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What is the particle's position at that time?

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How Do Runners, Rockets, and Jumpers Illustrate Principles of Motion?

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Calculating Velocity and Acceleration of a Truck in Motion

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How Far Does the Car Travel to Overtake the Truck?

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Fire hose water landing 2.0 m away: why two angles?

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Scalar product to find angle between two vectors

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Find the magnitude of the attractive force

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Questions About Normal Force and Golf Putting

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Error Propogation - E of Gravity due to r

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How Do You Subtract Vectors and Determine Their Direction?

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Solving a Vector Problem in the xy Plane

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What acceleration did she experience during the collision?

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Acceleration and distance :S ?

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What Happens to Capacitance and Charge in Isolated Parallel Plates?

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Finding angle for vector E in quadrant 4

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Are These Force-Related Statements True or False?

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Mercury barometer with trapped gas at different angles

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Motion in 2d w/ constant acceleration

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What is the Bug's Velocity Relative to the Road?

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How can I find the distance a car travels when the brakes are applied?

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A rocket moves upward, starting from rest with an acceleration of

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How Does the Speed of a Shadow Change with Time and Distance?

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What Is the Electric Field at the Center of a Non-Uniformly Charged Ring?

  • Luke1294
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Centripetal Acceleration of Earth

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How Does Speed Influence Movement in Different Scenarios?

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What Velocity Clears a Shelf in Projectile Motion?

  • luna02525
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I need answer regarding his experiment a single pendulum

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Finding AxB when B is a scalar multiple of A

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Vertical velocity component for horizontally fired projectile

  • shell4987
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Tension and weight of a ball in an elevator with different motions

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Normal force on scale in elevator at constant speed and with acceleration

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Finding the Width of a River Using Vector Properties

  • innightmare
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TGV Train Circular Motion Calculations

  • shell4987
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Why are integration limits 0 to R for a ring's moment of inertia, not -R to R?

  • metalInferno
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Relationship between deceleration and friction

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Advantages and disadvantages of photocells

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Finding launch speed from projectile motion measurements

  • frasifrasi
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M1 Vector Question: John & Norma's Ice Skating Adventure

  • CathyLou
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Find tension in string pulling a 2.21 kg mass upward at 3.50 m/s²

  • BuBbLeS01
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Current and voltage in a grounded transmission line

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Sniper question not working out

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What is the work done by the two tugs pulling a tanker?

  • mjcowley
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Average speed for round trip with different speeds

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Net force on ball from ground to top

  • mocking
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Finding the diagonal strain angle in a rectangular element

  • Bradracer18
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Calculation for Asteroid Orbital Period

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What is the Potential difference?

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Relativistic Particle Decay in Center of Momentum Frame

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I did it but a little more understanding needed

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How Far Can a Bug Crawl on a Spinning CD Before Slipping?

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of Mars Using Phobos' Orbit?

  • Saladsamurai
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Graphing the Motion of a Truck at a Traffic Light

  • Heat
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Thrown Upwards with one variable

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Equilibrium Temperature of water in cup

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Can You Calculate Volume with Only the Radius and Not the Height?

  • compaqnigg
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A really good problem(Not for everyone)

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What are the rules for expressing angles and finding vector components?

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X(3600s/1hr)^2=(1.38013017E+10in/hr^2)Conversion of 9.8m/s^2 to in/hr^2

  • wiskeywiz
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Calculating Spring Height: Block Released from Compressed Spring

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Distance from one focus to the other

  • Saladsamurai
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Understanding when to use sine and cosine to find x and y components

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How Fast is 40 km/h in Feet per Second?

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Coefficient of Kinetic Friction for crate

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Solving Man's Velocity and Angle Relative to Water

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Initial and final state of hydrogen atom

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How is the Maximum Speed of a Point on a Progressive Wave Calculated?

  • nirvana1990
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Shot putter velocity components when the shot hits the ground

  • Heat
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Calculating Takeoff Time and Distance for a Plane on a Runway

  • cool_dude
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Speed of satellite in circular orbit

  • thatgirlyouknow
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Train rounding curve: tangential and radial acceleration at 59 km/h

  • niyati
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How Is Work Calculated for a Charge Moving in a Radial Electric Field?

  • Winzer
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How do angular and linear velocity change when rotation radius decreases?

  • vivinisaac
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Centripetal Acceleration and velocity

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Question on Motion of a car round a banked track

  • Freyth
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CD spinning - Centripetal Acceleration

  • thatgirlyouknow
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QB Throws Football: Speed, Angle, & Distance Needed to Catch

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How Do You Calculate Path-Length Differences in Two-Source Interference?

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How to prove the G-Max Reverse Bungee reaches 5G acceleration

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Sandbag dropped from rising balloon: position at 1.25s

  • Heat
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Conservation of momentum of a rifle

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Newton`s 3rd Law Tension Solved Question

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What is the Path Difference for a Diffraction Grating?

  • nirvana1990
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Calculating the Net Force on a Model Airplane

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What is the net charge on the hollow conducting sphere?

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Proton's Final Speed in Double-Charged Capacitor

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Throwing a ball from a building [a trajectory problem].

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How long does a flea accelerate to reach takeoff speed of 1.1 m/s?

  • Robdog
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Time for pulse to travel a length

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Velocity and acceleration of two objects

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Period of a dipole oscillating in an electric field

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How Does Amplitude, Energy, and Travel Distance Affect Wave Speed?

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How Does Gauss's Law Apply to the Flux Through a Cube Near a Charged Sphere?

  • physicsstooge
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Relating force constant and frequency to mass

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