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Writing x and y equations as a vector using unit vectors i and j

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What Is the Maximum Electrical Force Between Two Protons in a Cyclotron?

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Converting Acceleration to Velocity

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2 Forces problems (Halliday/Resnick/Walker, 7th Ed. book)

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Cant someone start a tutorial thread?

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Momentum problem with collision

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Using Cross Products To Find Electric Field Vector

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Power Density of Solar Cell Question

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Minimum friction for a banked curve at slower speed

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Spring scale pointer position and unknown weight

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Force on disc: angular velocity after 3 rotations

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Force of car pushing truck with 4500 N wheel force

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Photoelectric Effect: Calculating Electron Energy

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Has the current through battery 1 changed?

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Find the Speed of Carts After Exploding Spring

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Using Kirchoff's Laws to solve a circuit

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How Does Distance Affect the Work Done by an External Agent on a Charge?

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Need verify on a momment of inertia/torque problem

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How High Must a Toy Car Start to Complete a Frictionless Loop?

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Breakdown Potential in a cylinder

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Mathematical model for bullet deflection in armor

  • David W
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Window washer pulling with pulley at constant speed and with 9% force increase

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How to determine the brightness of a light bulb

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Partition Function of 2 State System

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Solving for Velocity in a Bead's Circular Motion

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Charged particle moving through parallel plates and magnetic field

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Electric potential difference for test charge between two negative rods

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How Long Does It Take for Ice to Double Its Thickness in Sub-Zero Temperatures?

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Bug sliding in an 11 cm bowl with friction on the bottom

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Why Is the Experimental R_eq Value Higher Than Theoretical?

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How Is the Potential Calculated at the Center of a Charged Copper Sphere?

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Calculating Potential Difference in a Parallel-Plate Capacitor

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Which way is the current flowing?

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How Is Charge Determined from Electric Potential and Distance?

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Is tension truly horizontal in a swung rubber stopper?

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Heat pumps and coeffiecent of performance

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Maximum steepness of a hill for a car to climb without slowing down

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Capacitance and Electrical Energy, Weird Question

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Cricket ball / projectile question

  • sarahcate
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Classical radius of an electron and its implications prob.

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Wave speed on a coil spring and finding frequency from pulses

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How Do You Calculate the Angle of the Net Magnetic Force in a Complex Field?

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What is the maximum speed the car can have to avoid hitting the barrier?

  • adamlazz
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Elevator Problem: 10700 Joules Lifts 3900N by 9 Ropes

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Work to move a proton, alpha particle, electron, and neutron to infinity

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Print ViewCalculating Flux for Hemispheres of Different Radii

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Significant figures when taking measurements.

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Acceleration due to air resistance?

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What is the Resistance of Resistor X?

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Understanding Circuits: Calculating Velocity at 25.5 km/h

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Why can I push a block and stay with it if we exert equal forces?

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Electric Fields at Points A, B, C, and D: How Do They Compare?

  • cy19861126
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Max # of 90W 120V Light Bulbs on 20A 120V Circuit

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Weight in Orbit? 0N on Spring Balance at 2.8M Triton Ht

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Determine the tension in each section of rope

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Gravitational potential energy of shuttle between two stars

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Are the Resistors in a Parallel Circuit and is 3.50 A the Total Current?

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Potential energy of three equal charges at triangle corners

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Rocket mass ratio for 8 km/s final speed with 2100 m/s exhaust

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Velocity of fluid from pressurized tank using Bernoulli's equation

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Calculating Voltage of Cloud After Lightning Bolt Transfer

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Average velocity with respect to distance

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Gravity's affect on the rebounce height of a tennis ball

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Why dont birds get electocuted when they are on power lines?

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Assuming acceleration is constant

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Simple Initial Velocity Problem

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Ratio of tensions in rod segments for rotating spheres

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Finding impulse and momentum in collision problem

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What is the force exerted by the rope?

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Collision of mass m with mass 2m at rest, m deflected 45°

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Collision between mass m and 2m at 45 degree deflection

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How Long Does It Take to Move a 0.1kg Object with a Tiny Force?

  • Thrawn
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What is the Terminal Voltage and Current for Various Batteries in a Circuit?

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How much does the spring compress when an elevator cable breaks?

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Difference between volts and voltage and what signs to use?

  • pugfug90
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Velocity and acceleration from a position equation

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Buoyancy of helium-filled sphere and U-tube with oil

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Relative Motion (Swimmer Crossing River Question)

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Does Flowing Water Trap and Release Air?

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Electric Field at Point 1 cm Left of Middle Charge (-3.5 µC Force)

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Phase shift from plastic covering one slit in double-slit experiment

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How can we accurately calculate work using changing acceleration?

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Factors Affecting Galvanic Cell Voltage

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Rock hanging from ceiling swinging uniform circular motion

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How Does Bragg's Law Determine the Angle of Gamma-Ray Deflection?

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Why does potential energy increase when moving +q toward +Q?

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Why Do Styrofoam Pieces Dance and Stick on a Charged Plastic Surface?

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Angular Velocity and static friction

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What Time Does a Projectile Make a 30° Angle with the Horizontal?

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Circular motion of a car and tires

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Resonant frequency calculation for lengths of thick wall steel pipe

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Moving oneself when in freefall?

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Torque/Static Equilibrium Problems

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