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Calculating the Tension in Ropes: Jarek, Chris & Michelle

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How Does Free Fall Affect a Ball's Motion and Vector Math?

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Calculating Speed in a Tug-of-War on Ice

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Frictional forces of pushing a box

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Electron's path in uniform magnetic field? Help, please

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Capacitor in Series and Parallel

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How to Prove Gamma and Beta Function Identities?

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Earth's Average Speed: Calculating its Orbit around the Sun

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Understanding Gauss's Law and Electric Flux

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What was the average force exerted by the ball on the glove?

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How far did the bike travel with acceleration and constant speed?

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Solve Rotation Q: Period of Small Oscillations for Rolling Cylinder

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Kinematic motion problem. (acceleration, displacement, velocity)

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Why are Freezers Located at the Top of Units?

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Force on a Charged Bead Near a Line Charge

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Momentum and impulse and other kinetic questions

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Find the Speed and Direction of a Wave with Constants A, B, and C

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Singing in Helium: How Density Affects Resonance Frequency

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Acceleration, displacement, Kinematics Question

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Centrifugal Force: Are these equal?

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Springs and Hooke's Law: Understanding Force and Work Calculations

  • rolodexx
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Find Equilibrium Readings of Scale: Beaker & Oil + Iron Block

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Finding the tension and components

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Fly in Truck: How Can Flies Fly at High Speed?

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Velocity of Spring: Solved 2m/s

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Is This Image Correct for Working from a Constant Force?

  • nightshade123
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Conservation of energy or conservation of momentum

  • salami
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Find m, the mass of the particle Assume friction can be ignored

  • shenwei1988
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How High Must the Sides of a Steel Boat Be to Float?

  • Metalsonic75
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Force on the sides of a swimming pool, differeniation

  • TFM
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Lorentz Contraction and Mass Distortion Calculation- Did I do this right?

  • Liger20
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Simple volume flow rate calculation

  • Metalsonic75
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Help with a pipe, water, continuity and Bernoullie

  • TFM
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Equivalent Resistance in partial parallel/series cicuit

  • thatgirlyouknow
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Rotational Motion of a cylinder

  • Carpe Mori
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Capacitance in series and parallel circuit

  • thatgirlyouknow
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Mass of a block via kinetic friction

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Simple Harmonic Motion position and velocity problem

  • madchemist
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Needle and pressure (Bernoulli's equation?)

  • ~christina~
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Electric potential no clue and midterm in 2 and a half hours

  • cemar.
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Force on an object being dragged

  • jj8890
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Solving Force with 3 Masses Problem: Acceleration of m2

  • StephenDoty
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How Far Does a Rocket-Powered Hockey Puck Land from the Base of a Table?

  • truknowledge8
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Solving Force of Charges Problem - 1nC Charge in Middle

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Name a physical quantity used to measure optical density of a Medium

  • devrudra07
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Resistivity - Limiting factors?

  • cbs27
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Determine the smallest diameter rope that can safely support

  • StephenDoty
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Calculating Force Problems on Toy Car

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Concept behind Three Block Friction Problem with Applied Forces?

  • physixguru
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Deriving Speed at an Inclined Plane

  • zcabral
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Answering General Questions: Electric Field, Potential, Capacitors

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Ideal Gas in Cylinder with Piston (Conceptual)

  • fiestyman001
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Quick physics double check question

  • Melchior25
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Motion of object (simple harmonic motion?)

  • ~christina~
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What is the distance travel by the ball when the time is 1 sec?

  • huagulong
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How Do You Calculate Vector Operations for Angled Displacements?

  • chocolatelover
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Calculating Velocity of a 2.0kg Object Subjected to Time-Varying Force at t=4s

  • Baaadshah87
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Solving Vector Problems: Vector A, B and C

  • chocolatelover
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Refractive Index Units - What Units are Used to Measure Refractive Index?

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Solve Kinematics Problem: 3x Max Height, Find Angle

  • Johnny Blade
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How Does a Cockroach Affect the Angular Speed of a Lazy Susan?

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Tension of a string passing over a pulley

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How Do You Calculate the Power Emitted by a Sound Source?

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What is the tension in the string at the bottom of the swing?

  • lbutscha
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10m Steel Wire Length/ +20 Degrees C

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Solving Collisions Problem: Velocity of Third Fragment

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How Can Capacitance Be Halved in a Parallel-Plate Capacitor?

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Question: Finding Current in Series Circuit with Household Appliances

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How Long Before a Dropped Compass Hits the Ground from a Rising Balloon?

  • gmunoz18
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Acceleration and terminal speed problem

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Does an Electric Field Between Two Conductors Guarantee a Current?

  • Seda
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Finding Factors of Numbers with a TI-83 Calculator

  • ted1025
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Calaculate Mass of Cube submerged in oil and water

  • TFM
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Solving Resistor Circuits: Tips & Tricks

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Angles from the positive x-axis

  • chocolatelover
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Find Acceleration of Blocks on Table [SOLVED]

  • jesuslovesu
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Solving Displacement Vectors A & B: Find A+B

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How High Can a 12V Battery Lift an 8.1 kg Mass with a 90% Efficient Motor?

  • pcandrepair
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What are the Components of Acceleration in a Vertical Circle?

  • jmwachtel
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Physics 11 Net force and Acceleration

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Finding the power supplied by a battery

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Free-Body Diagram: Force Vector Explained

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Internal energy, thermodynamics

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Calculate Block Friction: 2-kg Block & Horizontal Spring

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Power supplied by battery in a multiple loop Circuit

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E-field between insulator and conductor

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How Do I Calculate the Potential Difference in a Capacitor with a Given Charge?

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How Do You Calculate the Rotational Inertia of a Composite Object?

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Please help: A box on a frictionless plane, find the power based on work and

  • nickclarson
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What Are the Units for Coulombs and Volts in Terms of m, kg, and s?

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