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How Does Wattage Affect Rowing Performance and Energy Costs?

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Force created from kinetic energy

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Ocean swimmer 5km from coast with N70E lighthouse bearing

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Yearly Income from 2.12E9 W of Energy at 1.8 Cents/kW-hr

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Source for HARD Dynamics problems?

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Heat engine run in reverse to freeze water at 0°C

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Capacitor and resistor in a flowing liquid

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What is a "g" for electric fields?

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Calculate Engine Efficiency: 0.490 kJ of Heat for 0.120 kJ of Work

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Calculating Speed of a Block on a Spring: Friction vs. No Friction

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Very basic current direction question

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Difference in Potential and Resistance in Series Circuits

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Magnetic Fields, Current, and Tension

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Understanding d and Δ in Integration

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Learn About Refraction of Light Experiment

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Normal force on a 510 kg roller coaster at point A

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How much ice must melt at 0 deg. C to gain 6 g of mass?

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Current in DC Circuit: 8.41 x 10^19 Electrons in 2s

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Increasing current by a factor of 48

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Polarising effects from plastics

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Flunked this test correct answers needed

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How will a capacitor influence a lightbulb?

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Electromagnetism - Lorentz Force

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Max and Min Forces for Non-Slip Block on Inclined Wedge

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How much ice must melt at 0 deg. C to gain 5 g of mass?

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Angular Acceleration of a Moving Wheel

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Electric Field and an Uniformly Charge Plastic Pipe

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Calculating Minimum Radius for a Stunt Plane Dive

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Ice cooling tea from 30.1°C to 27.3°C

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A couple resistance/power problems

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Find the Current of a circuit, all you are given is P= .4W

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A little question causing big problems

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Calculating Force Between Two Conducting Spheres

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What Is the Distance of Closest Approach in a Particle Collision?

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Direction of field inside and outside a magnetic dipole

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How do you find F without the second Mass?

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An Ice Cube is Added to a Thermos of Coffee

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Basics of quintic and quadratic expressions

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Understanding Molecular Motion: Diffusion of Phospholipids in Bacteria

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Why do parallel wires with identical currents attract each other?

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Wavelength of light in photoelectric effect with sodium

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A gun that fired charged particles

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Quick Current and Resistance problem

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What is the Correct Force to Move a Package Up an Incline?

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Force to accelerate an electron and power for loaded elevator systems

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Probing Atomic Nuclei with Electron Scattering.

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Estimate Mass H2O Vapor in 1 m^3 Air at +20°C

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Solve Kinetic Questions - 2 Examples

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Find Electric Field of 0.965nC Insulating Sphere Above -7.90 nC Sheet

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What is the objects velocity when it hits the earth

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Interesting problem - movement of dialectric

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Two Fairly Basic Thermodynamics Questions

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Current from two parallel batteries with no resistance

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How Long Does It Take a Crane to Lift a Load to Maximum Velocity?

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Deriving Simple Harmonic Motion Equations

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Homework Problem: How to solve a projectile problem with given information?

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NONUNIFORM Vol. Charge Density - V at the center of sphere

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Speed of ball leaving spring gun with friction force

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Maximum angular frequency for two blocks on a spinning turntable

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Assistance required for following

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Magnetic field strength and SHM

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Solving for Velocity Vector Angle of 45.0

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How Do Divers Calculate Impact Velocity and Maximum Height Reached?

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How Does Increasing Plate Separation Affect Capacitor Energy Storage?

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Constructive interference of two sound waves with given intensities

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Sketching Electric Field Patterns for Charged Objects

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Finding maximum contact force for tennis ball bouncing off wall

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How High Can a Motor Lift a Mass Using a Charged Capacitor?

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How can Kirchoff's rules be used to determine current values in a circuit?

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Energy used by a CD player, and height in mgh

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Current through a cell membrane with given potential difference

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Friction Problem: Calculating Acceleration and Tension in a Pulley System

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Will the Block Move and What is Its Acceleration?

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Angle between vectors and spring constant for car crash

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Understanding Resistance and Temperature in Electrical Circuits

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Lighting a Banquet Table: Series vs. Parallel Circuits

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Solve 10.0 µF Capacitor Problem: Find Value of C

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Yo-Yo Question - Rotational motion/angular momentum

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Calculate Neutral Electrons for Aluminium Nail

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How Fast Does a Rock Fall on Jupiter?

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Box sliding off accelerating truck: when does it fall off?

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Did my tutor give an incorect equation?

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How Do You Calculate Pool Depth Using Refraction Principles?

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Angular momentum question (from kleppner's book).

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Troubleshooting Multiple Optics Problems: Finding the Final Image Location

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Newtonian mechanics - extended rigid body's rotation, moment of inertia

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What is the internal energy of air in a room at 20˚C?

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How Deep Does the Fish Appear in the Tank Mirror?

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Flywheel, rotational mechanics problem

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Y-component of Electrostatic Force

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Finding electric field direction and charge for falling bead

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Why do we feel lighter when accelerating on a bike downhill?

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