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What is your friends speed relative to you?

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How Deep Does a Barge Sink with 3000 Tonnes of Coal?

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Are These Physics True or False Answers Correct?

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How Do You Calculate the Force of a Falling Object on Impact?

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Spring launcher to hit a target at given distance and height

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Logic gates problem Need to check if my answers are correct

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Kinematic Equations for Catching Runner A

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GPS and Special relativity (Graph)

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Power needed to accelerate up incline

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Momentum/Impusle problem [revised]

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Latent Heat: Calculating Final State of Ice/Steam Mix

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What Engaging Models Can You Showcase in a Presentation on Nikola Tesla?

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Current in an RLC circuit at very small and very large frequencies

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A physics (calculus) problem that I can't set up.

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What is the Kinetic Energy of a Space Probe Launched from Zero?

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Calculating Time of Flight for Artillery Shell

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Tossing upward with air resistance

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Finding spring stretch distance from mass and oscillation period

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Solving a Sky Diver Project: Designing a Device to Land from 5,000 ft

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Ball attached to two strings in circular motion

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What is the most appropriate conversion

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Which Mass Travels Further When Stopped by the Same Force?

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Finding Speed of two objects in space

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How long is this area in the air?

  • shawn2004
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Finding distance traveled of a dropped object

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What is the Velocity of the Third Object After Explosion?

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Need check on temperature (calorimeter) Problems

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Stationary motorcycle speeding up to a moving car

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Finding the force overcoming friction

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Finding RLC circuit current at very large and very small frequencies

  • kevin7913
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Simple throwing ball up problem

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Toboggan down hill, FIND ANGLE?

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Waves and light (conceptual questions)

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How Does Doubling Molecular Mass Affect Vibration Frequency?

  • GX255
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Calculating Force on a Vertical Wire Rope with 20kg Weight

  • DJT1967
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Spring pushes two masses hanging from ceiling, how high does one go?

  • supercali
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Acceleration in terms of distance, but not time or final velocity?

  • madchemist
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How Much Total Kinetic Energy Do Split Nucleus Fragments Have?

  • quickclick330
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How Does Mass Affect Velocity in an Elastic Collision?

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What does proportional mean in Ohm's law?

  • Mrod777
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Universal Gravitation and rockets

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Cable Tension Problem: Calculating Tension in Cables with Changing Angles

  • Emo Grass
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Calculating Pendulum Bob Properties: Mass 500g, Length 2m, 10° Displacement

  • ThenewKid
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Calculating Impulse for Hailstones Striking Car Roof

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Why are the integration constants the same for kinematic equations?

  • lLovePhysics
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Derivation of cantilever oscillation period and amplitude formulas

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Radius of light circle from submerged source

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Calculating Maximum Depth for a Sphere Dropped into Water

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Calculating Probability of Excited State of Harmonic Oscillator

  • quickclick330
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What Would Happen To The Wave-particle Dualism If Planck’s Constant H=0?

  • khorsani
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What force is needed to prevent a plane from crashing?

  • Bonjkk
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Skier's coefficient of velocity

  • mortho
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Where is the weight force located on a distributed load pipe?

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Work, Energy, Power: Accelerating Mass from Rest

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How Does the Parallel-Axis Theorem Affect Pendulum Oscillation Periods?

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Finding resultant of 5.0m W and 5.0m NW displacements

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One Dimensional Kinematics Jet Problem

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What is the new rotation time of the merry-go-round?

  • quickclick330
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How Can You Create a Unique Black Hole Simulation for a School Project?

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Does the Refractive Index of a Lens Affect its Focal Length?

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Why does gravity equal centripetal force at the top of a loop?

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Speed of Free Electron Moving in Space

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What is the speed of a box pulled by a tension force after a given time?

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Finding gate volume from density for static equilibrium problem

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Analogy between conductance and capacitance

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What Is the Correct Approach to Find the Centroid of a Parabolic Area?

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Calculating the pH of a Substance

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Really simple ideal gas question.

  • kidwithshirt
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What is the value of B at the instant E reaches its maximum value?

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How Does a Proton Move in a Magnetic Field?

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Converting harmonic oscillator partition function to geometric series

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Ranking forces on beam posts with safe at different positions

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Acceleration and velocity of a free charge repelled by a fixed charge

  • Aleale978
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Finding input work and mechanical advantage for a pulley system

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How Does Viscosity Affect Water Flow in Pipes?

  • mr.
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Finding radius of curvature and focal length of mirrors

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Solving Skier's Coefficient with 12.0 m/s Speed

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How to Calculate Initial Velocity in an Inelastic Collision?

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Grocery Cart Forces: Final Speed

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Pascal's Principle? Are my solutions correct?

  • predentalgirl1
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Mirror equation and the magnification equation

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Mirror equation for object at center of curvature and at 1.5 m

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Concave mirror producing an image 3 times larger than the object

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Entropy Change of an Expanding Gas

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How Do You Calculate Force and Work for Lifting a Box onto a Dock?

  • AnnieD
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How Fast Does Robin Hood's Arrow Propel the Sheriff's Hat?

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Camera focus distance for a mirror selfie at 2.3 m

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Image properties in concave mirror with 50 cm focal length

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At what height does the boy lose contact with the ice?

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Calculating Work Required to Accelerate an Electron

  • AnnieD
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Thermodynamics Heat Engine Problem

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How do I calculate the maximum speed of a bungee jumper?

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A 3.0 g coin moving to the right at 26.0 cm/s makes an elastic head-on colli

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Find the Second Resonant length of an air column

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Why does a pencil sometimes jump backwards when a mass drops on it?

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