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Interpreting Distance-vs-Time and Accel-vs-Time Graphs

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How Do Forces and Motion Affect a Baseball When Hit by a Bat?

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Calculating Final Velocity with Constant Force

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Struggling With Physics: Units of Periods Needed

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Static friction question with no mass

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Radioactive reactions -half-life Decay physics 30

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How Does a TV Use Electric Fields to Control Electron Beams?

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Calculating Fire Distance with Friction and Mass

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Finding Critical Angle: A Freshwater Pond Problem

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How Many Turns are on the Secondary Coil of a 240V to 15V Transformer?

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Does the Rocket Equation Accurately Describe Net Force?

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Velocity Problem Regarding a Car Overtaking a Truck

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What is the Impulse Delivered by an Elevator to a Moving Package?

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Calculating Friction Coefficient with 40 N Force and 5 kg Box

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Adding Vectors and Calculating Resultant Force

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Relationship between Pressure of Gas and Mechanical Work

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Desperatly , have no idea where to start

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Electrostatic Potential in Electric Fields

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Conductors and Equipotential Lines - Fun

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How Do Physics Principles Enhance Football Helmet Safety?

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What Simple Calculus Question Can Drive a 4000-Word Exploration?

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Determining coefficient of friction

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Calculating Acceleration of Helium Balloon

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What is the tension in the line holding a helium-filled balloon?

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Force acting on wedge and block

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How Does Elevator Motion Affect Pendulum Period?

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Tension in a rope with a bag hanging in the middle

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Solve Uncertainty of Pi: Volume of Cylinder

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How Does Impulse Affect the Velocity of a Block?

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How Can We Accurately Determine the Number of Small Marbles in Each Bag?

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Calculating Temperature & Heat Transfer with a Piece of Metal

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How Is Torque Calculated for a Bucket on a Cylinder?

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Baseball Problem: Does a Ball Hit the Roof? Answer Here!

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Minimum tension in rope holding a 20 kg package on a 60° slope

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Will a stone reach the Moon faster than Earth's escape speed?

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Spring Elastic Potential Energy

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How Does Acceleration Affect Motion on an Inclined Wedge?

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Equilibrium of Cylinder with two liquids at either side

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Mercury tube tilted at 60° with air columns at different pressures

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How Should the Radius Change for Higher Speeds on Banked Circular Ramps?

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Calculate the velocity of the boat

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Solving Distance Problem: Firework Explosion

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Why does sound travel faster in warm air?

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What is the rate at which mechanical energy is dissipated?

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Finding force, acceleration, work and momentum for a particle

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Frictionless Roller Coaster Problem

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How Do Charges Distribute in Series-Connected Capacitors?

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Independent research - paintball

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Girl on skateboard: boy jumps on, find final speed

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Seriously? Moment of Force about a specified Axis

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How Do Kirchhoff's Laws Determine Currents in Electrical Circuits?

  • rock.freak667
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AP Physics problem help needed

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AP physics problem from College Board exam

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How quickly will a can sink in water with a small hole at the bottom?

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Do You Understand Buoyant Forces in Water?

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Energy needed for pluto to escape earth surface

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Trouble with signs and the right-hand rule for moments in statics

  • Saladsamurai
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Law of gravitation and net gravitational force

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X-ray Compton scattering and photoelectric effect problem

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How Do You Calculate the Final Kinetic Energy of a Jet-Powered Train?

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Calculating Force Generated by Gas Powered Launcher

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Use conservation of energy, find out velocity, then find distance?

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Angle to Drop a Package from Airplane

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Calculating acoustic impedance and reflection coefficient

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Magnetic force on current-carrying wire experiment results and analysis

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Having a hard time with visual of FBD

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How to Calculate Torque in a Hydraulic Brake System

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Calculating Acceleration of a Spherical Shell

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Law of Conservation of Mechanical Energy

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Problem involving Newton's Law of Gravitation

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Why can atoms produce a continuous absorption spectrum?

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How Far Did the Basketball Player Shoot from the Basket?

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What is the solution for the damped free vibration of a string?

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How Is Work Calculated When Pulling a Wagon?

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Given: coefficient kinetic and coefficient static frictions

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Work done by friction when a bullet embeds in a wooden block

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Sticky Collision with Clay Ball and Rod

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Why Do Accelerations Differ in These Atwood Machine Configurations?

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Solving FBD with No Angle Given

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Restoring force and SHM for a ball between two rubber bands

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If you've already taken the AP Physics C Examination

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Minimum Force to Prevent Slipping Down Plane

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Coulomb's Law Question with Charges on x-axis

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What is the torque on a crate being carried up stairs at an angle?

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Calculating Average Acceleration and Force of Dragster and Driver

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Checking my capacitor solution

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Help with modeling problems from homework attachment

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Calculating the final velocity of a compressed-air launched projectile

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Can plastic allow me to see magnetic fields and where can I find it?

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Finding projected force along line

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What is the controversy- current and resistance

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Average acceleration of Suzie stopping with roller blades

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Distance To Center of Earthquake?

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