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Measuring Elasticity of Balls using Collision Method

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How Does Magnification Change When Switching from Convex to Concave Mirror?

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How is Rotational Kinetic Energy Calculated for a Merry-Go-Round?

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Can an Airplane Fly Fast Enough to Stay in Constant Sunlight?

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Calculating Average Force Due to Air Resistance in Projectile Motion

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Mechanical Q: Find Air Resistance Force from .750kg Proj. at 18.0m/s

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Man running on conveyor belt in opposite directions

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Ball bouncing height after elastic collision with dropped block

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How Much Force Must the Man Exert to Move the Box?

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Finding tension and force at point P for a suspended picture frame

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Finding boom mass from crate weight and cable tension

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How do optical aberrations affect microscopy axial resolution?

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Car crash-completely inelastic collision?

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How Is Impulse Calculated in a Two-Dimensional Collision?

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Kinetic Energy and Rolling motion

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How much work is done on a gas?

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What Is the Force of the Trout on the Carp in This Physics Problem?

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Finding Total B-Field and Direction in a Wire-Magnet System

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Calculating Wavelength of H_α for a Receding Star

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Maximum energy and velocity in spring oscillation problems

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Work done by braking force on a decelerating car

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Gauge pressure needed for firehose to spray 20m high

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How Does a Satellite Maintain a Stationary Position Above Earth?

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Forces on an object falling to earth Question

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Utilizing Coefficients of Static and Kinetic Friction in a Pulley System

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Minimum Force ( I don't know why this is not correct)

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Angular Velocity of the Spinning Earth

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Angle of Queue Ball after elastic collision

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Rocket Propulsion Speed of Fragments

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Rotational Energy and Pulley System

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Using the conservation of energy equation

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Finding Potential Difference in a Simple Circuit

  • CelticDynasty
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Circular Motion of a car on a track

  • jonasK
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Solving the Problem of a Bus Running Out of Fuel on a Hill

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Tension and Torque homework challenge problem.

  • Tlocc
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Finding the incline of the slope

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Frictionless Surface Homework: Newton's 3rd Law and Momentum

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How Fast Does a Ball Roll Down an Inclined Plane?

  • sheri1987
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Upward Normal Force Exerted by Floor on Elevator Passenger

  • Heat
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Mountain climber - center of gravity, tension, angles

  • BlueSkyy
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Normal force and net force on incline at 30, 45, and 60 degrees

  • pebbles
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If circle circumference changes by factor of 3, how does area change?

  • AKahan
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Two objects - when do they meet?

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Is the Calculation of Force on a Bullet in a Rifle Barrel Correct?

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What Happens to the Bananas as the Monkey Climbs Up the Rope?

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Understanding Centripetal Force: Solving for Friction on a Race Car

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What is the Mass Ratio m/M in an Inelastic Collision?

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SHM - mass-spring system on frictionless horizontal surface

  • trusean
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Making a graph of acceleration vs. sin of theta

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Resonance and air columns open at one end and closed at the other.

  • Spookie71
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Solving Masses on a Beam Problem with Scales

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Calculating Work Done on Crate by Truck

  • Oliviam12
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Non-conservaite force and Kinetic Energy

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How Fast Must Turbine Blades Spin to Store Energy?

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How Do You Calculate Initial Velocity in a Vertical Projectile Problem?

  • smzee27
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Tension in a string of a object being pulled by a magnet

  • ~christina~
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How do you transform 4-vector A = (5,4,3,0) into B = (5,5,0,0)?

  • Niles
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Solving a Physics Problem with Jetliner Takeoff Speed - Casey's Story

  • Saladsamurai
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Time dependent force F(t)=20t N/s on 4 kg object

  • ~christina~
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Two blocks and compressed spring

  • chaotixmonjuish
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Max Velocity for a Car over a Speed Bump in Uniform Circular Motion

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Calculating the energy of light

  • wisdom32
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Solve Kinematics Question for Ball Released at 15m/s and 10m Altitude

  • vericolorful
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When is the distance to the origin decreasing?

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Calculating Work and Distance on an Inclined Plane

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Induced Current in a Circuit by a Moving Magnet

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Does Component Configuration Affect Resonant Frequency Calculation?

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What is the angle and angular speed of a flight from Kampala to Singapore?

  • aligass2004
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Solving Vector Dynamics Problems

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Calculating Weight and Velocity on a Circular Track: Formulas and Examples

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Catch the Bus or Frustration Distance?

  • motoxtremechick
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How Do I Calculate Corrosion Rate in Iron?

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Calculating Fnet and coefficient of friction for inclined plane lab

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Understanding Friction Graph: Identify Segments

  • petern
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Solve .5m/s^2(t^2)=6m/s(t)-25m Kinematics Equation

  • motoxtremechick
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Grindstone angular acceleration

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Minimum Work Required to Move a 10 kg Box up a 30° Slope

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Tension: Force + Velocity. Breaking Strength.

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How Much Work Does a Non-Ideal Gas Perform During Expansion?

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How Do I Correctly Isolate Variables in Physics Equations?

  • CanadianPhys
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Center of Mass between the Earth and Sun

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Finding distance with velocity, Uk

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What is the equilibrium condition for a double inclined plane?

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What Is Centripetal Force and How Is It Calculated?

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What is centripetal acceleration?

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Calculating Distance Traveled by a Suitcase on a Conveyor Belt

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Riding a Bicycle: What Will Happen?

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Calculating Force of Car and Driver at Rest

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Biophysics problem - Pressure Change due to Plane Dive

  • Red88
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Simple Pendulum Homework: Amplitude of 25 cm/s Push

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How Do You Calculate Spring Stretch When Kinetic and Potential Energy Are Equal?

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What is the initial velocity of the second ball in a 2-dimensional collision?

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How Do You Solve for Force B in Rigid Body Equilibrium?

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Centripetal force in circular motion with tension and normal force

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Solve for three vectors from three vector equations

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Blocks on a slant(with friction)

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Limits of Functions with several variables

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Friction Force on a System at Rest

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