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Spiraling Towards the Center: Solving the Orbit Equation

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Solving Gauge Pressure: Automobile Tire at 20C and 50C

  • ch3570r
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Center of mass and velocity problem

  • kbyws37
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Calculating Rotational Speed for Wheel C: 240.7 rev/min

  • hatingphysics
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How Does Conservation of Angular Momentum Apply to Rotational Kinematics?

  • cheechnchong
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How do I solve this moments question?

  • CathyLou
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Problem Involving Elastic Collision .

  • bengaltiger14
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How Do You Calculate Torque and Rotational Inertia in Physics Problems?

  • draconicspectre
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Find the magnitude of a block pulling a 200 lb block

  • the_d
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The Earth's Rotational Speed: Where to Stand for Minimum Speed?

  • hatingphysics
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Calculating impulse with force and time, but getting units wrong

  • bengaltiger14
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Problem-Smallest radius of curvature

  • petal5
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Constant Angular Acceleration of a wheel

  • hatingphysics
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What Information Is Needed to Calculate the Angle of a Slide on a Hill?

  • you too
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Person's Distance from Shore After Moving 3m: Momentum & Center of Mass

  • vu10758
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Stopping Dist. Car @100km/h on Flat Surface

  • inner08
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How Does Gravity on a Foreign Planet Affect Movement and Physics?

  • blaster0
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Why does mg = mv²/R give the wrong answer for problem 8?

  • muna580
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Charged particle at angle to magnetic field experiences force 2.4F

  • MrDMD83
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Charged particle at what angle experiences 2.4 times the magnetic force?

  • MrDMD83
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Designing a Rocket Car for Maximum Distance

  • Michal
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How Do You Calculate the Average Force Exerted on a Stuntman by Mattresses?

  • BunDa4Th
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Why is the minimum resistance 2.4 ohms with 3 and 12 ohm resistors?

  • roxas
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Calculating Frictional Force and Time to Move a Box Across a Floor

  • Fanjoni
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How Does Air Resistance Affect Falling Objects?

  • elitespart
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A 4.00 kg block is pushed along the ceiling

  • chenny
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A girl coats down a hill on a sled

  • chenny
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Projectile motion and inital speed problem

  • sunbunny
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Projectile motion with people moving

  • sunbunny
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Kinematics Problem: Speed of Current, Velocity, Direction

  • ellusion
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How Thick Should the Aluminum Sheet Be for the Box to Float as Described?

  • Menisto
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Solving Two Pressure Problems: IV Feeding and Hydraulic Lift"

  • mikefitz
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Finding normal force with momentum

  • vu10758
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Calculating Angular Speed of Skaters Rotating in a Line

  • physikz
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How much current flows through the bar?

  • MrDMD83
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Understanding Force and Acceleration in Physics Problems

  • anderrod
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How Do I Correctly Draw This Free Body Diagram?

  • muna580
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Calculating Speed and Force of a 10m Dive

  • tennisacerg
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What is the approach for solving a non-inertial pendulum problem?

  • inner08
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Explaining the Nucleus: Positive Charges & Observations

  • vfdismer001
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This is not a h/w question circuitry problem

  • Werg22
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How Is Lift Force Calculated for a Helicopter?

  • tennisacerg
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Matching positions of receiver and ball in 2D kinematics

  • geoffjb
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Build a model plane that has to fly 20m

  • physicsrules
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Why Did an Image Form at the Focal Point in Our Concave Mirror Experiment?

  • jnimagine
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How Does Newton's 2nd Law Apply to Stopping Distance?

  • tennisacerg
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Does an Elevator Affect Your Weight?

  • tennisacerg
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Deriving the Inelastic 3-Body Equation for Colliding Balls with Different Masses

  • GreenSabbath
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Finding the Tension in a String Using Newton's Laws

  • AznBoi
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Bicycle wheel precession angle calculation error

  • lizzyb
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How Does Kinetic Friction Affect a Bowling Ball's Motion?

  • chaose
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Solve Statics Problem: Find Forces on Rod at Hinge & Peg

  • Menisto
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Work and Energy Theorem and Kinetic Energy

  • rmarkatos
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Does acceleration due to gravity increase or decrease in an elevator?

  • you too
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Calculating Pressure Difference in a Manometer with Oil/Mercury

  • mikefitz
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Gravitational force, impulse, and friction problems

  • _Pistolkisses
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Designing an experiment, i no how, just need a formular

  • me2
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Gravity's effect on velocity question

  • lzh
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Kinetic energy of 80 kg person falling from 8 m diving board

  • Warren
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Check my static equilibrium diagrams

  • bananan
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Space probe deceleration with work-energy theorem

  • rmarkatos
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Conservation of Potential Energy?

  • gbdusty
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Where to put calculations in a scientific report

  • big man
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Photons and the Photoelectric Effect

  • frankene
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Center of mass triangle problem

  • nicholas1
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Difference betten ac and dc generators

  • roxas
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How Do You Solve Newton's Force Problem with Given Mass and Acceleration?

  • oggorilla
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Struggling with A.P Physics Question on kWh to Joules Conversion

  • rmarkatos
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Block sliding up a frictionless 48° incline

  • toddler
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Find the force that moves him in this circular motion

  • rmarkatos
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Newton's Laws and Friction Applied to Blocks

  • BSCS
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Currents and magnetic fields in a coil

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Newtons 2nd Law just need to get started

  • toddler
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Friction or some force acting on momentum of an object

  • parwana
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Does an asteroid impact change a planet's day length?

  • lizzyb
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Finding the resultant of three forces on point J

  • Iceclover
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Friction and critical angle question.

  • Morsetlis
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What Is Voyager 2's Speed After Jupiter Slingshot?

  • Zonda
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Multiple homework problems on circular motion and energy

  • Stephanie
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Force needed to accelerate system to 30 ft/s over 20 ft

  • the_d
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Work and net work on a 50 kg crate pulled 40 m

  • chesshaha
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How Do You Calculate Time from Energy and Power?

  • melleyb
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How High Must a Propeller Fall to Match Its Rotational Energy?

  • rleung3
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Calculating Angular Momentum of Asteroid Impact on Planet

  • lizzyb
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Ladder problem - is there a mistake here ?

  • Fermat
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May we equate linear KE with rotational KE?

  • lizzyb
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What Are the Limits of an Experiment?

  • moomoocow
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The Graph About Torque And Mass

  • WARGREYMONKKTL
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This is way easy if you are smart

  • emerica86
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Are there conditions for using Newton's second law?

  • semc
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