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Rotational kinematics/dynamics problem

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What Is the Net Force on the Moon During Eclipses?

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Two Problems on Rotation of a Rigid Body

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Calculating Wheel Torque to Accelerate Up a Hill

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Work Done on a Bucket in a Well

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Can the Crew's Plan to Fragment an Asteroid Succeed?

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Gauge Pressure (teacher completely skip this)

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Bouyancy - throwing rock overboard

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How much work is done by the gas?

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Elastic head-on collision homework

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How to Calculate Power Supplied to Resistors in This Circuit?

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What is the minimum power required to operate the heat pump?

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Maximum current IN the resistor

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Plug cos^2(30) into my scientific calculator

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What happens to circular motion when the radius changes?

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How Does the Cyclone Roller Coaster at Six Flags Use Physics Principles?

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Mass of a Spring: Does it Affect the Period?

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Understanding Simple Gravity Pendulum - Urgent Help Needed

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Finding the Spring Constant - Help Algebra Issues

  • courtney1121
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Perfect heat powered engine, my TA says:

  • wakejosh
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OUNT OF WORK INPUT FOR A CARNOT REFRIGERATOR

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Calculating Work Done by Gravity on a Ski Slope

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How Do You Measure Tension in a Rubber Band Wrapped Around a Cylinder?

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How is Vmax Derived as 2πfA from Given Formulae?

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What are some helpful resources for calculating stress and strain in beams?

  • Michaelcarson11
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What is the heat of a system when it expands by 0.67 m^3?

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Moments of Inertia-Big Confusion

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Melting Ice in water and the final Temperature

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How Long to Heat 250g of Water with a 250-Watt Heater?

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How Does Skier Speed Affect Wave Frequency and Wavelength?

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Crystal Questions: Calculating Distances & Atom Positions

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How Do Fluid Dynamics Affect Medical and Environmental Applications?

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Calculating Resonant Lengths of Air Columns

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Distance relationship between primary/secondary coils

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Ratio of Resultant Wave to Common Amplitude: Pi/2 Rad Out of Phase

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Work to move a planet's satellite

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Calculating Internal Energy at Victoria Falls

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Finding the Length of a Resonating Air Column

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How Long is an Organ Pipe That Resonates at 128Hz?

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Electrostatics: A square with point charges on the corners

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Coefficient of Friction of a wooden box

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Calculating Interference Fringe Spacing with a Point Source and Mirror

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Calculating 2nd and 3rd Resonant Lengths

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The Bio-Savart Law applied to a square loop

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Conservation of Linear Momentum of exploding object

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Weight on the surface of a black hole ()

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A couple of problems on motion and force

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Triangle Problem Homework: Solving for Ball Speed After Collision

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Resultant Wave Shape When 2 Semicircles Meet

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Minimum energy required to escape the grav field

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Force/Energy Problem: Jump from Window

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Calculating Heat Added/Removed to Ideal Gas System

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Calculating Speed of Military Airplane at Mach 2.00

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Calculating Mach Number of Aircraft at Sea Level

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Calculating Mass of Unknown in Torque Lab

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What is the Angle Between the Target and Incident Ball Post-Collision?

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Volume of Bubble: Solve for V2 at Depth of 30 m

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Solve Pendulum Problem: Length .76m, Mass .365kg, Angle 12˚

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Potential Energy Homework: Particle x Separation and Kinetic Energy E

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Physics 11: Solving for Initial Speed of a Van and Compact Car Collision

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Solve Physics 11 Problem 16 with Momentum | Help with Calculations

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Solving Physics Problem 23: Velocity Ratio for Students on Roller Skates

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How Do You Solve Momentum and Impulse Problems?

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Max Weight for Newton Law Problem Homework

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Angular Velocity after addition of mass?

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How Can Physics Solve These Complex Problems?

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Max Height of 2kg Object in Newton Law Problem

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Could you calculate the mass of the planet?

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Moment of Inertia for a circular platform system

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Work - Acceleration of an elevator

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Calculating Buoyancy of Steel Boat

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Heat capacity problem-wher am i going wrong?

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Thermodynamics Debacle: Ideal Gas Expansion and Work Calculation

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Thermodynamics temperature question

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Calculating the Ratio of Planetary Orbital Periods

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How to solve for unknowns in a spring constant problem

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Why Do Floating Logs Move in the Opposite Direction When You Walk on Them?

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Modeling an electron in a Magnetic Field

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The effect of temperature on frequency

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Momentum problem due this Tuesday

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Moment of inertia for a rhombus

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Yo-yo & Torque: Force, Linear and Rotational Motion

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How Do You Solve This Momentum and Projectile Motion Problem?

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General Question- Compuing velocity of a center of mass

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