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Insulating spherical shell prob

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Converting weight from pounds to newtons, mass, and kilograms

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Find the centripetal acceleration of the yoyo

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Whats the name of that tool that

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About Blocks, torques and wedges

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Calculating Radioactive Decay: Estimating Age of Ancient City

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Finding force from power and velocity for a cyclist

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Minimum amount of energy necessary to remove a proton from 42-Ca atom

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Projectile Speed and Distance Calculation

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Tension in cord connecting 1kg inclined box to 3kg horizontal box

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What are the tensions in the two ropes holding up a ball?

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Is Gravity an Exception to Newton's Third Law?

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Surface of Equal Gravitational Potential

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Diver falling into swimming pool - forces

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What force must the man pull on the rope to rise with a constant velocity

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Lab on measuring the inertial mass

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Bullet embeds in block and slides up frictionless incline

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Paratrooper falls without parachute

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Tennis serve: impulse, air resistance, and velocity over distance

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Physics 218 - Volume 1 - Mechanics Introduction Question

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Finding resultant of two forces at non-90 degree angles

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How Do You Calculate Spring Constant for Launching a Satellite?

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How do I calculate the maximum compression of a spring in a physics problem?

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What are integrals and how are they used in physics and calculus?

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How Does Tension Change When Horses Pull in Different Configurations?

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How Can I Improve My AS Level Physics Skills Over the Holiday?

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How Much Time Does It Take to Lift a 300 kg Piano 10 Meters?

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Force of Friction: Reaction Force and Application

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Projectile Motion Archer Problem

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What Are Good Resources for Understanding Basic Probability Distributions?

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Calculating Time to Lift 300kg Piano 10 Meters with 400 Watts Power

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How Is Average Force Calculated When Bullets Hit Different Surfaces?

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Why Do Force and Energy Analyses Yield Different Spring Extensions?

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Average force and center of mass

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Spring launches ball, skier friction on incline

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Practice Physics Qs w/Answers: Distance Ed High School Vectors

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What's Wrong in the Boy's Reasoning from Newton's 3rd Law?

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Calculating Speed of Toyota After Collision with Cadillac

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How can I solve this thermodynamics problem involving an adiabatic process?

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How Does Ice Melt When Hot Water Is Added?

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Easy circuit question but i get the wrong answer for PD

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Centripetal acceleration from plumb bob angle in car

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Is My Monkey Physics Calculation Correct?

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What Is the Tension in Vine B for a Hanging Monkey?

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How Fast Was the Car Going Before It Hit the SUV?

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Coefficient of static friction graph

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Bridge Force Calculations for Hiker's Weight

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Angular Speed of Disk with 260 kg Mass and 69 kg Person

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What is the Centripetal Acceleration of a Yoyo on a Horizontal Swing?

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Net Torque of a CD: Mass 17 g, Radius 6 cm, Acceleration 23 rad/s

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Will Sir Lancelot's Weight Cause the Cable to Break?

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How do u know the direction of the current?

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Finding acceleration of 120kg asteroid pushed by three jetpacks

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Force of Friction: Solving for 15 kg Child on 4.0m Slide at 40 Degrees

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Speed of Block at Top of Track: Solving Friction Problem

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Barrier Tunneling: Proton Transmission Coefficient

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Work phythagorean theorem Question

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How Can You Conduct a Simple Single Dimension Motion Lab Under Time Constraints?

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Four mechanics problems: friction, pulley, power, collision

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Does Falling Rain Experience Air Resistance?

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Calculating Minimum Coefficient of Friction for Safe Highway Curves

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How is friction related to work done

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Find Velocity of Mass in 12 Hours

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How High Will the Block Rise After a Gunshot?

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Forces when pushing and stopping a bicycle

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A 5.0 kg block pushed 3 m up a vertical wall

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Projectile + Conservation of energy

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How do you calculate the acceleration of a pendulum at a given angle?

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How Is the Change in Linear Momentum Calculated in a Collision?

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Relative velocity of Electromagnetic waves

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Baseball thrown from roof using work-energy theorem

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Conservation of momentum of a neutron

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Maximum power/current for a battery?

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What is the Mass of a Thin Rectangular Plate with a Circular Hole?

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How Does Centripetal Force Affect the Angle of Water in a Microwave Carousel?

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Excess charge on capacitor 2 in 10V 5-capacitor network

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Wave pulse traveling up a hanging rope and string displacement velocity

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Long vs Short Bows: Does Force Depend on String Length?

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Current, Power, and Energy problem

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Solving a Problem: Calculating Position of Image with 2 Diverging Lenses

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Block sliding down incline collides elastically with stationary block

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Elastic collision of two billiard balls at origin

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Calculating Electric Field at Origin due to Two Point Charges

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Helicopter Problem: Calculating Lift Force on Rotors

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Hello everyone, having troulbes applying Kirchoff's Rule~DC circuits

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Inductance of a coil for a given emf and current change

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How to Calculate Rate of Thermal Energy Production in a Copper Coil

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How can u tell if somthing is in series or parallel?

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Car Colision and speed question

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Work and energy - easy question

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What Are the Forces Acting on Boxes on Inclined Planes?

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Calculating the Spring Constant and Work Done by an Archer's Bow

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Describe forces on a test charge in electromagnetism

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How Well Do You Understand Energy and Work Concepts?

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How Do You Calculate the Centripetal Force of a Whirling Ball?

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