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Volume of vessel occupied by molecules

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How to Calculate Distance and Speed in a Uniformly Accelerating System

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How do fuel cells separate electrons from protons without extreme heat?

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Find the smallest diameter of an opaque object

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Angular Velocity Dynamics (Easy?)

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Mass in rotating circular tube and spring extension problems

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Several Energy Related Questions

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Solving Fourier Series for Periodic Functions

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Elastic potential energy of toy car

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Focus moonlight wth a mirror system

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Monkey and sled moving up an incline with friction

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Finding the fulcrum position for a lever lifting a moose

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Power of Water Pump (from continuity?)

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How Does Cutting a Spring in Half Affect Its Oscillation Period?

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Hoop Rolling Up Ramp: Confirm if Altitude Higher Than in Part A?

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Calculating Satellite Height and Velocity for Geostationary Orbit

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How Does Tension Affect a Bicycle on an Incline?

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Conservation of energy (rotation+translation)

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Need Assistance with Physics Paper on Shuttle Launching

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Construct a Device to Move Across a Wire

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Calculating Angular Speed of a Bar/Glob System After Impact

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How do you calculate half-life for radioactive isotopes?

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Calculating Acceleration of an Object with Drag

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Physics 11 work done by friction

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Falling object (gravity + kinematics)

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Physics 11 kinetic and potential energy2

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Physics 11 Force and potential energy

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Mechanical Energy Transfer in a Spring System

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How Much Force Does Pam's Rocket Pack Generate?

  • Iceclover
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Increase power consumption with a capacitor

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Physics 11, kinetic energy problem

  • Iceclover
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Where can I find information on torque?

  • aeroengphys
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More friction-related wackiness

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Projectile fired at 38 degrees with 3.3 m/s horizontal velocity

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SHM: Half Energy at Displacement

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Bicycle and Pulley: What Will the Scale Read in Two Different Examples?

  • brianinbwangju
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Spring-mass system with nearest neighbor couplings

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Why Does the Cord Break at 200 N Tension in the Elevator Problem?

  • Gauss177
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Finding magnetic flux between two coils with mutual inductance

  • 6Stang7
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Why doesn't a roller coaster fall at the top of a loop?

  • IMGOOD
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What is the Largest Possible Radius for a Safe Vertical Loop?

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Calculating Diaphragm Acceleration in a Loudspeaker

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Calculating Artificial Gravity for Different Radii on a Space Station

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How Do You Analyze Motion Using V-T Graphs?

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Gravitational force on one sphere from three others in a square

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Solving for Kinetic Energy at Top of Loop-the-Loop

  • dkgojackets
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One more: three block, a table, and a pulley

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Max Acceleration of Oscillating Platform

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Does a bouncing rubber ball or stuck clay apply more impulse to a door?

  • 8parks11
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Why Doesn't Water Spill from a Bucket Tied to a String in Circular Motion?

  • oliviecheng
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Force and potential energy of a particle

  • dkgojackets
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Stone fired at 5.5 m/s with 2.3 J kinetic energy at maximum height

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What is the formula for calculating the speed of light?

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Accepting/Rejecting Measurement of 58mm Using Cahvenenet's Criterion

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Changing components back into general

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Pressure - breathing through a reed

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Acceleration of 1.53 kg mass falling with rotating pulley

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Torque Problem: Solving for Angular Acceleration and Velocity | Homework Help

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Average Power delivered to Engine

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Why Does Sphere's Angular Velocity Differ with Different Reference Points?

  • Dorothy Weglend
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Force of friction on a sled pulled at 53 degrees

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Calculating the coefficicent of friction

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Easy question, I'm sure its something simple I'm overlooking

  • Animal
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How many 60 Hz wavelengths span 5000 km?

  • samdiah
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Calculate Interference in thin films

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Do I use a system of equations for this projectile motion?

  • phantomcow2
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How Do You Calculate the Acceleration and Tension in a Pulley System?

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Diffraction of Light through Single Slit

  • samdiah
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How far is the football displaced from its original position?

  • Makaroon
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Rope Tension in Static Equilibrium

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Why use sine instead of cosine for SHM equation

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Calculate the potential energy of a rope hanging

  • Gregie666
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What Happens to a Copper Wire Carrying 400A at 12V After One Second?

  • ToTalk
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Incidence angle in a Fraunhofer single slit problem

  • Resero
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Calculating the Minimum Velocity of a Pygmy Blowgun Dart

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Drag racing (a symbolic power problem)

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Electricity: series and parallel circuit

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Question on Temperature/Kinetic Theory in AP Physics B

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Calculate the average force exerted on the driver by the seat belt

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Analysis about the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics

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How Does Energy Dissipate in an LR Circuit with a 10V Battery?

  • 6Stang7
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Average force exerted on the coin by the soil

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How Thick is the Mica in the Double-Slit Experiment?

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Conceptual Electric Charge Problem - No Math, but I don't quite get it

  • ToTalk
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Minimum force to prevent small cube sliding down large cube

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Velocity, Period, and Transverse Wave

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Hiker traveling south in two segments with different velocities

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Force needed to lift a wheelbarrow over a brick obstacle

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Why do denser particles move outward in a centrifuge?

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Rotational dynamics/Rigid objects in equilibrium

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