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Calculating the Total Length of a Spring with Varying Masses

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Calculating Velocity with Relativistic Mass Equation

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Calculating Thermal Energy from a Head-On Collision

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

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Calculating Fringe Distance with Multiple Wavelengths and Slit Spacing

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

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Bullet speeds when fired up, down, and horizontally

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How Can I Prepare for Physics and Engineering Exam Questions?

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Tension in two wires at 25° and 50° holding a 20 kg mass

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Force needed to pull a 175 kg block with static friction 0.12

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Cylinder-and-piston physics probem

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Earth's rotation, ladder friction, and momentum in space

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Calculating Bullet Speed Before Impact for Vibration Problem

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Formula to calculate Rocket Thrust

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

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What is the rms potential difference across the resistor?

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Get the resistance for each wires

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Solving Mechanics Questions: Tips and Tricks for Success

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration with Friction Involved?

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Bridges and Archimedes' principle

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Whats the force of this baseball?

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Sound waves and calorimetry exam questions

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Calculating Cork Volumes for Amusement Park Water Slide

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When are farenheit and kelvin numericaly equaly?

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Checking Work on Condensing Steam: A Challenge!

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A confusing question - melting ice

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

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Is my book right? it seems wrong

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Calculating Speed of Falling Meter Stick

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When should the Parallel Axis Theorem be used in mechanics?

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

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Elastic collision between 3.42g and 6.84g objects

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Glass beads falling 1 m onto a balance pan

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

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Static Equilibrium: Finding More than One Balance Point

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Verifying force magnitude and direction, then calculating work

  • Lisa...
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Image distance / focal length relation

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Turn radius needed for balance at 30 mph and 45 degrees inclination

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Minimum height for rollercoaster to complete a loop of radius r

  • Lisa...
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Minimum fuel escape burn at apogee or perigee?

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Calculate the gravitational field strength

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Initial Amplitude and the Release Point

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Moment of inertia of a rod using the parallel axis theorem

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Conservation of energy springs.

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Finding launch angle from momentum vs time graph

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Pulley problem using 2nd Law of motion

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Minimum Uncertainty of Electron's Momentum

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Dalton's Law and Partial Pressure

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Finding Thevenin voltage across R2 in circuit with R1-R5

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What is the longest vertical soda straw you could drink from?

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Single slit diffraction pattern size as hole diameter changes

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Damped harmonic oscillator physics

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80 kg climber: max acceleration with rope at 1.1× static tension

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Calculating Required Air Temperature for Hot Air Balloon Stability

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Ballistic Pendulum Lab: Solving for Cart Speed

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A ball is thrown from the roof of a building

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

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Solving friction and tension problems with boxes on inclines

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Gas Pressure in Open-End U-Tube Manometer

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Statics: Shear force and Bending Moment

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Solving a Vertical Cylinder Pressure Problem

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Maximum height of soda straw you can drink from

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Static Equilibrium of massless rope

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Calculating Energy Equivalent of 1 Gram Mass

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Calculating Amplitude of Elliptically Polarized EM Wave

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Solving Torque Question 3.12: Find Force F

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Calculating Force and Work of Man Pushing Piano

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Largest iron asteroid you could jump off and escape to space

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What Is the Final Temperature of a Heated Copper Ball?

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Is Converting Kgcm to Nm Correct?

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Finding car mass from tire pressure and footprint area

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What Is the Maximum Amplitude of Harmonic Motion Without Slippage?

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

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How Does Temperature Scale Impact Gas Pressure Calculations in Thermometers?

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Fluids - bringing together pressure, depth and friction

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Why cosine theta for calculations?

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Magnitude of elec field to balance electron?

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Gravitational Potential and Satellite Motion

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A Few Statics-Related Questions

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What is the period of this pendulum?

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Calculating Distance of Two Speakers Producing 162Hz Sound

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Some questions about Schroding's cat

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Simple Harmonic Motion oscillations

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Lab based conservation of energy quesiton.

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

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How to Apply Heat Flow Equations to a Sphere?

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

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How Does Temperature Affect the Resonant Frequency of a Hydrometer?

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Angular velocity - spherical coordinates

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Centrieptal accleration and the poles of the earth

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Gravitional Potential Energy and Mass of Earth

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