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What Happens When a Person Touches a Live Wire?

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How Do You Calculate Work and Force for a Displaced Mail Bag?

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Find the x component for the force parallel using xcos

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Asteroid collides with Earth, new accel. of gravity?

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How Much Energy Is Lost Due to Air Drag in Ski Jumping?

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How Does a Cookie Jar's Motion on an Incline Relate to Physics Principles?

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Help - finding what slope means

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How High Can a Roller Coaster Start Without Flying Off the Track?

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What is the angle needed to solve for the shopping cart problem?

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What is the acceleration of the masses in this physics homework problem?

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How Does Inclination Angle Affect Tension and Acceleration in a Pulley System?

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How Do Vector Magnitudes Relate in Simple Equations?

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How Do You Calculate Forces on an Inclined Plane with a Frictionless Pulley?

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Calculate Distance of Sound Impact: Concrete vs. Air Speeds

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What is the total kinetic energy of the globe, professor, and platform?"

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Checking Basic Physics Problem for Friend

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Calculating Thrust and Lift Forces for a Jet Fighter Taking Off at 27 Degrees

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Solving Physics Work Problems - Confirm Results

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How Is Centripetal Acceleration Related to the Period of Clock Hands?

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Calculating Kinetic Friction for 300N Penguin on Icy Floor

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Calculating Change in Velocity of 600kg Sports Car

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Siimple kinematics Homework help

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Calculating the Speed and Acceleration of Jillian's Engagement Ring

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Find Initial Separation d for Mass-Spring System: Energy & Force | 4245 N/m

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Solving Car Banked Problem: Friction Force at 88 km/h

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What Angle Causes Particles A and B to Collide?

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Load on ladder leaning against a wall

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Solving the Weight of a Meterstaff with a Dynamometer

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Supermarket Ramp Design: Finding the Optimal Slope

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Newtons second law and stopping on a dime

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Torque and Force Equilibrium in a Rotating Plank

  • Izekid
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Velocity of 2.0kg Object at 4s: Solving Force vs Time Graph

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Quick question 1st law thermodynamics

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Calculating Forces with Friction and Newton's Laws

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Conceptual Newtons laws of motion question- mass and weight

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Calculating Force in Lifting a 2.0kg Object

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Solving Particle Physics Relativity Problem: hbar*omega = DE (1 - DE/2Ea)

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Shortest mirror that will work

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Explaining Newton's Laws: Car, Balloons, Weights & Roller Coasters

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How Does S-Polarized Light Transmit Through Different Refractive Indices?

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How do i sketch the equipotential lines ?

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Proton passes the Milky Way galaxy, find its energy?

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Explaining these concepts (circular motion)

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Solving a Parallel-Plate Air-Filled Capacitor Problem

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Comparing Vibrating and Oscillating Energy of Tuning Forks

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Tension acceleration train problem

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Physics Lab Report Strategy | Help!

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Equipotential Lines: Can They Cross?

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PASCO lab on the interferometer

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Calculate Maximum Momentum of Pelle Cycling up a Hill

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Energy Transformations: Understanding the Arrow's Flight and Landing

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How many g-forces are experienced by this object

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Calculating Degree of Polarization at Air-Glass Interface

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Capacitance equired to store an energy of

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How Can You Calculate the Depth of the Spelunker's Hole?

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Calculating Momentum of an Electron with 511 keV Kinetic Energy

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Projectile motion theta question

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Numerical problem about circuits

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Ground State Symmetry of Single Electron w/ Non-Interacting 2nd Electron

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Please I need some help in Newtons Laws

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Overtaking Truck: How Far & How Fast for Car?

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Proving centripetal acceleration formula

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Sig Fig Problem: Calculating t with I=3.20A, L=4.2m, etc

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Calculating Speed at Equator: 91.3kg Person

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Graphing Question (Software Related)

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Perfectly inelastic collision in a spring situation?

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Calculating Acceleration of a Car using Power and Time

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Need basic understanding of force and friction

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Change in total kinetic energy in a conservation of momentum problem?

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Max Tension Force on Horizontal Rope Pulling 10kg Wood Sled

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How to Calculate Tension in a Two-Block System with Upward Acceleration?

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Some questions on a take home quiz dont makes sense

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A project about Basketball Player

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Is it correct to say that a toaster "consumes" current ?

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Momentum Questions: Solve w/ Formulas

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Thermodynamic Cycle: Calculating Heat Transfer and Work

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Determine acceleration and tensions in this diagram

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Sound moving through different mediums

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Fetal Heart Wall Velocity from Ultrasound Reflection

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Questioning My Teacher's Physics Find Coefficient of Friction?

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Calculating Arrow Speed with Doubled Force: Newton's Second Law

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Gravitation: Find Masses for 2 Objects, 4 kg Total

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Calculating Attraction Between Cokes: Solve the Puzzle

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How does the distance of a planet from the sun affect the temperature?

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Centripetal Force Lab: Calculate Proportionality & Plot Data

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How Do You Calculate Backward Power and Forces in Physics Problems?

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Question about conservation of angular momentum

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Miscalculation with speeds of electrons?

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What is the wavelength of the x-rays in the direct beam?

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Can Photons Completely Transfer Energy and Momentum to Free Electrons?

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