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Finding Mass from Coulomb's Law: A Guiding Hand

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Vector Maps (Trig): Solving Flight Path from Lincoln to Manhattan

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What Is the Longest Possible Hole-in-One for This Golfer?

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Freefall Question: Proving Greater Speed Increase

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Absolute Pressure of Fluid: Static + Dynamic = 15psi?

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Bullet fired through 8.1cm board at 452 m/s

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Car accelerating uniformly for 6s - kinematics

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Calculating Average Acceleration During Ball-Wall Collision

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Car accelerating from 53 mph to 68 mph at 0.57 m/s²

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Does Tank Height Affect Water Pressure and Force?

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Electric charge inside a cubical volume

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Acceleration and Moving Objects

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How far into the block does the arrow penetrate?

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What does temperature gradient mean in thermodynamics?

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Estimating the force of a baseball swing

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Calculating the percentage difference.

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How Do You Convert a 2D Crystal Lattice to a 2D Reciprocal Lattice?

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What is a uniform paper collar in relation to rotation of rigid bodies?

  • garyljc
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What units are used in the expression P = (B^2 A)/(2 mu_o)?

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Rock kicked off cliff: accounting for sound travel time

  • Aubiefan
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My Vector Enigma: Solving Analytically w/ Trig Functions

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Estimating Problem: Water Drops in Oceans

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Calculating Charge of Radon Nucleus

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What Is the Speed, Period, and Wavelength of This Transverse Wave?

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Calculating Water Flow Rate Under Compression

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How Do You Convert 65mph to ft/s and km/h?

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Net force on charges found to be zero

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Calculate Resultant Force of Charges on Rectangle

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What are some suggestions for books that explain electromagnetic theory?

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Viscosity of Fluid Mixtures: Calculating Pa.s

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Just need to clarify something (FRICTION)

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Why include hanging mass in F=ma for a trolley experiment

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Calculating Air Friction Trajectory of a Ball

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How Does a Glass Block Affect the Convergence Point of Light Rays?

  • sweetgirl86
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How are electric and magnetic fields connected to virtual photons?

  • Mattara
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Physical pendulum of stick swing

  • scienceman2k9
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Calculating Deceleration and Stopping Time for Margo's Corvette

  • almost__overnow
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I i dont even know where to start o_O

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What Could Be the Mistake in Calculating Displacement Direction?

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Three charges/electric field problem

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Elementary physics in 1 dimension

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How Does Exponential Decay Relate to Velocity in Differential Equations?

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What is the best method to calculate the force of a baseball swing?

  • danago
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Distance light travels in a given time

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In 1/2mv^2, is m grams & v ft per second?

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How Does Angular Velocity Change with Time in a Rotating Disk?

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How Much Light Passes Through Three Polarizing Sheets?

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Solving 2D Motion Problem: A to B Flight Distance

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Why does Harry's vacation start early?

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Vector components under a translation

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Finding R3 value for maximum power dissipation

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Simple vector subtraction question

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Understanding Trigonometry and Physics in Balloon Flight

  • physicsgal
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When Does Normal Force on a Wood Block Equal 0?

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I would like to get a confirmation about this one

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What is the magnitude of the acceleration of an electron

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Displacement Calc: Find x if x'>ab?

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What Is the Reaction Force on a Fire Hydrant Nozzle?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Free Fall (kinematics-what I do wrong?)

  • Kalie
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Is a smaller or larger chi-squared value better for data?

  • Kalie
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How Does Charge Transfer Affect Electrostatic Force Between Spheres?

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How Fast is an Airplane Moving at Takeoff with Constant Acceleration?

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Find the total distance traveled

  • sweetdaisy186
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I was so sure I had gotten this acceration problem right

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Finding a formula for projectile motion

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Calculating Package Delivery by Air: Time, Distance, and Velocity

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Does Pressure Distribute Evenly in Water Columns?

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Mary runs 10km in 40 minutes. What is her average speed in m/s

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Calculate Distance Walked in Kilometers by Betty from Bay Farm Bridge to Hornet

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2 Simple mechanism geometry problems

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Does sublimation increase entropy more than freezing?

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What is impulse and how does it relate to momentum?

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Average velocity for a bus traveling south in two segments

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What is the electric flux through the hemispherical surface?

  • physics231
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Velocity and Distance Calculations for a Cyclist Riding Down a Hill

  • physicsgal
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Kirchoffs current law. Someone check to make sure its correct?

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Motion detector graphs, distance vs time

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What is the Relationship Between Displacement and Time in Particle Motion?

  • konichiwa2x
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When should a car leave C to arrive at B with a car from A?

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Find the time (t) - (linear problems)

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Calculating ground contact and flight time while running 100m

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Calculate Impact Speed of Ball Bearings Dropped in Shot Tower

  • Kalie
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Superball collision acceleration and braking distance problems

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Car stopping distance with reaction time

  • Kalie
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How fast will the car be traveling at that instant?

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Calculating Time to Reach a Stopped Object with Linear Motion

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How does thrust affect takeoff performance for the F-14 tomcat?

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Billy the kid and the kinetic energy

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Solving Heat Loss from Hose with Radii R_i and R_o

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Pressure at mid-height in accelerating coke can

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Mountain climbing Vector problem

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Finding Vector Magnitude & Direction in River Flow Problem

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Questions about Wave Period and Radio Wave Wavelength

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What Is a Newton Second?

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