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Calculating Time of Flight for a Vertically Thrown Stone

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How Plaque Reduces Artery Radius: Calculating with Poiseuille's Law

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Number of electrons transferred when charged spheres touch

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Why does the boat move if the center of mass stays still?

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Minimum coefficient of friction to prevent slipping - torque

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Gas pressure with spring-loaded piston equilibrium

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Solving Angular Speed of a Circular Disk

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Flow Rate in Venturi Meter: .03825 L/s

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Final Velocity of Falling Paint Can

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How Can You Find the Electric Field E with Given Conditions?

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Magnetic field between two parallel wires carrying opposite currents

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What Determines the Breaking Point of a Bridge Under Increasing Load?

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Calculating Power Dissipated in 20 Ohm Resistor: I = 12 sin(250t)

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Electromagnetic Wave: Magnetic Field Direction

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Integral of a position v time graph; meaningless?

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Balsa Span Designs: Brainstorming Efficient Designs

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Does PV=nRT apply differently to gases in different cylinder volumes?

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Squirrel walking on rotating disk problem

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Drawing Bode plots: I need to convert to s-domain - but how?

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Graphical methods - dynamics problem.

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Calculating Low-Pass Filter Corner Frequency for LR Circuit

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What Is the Final Angular Speed of a Spinning Disk with a Running Person?

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Essay Question on Potential Electric Energy

  • jkola07
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Solve Lensmaker Formula for Index of Refraction with Focal Length of 7.3cm

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Finding moment of inertia about the z-axis for a point at (3r, r)

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Why does system 3 require the same force as system 1?

  • DrHughes
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What is the largest theta can be if the tube is in water?

  • 91619
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Calculate the ratio q1/q2 of the two charges

  • simplicity12
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What is the explanation for the 1st law of thermodynamics?

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Coefficient of Kinetic Friction for incline

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Maximum weight supported by 100lb drum with friction

  • Bradracer18
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Internal resistance circuit problem

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Finding H(s) for Circuit in s-Domain

  • VinnyCee
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I need to ask questions about Space exploration.

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Solve Free Body Diagram: 2 Boxes, m1=35kg, m2=45kg

  • cindy!
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Solving for Velocity and Height in an Elastic Collision with an Angle

  • fishert16
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How Does Height Affect Momentum in a Frictionless Track Collision?

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Electromagnetic waves and astronaut

  • yogi41
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Can a Flashlight Propel an Astronaut Back to the Shuttle?

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Skateboarder jumping onto skateboard on curved ramp

  • fishert16
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Calculating Pressure in a Narrowed Pipe

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What volume will the inside air expand up to?

  • Rocket_guy
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Calculate the Difference in Height of Glycerin and Alcohol

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What Is the Frequency of Microwaves from This Generator?

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Step up and step down transformers

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Rotational Motion and Equilibrium

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Calculating Wavelength of Laser Beam using Single Slit

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How Does Refractive Power Affect Vision Clarity at Different Distances?

  • cheechnchong
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How do i find the ionization level of Helium

  • jimmersz
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AP Mechanics Free Response Problem

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Does Electron Flow Reverse the Conventional Current Direction?

  • shehri
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Work done by friction force problem

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Harmonic motion and the coeffcieient of friction

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Find the value of the damping coefficient

  • fruitl00p
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AP Physics C Take Home Quarterly

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QUeston on lorentz transformation

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How Long Before an Oscillator's Energy Halves?

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Water Temperature mixing together

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Compound Microscope: Solving for Objective Focal Length

  • map7s
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A lab on one-dimensional collisions

  • a seeker
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Simple harmonic motion and diatomic molecules

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Calculating Airplane Velocity with Wind: A Study

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How Do You Calculate Temperature and Energy Changes in Mixed Ideal Gases?

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Ideal diatomic gas in cylinder with sliding adiabatic plate

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Calculate Heat for Melting 10kg Ice Block

  • strawberry7
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How to find the maximum velocity and maximum acceleration?

  • dumpman
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A few Electromagnetic questions

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Building a instrument that plays songs.

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Telescope lens separation for object at 5.0 m distance

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Problem with nod voltage analysis se the picture

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What is the minimum applied force required to ball up a ramp?

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Initial electric field strength

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Building a circuit? - easy high school project sorta

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What is the sprinter's speed at the finish line?

  • pingpong240
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What are the units for flow area, flow rate, and velocity?

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What is the launch speed and work done by the bow?

  • biochemnerd
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How Do Forces Maintain Equilibrium in a Supported Shelf System?

  • danago
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Solve Electron Deflection in Oscilloscope - 65 Characters

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How Do You Adjust Camera Settings for Post-Sunset Photography?

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Questions concerning the Theory of Relativity, sound, and light.

  • Haibane
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Should I add cream to coffee before or after stepping away to keep it hottest?

  • Backtoschool
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Calculating Electric Field for Varying Charge Values

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What is the relationship between magnetic field and induced emf?

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How Does a Mass Spectrometer Calculate Ion Path Radius?

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Electron drift speed in a copper wire.

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What is the radius of a charged ion in a magnetic field?

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Work,Power and Energy = big headache

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Calculating Distance Traveled by a Skier on an Inclined Slope

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Error in Simple Pendulum experiment

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Does Clothesline Sag Affect Laundry Load Capacity? Find Out Here!

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How Long Would an Electron Take to Spiral into the Nucleus?

  • WolfOfTheSteps
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Does a stiff spring damp faster than a less stiff spring?

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