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Max Dist Compressed: .99m - Find Out How With Vibrations & Waves

  • physics_ash82
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Calculating Fringe Distance with Multiple Wavelengths and Slit Spacing

  • Christina
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Finding the Mass of a Puck in a 2-Dimensional Collision

  • SwAnK
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A few questions - mostly Kinetic Energy stuff, help please?

  • penumbraluna
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How Can I Prepare for Physics and Engineering Exam Questions?

  • Trebor
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Solve Force Problem: Tension of Wires Holding 20.0 kg Object

  • avb203796
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Pulling Horizontally: Force Problems - Help Needed

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Cylinder-and-piston physics probem

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Calculating Bullet Speed Before Impact for Vibration Problem

  • confusedaboutphysics
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Formula to calculate Rocket Thrust

  • Serena_Greene
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At what rate must the current be to changed to produce 40V emf

  • mr_coffee
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What is the rms potential difference across the resistor?

  • mr_coffee
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Get the resistance for each wires

  • Izekid
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Solving Mechanics Questions: Tips and Tricks for Success

  • ElDavidas
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How Do You Calculate Acceleration with Friction Involved?

  • yeyspaz
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Bridges and Archimedes' principle

  • jrd007
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Whats the force of this baseball?

  • yeyspaz
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Solve Physics Exam Confusion: Sound Waves & Calorimetry

  • NutriGrainKiller
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Calculating Cork Volumes for Amusement Park Water Slide

  • tiz_07
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When are farenheit and kelvin numericaly equaly?

  • kevinlikesphysics
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Checking Work on Condensing Steam: A Challenge!

  • dustybray
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A confusing question - melting ice

  • zhen
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What Do You Do When A/B Forces Aren't Shown?

  • markow202
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Is my book right? it seems wrong

  • Tim.thelion
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Calculating Speed of Falling Meter Stick

  • aug
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When should the Parallel Axis Theorem be used in mechanics?

  • amcavoy
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What is the Final Temperature When Lead Shot is Mixed with Water?

  • zhen
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Help elastic head-on collision

  • snowbelle
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Solving Linear Momentum: Glass Bead Stream Problem

  • Lisa...
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Sound Waves - phase difference from time delay

  • Arctangent
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Static Equilibrium: Finding More than One Balance Point

  • unctarheels1
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How to: Force, work & dot product

  • Lisa...
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Image distance / focal length relation

  • jmcgraw
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Ski Turn Radius, Inclination at Speed & Balance

  • michaela
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Conservation of Energy & Circular motion

  • Lisa...
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Optimal Escape Strategy: Apogee or Perigee?

  • Hypercase
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Calculate the gravitational field strength

  • sweet877
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Initial Amplitude and the Release Point

  • moo5003
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Quick Question so I can finish this homework problem.

  • moo5003
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Conservation of energy springs.

  • computer_geek
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Need help w/ Angular Momentum please

  • tbomber
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Pulley problem using 2nd Law of motion

  • KD
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Minimum Uncertainty of Electron's Momentum

  • Pepsi24chevy
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Dalton's Law and Partial Pressure

  • Soaring Crane
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Find Thevenin Voltage & Current Across R2: Tricks & Tips Included

  • phyznut
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=Homework Problem: Longest Vertical Soda Straw

  • Gott_ist_tot
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Question about optics (diffraction)

  • Gza
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Damped harmonic oscillator physics

  • brad sue
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Rock Climbing: Maximum Tension & Acceleration for Safe Ascent and Descent

  • avb203796
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Calculating Required Air Temperature for Hot Air Balloon Stability

  • unctarheels1
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Ballistic Pendulum Lab: Solving for Cart Speed

  • fomenkoa
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A ball is thrown from the roof of a building

  • plissken170
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Rotation of Rigid Bodies- mastering physics 9.72

  • wku_tops
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Why is my calculation for the speed of a falling rod off by sqrt(2)?

  • faculaganymede
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Gas Pressure in Open-End U-Tube Manometer

  • Soaring Crane
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Statics: Shear force and Bending Moment

  • unctarheels1
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Solving a Vertical Cylinder Pressure Problem

  • lawgurl
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Struggling with a Homework Problem - Need Assistance

  • Gott_ist_tot
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Static Equilibrium of massless rope

  • suspenc3
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Calculating Energy Equivalent of 1 Gram Mass

  • bkelly
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Calculating Amplitude of Elliptically Polarized EM Wave

  • TriTertButoxy
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Solving Torque Question 3.12: Find Force F

  • SS2006
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Calculating Force and Work of Man Pushing Piano

  • crisicola
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What Is the Final Temperature of a Heated Copper Ball?

  • FishieKissie06
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Is Converting Kgcm to Nm Correct?

  • Lorens
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What Is the Maximum Amplitude of Harmonic Motion Without Slippage?

  • ViewtifulBeau
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How Is the Force Distributed in an Evacuated Chamber with a Panel Cover?

  • Arctangent
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How Does Temperature Scale Impact Gas Pressure Calculations in Thermometers?

  • FishieKissie06
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Fluids - bringing together pressure, depth and friction

  • Arctangent
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Why cosine theta for calculations?

  • Brad_1234
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Magnitude of elec field to balance electron?

  • Brad_1234
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Gravitational Potential and Satellite Motion

  • kingyof2thejring
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A Few Statics-Related Questions

  • amcavoy
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What is the period of this pendulum?

  • brad sue
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Calculating Distance of Two Speakers Producing 162Hz Sound

  • lilkrazyrae
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Some questions about Schroding's cat

  • lydcsa
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Simple Harmonic Motion oscillations

  • kingyof2thejring
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Lab based conservation of energy quesiton.

  • 404
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How Do Binary Stars Orbit and Affect Each Other's Mass and Distance?

  • EbolaPox
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How to Apply Heat Flow Equations to a Sphere?

  • capslock
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Calculating Frictional Force in a Water Eroded Tube: A Case Study

  • Meis_113
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How Does Temperature Affect the Resonant Frequency of a Hydrometer?

  • capslock
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Angular velocity - spherical coordinates

  • emptymaximum
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Centrieptal accleration and the poles of the earth

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Gravitional Potential Energy and Mass of Earth

  • Tirokai
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Calculating Distance Between Two Speakers Producing 180Hz Sound in Phase

  • lilkrazyrae
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What is the Velocity of a Person at the Equator?

  • nrc_8706
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Understanding Period and Frequency in Waves and Pressure Changes

  • Seiya
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