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Gragging a board across surfaces with different frictions

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Find Maximum Angle: Ball Hitting Pendulum String

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Power required to operate a ski tow

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Electric Car Help: Calculating Horsepower Needed

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Solve Light Polarization: Angles of Transmission Axis

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Force due to wind and rolling friction on van

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Electrostatics/Electroscope Correct Answers Feedback

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What Is the Difference Between lbf and lbs in Terms of Newtons?

  • bennychris2002
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Why does a floating balloon move backward when a car brakes?

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Mean square radius uniformed charged sphere

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Solve Current in Parallel Wires with Repulsion

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Momentum/Conservation of energy

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Why Are My Velocity Signs Incorrect in Momentum Problems?

  • cipotilla
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Finding an Orthornomal Polarization?

  • Noone1982
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Gravity, rotational speed. That kinda stuff.

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Projectile Motion Problem Solution: Ball Thrown from Building Edge

  • Alain12345
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How Large Should Your Solar Panel Be to Power Your Home?

  • deenuh20
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Calculating Power from 1800 N-m of Work Per Minute

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How Is Induced EMF in a Moving Car Antenna Calculated?

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Voltage and electric field in circuits

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Pump raising water 9m at 12m/s, finding power

  • blackcat
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Merry-go-round with children: angular velocity after step-on

  • bpw91284
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Kinetic Energy, Momentum, Projectile Motion ( A real stumper )

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Block sliding on horizontal plane then up a 35° incline with friction

  • nguyenn2
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Calculate Magnitude of Force, FAL, to Keep Ladder from Falling

  • Swany
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Which Bench Will the Baseball Hit in the Stadium?

  • f(x)
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Understanding Electric Potential

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Why Do Reactions Differ in Problem P16.3 Compared to Standard Statics?

  • cipotilla
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Maximum gravitational force between bowling and billiard balls

  • RKNY
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Question concerning two bodies in space

  • Simon316
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Velocity Components and Magnetic Force

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Torque on perpendicular point dipoles using dipole field

  • Kolahal Bhattacharya
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Angular and tangential acceleration of a falling stick

  • Swany
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Rotating rod with two masses slowing due to friction

  • choi626
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What Angle Should the Rifle Be Aimed to Hit a Target 800m Away?

  • Alex13
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Calculate the moment of inertia of this sphere

  • Peach
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Newton's Law of Cooling of pizza

  • nineshadows
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How Do Newton's Laws Explain the Motion of a Pushed Chair?

  • CallingAllCars7
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How Do You Solve a Physics Problem Involving Forces and Motion?

  • fishert16
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Using Newton's laws to solve problems

  • juliesangelcleo
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Parallel/Series circuit theory/concepts

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Calculate Water to Increase Cylinder Pressure from 50 to 150 PSI

  • Lowdot
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Moving Particle and Different Fields

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Finding a landing speed from spring constants

  • euphtone06
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Calculating Velocity Components of Running Horses Using SOHCAHTOA

  • junesmrithi
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Finding tension in horizontal cable B holding a 750N sign

  • matadorqk
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Tossing Rocks on Frictionless Ice: Calculating Angle and Speed

  • xXmarkXx
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Von Braun and contribution to space travel [no maths]

  • f3nr15
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Calculating Monarch Butterfly Flight Time in Steady Wind Conditions

  • junesmrithi
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Calculating Thrust Force of a Model Rocket

  • xRadio
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Determining the Force Between Crates in Motion on a Concrete Floor

  • luvsk8ing
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Flux in a Wire Loop w/ a Magnetic Field

  • twotaileddemon
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Why Do Sparks Occur at the Head of an Electric Train?

  • Kolahal Bhattacharya
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Effect of Increasing Wire Width on Resistance

  • scotty0409
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Investigation: Factors Affecting Friction

  • jvercetti
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Work done by force moving a particle

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Relationship between voltage and the strength of an electromagnet?

  • LiquidShadow
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Horizontal friction force on a lawn mower pushed at 45 degrees

  • fishert16
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Work done on the object problem

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Total Energy a 12V Battery Can Supply

  • jesuslovesu
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Mass Defect: Pb-210 Nuclear Binding Energy

  • MrDMD83
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Calculate Distance for Work Done by Force

  • Jajo
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Finding resultant velocity when passenger walks east on northbound train

  • junesmrithi
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How Do You Calculate Buoyant and Net Force on a Helium Balloon?

  • kahl
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How Do You Calculate the Components of Weight on an Inclined Plane?

  • junesmrithi
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2D gravity simulation with wobbling movement in game physics

  • someoneYEAH!
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Solving an Unexpected Problem: Newton's Third Law

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Circular motion- slipping problem

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Potential difference in non-conservative field along two paths

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Right Hand Rule and Magnetic Field

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Problem involving circular movement and friction.

  • anightlikethis
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Finding acceleration for two sprinters in a 100m race

  • elton_fan
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Point Charges True and False problems

  • Joseph Duchesne
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Conducting Wire Homework: Find J0 & B Inside Wire

  • dtesselstrom
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What is the solution for the total resistance of the infinite ladder network?

  • strangequark
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Finding Current in a Parallel Circuit with Multiple Resistors

  • Ry122
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What is the history of the Medicina Radio Observatory?

  • big man
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Atwood's Machine and incline plane combined.

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Intensity of Light by Polarizers

  • deenuh20
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Electrical Energy and Power (Wrong because of decimal place)

  • AznBoi
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I need some really good questions

  • harmeet_angel
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Momentum-impulse vs. rectilinear motion equations

  • cipotilla
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Calculating Solar Water Heating Efficiency

  • Solar
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Constant velocity of the mass center

  • cipotilla
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Two spacecraft pushed apart by springs find original velocity

  • Mitchtwitchita
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Solving Moving Crests Problem: Acceleration Zero @ .75m

  • imranq
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Finding the angle that minimizes pulling force with friction

  • Anood
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Force on a Current in a Magnetic Field

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Nuclear Reaction for Alpha Particle Bombardment

  • ghulamali
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Solve Pressure Problem: Lift 1000kg Car w/Hydraulic Pistons

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