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How far will a car coast up a slope before rolling back down?

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Vector displacement equation trouble

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Maximum speed of car round banked bend

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Coefficient of Kinetic Friction physics

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Truss Structure Dilemma: Determining Compression and Tension Forces

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How Many Excess Electrons or Protons Does a Suspended Water Drop Have?

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Find Distance of Bird Flight for Bike Vectors

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Finding mass of fat on a chicken by volume and density

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Vector Product Direction & Magnitude Calculation

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Calculating Torque: A Gym Athlete's Challenge

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Solving Dynamics Problem: Find Velocity, Distance & Rest Point

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Rocket maximum height with motor cutoff at 9.1 s

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Help with Calculator Problem: cos of -0.175

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Which Particle Reaches the Other End of the Hemisphere First?

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River Velocity Calculation with Kinematics Equations

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When does the particle reach its maximum x position?

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Wave interference equations help

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Vector Addition of Electric Forces in a Plane

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Will Speedy Sue Collide with the Van in the Tunnel?

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Why Does Resistance Increase with Temperature in Conductors?

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True or false velocity physics question double check

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Cutting a Copper Wire for Different Resistances

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How Do You Determine Potential Energy in Electric Field Calculations?

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Solving Rectilinear Motion: Find Car Acceleration at t=4s

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Gravitational field between two planets.

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Dynamics Question: Skier Sliding Distance

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Where Do Knights Collide in a Physics Problem?

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Solving V and eV Questions: Work Function & Threshold Frequency

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Kinematics (a little more difficult then I am used to)

  • Roger Wilco
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Resolving forces of a particles in equi

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When Will the Thrown Mass Overtake the Dropped Shot Put in Freefall?

  • yakiland
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Constant Acceleration Automobile

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Calculating Energy Released in Water Temperature Change

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Center of Mass of an irregularly shaped object

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Non-ideal atwood machine problem

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What is the Equivalent Resistance and Current in this Electrical Circuit?

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How to Calculate the Height of a Building from Spiderman's Free Fall?

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What Forces Act on a Tightrope Walker Falling into a Net?

  • tod88
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Uniform circular motion problems

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How to Calculate Electric Potential at Point P in a Triangle with Charges?

  • hotcommodity
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How Do I Correct My Physics Calculations?

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Why higher frequency allows the signal to carry more data.

  • SciencePF
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Heat Loss Through Wall: Thermal Resistance Calculation

  • Math Jeans
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Boy Swim River: Time & Angle Calc

  • Sauk
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Electric Field in a living cell

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How Does Electric Field Magnitude Make a Charged Ball Float?

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Acceleration in a Pulley System

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Find the force at the middle point of the rod

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Calculating Intensity of 13-Watt Bulb at 1.2m Distance

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Rami Running at 0 Vel: Solved Relative Motion

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Moment of inertia cylinder problem

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How Does Compressing a Syringe Affect an Ideal Gas?

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Tennis Ball Impact: Calculating Force & Speed

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Solving Physics Lab Cube Sliding Problem

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Determining Range of Projectile Launched at 10 m/s

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Angular Momentum of Rotational Dynamics System

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What Are the Two Possible Values of C in a Damped Harmonic Oscillator Equation?

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Solve Thermal Expansion: Floating Glass Block in Methyl Alcohol

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Capacitance of Axon: Calculate Farads

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How far will a ball travel when rolled off a ramp?

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How Fast Did Nicole Throw the Ball?

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How Do You Calculate Chase Time and Distance in Physics Problems?

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[DESPERATE] Frank-Hertz/Compton/De Broglie

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Velocity Calculation: Marilyn Bell's Lake Ontario Crossing Anniversary Swim

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Work done during sandpaper application on horizontal surface

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Why Does Static Friction Point Upwards on an Incline?

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What Is the Change in Linear Momentum of a Superball During Collision?

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What must the resultant of the two tension forces in the ropes be?

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What is the solution to this relative motion problem?

  • temaire
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Is c) the correct answer for this Mechanical Energy problem?

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Calculating Sidereal Time for a Star's Upper Culmination at a Given Location

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Magnitude of Electric Field in Cell Membrane?

  • rcmango
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Sound intensity at a microphone

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Finding Equilibrium Position for Three Charged Particles

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Solve Angular Velocity: \theta=60deg, \alpha=-2w^2

  • Bingo1915
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What is the spring constant of the circus cannon in this energy problem?

  • rabar789
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What Voltage Is Needed to Charge a 7.0 µF Capacitor with 7.50 x 10^-5 C?

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What Terms Determine Kinetic Energy Change for Jupiter Orbit?

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How Do You Solve Complex Double Integrals in Cylindrical Coordinates?

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Calculating Cable Angles for Suspended Beam

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How do you find the magnetic field?

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Coefficient of Friction Questions I cant do

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Finding FE, Tension & Acceleration in a 3-Block Frictionless Ramp Setup

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Motion in Two Dimensions of marble

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Solving Linear Motion: Bird Catching Fish

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What is the electric flux through the top surface of the cube?

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Calculate Max & Min Speed for Car Banking an Angle

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Biomechanics problem w/ vectors

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Power of Gravity on a Moving Mass: Analyzing Mean and Instantaneous Values

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How do you graph the perfect parabola?

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Velocity Of The Ice As It Hits The Ground?

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Calculating Electric Field at Point D: Two Equal Charges

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Calculating Energy for Circular Orbit to Launching Satellites

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Error Propagation: Calculating Uncertainty of a Ratio

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