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Climber hanging from a cliff and acceleration

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What Is the Probability of Two Random Walkers Meeting Again After N Steps?

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Solve for Smallest Theta for Slider to Reach A

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Force on a current-carrying rod

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Finding angle of net electric force using arctan(Fy/Fx)

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Coefficient of Kinetic Friction on an Incline

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Unit for Gravitational Attraction Between Objects?

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Coulomb force magnitude calculations with three charges

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Kirchhoff's rules with three batteries in series

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Distance between two electrons where electric force balances gravity

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Frictional force on a 15-N cart in a jet cruising at constant velocity

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Calculating Energy Needed to Fill a 100ft Round Tank with Gasoline

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Solving Vector Measurement Concerns in Lab

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Solve for θ to get the angle of the hill.

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Calculating Impulse and Momentum for a Dump Truck

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Calculating Detection Distance of Superconducting Gravity Meter

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Compute the tangential acceleration

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Tension in a chin strap producing 5 N upward force

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Question regarding average velocity

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Potential Difference of Capacitors

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Projectile Motion of a Jet Fighter: Calculating Velocity, Energy, and Power

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Spring constant and maximum acceleration

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Net electrostatic forces on three collinear charged balls

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Frictional Force 2: Find Coefficient of Kinetic Friction on Ice

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Block going up frictionless incline

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Weightlessness while in the air

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Grav. Force - Mass of an object

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Calculating Frictional Work for Slowing Down a Car

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How Fast and at What Angle Must a Daredevil Jump to Cross a Canyon?

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Work done by force F = bx³ from x = 0 to x = 2.2 m

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Find Height at 0.5v Velocity for Projectile

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Newton's Second Law and car acceleration

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What is the speed of the ball 10.0 sec later?

  • Peterson
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Questions about the ideal gas law - thermodynamics

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Keys dropped from a Ferris wheel at 45° and three-quarters height

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Eclipsing binary system with 1 year period: magnitude and separation

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Collision in 2 dimensions (Momentum)

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How Far Will a Car Travel Up a Hill After Running Out of Gas?

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Apparently simple canoe problem - or not?

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Constructive/Destructive Interference Problem.

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Coulomb potential barrier calculation and fm units

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Two charged spheres suspended from a point repel 24cm apart

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Calculating Internal Energy Loss from Friction in Satellite Fall

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Pulley Question - Are the axes wrong?

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What is the speed of sound at this temperature?

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Solving Final Image Formed from Convex and Concave Lens

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How Do You Calculate Distance Traveled Using a Speed/Time Graph?

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Calculate Perigee Apogee Ratio for Satellite in Earth's Orbit

  • brunie
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Finding Minimum Separation of Object and Image in a Converging Lens

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What Is the Plane's Acceleration Based on Pendulum Shift?

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Potential difference between points in a parallel plate capacitor

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Average velocity vector question. Try again

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Why are all equipotential line voltages positive in dipole lab?

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Ferry crossing a river at angle to current

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Change in Pendulum's Period with temperature.

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Temperature Dependence on Pressure Change in Gases

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How Do You Calculate Particle Kinetics and Potential Energy Changes?

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Two masses connected via pulley: find acceleration

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What is the electric field strength at the center of the triangle?

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Force between two blocks pushed by 12N

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Projectile on a 15° slope with 60° launch angle

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The net force on a moving positive charge

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Magnetic Field with Time Dependence

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Wheel Rotation: Vertical or Horizontal?

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Identifying Stress in Three Rods: A Practical Approach

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How to Make a Capacitator Using Aluminum Foil and Wax Paper?

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How Fast Should a Rock Be Thrown to Hit a Runner at 93 Yards?

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How can we effectively solve problems involving concave parabolic mirrors?

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How High to Aim Above a Target to Correct for Gravity?

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What type of spectrum does a heated rock emit?

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How I can get the Velocity from knowing the distance

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Heat removed from a gas in a cylinder

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What Initial Velocity Ensures a Glass Slides Off a Table with Coulomb Friction?

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Circular Motion Problem: Downy Ball in Rotating Washing Machine

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Ship displacement with lighthouse bearing N27E

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Does Redshift Indicate Mutual Movement Between Distant Galaxies?

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What are the tensions in the strings for a rotating object?

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Infinite resistance of a Voltmeter

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Need Answer Check - Potential Energy

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What Angle Does the Electron's Velocity Make with the Magnetic Field?

  • Dart82
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Who first measured sound waves and how do tuning forks measure them?

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Max. magnetic force on an electron

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Finding support reactions for a truss with method of joints

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Force in a Spanish Burton Rig pulley system

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Problems that I got wrong and still don't understand

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Solving Circuit with 3 Lightbulbs: Find Power & Voltage

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Calculating Power of an Electromagnetic Wave from a Single Photon Source

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Centripetal And Centrifugal Forces

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What Causes the Net Force on a Displaced Ship in SHM?

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Gravity of Sun at the Earth's Orbit

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Algebra Question: vector equations

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How Do Sustained Consonants Like Shhhh Appear on an Oscilloscope?

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What units are used when measuring Log(I) in Amperes?

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