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Building a mechanical object that jumps without springs or balloons

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Horizontal force on a 2.00 kg block on a 60° incline

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Energy to move mass (potential energy)

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Should I get a 150 dollar calculator for Physics B AP SAT Subject test?

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Calculating Steel String Length and Frequency for Optimal Guitar Performance

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How Does Rotation Affect Fluid Pressure and Surface Height in a Spinning Pan?

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Tennis ball launcher: predicting range with bungee cord energy

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Why Does a Helium Balloon Tilt Forward in an Accelerating Car?

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Find Spring Constant of Elastic Rope: Mountain Climber Problem

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What Is the Angle Between the Pendulum and the Vertical?

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Elastic Collision with 280kg Ball: Mass & KE Transfer Calculation

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Centripetal force question + other question

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A rockets force in different enviornments

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Refraction (magnification) - very basic

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How long must a lever be for a 50 kg boy to lift a 2500 kg boulder?

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Drinking in Zero Gravity: Challenges and Solutions

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Heat Transfer in Elephant Ears: Convection and Radiation

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Finding Equilibrium in a Weighted System

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Kinetic Energy and bowling ball Question

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Solving Sonar Wavelength for Bats Detecting Mosquitos

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How Do You Calculate the Center of Mass of a Composite Slab?

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Understanding Acceleration: Can It Be a Change in Speed or Direction?

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Spaceship time dilation calculations with negative results

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How Much Ice Melts in a Carnot Engine Cycle?

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What is the necessary gap width for thermal expansion of concrete sidewalks?

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Magnitude of the Force of a kick to a basketball

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Angular velocity of ball-mass system

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How Do Rotational Dynamics Affect Object Movement?

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Angular Momentum of Disk Question

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How can the Dobbler Effect be used to monitor fetal heartbeats?

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How Do Tension and Torque Affect Equilibrium in Physics Problems?

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Among Simple harmonic oscillation, simple pendulum and physical pendulum

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How Long Does It Take to Heat a Room Using Newton's Law of Cooling?

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How Fast Are Charged Particles Moving When Halfway Together?

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How to Apply Friction and Gravity to a 3D Velocity Vector?

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Calculating Protons after 2 Seconds - R and C Values

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How Does a Cylinder Roll Down an Inclined Plane?

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I have a few questions, this one is special relativity.

  • chevycamaro1987
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Solving Pinball Machine Spring Force Problem

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Probably an easy kinematics question

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Student Librarian Does Work on Book

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How Much Work Does a Crane Do to Lift Soil?

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What is the angle of the rope in Physics 11 problem 10?

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.Calculating 'k' and 'w' in Wave Problem

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Finding oil density from a floating wood block

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Tension in cable holding submerged lead in water

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Calculating Enthalpy of Neutralization in Calorimetry Experiment

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Astronomy/Astrophysics Exam Assistance Needed!

  • robertlouis
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BIENT PRESSURE: Can Vacuum Pressure be Multiplied?

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Diver seeing lake-bed reflected in water surface at critical angle

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K; the force constant of a spring

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Heat Flow through Three Rods problem

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Rotational speed of the minute hand of a watch

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Calculating Longest Wavelength of Light to Eject Electrons

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Solving Heat Transfer Rate for 10 mm Ice Layer at -5°C

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Electric Forces; Coloumb's Law question

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Where Can I Find Past Papers for Edexcel Nuffield AS Level Physics?

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Find the moment of inertia about the x axis

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Multiple kinematics problems from AP physics homework

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Conductive Heat Loss from a House

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Do Rotational Inertia Calculations Require Integration?

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Work done against repulsive Coulomb force

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Wave motion is expressed with trigonometric functions

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[thermodynamics] spherical shell problem

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Sound Wave Intensity/Sound Level

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Finding tensions and masses in equilibrium systems

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Force of gravity if the Earth's radius, r = r/2

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Finding Projectile Velocity with a Spring Launcher - Kinematics Equations

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Calculating Distance in Two Different Methods

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Find the magnitude and direction of the electric force

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Time for a wheel to complete one revolution at 3.0 rad/s

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Number of photons emitted between transitions

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How Does Ore Loading Affect Kinetic Energy and Momentum of a Car?

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Why Do Equal Torques Keep a Lever in Equilibrium?

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Calculating Torque of a Uniform Door Due to its Own Weight

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Projectile Motion of a golf ball

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Minimal speed for projectile to reach point (x, y)

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Velocity of mass in double pulley system

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How to calculate the comet's speed?

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Electrostatics coulomb's law problem

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Find translational Ke Rotational Ke

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Projectile motion football problem

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Can Sound Travel Fast Enough to Warn a Man of a Falling Flower Pot?

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Find the natural frequency of a system of two pendulums

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What Is the Acceleration of a Block on a Contracting Spring?

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Understanding Resonance: Causes and Effects in Oscillating Systems

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Estimate the speed of the waves of the coffee

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What is the required force to lift a suitcase 0.75 meters?

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Calculating Tension in Wires Supporting a Lithograph

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