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Is there a free alternative to MathType and Math Writer?

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Calculating Acceleration to Avoid Collision of Enterprise & Klingon Ship

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Calculating Equilibrium Angle for Charged Sphere on Silk Fiber

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Plotting a Vertical Velocity Graph for a Given Situation

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Problem involving gravitational constants

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Do Inclined Plane Calculations Use Degrees or Radians?

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How Can You Optimize a Trebuchet for Maximum Range?

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How Does Top Gun Accurately Depict the Physics of a Flat Spin?

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Resultant displacement and angle

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One dimensional motion problem =/

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Magnitude of electric field - Problem check

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Finding the Position of a Particle at the Instant it Changes Direction

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Positive charge distributed uniformly along y axis

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Coconut Movement in Ocean Waves

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Intensity and Interference of Light Beams

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What Determines the Evolutionary Path of Stars?

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How could spring water lift a person?

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Am I supposed to be thinking of the Pythagorean Theorem?

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Solving the Electric Field at Center of Square: Magnitude & Direction

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What Determines the Direction of Friction in Physics Problems?

  • coreankim
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C 12 physics problem: Water speed and duration of impact

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Calculating Coulombs of Charge in Water

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What is the Maximum Altitude of a Bullet Fired Straight Up?

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Electric Field at Midway Point of Two Opposite Charges

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You all are such a blessing I .

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Distance Covered by Puck A at Collision

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Motorcycle Catches a Car (Acceleration)

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Simple question about specific heat

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Can Vector-Valued Functions Accurately Model Particle Motion in Two Dimensions?

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Was Physics Misrepresented in the Movie Apollo 13?

  • Missy81590
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What Is the Minimum Height of a Rear-View Mirror to See the Entire Rear Window?

  • sweetgirl86
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Solving Jumping Bean Physics Problems

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Easy Electical potential problem i cant do

  • ELHEK
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Electric flux through a cube problem

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Having a little trouble, very typical question

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Radioactivity of an unknown isotope

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Pendulum mass and Newton's second law

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Momentum, impulse, and power definitions

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Egg Drop Project: How to Make it Work?

  • physics=cool
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Why Do Students Struggle with Resolving Forces?

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Building an Efficient Submarine: Tips and Factors for a Successful Race

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Is this statement about the orbit of the moon true?

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Dont Understand how to Figure out this columbs law question.

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Mission: Impossible - The Movie

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How Do You Calculate the X Component of Force in Coulomb's Law?

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Critique My Proof-Writing: Tips from Analysis 4th Ed. by Steven Lay

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Normal force on inclined planes.

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Motion of a jumper - Find the mass

  • Jess048
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Calculating Displacement Vectors: Solving Problems in St. Louis and at Sea

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Action/reaction force in relation to Newton's 3 law

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Help with Problem (Complicated Kinematics)

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Having trouble using bernoulli eq.

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Field and Waves Electromagnetics books

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Why Does Air Resistance Increase with Velocity in Freefall?

  • danago
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Calculating Total Charge Flowing Through Circuit

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Electric field at the center of a square homework

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Question that I answering [projectile motion]

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SHM question and Current question.

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Calculating Centre of Mass with Added Weight on a Station Wagon

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Increase in speed, decrease in time

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How can I find the superposition of two vectors with a phase shift of pi/4?

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Fluid dynamics / water making a radius

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Modeling Object Motion in a Viscous Liquid: mg - kv = m(dv/dt)?

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Stuck on a Water Tower Pressure Problem: Dynamic or Static?

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Running the red light (car physics)

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I think I'm making this problem way too complicated than it really is.

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Why we draw the angle with y-axis?

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Special Relativity and Binomial Expansion

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Moment of inertia of a Conic Frustum

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Calculating Minima Spots Between Two In-Phase Speakers

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Hydrogen Spectrum: Lyman, Balmer, Paschen & Pfund Series

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Particle statics - A bridge span

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Is Entropy Zero at Absolute Zero?

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What is the power of the weightlift?"

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How Close Can Alpha Particles Get to a Gold Nucleus in Rutherford's Experiment?

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Velocities involved in partially inelastic collisions

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Analyzing Two-Dimensional Collisions: Solving for Final Velocities

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Simple problem:Voltage of capacitors AFTER closing a switch

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Is Kinetic Energy Truly Zero at Absolute Zero?

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Particle statistics- Three forces on force table

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Refraction Angle: Find the Answer to Your Question

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Does Slower Flowing Fluid Experience Less Pressure Drop?

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Three Charged Particles in an xy-plane

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How Do Camera Settings Like Aperture and Shutter Speed Affect Exposure?

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8 million uranium atoms in milligrams?

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How Do You Make A Ping Pong Launcher?

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Solving a 2-Dimensional Collision Problem with Momentum Conservation

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Solving "An Person Pushes a Box Up a Hill: A Physics Problem

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Electrons being fired at cold atomic hydrogen

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Solving Inclined Plane Motion: A Physics Problem

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Deceleration with weight and a dent? Confused

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Stress Calculations for Girder with W(b) and A Values

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