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What is the efficiency of the aircraft engines in this scenario?

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Calculating Electrostatic Force on a Particle with Coulomb's Law

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Acceleration of a 40-kg cement block pulled with 200N

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How is the Catenary Equation Derived?

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Moments: rotational and translational velocity

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MLtT and FLtT dimensions chart for physical quantities and units

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Solid disc rolling down a variable incline

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How Does the Radius of Gyration Affect Acceleration on an Incline?

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Moment of inertia of a 0.44 kg meter stick rotating about the 30 cm mark

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Solving Kinematics Problems: Maximum Height, Time, and Velocity Calculations

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Rolling sphere down incline without slipping: does mass cancel out?

  • hoseA
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Net electrostatic force : four particles form a square

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Deriving kinetic energy equation Ek=1/2mv^2

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How Fast Can a Car Travel on a 22° Icy Banked Curve with a 170m Radius?

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Initial and Final Thermal Energies of a Gas

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Gravitational Force elevator questions

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More constant acceleration questions

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Calculating Impulse Using FΔt: A 4.0-N to 15 N Challenge

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What Are Good Resources for Learning About CE Transistor Amplifiers?

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How to Calculate the Tension in a Cable Supporting a Lever Rod?

  • hoseA
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Rolling disk up a 30° incline with rotational energy

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Angular Velocity Calculations for Rotating Wheel

  • PhysicsDud
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Find Angle of Vector h: 3ax+5ay-8az

  • zekester
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What Are the Units of Constant C in a Force Equation?

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Finding Resultant Resistance of Electrical Circuit - Gamma

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Motion of 2 charged particles in a constant electric field

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Calculating Moment of Inertia of a Hollow Cylinder + Solid Mass

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Why is entropy directly proportional to temperature if S = dq/T?

  • vaishakh
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Understanding Ultimate Ratio of Equality

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How would you calculate the work done

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Calculating KE of a 900kg Car Moving at 20m/s

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Does Wave Speed Indicate Medium Density?

  • StaticShock
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Is more work required for this spring?

  • endeavor
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Angular Momentum of an asteroid

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Calculating Minimum Diameter for Iron Bolt to Withstand Shear Forces

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Gravitational Forces and Torque Reviews

  • python023
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Finding mass and stretch from spring frequency and spring constant

  • StaticShock
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Work done by a father pushing a sled up a hill

  • endeavor
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Two identical singe waves 90 degrees out of phase

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Can steam heat a saturated salt solution above 100°C?

  • Diniz Noronha
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Conversion Factors: Easily Find Unit Conversions

  • kgbwolf
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Questions in regards to momentum

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In terms of impulse and momentum

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Temperature Change Conversion: F, C, K

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How high is the bridge above the water?

  • kgbwolf
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Calculating Static Equilibrium for Ladder Climb

  • PhysicsDud
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Light refraction in water and total internal reflection in a prism

  • hshphyss
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Does greater index of refraction cause more or less bending?

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Electric Potential of a Spherical Shell of Charge

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Is friction independent from area of contact?

  • shaan_aragorn
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Vehicle speed given time difference for one mile

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How is "cross sectional area" different from "area"?

  • untitledm9
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Contact force in an ideal situation

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Two Problems About Osscilations

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Solving a Frictional Problem with No Given Masses

  • python023
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Calculating Current for Electromagnet Lift

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Static Charge on people and in general

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Car accelerating from 70 to 110 km/h in 5 seconds

  • BigCountry
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Solving 700N + 98N Weight Distribution Problem

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Exercesie about force with friction

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Thermal + Compressive Stress in a Rod + Spring system

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Why do light nuclei fuse while heavy nuclei split?

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Roof tile falling past a window in 0.20s

  • nofear001
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Can a Roller Coaster's Loop Height Affect the Force on the Track?

  • hoseA
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Calculate Magnitude of 2nd Force on 2.7 kg Mass - Answer in N

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Car Speed: Find the Answer Here

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How to Calculate Distance Traveled on a Slope with Kinetic Friction

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Free-fall question with extras

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Finding indices of refraction from wavelengths in a prism

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Landing and abort distances for aircraft with friction braking

  • International87
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Finding the Effective Spring Constant for Joined Springs

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Calculating Airborne Distance on a Hemispherical Hill

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Air drag force on moving object with wind

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Calculating moment of inertia of a system of balls

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What are the three types of energy involved in an oscillating spring problem?

  • apchemstudent
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Power, Force, Velocity and Acceration

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Oscillation of object on spring - Find speed

  • apchemstudent
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Motion problem with constant velocity then deceleration

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Frequency of Oscillations of Two Joined Springs and Block of Mass 0.245 kg

  • apchemstudent
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Total resistance of 3 parallel resistive heating strips at 12V

  • goan
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Torque on a see-saw type object

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Hoop rolling up a ramp and bucket lifted by a crank

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Egg scrambler device powered by falling mass over 8-12 meters

  • KbCs2006
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Can a Time Machine Reverse the Universe Instead of Time?

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Finding velocity and position for a spring with F = -6x

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Newton's second law and D'Alembert's principle

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Average Velocity of Particle in Solution at RTP

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When Does the Nonlinear Stress-Strain Equation Apply?

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Magnitude and direction of the resultant force

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Internal energy decreases 500 J with 220 J work on system

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Approaching Simple Harmonic Motion Amplitude Calculation

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Pulse power of a flashlamp-pumped Nd:YAG laser

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