Not Be Conserved

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Particle Motion Problem: Finding Position and Velocity with Derivatives

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Electrostatics: Conducting Sphere in Uniform Electric Field

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Angular Acceleration of at woods machine

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Calculate orbital speed of Earth from distance and period

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Determining Satellite's Altitude and Period Using Kepler's Laws

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Measuring distance to an outside object using vectors and angles

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Find currents and Vab when 10V battery polarity is reversed

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Vector by bivector geometric product

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Finding the force to rotate a 44-ton door 90 degrees in 30 seconds

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Calculating Distance Traveled on a Rotating Wheel

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Conservation of Energy Equations -

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Solving Simple Power Problem: Grandfather Clock + 3.70kg Weight

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Force sensor vs cart force during collision with bumper

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Giant Swing, Uniform Circular Motion

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Problem 7.46: Riding a Loop-the-loop

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Does a 150 HP Car Engine Suffice for Uphill and Acceleration Tasks?

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Elementary astrophysics - monochromatic flux?

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Conservation of energy -swinging vine.

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Converting 20 Joules per Square Meter to Joules per Square Decimeter

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How Fast Does an Electron Move Towards a Charged Plane?

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Force required to keep objects in orbit.

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Quick Electric Potential Concept Question

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Amplitude of Standing Wave in Fundamental Mode

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Moment of Inertia Problem: Perpendicular Axes THM

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