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Calculating Car Acceleration on a 1.2 Meter Hill in 2 Seconds

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How Do Tension and Distance Affect Pulse Travel Time in a Stretched Cord?

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How Do You Calculate Potential Energy for Climbing Mount Everest?

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Understanding Notation: Deciphering the '<<' Symbol

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What is the velocity of a transverse wave on a steel cable under tension?

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Find the angle theata for a vector

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Man pulling 100 kg crate with 150 N force

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Pinball launcher spring compressed 6.00 cm on inclined surface

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How does static friction accelerate rolling objects?

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Man on ice pond and elastic ball collision problems

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How to Calculate Average Acceleration in a Fall?

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Calculating Sound Travel Time at 20°C

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Vector addition in electric field

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Free fall height question - true/false

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Why Don't Electrons Stick to the Anode in a Cathode Ray Tube?

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Simple Law of Refraction Problem

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Forces on a ball moving inside a vertical spinning cylinder

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Calculating Distance Traveled by Light in 19.8 µs

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Solving Friction and Incline Problems: Get Answers Here!

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Solving the Two-Car Train Acceleration Problem

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Finding the Parallel Component of a Force on an Inclined Surface

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Solving the Pendulum Problem: Find Speed at Bottom of Path

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Using Fermat's principle to derive the laws of reflection and refraction

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Charge on two equally charged suspended balls with 10cm strings

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Bowling, billiards, and egg-catching: which physics matters most?

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Compute Torque About Point A - 3 SF

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Understanding Simple Harmonic Motion with Position and Acceleration Graphs

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Newbie here with intro thermodynamics question

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Which statements about dimensionally correct equations are valid?

  • am08
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Why is member CK a zero-force member with four members at the joint?

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Traffic flow rate with vehicle spacing and collision-avoidance systems

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Force required to level out a bookshelf with weights on it

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Force on a negative charge in an electric field pointing west

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Elastric Collisions: Shortcut to Solving

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Two objects are dropped from a bridge

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How Does a Pendulum's Period Change on the Moon?

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How Does a Student's Work Affect Motion on a Scooter?

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Two stones thrown upward at 48.70 m/s with 4.39 s delay

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Centripetal Acceleration Question

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Solving Differential Problem: Constant Power, Mass Acceleration

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Solve Kinematics: Rocket Accel 1350.0kg, 10.2s, 2210m

  • emilinus
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Power to Horsepower Conversion: Multiply or Divide?

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Mechanics velocity of a bullet questions

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How Far Does a Laboratory Travel from a Muon's Perspective?

  • Winzer
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Electric Field Between +2 and -3 Charges

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Normalizing the wave function ψ(x) = -Ae^(σx²/x²)

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Stunt people can fall from great heights

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What experiment proved that light behaves as a wave?

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Increase gas pressure in unchanged volume

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Understanding Refractive Index Measurement in Interference Patterns

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Calculating Electric Field of a Square Wire

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Kinetic energy transferred in elastic collision of 7.0g and 19.0g coins

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Ice hockey puck: acceleration, force, momentum and friction

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Arrow- Finding the point of impact

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Average Retarding Force Problem

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What Is the Rate of Change of Momentum When Water Hits a Building?

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How to Approach an Electro Box Problem with Nonuniform Electric Field?

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Child on bicycle going down 10 m hill with friction

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Translational and Rotational speeds

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How Much Does Temperature Increase When Drilling Copper?

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Specific Gravity and antifreeze

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Confusing Introductory Electricity Question

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Calculating Wave Speed for a Jetskier

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Finding current and voltage across resistors in a series-parallel circuit

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What is the specific heat capacity of the petroleum?

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Is y(t-x/v) a Valid Solution to the Wave Equation?

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Electric Charge Equilibrium Calculation

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Two dimensional motion - intitial velocity?

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I don't know how to do this. It looks simple but

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Airbag Inflation Speed Comparison: Physics Test Question Analysis

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What is the tension in the cord when two masses pass each other?

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How Do You Calculate the Movement of a Hydraulic Lift's Input Cylinder?

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Angle Between F1 and F2 Forces on Disk Sliding on Ice

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Kinenatics (NOT cst acceleration)

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What Is the Ratio of the New Sound Level to the Old?

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Wind speed for zero scale readings on Titan structure

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Acceleration Question for a High School Physics Lab

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Diffraction Grating number of slits

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How Does Laminar Flow Resistance Affect Barge Movement in a Canal?

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How Do You Calculate Final Speed from Work Done on an Object?

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Charged ring and electric field problem

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How Is the Length of a String Determined from Wave Properties?

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Finding velocity when acceleration is a = 5.0t

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Centripetal Force: Moving Away from the Centre

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Can You Calculate the Stopping Distance at a Traffic Light?

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Optics - What is the magnification of the lens?

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Ramp angle for bus to jump 15.24 m gap in Speed

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How do I find Q without having a distance r?

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I can't figure out what I am doing for nothing Max Torque

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Self inductance of a solonoidal coil

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