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Calculating Radius for Stone in Rotating Tire with Static Friction

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Where Can I Find Quality AP Physics Lecture Notes and Review Materials?

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Elevator pulled upward by cable - find tension

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Why does a swinging Atwood's machine work the way it does?

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Finding Maximum Acceleration on a Box on a Cart with Friction

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Estimating the Effect of F-16 Engines on Earth's Rotational Speed

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Finding water mass in copper-water calorimetry problem

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Minimal acceleration for a 5g spider lowering itself on a web

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Finding coefficient of kinetic friction for a sliding puck without mass

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Calculating Relative Velocity for Walking on a Treadmill

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How to Calculate Doppler Effect Frequencies for Moving Objects?

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Terminal voltage of car battery being charged at 62.5 A

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Kepler's Third Law: Proportional Orbit Period to Distance^1.5

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Error Propagation for F=4*pi^2*r*m/T^2

  • badtwistoffate
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What forces are acting on the ant as it swings on a rotating rod?

  • Wen
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Problem involving incline, spring and friction

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Maximum upward force on a 22 kg box at 45° to keep it at rest

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Tension problem involving Centriptal force

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Beta decay - derive an expression relating source angle to energy

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Minimum velocity for hoop rolling up a step without slipping

  • Wen
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Finding tension between connected 4 kg and 5 kg blocks pulled by 30 N

  • SS2006
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Piano sliding down an incline - work problem

  • confusedbyphysics
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Accelerations without friction problem

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Power due to the force applied to the block by the cable?

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What is g on a planet with twice Earth's radius and same density?

  • PhysicBeginner
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How Can I Solve a Projectile Motion Problem Without Knowing the Mass?

  • saschouch
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Finding normal force when pulling a sleigh at an angle

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How Does Air Resistance Affect the Distance of Free Fall?

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How Did Roemer Measure the Speed of Light Using Jupiter's Moons?

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Solving for Initial Velocity in a Projectile Motion Basketball Shot

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How Does Projectile Motion Determine a Football's Field Goal Success?

  • kevinlikesphysics
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What is the Solution to the Roller Coaster Apparent Weight Problem?

  • joseph harris
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How Do I Solve Forces in Physics Problems Like 1d and 1e?

  • SS2006
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Calculating Final Position in Projectile Motion: A Case Study

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Blocks, Friction Forces and Acceleration

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Why doesn't the transformer voltage formula work with a DC battery?

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Why Does My Electron Energy Calculation Keep Failing?

  • brandon26
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Projectile motion of conservation of energy?

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Finding the applied force on a 2 ft board against a wall at 30 degrees

  • WhatTheBleepDoIKnow
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Determining the Minimum Length of a Plane Mirror to View a 5m Drawing

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Sun Interference astronomy question

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Launching marble upwards - Find speed

  • lachlan81
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Solving Force Problems: Work Done from x=0 to x=4m

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Calculating Heat Energy from Falling Object

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Solve Tension on Wall-Hung Picture Frame Wire

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Calculated the total time kinematics

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Tension and acceleration with m1 = 2m2 on a pulley system

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Max Speed to Maintain Road Contact over Bump

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How do orbits and forces affect planetary motion and satellite trajectories?

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How Does a Model Train Transformer Work?

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Modeling Forces in Free Falling Chain Problem

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Electric fields and de broglie wavelength

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Calculating Initial Bullet Speed in Bullet-Block Collision on a Table

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How many ice cubes cool 200 liters of water from 25°C to 16°C?

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Find Maximum Elevation of Test Rocket

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Translatoral equlibrium question

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Why doesn't the applied force cancel in this mop handle friction problem?

  • amcavoy
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Current in a 20-turn coil with changing magnetic field

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Solving Dynamics Problem of Two Colliding Spheres

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Calculating Instantaneous Power in a Uniformly Accelerating System

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Calculate dropped ball acceleration question

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Coin on turntable and wheat on conveyor belt

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How Do You Calculate Frictional Force with Multiple Normal Forces?

  • amcavoy
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Maximum height of golf drive at 15 degrees and shell flight time

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How far does the truck travel in this time?

  • SpicyQ
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Maximum voltage for three series resistors before one burns out

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Universal gravitation and inclines

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Why Can't I Solve This Circuit Resistance Problem?

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What Is the Second Force Acting on a Particle in Constant Motion?

  • Elysium
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Finding the Acceleration of a Moving Bus Using Newton's Laws

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Calculating Distance Traveled by a Point on a Rotating Wheel

  • willworkforfood
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Projectile Motion - Elevated Target

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Center of mass of a triangle (uniform density)

  • Kenny Lee
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Solve the Balance: Meter Stick Mass Calculation

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What is the Mass of the Metre Stick?

  • NMW
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Balaning metre-stick - Find the mass

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Force Analysis of an Elevator Moving Upward

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How do you solve tension problems with pulleys and inclines?

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Someone Explain these Concepts to ME

  • NotaPhysicsMan
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Who first determined the value of absolute zero?

  • jaidon
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How Do Currents in Adjacent Wires Affect Their Mutual Force?

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Velocity of Light vs Train: Why the Difference?

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What Does a Scale Read for a Person in an Elevator Under Various Conditions?

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Really though relative motion/momentum question

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50kg sprinter's horizontal force and power output

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Calculating Work Done on a Train with Jet Engine Thrust?

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Forces on a basketball player and ground before jumping

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Surviving a Fall: Calculating Velocity and Impulse for Safe Landings

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Finding the Longest Wavelength for Interference Patterns

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Baseball thrown at 24° and 29.3 m/s caught 65 m away

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Power required to raise 1 ton per meter per minute

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