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Solving Centripetal Acceleration for Banked Turns

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Calculating Final Velocity of a Yo-Yo Dropped from 0.8 m

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How Long Does It Take for a Projectile to Hit the Ground?

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Calculate Max Force Exerted by Octopus in Salt Water 32.3m Deep

  • amjber2
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What Is the Initial Velocity of a Ball Thrown Upwards from a Building?

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Surface tension, capillary action, viscous fluid

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Coefficient Kenetic Friction and Kenetic Force

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Calculate Net Work Done by Fpush, Fgrav, Fnormal - 5N, 5m

  • sundeepsingh
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Conceptual Moment of Inertia Question

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Finding Acceleration in a Rotating Tube

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Physics: distance, rate, time problem

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Power and conservation of energy

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Where does the image form in a biconcave lens with reflection and refraction?

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Solving Two Object Collision Problem

  • gaimon
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Calculating Velocity of Center of Mass for Two Particles

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Coefficient of friction and scale reading in accelerating elevator

  • ownedbyphysics
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How Do You Calculate the Charge and Mass of Sodium and Chlorine Ions?

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Clarifying Forces in a Two-Mass System

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Which Box Will Accelerate Faster on an Inclined Slope?

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Nonuniform Circular Motion of a steel table

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Calculating Buoyant Force on a Helium-Filled Balloon

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Soundwave and interferance problem.

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Why does cutting a spring in half double its spring constant?

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Truck skidding distance with doubled mass and halved speed

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Velocity and acceleration of jeep P relative to jeep B

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What Are the Velocity Components of the Center of Mass?

  • wolly6973
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Firework Explosion: Find the Speed of 3rd Piece

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Calculating Submarine Recoil Speed from Torpedo Launch

  • mikefitz
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Geometric optics problem wording unclear

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Speed of package shot up frictionless ramp by spring

  • Kalie
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Understanding Elevator Forces: A Problem in AP Physics B

  • gladwarez
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Torque / Static Equilibrium Question

  • ohlhauc1
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Calculating the Distance of a Block from a Table After a Bullet Collision

  • mikefitz
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Do Spherical Waves from Point Sources Transform into Plane Waves?

  • TheEdge
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Friction versus Gravity (Work on an Incline)

  • Ronnin
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Calculating Momentum of Firing Marksman with X and Y Components

  • mikefitz
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Collar sliding on circular rod with velocity-dependent friction

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Why Must a Particle Decay into Two or More Photons to Conserve 4-Momentum?

  • thenewbosco
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How Fast Does a Dragster Accelerate?

  • krazykaci
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Boat Acceleration: Calculate Force, Mass & m/s^2

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Understanding Newton's 3 Laws of Motion

  • AznBoi
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Pulley problem: find equilibrium

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Speed of person firing gun on ice

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Why is work zero in free gas expansion if pressure causes expansion?

  • shamanblues
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Calculate Acceleration of 8.5kg Mass Due to Proportional Force

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Problem with Electronic Feedback?

  • gunblaze
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How Does Force Change as a Diver Falls?

  • merced
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Rotational kinematics - acceleration

  • physgirl
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Rotational kinetic energy of a disk

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Why does the heat calculation use 1 kg instead of 0.250 kg?

  • sapiental
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Why add capacitors and resistors to an NPN transistor circuit

  • jasum
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Introduction to Statics as Part of Mechanics

  • Bert
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Calculating Energy Lost Due to Friction in Incline Pulling Scenario

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Determine the work done by the applied force

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Frictionless pulley Forces Problem

  • ubiquinone
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What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration

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Two cars approaching an intersection

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Can both of these equations be right?

  • Dorothy Weglend
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Force of friction with multiple coefficient of frictions

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Distance Formula: No Velocity Needed

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Understanding Moments: A Method for Solving Question 2.b.i.

  • Magic Mushroom
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How can I use the speed of sound to calculate the air temperature?

  • Sabres151
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Musical question regarding concert pitch/philosophical pitch

  • physics_06er
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How Does Distance Affect Photocell Output?

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Work-Energy Theorem rock throw Question

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2000 mT Setting - What Does It Mean?

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Are both my textbooks wrong about banked tracks.

  • Damned charming :)
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Electric field and potential for concentric charged spheres

  • cyberstudent
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Finding spring constant and damping coefficient of speaker flexure

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Flywheel slowing from 160 rev/min to rest in 1.2 hours

  • kiwinosa87
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Can Frame S' Make Two Events Simultaneous?

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Why Do Monochromatic Light Fringes Have Better Contrast Than White Light?

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What does the area under a velocity-time graph represent?

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Calculate Rotational Inertias of 4 Particles

  • kiwinosa87
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Is a Two-Stage Carnot Engine More Efficient Than a Single-Stage Engine?

  • sapiental
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Solving Spring-Mass System: Force of Reaction as a Function of Time

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Calculating Angular Velocity and Time in a Frustrating Problem

  • kiwinosa87
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College-level centripetal force questions

  • Tkennan
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Home run, roof slide, football punt, and train-car collision problems

  • WinWolfz
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Maximum entropy and thermal equilibrium

  • sapiental
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Non-uniform circular motion (i think)

  • bigredd87
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How far will this block travel when launched on the floor?

  • Mbaboy
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Calculating Acceleration on an Inclined Ramp with Kinetic Friction

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How to Find the Force Needed to Reduce Acceleration by 50% in Atwood Setup

  • parwana
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Why is a potential divider necessary in a hot wire anemometer circuit?

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Normal force at the top of a ferris wheel

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Expression for field due to magnetic monopole

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Calculating Acceleration of a Sailboat Using Wind and Water Forces

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Balancing forces in three dimensions

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Friction and acceleration of a 2.5 kg block pushed at -36°

  • randybrent
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Maximum mass for block C to keep A and B sliding together

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