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Coulomb's Law and electric force

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Average and instantaneous power-

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Stone projected at 56° toward cliff: find height, speed and max height

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What is the half life of this isotope?

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Understanding Torque and Acceleration in Uniform Circular Motion

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Building a gravity-powered vehicle for a 5 meter distance challenge

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Does the exhaust gas hitting the ground help a rocket take off?

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Projectile Motion of Dart: Calculating Distance and Release Point

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How Does a Rocket Ship Work Using Newton's Third Law?

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Energy conservation of a sliding box

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Solving for a: Finding Magnitude of a+b

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What is the Potential at the Origin for a Uniformly Charged Semi-Circle?

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Train average velocity angle relative to north in navigation coordinates

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What is the speed of a synchronous satellite in orbit around the Earth?

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Force and tension problems without using Newton's laws

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Pressure due to molecular velocity problem

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Bullet buries itself in a pendulum: how far does it swing?

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How Does the Doppler Effect Alter Wavelength as a Train Approaches?

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Charge Rod Question: Electric Field at Point

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Displacement angle of watermelon seed in 3D coordinates

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Does a pendulum hanging on a rope has any normal force?

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The Physics of Wind (Not Aerodynamics in the strictest sense)

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What is the solution to this momentum problem?

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Newton's second law and the egg drop

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How to find the acceleration of two objects on a pulley system

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Finding the Period of a Physical Pendulum Attached to a Solid Sphere

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Fitzgerald-Forentz contraction problem

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Block colliding with spring: find displacement, period, energy and force

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Physical pendulum: period, angular displacement, and maximum torque

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Why they have the same potential?

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Radio transmitter interference pattern with phase offset

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How Do Sign Conventions Affect Calculations in Spherical Mirrors?

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Why are electric field lines perpendicular to equipotential lines?

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Waves: Standing Waves, Superposition, etc.

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How do you find internal energy of U=Q+W?

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Solve Momentum Problem: Find Bullets/Sec Needed for Cart to Reach 19m/s

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Ball thrown at an angle reaches 8.0m height and 16m range

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Problem: Watch attached to a string in an airplane

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Time of flight and range for stone projected from a 150m tower

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Electric field distance problem

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Deriving the voltage formula for a potentiometer circuit

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Work done along a quarter circle path

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Proving that diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other

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Calculating Height in a Free Fall: What's the Formula?

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What is the maximum B-field in the iron core?

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Friction Forces on rock climber

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Solving a Parabolic Function Near the Minimum of the Morse Potential

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Does adding heat affect work done by gas on its surroundings?

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Acceleration and distance for a car in three motion intervals

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Current in cell during a certain period

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Finding relative minima for two 800 Hz speakers 1.25 m apart

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Kinetic theory of gases - can someone check this please?

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Will the radial acceleration be constant?

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Finding current through a resistor in a parallel circuit

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Is the Slope of an X vs T Plot Velocity or Acceleration?

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How Do You Calculate Total Impedance in a Mixed RLC Parallel Circuit?

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Friction / inclined plane question

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Calculating Kinetic Energy of a 15g Nail Struck by 550g Hammer

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How Does Rocket Propulsion Work?

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Distance-time Graph and Velocity-time Graphs

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A car moves with constant velocity

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How Should L and A Change to Adjust Power Dissipation and Current in a Wire?

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Energy from battery charging a capacitor through a resistor

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me (problems with rotating cylinder)

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Why is the period of a pendulum proportional to the square root of its length?

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Total internal reflection in a glass prism with 30-60-90 angles

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Calculating Cannon Range on a Slope

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Electrostatic equilibrium and Gauss' law

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Calculating Electric Field Strength and Direction at a Given Point

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How Do You Calculate Projectile Motion for a Stone Thrown from a Tower?

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When Will Two Vertically Thrown Stones Reach the Same Height?

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How do I add three vector components together?

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Calculating Capacitance from Voltage-Time Data

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Electric Potential Difference Created by Point Charges

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Which Track Will Have the Greater Ball Speed?

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What Water Levels Produce Resonance Frequencies with a Tuning Fork?

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Magnetic field from lightning bolt at 1.4 m distance

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Does Electric Field Intensity Stay Constant Between Charged Parallel Plates?

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Tension of string and circular motion question

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Answer: Ballistic Pendulum: Bullet Collision & Max Height

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Barometric pressure on Mt. Everest with constant density assumption

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Gravitational Forces of binary star

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Centripetal Acceleration of Rock Problem

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Calculate Work Done on 2.8kg Aluminum at Atmospheric Pressure

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Maximum possible momentum change in isolated system

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How Is Total Force Calculated on a Dam Wall?

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Doppler effect when observer and source are the same object

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Calculating Work and Power in Basic Physics: A Case Study

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Electric force on electron in hydrogen atom with unknown charges

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How Does Ampere's Law Explain Magnetic Fields at the Poles?

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How fast is the skier going just before she lands?

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Galilean Relativity: I can't figure this out

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What are the equations for finding ball position in relativity?

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How Does Speed Affect Space Measurements in Special Relativity?

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