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Forces - friction, centripetal

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How Do You Calculate the Length of a Swinging Rod in a Physical Pendulum?

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How Do You Calculate Force on a Passenger in an Accelerating Elevator?

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Why Is Electrostatics Confusing in Physics Homework?

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Energy and Simple Harmonic Motion.

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Energy and Simple Harmonic Motion - Part II.

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How Fast Does a Block Move on a Spring?

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How Does the Phase Angle in SHM Equations Affect Displacement and Energy?

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How does torque relate to changes in angular momentum?

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Centripetal motion - swinging a bucket full of water

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Simple harmonic oscillation question

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Understanding Electric Field: Why is it Greater at Sharp Points?

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Cat & Turntable: Angular Velocity Comparison?

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How Does the Index of Refraction Change Across Different Materials?

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Period for real-life spring experiment

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Kinetic Engergy in a Quantum Oscillator

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Why Water is the Preferred Coolant for Car Engines: 3 Reasons Explained

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Distance problem, Using Launcher need to find objects distance

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Angular Momentum: Clarifying a Problem

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Momentum-Intuitive feeling required

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How Does a Pulley with a Mechanical Advantage of 2 Affect Force?

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Calculating EMF from Coils in Rotating Magnetic Field

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Exploring Periods in a Pendulum Lab with Logger Pro

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How can I convert kilograms to centimeters?

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Calculating Force Required to Drag a Carton of Books

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How Does Mass and Height Affect the Angular Speed of a Rotating Bicycle Wheel?

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Block hanging from spring when a second block is added

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Vertical Circular Motion on Excalibur Ride

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How Is Acceleration Calculated for a Freely Falling Yoyo?

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Calculating Orbital Parameters of Halley's Comet

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Is Strain Dimensionless According to Dimensional Analysis?

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Oscillation equilibrium problem

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How do i find the value of cos(theta)

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Finding the Minimum Coefficient of Friction Equation

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Motion involving both translation and rotation

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Why is my angular velocity wrong when rings slide off a rotating rod?

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Finding the density of a liquid with buoyancy

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What is the tension in the cylindrical wire?

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Angular Momentum (train on a track)

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How Does Stirring Affect Water's Temperature Increase?

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Gravitational Attraction Between Two Balls

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Period T & Length: Can the Term in Parentheses be Constant?

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Finding velocity taking the pulley into consideration

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Calculating Diving Board Force: 596N Diver, 1.9m from Fulcrum, 114N Board

  • TheHamburgler1
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Is My Calculation for Cylinder and Piston Height Correct?

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What will be the potential difference?

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Deciding on a Field of Physics: A 4th Year Undergrad's Story

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What is the period of oscillation in this graph?

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Calculating Gauge Pressure in a Steady Water Flow System

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Hard nuclear physics cross section problem

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Equilibrium problem with a building: I can't figure it out

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I with some Equilibrium problems

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Conservation of rotational energy

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Angular Momentum of a playground ride

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Finding the Maximum Time for a Rocket's Flight Using Kinematics

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Impossible problem? [Varibles ONLY]

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What Happens When a Force is Applied to a Yoyo?

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Calculating Forces in a Rotating Lunch Tray

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Viscosity and density of glycerol

  • THE 1
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Paperthickness measured by radiation

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Angular momentum and linear momentum

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How Do You Solve a Pulley System Problem with Frictionless Incline?

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Calculate Entropy Change for Adiabatic Process of Argon Gas

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Exactly Why doesn't the moon fall and strike the earth?

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Bullet hitting block attached to spring

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Calculating the required energy for throwing a tennis ball into space

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How Does Speed Affect Car Fuel Efficiency and Required Forces?

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Understanding the Relationship Between Static and Kinetic Friction on Wet Roads

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Gravity Problem Help - Find Acceleration of Gravity 3000 Miles Above Earth

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Elastic Potential Energy Question tough

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Work Input vs Work Output in Pulley Systems

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What will be the amplitude and frequency of vibration

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Force acting on a particle between a tube and a wire (elektrodynamics)

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A Solid Sphere Release From Rest at the top of a Ramp.

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The Sun's Power Output: Solving for P

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Explanation needed in angular acceleration

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Solving the Problem: Work, Power & Friction

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Fluids bernoulli's equation problem

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How Quickly Can a Rock Be Hoisted with Limited String Strength?

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Solving a Physics Problem: How Far Will the Ball Land?

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What is the tension in the coupling

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How Do You Convert Different Units of Measurement in Physics?

  • soulja101
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Reason for Different Focus Distances in Converging Lens Lab

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Find Speed and conservation of energy.

  • soulja101
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Calculate ME of a Pendulum: Length 130 cm, Amplitudes 2.1 & 3.9 cm

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Proving the Law of Conservation of Momentum: An Example

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High Road Low Road: Energy Principles Comparison

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How Does Friction Affect Rotational Motion in Physics Problems?

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How Do You Solve These Challenging Physics B Problems?

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Satellite Problems: Find Velocity of Satellite 3600km Above Earth

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Radius of Curvature of Convex Mirror: -17.39 cm

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Finding torque (vector cross product)

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E&M Physics. Potential Difference

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