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Collision and conservation of P

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Hanging Cable (Projectile Motion?)

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Girl walking on plank: finding velocities relative to ice surface

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Voltage drops - i don't understand

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How Is Work Done by Gas Calculated in a Thermodynamic System?

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Mass pushed by horizontal force at constant speed on an incline

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Can Aluminum at 90 Degrees Celsius Melt 10 Grams of Ice?

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Calculating Buoyancy in Oil/Water: Solving for Height of Cylinder

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What is the Force on a Wall from a Horizontal Water Jet?

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Why is current not considered to be a vector?

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What is the length of the vibrating section of the violin string?

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What Bad Physics and Laws Are Broken in Jurassic Park III?

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Calculating the Sun's Power Output

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Solving Solar Energy Problem: Collector Area Needed

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Special Relativity and Relative motion

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Friction Problem: Find Time to Rest w/ Force of 5.0 N

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Simple Harmonics - Kind of wierd

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Locating Object and Image with Converging Lens

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Linear Velocity at Top (Rotational Kinematics)

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People run faster than they walk

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What is the ratio of the amplitudes of the two waves?

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Free body diagram for block on rotating disk

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Sweaty Biker and Energy Consumption

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Average acceleration of a car turning from north to east in 2.0s

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How does special relativity explain the Michelson-Morley experiment?

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How Far Must a Small Piston Be Pushed to Lift a Larger One by 20 cm?

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What makes a parachute safe in a physics sense?

  • NeKroA
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Determining length of highway deceleration ramp, with friction

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Universal Gravitation Ice Rink Problem

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Satellite Problem: 2 Difficulties of Effective Communic.

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AP Physics Free-Response Practice Question #2

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Force between two parallel wires

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AP Physics Free-Response Practice Question

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How Can Torque Determine the Weight of an Unknown Object?

  • ll Source ll
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Determination of planck's constant

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How much energy will be released when the meteor hits Jupiter?

  • odie5533
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FM radio receiver circuit for KONG-FM vs KRUD-FM with 1% power ratio

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The Final Temperature and Remaining Ice in a Calorimetry Experiment

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A Refraction of Light Question : Why Does Diamond Sparkle More? (Ans. )

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Levitating a rod - magnetic field/forces

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Solving Nylon Rope Fracture Problem Up to 25 kg Lift Height

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Torque - Finding the unknown weight

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Decibels and intensity of police car siren

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Spring constant and oscillation frequency

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Current Through First Resistor in a Parallel Circuit

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Work to move a sodium ion across a cell membrane

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How many revolutions does a washing machine tub make during a spin cycle?

  • ~christina~
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What Is the Average Speed of a Motorist Traveling Different Speeds?

  • rcmango
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Calculate Intensity of Sound Wave at Cliff from Radio Source

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A few problems (forces, energy, gravitation)

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Constructive/Destructive Stereo Interference

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Equillibrium ladder on a wall problem

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Finding the Minimum and Maximum Speed on a Sloped Surface

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Direction of the frictional force

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Calculating Spring Constant for SHM with Bullet Impact

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Transverse speed of string point when displacement is 12.0 cm

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How Does Momentum Affect Motion in Different Scenarios?

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Difference between potential energy on Earth and in orbit

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Spring Problem and average force

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Period/Frequency of a Rotational Object

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Solve Circuit: Find ΔQ for Switch T Turned Off

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Why does constant velocity give zero force when lifting?

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Distance from sun's center to the sun-Earth center of mass

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Resonant frequency and wire tension in closed tube with oscillating wire

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What happens when a bug lands on a spinning sphere?

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Potential Energy in to Kinetic Experiment

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Why do runners bend their legs and how to tear paper with one hand?

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Calculate the speed of the particle

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How many meters does the spring compress?

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Aluminum pendulum clock losing time at lower temperature

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How Does a Rotating Charged Particle Beam Maintain Focus?

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Force and power in a moving conducting bar in a magnetic field

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Interference with two speakers

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Computing Mass of gas molecule from specific heat

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Rotational Dynamics Practice Problems

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Why Are Both Angles the Same in an Inclined Plane Pulley System?

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Why do runners bend their legs and how to tear paper with one hand?

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How Does Moving Closer to the Fulcrum Affect Teeter-Totter Balance?

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Calculating Energy Usage of a Hair Dryer

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Elastic collision in two dimensions

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When do I use the Pythagorean method to add vectors?

  • MoreZitiPlease
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Visualizing the Biot-Savart Law for a current element

  • PFStudent
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About Kinetic energy of circular motion

  • jack1234
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Distance between tourques/forces

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Solving Pendulum Problem (b): Kinetic & Potential Energy

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