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Finding tension when a human stands on an accelerating sled

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Solving Forces Confusion: Finding Chris's Force on Chair

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How does magnet position affect induced current direction in a coil?

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How Far Does a Block Fall When Released from an Unstretched Spring?

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Estimating Work on the Ferris Wheel: George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.

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Solving the Ferris Wheel Problem: Estimating Work Requirement

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Finding current and voltage in a multi-loop circuit

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Stumped: How to Calculate Force of Car-Wall Collision

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Momentum conservation in collisions and swimmer diving off boat

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How Do I Solve This Work/Energy Problem?

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Calculating Pressure for Stacked Books on Glass Coffee Table

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Calculate Average Power: 60kg Woman Running Up 4m Stairs in 6s

  • wakejosh
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Calculating Water Volume for Energy Storage in Electric-Power Plants

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What is an electron energy level?

  • Werg22
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How Do You Calculate the Coefficient of Kinetic Friction on an Incline?

  • aeroengphys
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32 kg box pulled at 54.5° with kinetic friction coefficient 0.330

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Fletcher's Cart Lab: What is it?

  • NIZBIT
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What is the Work Done by a Pitcher on a Baseball?

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Solving a Physics Problem: Block Sliding on Hemisphere without Friction

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Why rubber should be used for plane wheels?

  • john89
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Find the total mechanical energy.

  • YMasoud
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What is the force exerted on the liquid by the pot?

  • Northstar
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Centripetal Force of a tied ball

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How fast must you throw a snowball against a wall in order to make it melt?

  • twotaileddemon
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Calculating Blood Velocity in the Aorta

  • mikefitz
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Difference between pendulum with a peg

  • *best&sweetest*
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What is the velocity of a wrecking ball at a 20.0 degree angle?

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A problem from giamcoli ( it is )

  • oahsen
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Forces, velocities, and angles

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Is a rocket explosion elastic or inelastic from energy loss?

  • Touchme
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Finding average force with out taking mass into account

  • xrotaryguy
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Pulley system with hanging and resting masses

  • the_quack
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Bullet Hits Disc: Velocity of Inelastic Collision

  • satishinamdar
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How Does Projectile Angle Affect Range in Motion Physics?

  • Cole07
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Understanding Forces on a Box: Basic Physics Question"

  • MattsVai
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Calculating Speed from Acceleration and Time

  • wakejosh
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How Do You Calculate the Radius of the Sun Using Its Angular Size?

  • needhelp83
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Pulling on a cylinder and energy lost to friction

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Why does an image appear when an object is at the focus of a concave mirror?

  • jnimagine
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Calculating Angular and Radial Acceleration in Circular Motion

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How much thermal energy is produced in this collision?

  • bosox3790
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An emf self-induced in a solenoid of inductance L changes. .

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How many grams are in one kilogram?

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Solving for Block Position After 3.3J Work on Spring-Block System

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What is the percent of energy lost in an inelastic collision?

  • *best&sweetest*
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Find Spring Position After Attaching 2.7kg Mass

  • bosox3790
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Angular acceleration of a cooling fan decelerating to a stop

  • vinny380
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Calculating Momentum Change with an Impulse of 25 N~s

  • you too
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Conservation of momentum (should be easy)

  • gbdusty
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Why Is the Polar Form of the Position Vector Defined as r = r\vec{r}?

  • sherlockjones
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What Are the Three Basic Formulas in Physics?

  • Physics_n00b
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What is the minimum work needed to push a car

  • bosox3790
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Solving Physics Problem: Find Distance up Incline (Grade 11)

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How Do You Calculate Initial Speed on a Frictionless Incline?

  • bosox3790
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How Long Will It Take for a Car to Accelerate from 55 km/h to 75 km/h?

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Position of CM for 3 Cubes Along a Line

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Torque and work on 183kg flywheel with 0.63m radius

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Calculating Fraction of Kinetic Energy Transferred in Head-on Collision

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Torque with pulleys and bucket of water

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Which Friction Coefficient Applies to a Skidding Car on Ice?

  • wakejosh
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Understanding Vector Rotation and Derivation of Angular Velocity Formula

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Converting feet to foose using Ann's height

  • wakejosh
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Calculating Tension in a Rotating Hoop

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Pilot flying square path in diagonal 60km/h wind

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Maximum Depth for Organisms Under the Sea

  • mikefitz
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Torque? Rotation it has the Word Pivot

  • Kalie
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How Does the Deltoid Muscle Maintain Arm's Static Equilibrium?

  • Kalie
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Conservation of Momentum and Energy in Elastic Collisions

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Will moving closer to the fulcrum impact the balance of a see-saw?

  • bengaltiger14
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Can you me with this conceptual question?

  • *best&sweetest*
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Calculate Velocity of 100 lb Block Dropped onto Stiff Spring

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How Does an Electric Field Affect the Stability of Gas Induced Dipoles?

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One more impulse problem Hopefully

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Checking my electricity homework answers

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How would I find the reversal potential for conductance

  • madbeemer
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Calculating Frequency for a Vertical Circle

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What is the Kinetic Energy at Point A?

  • muna580
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Particle undergoes a displacement

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Experimenting with a Concave Mirror and a Candle

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Projectile launch point problem

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Bullet embedded in wooden block slides 7.5 m

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Calculate Magnitude of Target Body Momentum After Projectile Collision

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Conservation of angular momentum on a piano stool

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Zero Torque and static equilibrium

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Does sand or water exert greater impulse when stopping a jump?

  • TheHamburgler1
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Orbital Radius of Earth Satellite: Solve for r

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Conservation of Momentum in a Moving System

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How Do You Calculate Spring Length and Ball Speed in Circular Motion?

  • mathzing
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Conceptual Problem with Springs and Energy

  • Dorothy Weglend
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Elastic Collision of hockey pucks

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Work done compressing a spring with k=290 N/m

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How Does Passenger Movement Affect Airplane Momentum?

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Calculating Energy Absorption of 2.0kg Bag of Ice

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