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How Much Vertical Acceleration Does a Jet Need to Avoid a Hill?

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How Does Coriolis Force Influence Particle Motion in Rotating Systems?

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2 Masses attached by a spring in the vertical axis

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Minimum work done to push the cube over

  • hello478
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Gauss' Law for a conducting / non-conducting sheet

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Is the Charge Conservation Correct in This Meson Decay Feynman Diagram?

  • songoku
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Find the value of ##t## when ##P## returns to ##X##- Kinematics

  • chwala
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Find the tension in the rope PQ

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How Do You Correctly Cancel Angular Momentum in Physics Problems?

  • pbnj
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Acceleration due to gravity at different altitudes

  • hello478
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Calculate voltage over capacitor and resistance

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Solve the problem involving the velocity - time graph

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Two blocks with spring between them energy problem

  • hello478
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How Is Work Calculated on a Conveyor Belt with Friction?

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Find the initial velocity ##U##

  • chwala
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How Does Energy Transform in a Bungee Jump?

  • hello478
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2 Masses and a Wheel (with mass)

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Horizontal force by block on a beam

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Trouble solving for end state of two control volumes in a rigid tank

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Block and spring connected by pulley system

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A small disk and a bigger half disk

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Making sense of sequence of ideas in MIT OCW's 8.02 notes on Faraday

  • zenterix
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Rotating ball and string Rotational Kinetic Energy?

  • Vontox7
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Why Isn't the Spring Force Sum of Both Ends?

  • cestlavie
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What is the induced magnetic force on this closed current loop?

  • zenterix
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Calculating the spring force constant K

  • lingo
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Determining Inductance L in an LC Circuit

  • dragonshadowbob
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Why does power equal force times velocity?

  • hello478
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How Do Power, Force, and Velocity Interact?

  • hello478
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The ratio between two horizontal speeds in this pendulum arrangement

  • billtodd
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Inelastic collision of two squares

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Two bodies connected with an elastic thread moving with friction

  • HighPhy
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How to obtain correct negative sign in calculation of motional emf?

  • zenterix
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Normal force at the base of a ladder

  • iceice655
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How Does Spring Compression Relate to Energy Changes?

  • hello478
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Arrow being fired to centre of target

  • hello478
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Change in the kinetic energy of a car driving up a hill

  • hello478
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Horizontal force on hinge is affected by moving the block farther away?

  • hello478
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Spring-block system: why doesn't M1 move when spring force acts on it?

  • tellmesomething
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Force components for mass attached to two springs

  • giraffe714
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Molecular speed distribution - most probable speed V

  • greg997
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Which way does this coil turn in a magnetic field?

  • maxelcat
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Compare rotational inertia of 2 paper cups in 2 diff orientations

  • dcmf
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Are the Force Equations for Rotational Motion Accurate?

  • Bling Fizikst
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Particle projected from above a dome

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Avg Power in a Rotational Energy/Work Problem

  • dcmf
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Why do I get opposite normal forces at the top and bottom of a Ferris wheel?

  • Iamconfused123
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Why Does Light Diminish with a Phase Difference of 5λ?

  • femaleinstemneedhelp
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Rolling disk: dynamics and energy analysis give different answers

  • Taulant Sholla
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How to Calculate Water Leakage in an Inverted Bottle Experiment?

  • evelynhott
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Determine the velocity of a package dropped from a satellite

  • madsb2
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Finding force between solenoid and magnet

  • Mitchell Richardson
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Elliptical motion in polar coordinates

  • lorenz0
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Why Does Calculating Torque at the Ladder's Contact Point Not Work?

  • sachin
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Cantilevered and line-loaded steel beam

  • Kalle
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Proving the gravitational force of a solid sphere using integration

  • Sam Jelly
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Escape Velocity from Earth starting from its Centre

  • Priyo137
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Why Is Deriving the Motion Formula for Hoops More Complex?

  • lsie
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Electron motion on axis of a charged ring

  • Ben2
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Work energy theorem problem -- Block sliding up a curved incline

  • tellmesomething
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For a translating block with slipping find the maximum force F

  • annamal
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Fundamental electrokinetics problem calculation using Ohm's Law

  • annin
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Direction of electric field vector on the surface of charged conductor

  • laser
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Why does a stone stuck in a tire accelerate upward, not backward?

  • amandela
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Resonance of a cube floating on water under external force

  • tanhanhbi
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Verifying that Newton's Equations are equivalent to the EL equations

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Coulomb's law and energy - potential energy

  • laser
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Finding recoil velocity of mass with three ejected fragments

  • I_Try_Math
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How Does a Pulley System Affect Scale Readings?

  • orazon
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Intensity of central maximum when width of single slit is doubled

  • songoku
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Deriving ODEs for straight lines in polar coordinates for a given Lagrangian

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Force on rectangular loop by a current in a long straight wire

  • cherry
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Net magnetic force on circuit segment due to 2 parallel wires

  • risakapal
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Measurements Calculation Problem

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A massless disk with an embedded particle rolls down an inclined plane

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Torque question in Deltoid muscle

  • dcmf
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How did Cavendish find the density of the Earth?

  • marc873a
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Average momentum of an avalanche

  • I_Try_Math
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Calculate the average force on the side walls of a container

  • patric44
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Find tension using sum of torque (two strings, one beam, one box)

  • dcmf
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How do you prove ##\lambda = \frac {2L} {n} ## given only L?

  • Danielk010
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Equation of resistance from given graph

  • Aurelius120
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Conical pendulum at 70 degrees finding period

  • daisy7777
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Find the distance a particle travels

  • figuringphysics
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Finding the x component of position vector

  • hraghav
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Uniform Circular Motion: Tension Force at Top of Circle

  • daisy7777
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Find the phase difference between these two sine waves

  • hello478
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Frames of Reference: Using tie-downs to hold a load on a flatbed truck

  • daisy7777
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Phase difference between two light waves of the same frequency

  • hello478
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Wave movement and particle movement

  • hello478
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Finding focal length from di v. M graph

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Finding slip-off angle for mass off of sphere?

  • giraffe714
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How Does Impulse Relate to Momentum Change in Physics Problems?

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Why Do Capacitors Behave Differently in Series and Parallel Configurations?

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