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Why Does Nuclear Fusion Result in Mass Loss and Energy Release?

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Electric Fields ( i attached a file)

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Is the Image from a 12cm Focal Length Lens Virtual or Real?

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Centrifugal Force & Friction: Solving the Challenge

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How High is the Building and What is the Stone's Velocity Before Impact?

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Magnitude and direction of electric force (file attached)

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Combination of translation and rotational motion

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Types of equilibrium, truck tipping, and center of mass in high jump

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What Speed Range Keeps a Car from Skidding on a Banked Curve?

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How Much Work to Accelerate a Proton Between Specified Speeds?

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Finding distance from a distance-time graph at 5.0 min

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Difficult Free Fall/Kinematic Problem

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Speed, wavelength anf frequency

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What is the range of speeds for a car on a banked curve with friction?

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How Is Sound Intensity Calculated at a Distance?

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An object open on both ends? V/WL/F

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What Is the Speed of 200Hz Sound in Air?

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Time for two objects to collide under gravitational attraction

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Time for a string particle to move 1 km in a transverse wave

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2D elastic collisions with equal masses

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Tension on a Rope if used to Accelerate a car?

  • meganw
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Multiple sound and temperature physics problems

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Some unknown eqation i want to know about

  • Omar Hayat
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Kirchhoff's Rule / finding unknown resistances and voltages

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Are These Statements About Vectors and Motion True or False?

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How Far Does a Proton Travel Above a Current-Carrying Wire?

  • kiwikahuna
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Tube train accelerating, uniform motion, and retarding stages

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How Fast Must You Drive to Experience a 210N Magnetic Force on Your Head?

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Bucket hanging on a rope(Tension)

  • TexasCow
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Free body diagram for each vehicle

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Trying to derive the rotational acceleration.

  • PhillipKP
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Solving for R in a nanoparticle number density equation

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Two Objects Sliding on a Frictionless Surface

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How Do You Calculate the Specific Heat Capacity of an Object?

  • dansics
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Child jumping onto rotating disk: angular speed

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How quickly does argon expand when heated?

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Calculating Projectile Motion: Rock Kicked From a Building

  • davidatwayne
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A plane going into (temporary) orbit

  • mujadeo
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Force Exerted on Person in an Elevator

  • TexasCow
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What would be the ameter reading?

  • AlokBehria
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Coefficient of kinetic friction between box and floor

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How Much Force Is Needed to Push a Piano Up a Ramp?

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What factors affect the work function of Aluminium Oxide?

  • dala
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Increasing temperature of an organ pipe

  • mike2007
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How Does Earth's Magnetic Field Affect a Charged Object in Motion?

  • kiwikahuna
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Finding Area Under Curve with Stochastic Model

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No solution can be attempted without the mass of the block.

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How Do Charge and Mass Affect Ion Acceleration in an Electric Field?

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How to Write Proper Chemical Designations for Isotopes?

  • kingbryant
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Wave reflection at the interface of two composite strings

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Grade 10 Physics: Displacement of Speedboat

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What is the combined speed of linked model train cars with different masses?

  • skatecash
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Three blocks with friction: which has greatest acceleration?

  • emant777
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Alpha, beta and gamma decay equations

  • kingbryant
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How Is Magnetic Force Calculated on an Electron in a Uniform Field?

  • kiwikahuna
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How Do You Calculate Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons in Isotopes?

  • kingbryant
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Two cars colliding at intersection - find velocity of wreckage

  • skatecash
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Figuring out formula from graph

  • AluminX
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Double-slit experiment question

  • jairusgarcia
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Calculating Work Done by a Force on a Moving Object

  • Abarak
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Low velocity impact craters in sand

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Car travelling around arc of circle

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Tricky(?) resistance question in a series circuit

  • exi
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Calculating Initial Velocity of an Object Thrown Vertically Upward

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Solving for Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

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Solving Chemical Equations for Alpha, Beta, Gamma Decay

  • kingbryant
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What does recoil speed mean in a cannon problem?

  • MIA6
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Time dilation spacecraft travel problem

  • Benzoate
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Half-Life Question: Thorium-234 (24 days)

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How to determine X and Y coordinates of launched ball?

  • TexasCow
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Conducting Plates, electrical fields w/ conductor.

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Potential energy of two fixed point charges 0.25 m apart

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Relative Velocity: Determine Tension in Elevator Strings

  • emant777
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Pressurized Gas Canister Release Question

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How Does Increasing Rope Tension Affect Wave Wavelength?

  • mike2007
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Ideal gas equation pressure calculation units

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How Do Additional Springs and Dampers Affect Vibration Absorption?

  • foster182
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Radioactive Carbon Decay: Determining Age of Animal Remains

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How Does Half-Life Affect Remaining Mass of a Radioactive Isotope?

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Bullet, falling lead ball, and water heater temperature changes

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Steffan-Boltzmann's Equation: Epsilon Sigma T^4

  • jairusgarcia
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Newton's Laws; ramps and pulleys

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Solving Current in a Circuit with Kirchhoff's Rules

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What is the acceleration of a rocket during takeoff?

  • MIA6
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Why does a tricycle with locked pedals move backwards when pulled forward?

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Calculate Force Constant for Bungee Jumping

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Continuity Equations and Bernoulli's Equation

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How does the continuity equation explain jet engine thrust?

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Positive charge in 250 cm³ of water: why sum protons per molecule

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Final Equilibrium Temperature of Lead Shot Problem

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What is the car's acceleration just before emerging from the turn?

  • mujadeo
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Will charge sum to zero in a grounded capacitor circuit?

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Understanding Weigh Meters and How to Simplify Pressing Movements

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Velocity of ball thrown downward from 100 m roof

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Calculating Centrifugal Force for 200 Grams at 100 mph and 4' Radius

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Does Weighing a Floating Block Change the Combined Weight?

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Breaking into traffic at an intersection

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