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Calculating Work Done by a Spring: A Simple Solution

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How Do You Calculate the Tension T2 Between Blocks in a Frictional System?

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Centripetal Force: Calculate Tension for 35kg Boy

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Wall of Death in amusement park - Find number of revolutions

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Why Does the Brightness of Particles in Water Change with Viewing Angle?

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Calculating the Radius of a Rotating Coil in a Magnetic Field

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Solve Friction Problem: Student in Elevator, Mass 8kg, Width 3.2m

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How Is Kinetic Energy Calculated for a Moving Charge?

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Calculating the Electric Field of a Charged Rod: Is There an Easier Way?

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How Fast and Far Does a Projectile Travel When Released from a Diving Plane?

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Uniform circular motion of satellite

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Calculating Forces, Mass & Velocity: A Homework Challenge

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Solve for Ratio of Steel Ax and Aluminum Piston Weights - Buoyancy Problem

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Elementry Electrostatics question

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Solve Physics Question: Rock Dropped Down Mine Shaft

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Calculating Velocity After 2s of Force on 10kg Mass

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Tennis Ball Movement Algorithm: Get Help Here

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What Happens When the Net Force on a System of Particles is Zero?

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How Does Kinetic Friction Impact Acceleration on an Inclined Plane?

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Polar Coordinates: Solving for Angle in Second Quadrant | 59.1 Degrees

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A Few RC Circuits/Electricity Problems

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Specific heat capacity (Calorimetry)

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Solving Motion Problem #2: Angle & Speed Relative to Ground

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Fluids in motion (Bernoulli's equation)

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Collision of 2 balls of different masses traveling opposite direction

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Question regarding energy, BTU

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Figuring this circuit out. HELP

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Destructive interfrence of waves

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What Is Gravitational Potential Energy?

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Modern Physics Help: K-40/Ar-40 Atom Ratio Analysis, Age Calculation

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Positron movement in a coil-induced magnetic field

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Deriving Electric Field Energy Density

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How is internal resistance of a cell related to temperature

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Why is it difficult to start a car in winter?

  • Mr Virtual
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SHM: mass between 2 prestretched springs

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Angular acceleration, displacement

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Graphing To Find Linear Mass Density (Waves)

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Centripetal Motion Homework: Mass of String/Spring Effect

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Solve a Race Problem: Tortoise and Hare Finish Time and Length

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Calculating the Distance Dropped by a Baseball Thrown at 116 km/h

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Incline max angle physics problem

  • JonathanSnow
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Need help with electric field/potential problem

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Double Atwood Machine and tension

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When Will Two Planes Pass Each Other on a Transcontinental Flight?

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Coordinate System Homework: Find Distance and Polar Coords

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How Does Refractive Index Relate to Trigonometric Identities?

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Grams and volume of steam needed to raise the temperature of expresso

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AP PHY Circuit Help: Solve 5 Questions

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Solving Electric Field Zero: 0.20m Charges

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Buoyant Force Math Problems: Calculating Densities of Metal and Unknown Liquid

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Solving Earth to Moon Trip Time Questions

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Converting Polar Coordinates to Cartesian Coordinates

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Solving an Infinite Plane of Uniform Charge Density Problem in Physics

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How Should a Plane Adjust Its Course in Crosswinds to Fly Due North?

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Calculating Electric Field from a Charged Filament

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What is the acceleration of block B?

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Calculating Contact Forces between Blocks

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Calculating Distance on an Inclined Plane with Friction

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How Much Work Is Needed to Pull a Hanging Chain Onto a Table?

  • NAkid
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Inelastic collision problem - What is the velocity?

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Calculating Weight of Truck on Ferry Boat

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Solving Work and Energy Problems on a Slope

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Derivative of the kinetic energy

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Conservation of energy of a block of ice

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Distance to reach terminal velocity experiment

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Sound Intensity and Human threshold for hearing

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Lightning bolt electrons problem

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Calculating Electric Field Strength between Charges

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Help with work and energy problem

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Solving SR: Time Dilation & Length Contraction - Planet to Ufo

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How Do You Calculate the Tension and Elastic Properties of Suspended Wires?

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Net Electric Flux & Enclosed Objects

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Electric Potential Ranking Task

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How does a pendulum clock keep time and why does it need to be wound up?

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Newton's First Law straight line speed

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How Do You Calculate Time and Acceleration in Physics Problems?

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Using Constant Sources in RC Circuits: Parallel & Series

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Electric Potential vs Potential Energy

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Help- comparing objects in free fall

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Coulomb's Law question - find initial charge

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Projectile Motion archers question

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Antiaircraft gun force physics problem

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Ball and gravitational force question

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How Do You Calculate Tension in Angled Cables?

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Adding Vectors: How to Find the Resultant with 3 Given Force Vectors

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Uniformly Accelerated Linear Motion

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Italian Cooking: Delicious Recipes for All Occasions

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Right Hand Rule: Direction of Angular Momentum Vector

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Electric field strength and speed

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Solving Moments and Torque Problems

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Calculate Density of Object: 15N in Air, 13N in Water

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Calculating Car Collision Distance at 30 "g's"

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The Angle of the Launch of a Rocket against a Strong Wind

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