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Velocity of an electron exam question

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How Does a Spherometer Measure Curvature?

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Block floating at the interface between mercury and water

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Radial Force on a Spinning Merry-Go-Round

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Calculating Velocity of Clothes in a Dryer

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Understanding Centripetal Force Lab Calculations

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What is the original kinetic energy of the player?

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Aircraft at constant velocity with 225 kN thrust and drag force 10v²

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What are the forces acting on the tow-truck?

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Pullin a string to add energy to a wheel

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At what angle does a sliding solid leave a ball?

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Why Does a Compass Needle Dip Downward?

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Force and Projectile Motion Questions

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What Is the Jet Stream Wind Speed Affecting East-West Flight Durations?

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What does the moment of inertia depend on?

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Rocket Experiment: Why Calculations Were Off

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Can a Metal Box Effectively Shield a Sensitive Magnetic Instrument?

  • Amith2006
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Calculating Frictional Force on a Sliding Bead

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Bullet lodging in chair sliding on wooden floor

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Matching position, velocity, and angular graphs for a spinning wheel

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Why Does an Aluminium Rod Slow Down When a Current is Produced?

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Find Coefficient of Friction: Grindstone Problem

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How to Calculate Determinants for a Matrix with Linear Algebra?

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Distance Rolled by 2.2cm Coin in 9.034s

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Angular acceleration of a softball

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Calculating Mass of Cart After Transfer of Energy with a Running Boy

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How Do You Calculate Electric Potential with Opposite Charges?

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Work Definition: Force x Distance vs. Force x Displacement

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Rocket experiment: conservation of energy

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What is the Lagrange Point Between Jupiter and the Sun for a Space Probe?

  • Forceflow
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Why normal force and static friction do no work on objects

  • parwana
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Two skaters with masses of 62 kg and 50 kg

  • nx2000
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What is the approximate diameter of the moon.

  • zman459
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Calculating the Angle Between Two Vectors

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How Do You Calculate the Height of a Wedge in a Physics Problem?

  • parwana
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Skateboarder launching from 30° ramp at 7 m/s

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Momentum and Impulse during a collision

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Conservation of Momentum in Collisions

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What Is the Angle Where a Mass Leaves a Frictionless Sphere?

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Calculating Average Force: Hockey Goalie Stops 59m/s Puck in 0.0021s

  • TheHamburgler1
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How Do Phase and Group Velocities Behave in Relativistic Electron Waves?

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Ripples moving inward in a circular wave pulse using group and phase velocity

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How Does Angular Momentum Affect a Skater's Spin?

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Why doesn't the pendulum ball hit the demonstrator on its return swing?

  • parwana
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Difference between hooke's law and the work done in a spring?

  • dnt
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Solving a Block and Inclined Plane Problem

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What Is Being Disturbed in a Wave of Light?

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Rolls down a ramp and bounces back up

  • Captain Zappo
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Motion of ring/body down an incline

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Projectile Motion #3: Cross River in 47s at 3.64 m/s

  • Kildars
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Solving Hard Problems in Physics: Finding Minimum Force and Acceleration

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Damped Oscillations: Mass 300 g, k=1.50 N/m, b in kg/s

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Finding center of gravity for a composite shape

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Resolution of forces(tension force)

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Rubber wheel (angular acceleration)

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Weight on a man when an iron bar tilted at angle alpha

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Calculating Velocity of a Block After Release from a Spring

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Understanding Forces in a Bosun Chair System

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Find the moment of inertia of a hoop

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Impulse and momentum of a cart down a ramp

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Question;weights,faulty balance

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Why is Q = W in an isothermal process if ΔT = 0?

  • student85
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Spting Balance in Space(no calculations)

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Spring-launched rollercoaster problem

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Kinetic friction between the box and the ramp

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Conservation of Energy - Swing Problem

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The Utility of Apparent Weight in Accelerating Reference Frames

  • Dorothy Weglend
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Solve for Projectile Motion: Maximum Altitude, Time of Flight, and Range

  • Kildars
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Torsional Pendulum Uses and Experiment Re-Testing

  • Aleksandar
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Finding speeds of two cars in an inelastic collision using friction

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Circular disk rotates with student on it

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Action-Reaction Pairs: What Are They?

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Why Was Our Rocket's Calculated Height So Different from the Actual Height?

  • jnimagine
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What is the initial speed of the ball as it rolls up an inclined ramp?

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Projectile Motion of a ball shot into the air

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Solving Physics Question: Momentum Change of 0.42 kg Ball

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Force between connected blocks and tension in string system

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Space Elevator - Your take on an exam question

  • Stevecgz
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Electric field and potential at a point

  • Amith2006
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Energy Transformation equation for a free fall

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Measuring refractive index of liquid using lens and mirror

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Conceptual question; cylinder moving up an inclined plane

  • konichiwa2x
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Projectile Motion - Seems easy.

  • Kildars
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Angular speed, tangential speed, and centripetal acceleration of Earth's orbit

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Calculating Force of Hail Stones on a Roof

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How Is Acceleration Calculated in a Frictionless Pulley System?

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Trying to find Velocity and Kinetic Energy

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Calculating Tension in a Pulley Weight System

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Rolling coin with 2.20 cm diameter and initial angular speed 15.9 rad/s

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Verification needed - Rollar Coaster

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Why is the coefficient of friction unitless?

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How Does Raindrop Angle and Speed Change with Car Direction?

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