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What Is the Orbital Period of a Satellite Between Earth and Mars?

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Centripetal Acceleration in Satellites Question

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Help with this one force/torque problem

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Solve Snells Law Problems: Red/Blue Angles, TIR & Light Speed

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How Is the Speed of a Sled Calculated at the Top of a Hill?

  • linnus
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What are the equations for static and kinetic coefficents of friction?

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Calculate Spring Constant and Force for Compression

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What Is the Work Done by a Mouse Walking on a Spinning Turntable?

  • thebest100
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Help with differential operators

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.Solving Ohm's Law with V1,V2,V3

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Solving Collision Problem: 10.0g Bullet & 5.00lg Block

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Pascal's Principle Calculations

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Force, momentum, work, and power eqzn

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Potential difference, uniform electric field

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How Does Pressure Difference Determine Fluid Density?

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Engine power and car acceleration

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Truck and car collision problem

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Kinetic Energy on Pulley/Incline System

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Millikan's Oil Drop (Finding modified charge)

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Where to Position an Object for a 2.5x Erect Image in a Concave Mirror?

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Finding moments of resultant forces about a point

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Phase Difference of Two Particles in SHM

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Fluids: Water runs into a fountain

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Projectile motion snowball help

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Finding Amplitude-simple harmonic motion

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How Does Momentum Affect Collision Damage?

  • KatieLynn
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Find Center of Mass: 3kg at (0,8), 1kg at (12,0), 4kg at (?)

  • Sucks@Physics
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Solve the Tray Forces Puzzle: Find T and F

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How Does Air Resistance Affect the Speed of a Falling Pine Cone?

  • get_rekd
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Can Torque and Angular Acceleration Be Used to Trick a Slot Machine?

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Speed of transverse string waves

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Cannon connected to spring fires projectile

  • ~christina~
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Work-Kinetic Energy Contrasting Newton's Laws?

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How Does Acceleration Appear on a Graph When an Object Slows Down?

  • Khemkhajon
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Conservation of angular momentum of space station

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AP Physics Tension and Force Problem

  • fiziksfun
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Calculating Average Retarding Force on Car

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Calculating Powerboat Velocity Across Moving River

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Determine the final speed of each disk.

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Apparent momentum violation when pucks stop due to friction

  • raman911
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Solve Impulse and Depth Homework Challenge

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Finding Initial Velocity to Equations

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Finding Acceleration Using a Table: Small Graphing Question | Homework Help

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Hard gravitational force problem

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What Formulas Can be Used to Calculate Energy and Forces in a Spring Collision?

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Calculating Incline Distance for Rotational Motion

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Work and Potential Elastic Energy

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Max Height of Rolling Ball & Kinetic Energy Calculation

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Millikan's oil drop experiment - help

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Superhard Potential energy/circular motion problem

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What is the correct formula for calculating centripetal acceleration?

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Good Timekeepers: Arranging Clocks by Relative Value

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The central difference method Help

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Speed & Distance to rotate 360 degrees

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Really quick question about entropy

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Difference between beta and electron particle

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Change in earth's day length due to water displacement

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Help Jane & John Pull a Rope: Solve Acceleration & Meetup

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Rotational momentum conservation

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Guys i really nid help on our investigatory projects

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How to find coefficient of friction?

  • Narayanswamy
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Torque and Force exerts on pulley

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Which Vehicle Experiences the Larger Change in Momentum in a Collision?

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Specific heat, latent heat, and temp

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How Does Spring Compression Affect Power Transfer to a Moving Ladle?

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Calculating Ideal Gas Volume with the Ideal Gas Law

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Newton's Law of Gravitation ratio

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Calculating Energy Flux Density and Candle Power

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Calculating Centripetal Force in a Vertical Swing

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Solving Friction and Net Force Problems

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Calculate the force F necessary to keep the velocity constant.

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Continuity Equation Homework: Diameter of Constriction

  • Roger Wilco
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Please helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

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Update of an old problem, the OP didnt put it down fully

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What Is the Momentum of a Ball at Its Maximum Height?

  • KatieLynn
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Calculate Average Force by finding Impulse over Impact Time

  • PhysicsPhil
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Woman swinging across a ravine on a rope

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Calculating Frequency of Train Whistle for Approaching Passenger

  • merlos
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What is the Momentum of a 15 Ton Train Traveling at a Speed of 46.6 m/s?

  • KatieLynn
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What is the maximum acceleration a truck can have without a box sliding forward?

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Finding the point where Earth and Sun's gravity balance on a probe

  • brendan3eb
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Spring and Gravity Potential Energies

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Vectors acting on a mass on an incline

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Solving the ideal gas law for moles

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Projectile: Do not understand wording

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Snooker ball rolling, frictional effects, moment of inertia.

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"400N Child in Swing: Calc Potential Energy

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Kinetic energy and elastic collision question

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Is there an easy way to calculate tension and torque in a hanging rope?

  • fiziksfun
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Amplifier (non inverting) question

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Classical mechanics, angular momentum and velocity not parallel, why?

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How Is Tension Calculated in an Acrobat's Wire?

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