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Finding acceleration with friction on a tilted pulley system

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Calculating Mass of Stars in a Binary System

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How can I calculate velocity without knowing the time?

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What net force is acting on the object along the incline?

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Solve Thin-Lens Equation: Prove u=v, Find Focal Length Change

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Particle Momentum Conservation in a Two-Particle System

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Energy stored in an extended wire with Young's modulus

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Help with inertia, mass, and Newton's laws questions

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Finding the net force from two forces without mass

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Solving Sound Interference: Find Diff. Freq. Destructive Interference

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Velocity of Sphere After Collision with Vertical Wall

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Why charge and voltage differ for identical capacitors in series vs parallel

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SUV and car collision with sliding friction

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Magnetic forces aon currents and magnetic induction

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Electrical Force and Coulomb's Law

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Powering Homes with 10,000,000 Volts

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Interference question, thin film

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Checking three unit conversions to SI units

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Loop-the-Loop with rotational motion

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Can You Send Electricity Back to UK Grid?

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How Do You Calculate Air Temperature from Echo Delay and Speed of Sound?

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Overweight Truck Crossing a Bridge

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Projectile motion - no angle given?

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Cannonball velocity from spring and bungee jumping with spring constant

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What is the direction of the change in velocity of the ball?

  • rachael
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Increase Ball Velocity with Newton's Laws

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Gravitational field inside the earth

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How Long Must a Day Be for Weightlessness at the Equator?

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Finding submarine depth when boat's sonar velocity estimate is wrong

  • motherlovebone
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How great is the tension of the wire

  • gemz
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Momentum of falling mass problem

  • rachael
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Resonance in Closed Air Coloumn

  • SRForum
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How far up a 10° frictionless ramp does a cart moving at 8 m/s go?

  • fizzicks
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Sound waves and eardrum problem

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Calculate the acceleration of the system

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Two equal-mass stars orbiting a central object at 80 km/s

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Calculate Acceleration of Mass m3 with Non-massless Pulley

  • nahya
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Electricity and magnetism. 2 questions

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Understanding Cosine Theta in Work Equation

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Tension in string for accelerating car with hanging ball

  • RedBurns
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How Do You Calculate Train Acceleration and Distance Between Stations?

  • John O' Meara
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Circular motion and water whirl

  • JDBB
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K in Hookes Law vs. Spring Potential Energy

  • jeffholmes1
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Calculating Tension in a Moving String: Is it Possible?

  • MrLobster
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Calculating Coefficient of Kinetic Friction on an Inclined Ramp

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Motorcycle ramp height and hanging masses energy problems

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Minimizing work against friction and gravity on a moving ramp

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What Is the Relationship Between Shock Cones and Sonic Booms?

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Solving q(1.204): Charge Flow in Circuits

  • Sajjad
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How Do You Calculate Bicycle Speed and Friction in Circular Motion?

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Oil film color from thin film interference with m*lambda/n2

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Speed of Voyager 2 after slingshot encounter?

  • atomant
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Capacitance W/ Dielectric Problem

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How Does Relative Motion Affect Magnetic and Electric Forces on a Charge?

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What Are Shock Cones and How Do They Relate to Mach Numbers?

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Doppler shift for 600nm laser on motorcycle moving at 55m/s

  • motherlovebone
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Calculating Entropy Change in a Diatomic Gas Sample

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Effects of Doubling Primary Coil Current on Secondary Coil Induced EMF

  • matt85
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Keplers laws and a hypothetical 1/r^3 dependence

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Total charge on electrons in water and charge loss in copper penny

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Proving ellipse shape of earth orbit?

  • adiputra
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Oil barge sinking with constant leak rate

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Electric Potential in Insulated U-Tube

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Conservation of Momentum in Inelastic Collisions

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Magnetic flux through a solenoid with 300 turns

  • matt85
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How do charges, fields, and potential relate to each other?

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Finding Normal Force in Diagram

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Need Feedback on Centripetal Motion Lab Experiment?

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Finding centre of gravity of a square with a square cut out

  • Benny
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Bulb Temperature using resistance

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Solve Hard of Hearing Question: Increase dB for Hearing Aid?

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What Are the Unconventional Concepts Behind Mass Spectrometry?

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What is the reaction of the floor of the elevator on the boy?

  • rachael
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Convert Sun's Radiation Flux Density: 1.64 Langleys/Min - Easy Unit Conversion"

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Finding distance to wall from echo time without given speed

  • emma123
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How Is Intensity Calculated in a Two-Slit Interference Pattern?

  • georgeh
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Physics book Request (Phy for Sci. and Eng.)

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Electric fields and electric potential

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Voltage/ electric field question

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A Block, a speaker and a spring

  • Trista
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Potential difference and Kinetic energy

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What is the energy stored in the capacitor?

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Block sliding down an incline - Find the Work

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Sound level drop needed for jet engine to chainsaw noise

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How Do You Calculate Work Done by a Variable Force Along a Displacement?

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Calculating Spring Compression from a Collision with No Friction

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Understanding Orbital Motion with Polar Coordinates

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HY 607: Finding the Angle for Resultant Force of Two Forces

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Resistivity of a wire - AS coursework

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Proton moving eastward at Earth's magnetic equator

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How Can You Calculate the Original Length of a Simple Pendulum?

  • John O' Meara
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How Do You Calculate a Particle's Average Velocity?

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Calculating the Intersection of Two Stones Dropped from a Cliff

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