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Normal force at the base of a ladder
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How Does Spring Compression Relate to Energy Changes?
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Arrow being fired to centre of target
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Change in the kinetic energy of a car driving up a hill
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Horizontal force on hinge is affected by moving the block farther away?
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Need help interpreting a spring-block problem
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Force components for mass attached to two springs
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Molecular speed distribution - most probable speed V
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Which way does this coil turn in a magnetic field?
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Compare rotational inertia of 2 paper cups in 2 diff orientations
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Are the Force Equations for Rotational Motion Accurate?
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Particle projected from above a dome
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Avg Power in a Rotational Energy/Work Problem
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Centripetal force - Ferris wheel... Opposite results
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Why Does Light Diminish with a Phase Difference of 5λ?
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Rolling Disk: dynamics versus energy analysis
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How to Calculate Water Leakage in an Inverted Bottle Experiment?
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What is the time taken by a pulse generated at the bottom of a string to reach the top?
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Determine the velocity of a package dropped from a satellite
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Finding force between solenoid and magnet
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Elliptical motion in polar coordinates
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Why Does Calculating Torque at the Ladder's Contact Point Not Work?
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Cantilevered and line-loaded steel beam
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Proving the gravitational force of a solid sphere using integration
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Escape Velocity from Earth starting from its Centre
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Why Is Deriving the Motion Formula for Hoops More Complex?
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Electron motion on axis of a charged ring
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Work energy theorem problem -- Block sliding up a curved incline
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For a translating block with slipping find the maximum force F
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Fundamental electrokinetics problem calculation using Ohm's Law
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Direction of electric field vector on the surface of charged conductor
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Rolling Motion (Stone Gets Stuck in a Tire Going Forward)
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Resonance of a cube floating on water under external force
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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
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Velocities of four masses | Conservation of Momentum
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How Does a Pulley System Affect Scale Readings?
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Intensity of central maximum when width of single slit is doubled
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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
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Net magnetic force on circuit segment due to 2 parallel wires
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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
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Is this projectile motion situation possible?
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How did Cavendish find the density of the Earth?
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Average momentum of an avalanche
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Finding the constants of the general approximate solution to a double pendulum
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Calculate the average force on the side walls of a container
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Find tension using sum of torque (two strings, one beam, one box)
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How do you prove ##\lambda = \frac {2L} {n} ## given only L?
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Equation of resistance from given graph
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Uniform Circular Motion: A plum-bob makes a 70 degree angle...
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Find the distance a particle travels
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Finding the x component of position vector
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Uniform Circular Motion: Tension Force at Top of Circle
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Find the phase difference between these two sine waves
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Frames of Reference: Using tie-downs to hold a load on a flatbed truck
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Phase difference between two light waves of the same frequency
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Wave movement and particle movement
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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?
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How Does Impulse Relate to Momentum Change in Physics Problems?
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Need help on a energy question: Hockey puck sliding across the ice
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Why Do Capacitors Behave Differently in Series and Parallel Configurations?
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Effect of different magnetic fields on a magnetic dipole
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Planar Coil Rotating in a Magnetic Field
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Electromagnetism problem: Merging of 2 charged drops of mercury
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Need help finding uncertainty for this equation
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Find the velocity of the stone just before it hits the ground
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Two blocks in contact -- find the force between them
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Can You Accurately Compare Bearing Slow Down Functions?
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Help Calculating probability between 2 limits for the ground state
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POWER - different approach, different results
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Help needed in this problem involving a spring and energy balances
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How Does an Iron Deposit Affect Water Levels in Fluid Mechanics?
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When does Phobos collide with Mars?
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Calculation of torque and force on magnetic dipole near infinite wire
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Calculation of magnetic dipole moment of the Earth
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Final Charge of a Capacitor in a Circuit with Capacitors and Resistors
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Does a Slowing Piano Exert More Force Than the Man Pushing It?
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Why is a current ring approx a magnetic dipole from very far off?
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Where on a rigid body is a resultant force applied?
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Prove this equation for projectile motion
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How Does Stress Affect a Hollow Pipe When Force Is Uniformly Applied?
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Understanding MIT's applet on sound with Fourier coefficients
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Find moment arm of resultant force of two forces applied at two points
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A sphere suspended from a cord -- Find the tension
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How Is Potential Energy Converted to Kinetic Energy in Physical Systems?
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Why don't we find the angular magnification of objective lens in microscopes?
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Physics 1 Parabolic Motion Question Confusion
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Acceleration in uniform circular motion is uniform or non-uniform?
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Difference between resonance in undamped vs damped mass-spring-dashpot
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Amplitude of harmonic oscillation given position and velocity
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Modeling a mass falling from one side of the Earth to the other
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Elastic Potential Energy - Positive or Negative?
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How Do You Solve a Non-Equilibrium Pulley System with a 154 Degree Angle?
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Where Did I Go Wrong in My Refraction Problem Solution?
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Conservation of energy problem: Ball rolling down inclined plane and then through a loop-the-loop
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Elastic potential energy - different methods, different results
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