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Valid Units of Measure for Trig Argument

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Atwood machine with block removed after 2 seconds

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration and Tension in a Two-Crate Pulley System?

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Does Gravitational Potential Energy Apply to Dual Massive Particles?

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Electric current and direct current circuits

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Pilot Must Maintain Velocity of 353.11km/h for London-Rome Flight

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Dropping an object from a moving plane.

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How Much Force Exerts on a Bullet in a Rifle Barrel?

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What is the force required for centripetal motion in a horizontal circle?

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Can Any Function Be Decomposed into Odd and Even Subfunctions?

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Solve Mass of Dog Food Given Force, Acceleration, Time

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Very interesting estimation problem

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Find Total Capacitance of Cube w/12 4.71pF Capacitors

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Projectile Motion, A study of height and time

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What force does the trailer exert on the car?

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2D kinematics problems: projectiles, relative velocity, and escalators

  • mmiller39
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Electron accelerated through field

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Explaining Ohm's law to a 12-year-old

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Solving Plane Displacement Using Radar Data

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Graphical analysis, vx, ax, and xf problems

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Rocket fired upward at 5 m/s², engine fails and falls for 12 seconds

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Quantum Theory makes me go crazy

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Find equilibruium position for charged partical problem

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Solving Hess's Law Problem for ΔH of Formation of Hematite

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How Does Ohm's Law Apply to Measuring Current and Voltage in Circuit Problems?

  • mikejones2000
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Bob's three-leg walk and ducks flying into a crosswind

  • NIZBIT
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Help me understand x and y components, sin cos, etc.

  • mikefitz
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Ball thrown upward and elapsed time

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Vector Equation: Finding the Solution for -E-2F

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The Upside Down World - Is It Real?

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Calculating Normal Force on a Box

  • PascalPanther
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What is the Coefficient of Kinetic Friction and Acceleration in a Pulley System?

  • Soaring Crane
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Graphical Techniques for Vector Displacement and Magnitude Calculations

  • wtf_albino
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Using the second law to prove heat absorbed must be positive if work is zero

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Kinematics: Ball Thrown Upward from Building

  • dboy83
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How do I linearize a hyperbolic inverse relationship graph?

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Jungle Veterinarian Shoots Monkey: Solving for Minimum Dart Velocity

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Why Does a Block Lose Contact with a Frictionless Sphere?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Are field lines from a centered charge uniformly distributed on a cube face?

  • physicsforlife
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Calculating Acceleration and Distance in Kinematic Equations

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How Does the Compton Effect Explain Photon-Electron Collisions?

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Two Superposed Vibrations of Equal Frequency

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Confusion on Potential Changes in Electric Fields

  • NotMrX
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How Does Projectile Angle Affect Range and Height?

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Equation of motion for baseball with wind drag in x and y directions

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What was the i-component of the wind velocity vector?

  • luckii
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Problems involving frames of reference and relative velocity

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Which resistor gets most power in both series and parallel?

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Passing sight distance for a 50 mph vehicle on a two-lane highway

  • Probie
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How Do You Measure a Bullet's Speed?

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Water drops falling at equal time intervals from shower nozzle

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Free Fall Q: Find Where Balls Cross Paths

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How Can Vector C Be Expressed in Terms of A, B, and u?

  • thenewbosco
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Electric fields/angle of deflection problem

  • oksanav
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Electric field absolute error with potential difference and distance

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How do I find the damping constant of a pendulum?

  • NINHARDCOREFAN
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Choosing a Physics Topic for Oral Presentation

  • danago
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Find Minimum Potential of Two Charges on x-Axis

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Force around a horizontal circle

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How Is Angular Velocity Affected by Mass Distribution in a Rotating System?

  • John O' Meara
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Enthalpy: Why Does Temperatures Affect it?

  • arjentje
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Is Time Travel Really Possible?

  • danago
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Kinematics (conceptual questions)

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Does propping a cannon against a tree change the range?

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How to Calculate Frictional Force on an Inclined Plane?

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Differance Between Analogue and Digital TV

  • James Roberts
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What is the direction and magnitude of the third leg of the sailor's journey?

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Incline, Friction, and Work: Calculating the Speed of a Snowboarder on a Hill

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Vector Components and Finding the Angle

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Physics of nitrous oxide systems in cars

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Javelin velocity angle decay and maximum jump height

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Calculating Boat Speed in 2-D Relative Motion

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Calculating Liquid Mass in a Vat with Varying Diameter and Depth

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Diver springs from 3 m board at 8.90 m/s and 73° angle

  • carrbaseball
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How Do You Solve Adiabatic Process Problems Involving a Piston and Sand?

  • sheyshaw
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Colliding particles, level 3 difficulty

  • mbrmbrg
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Electric field in a sphere with a hole

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Two slides have different angles, find the numeric angle

  • mikefitz
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Solving Two Cars Intersection Problem: Velocity of Car B Relative to Car A

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Mass-Spring Oscillation question

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Automobile Centripetal acceleration

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How Do You Calculate the Radius of Curvature for a Mirror?

  • Huskies213
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I bet you cant figure this one out

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Typing physics equations in MS Word efficiently

  • Iceman2032
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Dropped camera from helicopter and motorcycle overtaking car problems

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Projectile motion problems with horizontal launches

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What is the flux though each of the surfaces

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How Do You Calculate Forces and Friction in Physics Problems?

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Why does a car have 4 times the kinetic energy at 100 km/hr?

  • Skittles
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How Do You Find Acceleration Using Unit Vectors?

  • Bob_Dobbs
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Car jump over washed bridge and projectile motion problems

  • wakejosh
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How to Calculate Projectile Angle for Landing in a Specific Distance - 120m

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Answer Torque Req'd to Reach 300 rev/min in 10s - K.E. at 300rev/min

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Volleyball served at 55° to land on opponent's back line

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Where Do Forces Act on a Pulley?

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Relative Velocity Rain Fall Problem

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