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Hydraulic Piston on te bottom of a hill

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How Do You Calculate Angular Acceleration of a Disk?

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Signs associated with angular momentum

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Oscillatory motion and Hooke's law

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Average acceleration race horse problem

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How Do You Calculate Electron Mobility in Copper?

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How Can I Solve These Vectors and Kinematics Exam Problems?

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Swinging on a rope minimum horizontal speed

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Simple Ladder leading against a vertical wall become complicated.

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How Does Sir Lost-a-Lot's Quest Impact the Forces on the Drawbridge?

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Need help with Static Equilibrium problem

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Doppler effect and Ultrasound waves

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Force and Momentum of diving board

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Inelastic Collision of an object Problem

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Melting Ice with a Carnot Engine

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Work done on the Earth by the Sun

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Calculating Gauge Pressure Have I worked it correctly?

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Albert and the Photoelectric Effect

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Calculating Image Speed: Dubbie & Mirror Surface

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Understanding Image Formation in Concave Mirrors

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Calculating Work on a Frictionless Slope with Multiple Choice Help

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Need help with Static Equilibrium Problem

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Perfectly inelastic collision (distance)

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What is the efficiency of the engines?

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Torque Question airplane wheels

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Bullet and pendulum bob initial speed help momentum.

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Find the maximum height of a rocket fired vertically

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Solving a Particle's Spiral Orbit under Central Force

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Quick easy graviational problem

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Compute Work Done by Air: 103kPa to 101.3kPa

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Entropy vs Temp graphfind Volume?

  • Roger Wilco
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Simple harmonic motion of a spring

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How Fast Can Neutron Stars Spin Before Losing Surface Material?

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How Much Gold Is in the Alloy by Mass?

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Maxwell's relations (thermodynamics): validity

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The distance (not horizontal nor vertical) of a rock traveled in a projectile

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How Do You Calculate Angular Frequency in Simple Harmonic Motion?

  • myoplex11
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How to Calculate Gauge Pressure to Compress Water?

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Bouncing Ball Lab: Calculate Distance & Time

  • ZincPony
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Solving the Problem of Calculating Force and Torque on a Door

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Acceleration Due to Gravity Problem HELP

  • envoystud
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Solving Light and Lenses Questions: Focal Length, Magnification, Distance

  • dranseth
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Energy Problem involving simple harmonic motion

  • myoplex11
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Density & Specific Gravity and Uniformly Accelerated

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How far does a baseball player slide before coming to rest at third base?

  • theredlight
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Homework EquationsN/A The Attempt at a SolutionN/A

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Induced EMF: Solenoid in Square Loop

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Solve Uncertainty with Significant Figures: a-d

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How can I design a stable spring launcher for my ISU project?

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Calculating the Speed of Water Exiting from a Sprinkler

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How Does Coulomb's Law Determine Force in a Charged Square Configuration?

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What Forces are Involved in Torque and Equilibrium Problems?

  • odie5533
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Torque and Power (looks pretty simple)

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What Happens to the Center of Mass When a Penguin Moves on a Sled?

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Hot cup of delicious Radium Water

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Ap physics at my highschool gave me a hard question

  • chyle
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Calculating Magnetic Field Strength for Parallel-Plate Capacitor

  • spacemanrussell
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What is causing the discrepancy in the bullet momentum problem?

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Calculating Average Power in a Car's Engine

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Impulse of Cricket Homework: Find Magnitude

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Time Constant 1/RC: Origin & Meaning

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Circular Motion and Gravitation of a star

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Answer Pressure & Force on Ear Drum: 33.576 N/m2 & 1.746 mN

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Fluids and pressures (artery question)

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Calculating Resistive Force on Styrofoam Dropping from 2.00m

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Inelastic Collisions and Dissipation of Energy

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Calculating Speed Needed to Break a Parachute with Nylon

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Torque and paralle-axis theorem - question

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Photon emissions from hydrogen

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How many photon emissions from hydrogen dropping from n=5 to ground?

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Easy Question- cant seem to get it

  • spacemanrussell
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3 explanations of comet velocity. OK?

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Calculate the mass of the air in the cylinder

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Lagrangian of System w/ 2 M masses & Rigid Rod - Physics Homework

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Calculating Sound Intensity 24 m from a Loudspeaker

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How Does Playing Alone Affect a Violinist's Sound Intensity Level?

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Calculating Force from Atmospheric Pressure on Sheila's Palm

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Circular Motion and angle alpha

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Motion of an object attached to a spring

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Can You Calculate This Formula Using Given Values?

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Calculating Sound Energy from Isotropic Loudspeaker

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Completely Elastic Proton Collision

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Volume of a cube moving relativisticly fast

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Total Internal reflection question

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Electric Charges: Forces on A and C Explained

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How Many Orbits Must an Electron Complete in a Betatron to Gain 25MeV?

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Frictional Force Block Problem-VERY EASY But need HELP

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Slope Amplitude: Physics Help for Newbs

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