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Calculate Work Needed to Stop Rolling Cylinder

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Moment of inertia for an irregular shaped object

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What Is the Initial Acceleration of End B When the String Is Cut?

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Calculating Scalar Potential for a Cube with Point Charges

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Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions

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Dynamic application of torque with center of mass

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Science Project Idea: Rainy Day Experiment for Measuring Wetness

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Solving for Displacement on a 25° Incline w/ Kinetic Energy

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So the spider can safely climb up the strand with no acceleration (0 m/s^2).

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Equilibrium when applied to muscles and joints Help, please

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Please help with this Harmonic Motion

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Determining the force of something that is dropped.

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Using primitives to integrate moments of Inertia

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What Forces Do Stepladders Exert on a Plank Supporting a Painter?

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Calculating Impulse Magnitude in a 2-Dimensional System

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1st year physic help - hot air balloons

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How Is Work Calculated When Lifting and Carrying a Cement Block?

  • hshphyss
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Air-wind-blah velocity problems

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Really Important homework take-home test thing

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Electric fields and positive point charge

  • Pixter
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Calculate Moment of Inertia: Thin Rod, Length 3.14m, Mass 2.11kg

  • ViewtifulBeau
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Calculating the magnetic field of 3 piece wire

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How High Was the Basketball Dropped to Achieve a Momentum of 2.5 kgm/s?

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Calculating Rotational Inertia: A Puzzling Problem?

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Car moving along a banked curve with friction

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Calculating Period for Simple Harmonic Motion in Physics Lab

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Tape won't stick where I want it

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Solving a Rocket Motion Problem

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Whaaa Calculating the temperature of the suns surface

  • Lisa...
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Vector components on the tip of hand on a clock

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What is the speed of the ball after bouncing off an elastic surface?

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Determine the possible values for the magnitude

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Determine the Gravitational potential energy

  • Nicholasw
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Solving Homework Question: Wave Period, Frequency & Velocity

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Moment of Inertia and Center of Mass for Point Particles

  • jenc305
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How Do You Calculate Average Speed During Acceleration?

  • snowbelle
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Rolling Motion (Kinetic Energy)

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Tarzan's velocity while swinging on his vine

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Need some proper wording for a Formal Lab

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Inelastic collision and conservation of energy

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Redrawing Circuits for Diode Analysis: Is It Valid?

  • QueenFisher
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Free-falling body subject to air resistance

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Using Kirchhoff's Laws to find current in a circuit

  • klandestine
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Work on sliding bag on aircraft

  • hshphyss
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How Can I Calculate Tension and Amplitude in Standing Wave Problems?

  • Superdreamer
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Inconsistency in special relativity?

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How Much Energy Do CO Molecules Need for a Rotational Transition?

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How to Solve Electric Circuit Questions

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Calculate Force at Air Tank Outlet Pipe: 200psi to 30psi

  • nickvdm
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Wavelength, Frequency, and Planck's Constant

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Need Help Calculating Wheel Radius for Kinetic Energy

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Calculating Torque: Solving a Bicycle Wheel Problem

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Normalizing Data from Lens Equation Lab

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Transmission Lines & Impedance Matching

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Does Equipartition of Energy Mean K is Proportional to D and T?

  • Kenny Lee
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In what unit do you measure potential energy?

  • RMHAZARD
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How Do You Calculate Travel Time and Distance with Stops and Varying Speeds?

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Equation to find density of metal

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Apply the law of conservation of energy to determine the ball's speed

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3 problems involving linear momentum

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Breaking Point for a Copper Wire

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Resolution of an electron microscope for a given voltage

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How can I find the angle θ for mechanical equilibrium in this problem?

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At What Height Is a Projectile at Half Its Initial Velocity?

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Help with a torque-rotational-inertia-force question please

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How can I find the mechanical energy lost due to friction?

  • johny_doe
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Momentum Concepts: Struggling to Find Answers

  • Frank_Horrigan
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How High Does Block M1 Rise After a Magnetic Repulsion Collision?

  • physixnot4me
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Wat does my teacher want me to do?

  • DB
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Compressible Fluid Thermodynamics

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Calculating Final Speeds of Pucks A and B After Collision

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Simple Harmonic Motion assignment

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Fundamental frequency of a guitar string?

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A passenger rushing to catch a plane at the airport

  • Michael B.
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How High Can Tarzan Swing After Jane Lets Go?

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How Is Final Velocity Calculated from Impulse?

  • AdnamaLeigh
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Pressure Difference Across Airplane Wings

  • Ike
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What Is the Speed of a Block Just Before It Hits a Spring?

  • Ike
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More advanced FBD problems-need some tips

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Obtain the resistance of a ntc thermistor

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Understanding Conservation of Energy in Rollercoasters

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Calculating Work Done by Air Resistance on a Thrown Ball

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