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Can Work Be Done in a System Without Motion?

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Revolutions per sec (centripital acceleration)

  • ~christina~
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Finding Net Force and Position of Equilibrium for Moving Object

  • ~christina~
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Calculating Power Loss from Voltage Change at 3 Ohms Resistance

  • urszula
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What Is the Minimal Speed for a Car on a Banked Road?

  • Skynt
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How Does the Force to Start and Maintain Car Movement on Asphalt Differ?

  • BarCode
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What Is the Tangential Speed of Your Foot When It Hits the Floor?

  • will_lansing
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How Do You Solve a Momentum Problem Involving Friction and Collision?

  • aesofbaes
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Electrostatic force between charges.

  • poltry
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A simple problem involving motion in two directions

  • Bill Foster
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Springs and friction and energy, etc.

  • sadakaa
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Conservation of Energy and Final Tangential Speed

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Bilateral and non-bilateral components

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How Does Projectile Motion Apply to a Basketball Dunk?

  • ~christina~
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How Do You Calculate Impulse and Momentum in Physics Problems?

  • Draco
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How Long to Slide Down an Icy Slope When Losing Mass?

  • karnten07
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What is the gravitational potential energy of the obectj

  • pola
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Calculating Electric Field in a Charged Tube Using Gauss's Law

  • yevi
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Using V vs. I graph to find e.m.f and internal resistance

  • Andresx90
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What is the net force and power in a lawnmower system?

  • physicsperson
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Why does the box slide backward when the truck accelerates?

  • CursedAntagonis
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How Do Voltage Changes Affect Capacitors in a Circuit?

  • robbondo
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What current will allow the wire to float ?

  • Xaspire88
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What Determines the Collision Speed of Two Unequal Mass Asteroids?

  • oreostar90
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Solving Skiing Problems: Net Force, Speed & Free-Body Diagrams

  • Oliviam12
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What is the Type and Cutoff Frequency of this Passive Filter?

  • gsan
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How Do I Solve Part B of the Lennard-Jones Potential Problem?

  • Oblio
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Momentum: Solving Qs on Man Throwing Rocks in Lake

  • Arbitrary
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10 physics quiz questions on forces and motion

  • St@rbury
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Conservation of momentum in three collision and recoil problems

  • crimsonfears
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9 pm, and still dont understand

  • megg0230
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Wire with Current and electric field

  • emtilt
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Tension in a String just before it breaks (Circular Motion)

  • parkskier
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Weight on a rocket accelerating upward

  • Hisui
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How Do You Calculate the Flight and Impact of a Basketball Shot?

  • ~christina~
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Sled pulled up a 28-degree slope at constant speed

  • undyboy91
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Truck and car collision momentum vectors

  • kmax12
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Bouncing vs Non-Bouncing Collisions: Impulse Delivery Impact

  • kmax12
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Collision between football players

  • kmax12
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Does a heavier person need to sit closer to the fulcrum on a seesaw?

  • Lula Belle
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What is the altitude above earth's surface?

  • oosta
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Bug lands on a frictionless sphere. Show that the Bug leaves head when

  • gills
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Concave mirror ray diagram for 1.0 cm object at 11 cm distance

  • gamesandmore
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What Is the Buoyant Force on an Object Submerged in Water?

  • Saladsamurai
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Force on a Slope: Solving for Acceleration

  • Hisui
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Understanding Light and Forces: Solving a Simple Laser Question as a Student

  • timhunderwood
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How do I apply the component method to solve momentum problems in 2 dimensions?

  • pinkyjoshi65
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Light waves vs. mechanical waves

  • lah214
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Tension providing centripetal force for an object in a cylinder

  • raman911
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Forces - Elevator 2 part question

  • Larrytsai
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Impulse, I have found a, b and d

  • snipaj9696
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Solving for Airtime: Calculating Time in the Air of a Football Thrown at 21 m/s

  • eagles_reciever
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Newton's Forces - Block Down An Incline

  • meganw
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Calculating Nonconservative Energy Loss in Pumped-Storage Reservoirs

  • BMW25
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What are the missing entries in the table for the right hand rule?

  • Winzer
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Help with three centripetal force problems

  • agk23
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Can you find speed from work done and mass?

  • EES
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What are the steps to find tension in three wires?

  • shakejuhn
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Can Electrons and Protons Create a Neutral Particle at Rest?

  • Brewer
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Euler's Method for 4-D Differential Equation (Computing)

  • qspeechc
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Impulse Chapter 9: Net Force & Velocity Solutions

  • snipaj9696
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Instantaneous velocity and time

  • stunning
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More Work Required for 4kg Lift than 1kg Push

  • pinkyjoshi65
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How Does the Uncertainty Principle Invalidate the Bohr Model?

  • 84527
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How Is Work Calculated When Multiple Forces Act on a Sled?

  • Heat
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Maximum hill angle for a 1100kg car climbing at 20 kph

  • HT3
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Young's modulus of spider thread

  • faoltaem
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Tension on a Frictionless Surface

  • JeYo
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Work and Portential Energy (U)

  • clipperdude21
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What Determines the Force Exerted by a Hammerhead in a Pile Driver?

  • Heat
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Find Tension in Wire Used in Teeth Braces

  • physicsgene
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Does a heavier person need to move closer to the fulcrum to balance a seesaw?

  • Lula Belle
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Projectile Motion bombarding cancer tumors

  • Grapz
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Friction block traveling problem

  • bww
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Help Needed: Fire Safety Table with Low Numerical Values

  • brewster
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Light ray passing through a glass block at normal incidence

  • schutzeh
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Tension in a Rope: Calculate Force for 20kg

  • some_guy
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Inelastic collision energy relationship

  • gills
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How Does Drilling a Hole Affect the Rotational Inertia of a Disk?

  • gills
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Calculating Particle Velocities in a Relativistic System

  • Niles
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Scrodinger equation: infinite square well problem.

  • Benzoate
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Polar coordinates and mechanics question.

  • In_Development
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What is the speed of a BB fired from a spring-compressed BB gun?

  • pinkyjoshi65
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Finding car velocity before right-angle collision using injury data

  • nhi_nhi017
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Incline plane and static friction

  • linnus
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Calculating Halley's Comet's Speed at Perihelion

  • Jtappan
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Normal force on a child sliding down a 37° slide

  • linnus
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Simple Moment of Inertia and uniform bar problem

  • GoldShadow
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Direction of Reaction Force on Beam in Torque Problem

  • DANIELLYMA
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Net Force on a 1kg ball Rolling on a Banked Track

  • bww
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Solving a Pulley Problem: Finding Rope Tension

  • Oliviam12
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Solving Two D Kinematics: Find Acceleration Vector

  • Grapz
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Net force and speed for skier on 35-degree slope

  • Oliviam12
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Normal force on dolly and floor with unknown dolly mass

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