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How Do Two Knights Collide When Accelerating Towards Each Other?

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Finding velocity and position of helicopter P from two position vectors

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Two-stage acceleration problem with equal time intervals

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Ideal gas and mercury expansion in a glass thermometer

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How Long Does It Take for a Wall to Pass a Train Window?

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A battery-battery-resistor circuit

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Question-Proper form for nuclear addition

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Kinematics of ball rolling motion

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What Steps Are Needed to Solve This Complex Pulley Problem?

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Calculating Average Acceleration of a Golf Ball

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How Accurate Are My Initial Velocity and Maximum Height Calculations?

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How Do You Calculate Resultant Displacement in Vector Problems?

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What is the area of a 7.000 μm thick leaf made of 7.000 oz of gold?

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Solving Physics Problems with the Box and Banana

  • EvanQ
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Fundamental Interactions Problem

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Linearizing Data: Velocity vs Time vs Distance-Time Squared

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Chosing to stop or accelerate through a traffic light

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Solving Oscillating Mass-Spring System w/ Non-Resonant Force

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Average velocity of a horse cantering away then galloping back

  • lostfan176
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Why is electric flux independent of area size?

  • Winzer
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Method of Least Squares Linear Fitting

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Why can I hear bat cries if they should be ultrasonic?

  • knockout_artist
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How Does the Two-String Box Work with Strings and Corks?

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Lightyears and the surface area of a planet.

  • niyati
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Projectile motion cannon problem

  • EvanQ
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How to get an egg into a bottle

  • Simon Lee
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Relative Velocity of two swimmers

  • JayKo
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Equilibrium between release and decay Kr-85

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Can Work Be Expressed In lb x lbf Units?

  • Xkaliber
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Calculating Antarctica's Ice Volume: Radius 2000km, Thickness 3000m

  • BankaiNinja
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Classical Physics - Pulley Problem

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Phsyics problem. I must find distance in Kilometers.

  • afcwestwarrior
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Physics Problem. I must find the horizontal distance x between the 2 baloons.

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How Do You Calculate Theta for Vector Sum Using Component Method?

  • AraProdieur
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Finding forces in members AB, CD, BE, and BC

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Finding direction of resultant force from three forces

  • pirateyoshi
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Why Do New Members Surge on This Forum During This Season?

  • rootX
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Electrostatics - two capacitors in parallel

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Can't remember how to differentiate this

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What's the angular velocity of the disk

  • cosmic_tears
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Standing wave phase at points P, Q, R, S, T, U on a string

  • Gunman
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Calculating Tension of Threads for Suspended Spider

  • faoltaem
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Why does my conical pendulum rod equation give tan θ = (ω²x sin θ)/g?

  • pardesi
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Finding the Force Exerted on a Log Using Virtual Work Calculations

  • balogun
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How Do You Calculate the Time and Speed of a Falling Object?

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Tuning Fork Physics: Impact of Wax on Vibration Frequency

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What is the magnitude of the vector sum of the four vectors

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Weight of the Earth on the moon?

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Finding magnitudes of forces QR and PR in a statics problem

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Transformation between electric and magnetic fields

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Finding the magnitude of vector A minus vector B

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Two charged aluminum spheres: finding electrons removed for 1 ton force

  • Gaupp
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How Does a Golf Ball Accelerate Upon Impact with Concrete?

  • chaotixmonjuish
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Projectile motion and horizontal gun muzzle velocity

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Work done on thermal systems confusion

  • Ichiru
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What Are the Units and Exponents in Basic Physics Equations?

  • Catalyst333
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An elevator moving up and a bolt falling down

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Minimum escape velocity of a projectile required to rise a certain height

  • JFonseka
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Calculate Tension in Cables to Support Cantilever Beam

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Room temperature with fan heat at steady state

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Difficult Problem I Tried My Best

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Gravitational Potential Energy of a bag

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How to calculate fusion and fission yields in MeV for different elements

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Elevator Torque and Angular Momentum

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Electricity and Magnetism- Energy sources and power stations

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Is mgh Always Applicable for Calculating Gravitational Potential Energy?

  • BlackWyvern
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Finding position of third particle to double gravitational force

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Can a particle accelerate without changing speed?

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Calculating Avg Speed of Round Trip: What's Wrong?

  • camboguy
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What Is the Force Exerted by the Elbow on the Forearm?

  • azila
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How Do You Calculate the Internal Resistance of a Thevenin Voltage Source?

  • bengaltiger14
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Where should Q3 be placed so the net force on it is zero

  • Winzer
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Calculating Maximum Height of Object Thrown Upward

  • Yann
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Calculating Spiciness for 400 People: Jalapeno vs. Habanero

  • josh84
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Finding the angle between two vectors from their cross product

  • azila
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Hg in U-shape tube, water is added. final h Hg?

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How Many Photons Do a Light Bulb and Microwave Emit Per Second?

  • DieCommie
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Parallel plate capacitor and magnetic field

  • phys01
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Determine the magnitude of the electric field

  • William Bush
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Find the vector of the net Force

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How Do You Calculate Projectile Trajectory in Physics Simulations?

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Solving Car Overtaking Truck Problem

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Force, mass, acceleration (three problems)

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Minimum u to keep ladder from slipping

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How far does a falling object travel in the second second of free fall?

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Spring Constant Due to 2 Charges

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How to find the height where two same marbles have the same velocity?

  • mwahx3
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Does height affect the constant of proportionality?

  • mwahx3
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Net Force on Center Charge in Y-Direction in Square of Charges

  • Winzer
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Block of ice sliding down inclined plane - final speed

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