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How to Calculate Time in Air for a Trebuchet Projectile?

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How Does Viscous Resistance Affect Object Motion?

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Why is my work due to friction calculation incorrect?

  • Alabran
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Statistical analysis of photometric data - Astronomy

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What is the final volume of container B?

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Calculating μs of a Car: Understanding Acceleration and Friction

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Why Do We Use Integer Atomic Masses in Nuclear Reactions?

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How Is Mutual Energy Calculated Between Non-Parallel Dipoles?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Why is Fr equal to I*alpha for a door's rotation?

  • Ahmed Abdullah
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Voltage/ Voltmeter: Why 1.50 V?

  • husky88
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Finding sprinter accelerations in a 100m race

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What Are the Brass Pins in My Electronics Kit For?

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Time for 100 kg object to slow to half speed with quadratic drag

  • hastings
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How to Find the Velocity of Mass 9m at the Bottom?

  • clicwar
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Can you explain the whole solution?

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Electric Field Due to a Line of Charge Problem

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Free fall drop tower braking forces for 250 foot ride

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Deriving equation for electrostatic force.

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How Does Tension Affect Work Done in a Helicopter Rescue Scenario?

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Object Must Be Placed at 15cm from Convex Mirror for Half Size Image

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How Does Slipping Affect Translational and Rotational Speeds on an Incline?

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Doppler effect: student running with tuning fork toward wall

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Projectiles (delta)(theta) = g(delta)t/V0

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Aluminum bullet embedded in ice: why isn't velocity used?

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Two boats racing across a 42 km lake at different speeds

  • toothpick09
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Evaporation of Water on a Jogger

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Force Couple Problem (Thrust of Ship)

  • Ratiocinator
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Is Rolling Resistance Constant When a Ball Rolls Across a Table?

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Motion of a body under acceleration of gravity

  • wanchosen
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Determine the average speed for the car trip

  • toothpick09
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Calculating Heat Required for Ice Cube Transformation

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Solving for x in a Combination of Two Convex Lenses

  • anand
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How Do You Calculate Total Image Distance in a Dual Lens System?

  • Diiyad
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How Long Before the Coin Slips on the Accelerating Turntable?

  • PJ81
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Calculating Average Speed of a Road Trip

  • toothpick09
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Physics lab colliding two cars into each other

  • cindy!
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Coefficient of sliding friction for locked golf cart wheels

  • camjam73
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Why can't a charged rod have a voltage through it?

  • husky88
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Deriving the antireflective coating formula n1=sqrt(n0*ns)

  • reb30
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Specific Heat Capacity and Change in Internal Energy

  • nellydude88
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Two masses attached by a string.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Mechanical Energy in a Pendulum

  • pharm89
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Prove that the particle is moving with simple harmonic motion

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Pushing or pulling will be easier to do the work?

  • Lilkaze
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Deflection of an Electron Beam by an Electric Field

  • husky88
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Finding potential difference from electron flow and heat dissipation

  • husky88
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Sun's Rays & Convex Mirrors: What is the Image Size?

  • Mr.IITIAN007
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How Do You Calculate the Acceleration During Projectile Launch?

  • danield
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Verifying V=f? in Physics Lab: Calculating Frequency

  • dvyu
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Finding elementary charge from Millikan oil drop data

  • Lennox786
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Calculate Bank Angle for Airplane Circling Airport

  • MJC8719
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How Much Volume Is Lost When Mistaking Cranberry Barrels for Apple Barrels?

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What is the net charge of a metal sphere after electrons are added?

  • Missy81590
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Charges on spherical conductors

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Meters of water are in a cylindrical cumulus cloud

  • bilalbajwa
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Calculating Potential Difference in Suspended Capacitor

  • jesuslovesu
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What Is the Rod's Slope in Frame S'?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Solving the Fermi Energy of Copper: Momentum, Wavelength, Velocity

  • sanjeeb
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Conservation of energy of bullet into sandbag

  • pharm89
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What Temperature Must an Iron Band Be Heated to Fit a Barrel?

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Electric Field of a Polarized Ring: Verify Your Answer

  • Mr.IITIAN007
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Is Every Listed Force a Central Force?

  • neelakash
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Why is r² negative for U(r)=-A/r⁴ with Bohr quantization?

  • the keck
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Projectile motion w/drag equations

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Does air resistance change time to peak vs time to descend?

  • reza
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Minimum coefficient of static friction for a car rounding a curve

  • nellydude88
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How Does Charge Distribution Affect Electric Potential in a Cylindrical Shell?

  • Mr.IITIAN007
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Thermal conductivity of superinsulation around liquid helium container

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Find Charge q3 for System of Charges in Equilibrium

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Kinetic Energy of Point Charges

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When Does Light Refract in Different Materials?

  • rizzleras
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Height of a projectile at a certain point

  • ridik88
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Orbits for central force F = −ar/r³ when a > 0 and a < 0

  • neelakash
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Continuous line charge distribution

  • GravityGirl
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Finding Deflection of Electron Beam in Cathode Ray Tube

  • husky88
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Electromagnetic Induction / Transformers

  • Lennox786
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How Do You Calculate Work and Distance in These Physics Problems?

  • moela
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Tension in a yo-yo string making one revolution per second

  • bilbobaggins
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Determine the electric flux through each of the sides

  • Rasine
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Sir Isaac Newton Contest: Find the Minimum Length for a Safe Landing

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Why do tensions differ on either side of a massive pulley?

  • clicwar
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Transition rules for four quantum numbers

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Calculating Molecule Speed Ratios in a Gas Mixture

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A tape,pulley,disk and undisclosed mass.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Potential difference and a proton

  • cuppy
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Where Does the Electric Potential Equal Zero Along the X-axis?

  • cuppy
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How Much Force Keeps a Car on Track in Circular Motion?

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Understanding Stationary Waves in Open and Closed Tubes

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Pitch Speed Revalive to Bat Speed

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Graph Needed to Find e and Io: lnI vs. V?

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Block and wedge. Analysis of the center of mass

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Math error in electromagnetic wave problem solution?

  • WolfOfTheSteps
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Can I Build a Simple Optical Device with Just Two Magnifying Glasses?

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