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Program that calculates distances of a rocket

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How Do I Solve for the Normal Force in this Cart Problem?

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Radiation and heat transfer stuff

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Does electrostatic potential depend on the sign of the test charge?

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Superstrings theory help would be appreciated.

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Rubber ball losing energy on each bounce

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Velocity to the east, acceleration to the west

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Skydiver acceleration with air resistance, then constant descent with parachute

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Newton's law problem have attempted it

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Average force on a catcher's mitt with 8.0 cm stopping distance

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Experiment Results: Projectile Motion and Velocity Analysis

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How High Did the Catapult Launch the Block on Mars?

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What's the Force on a Coiled Rope Pulled with Constant Speed?

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AP Physics Lab: Coefficient of Friction

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Bragg's equation error analysis for ball bearing spacing

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Force Analysis of 3 Blocks on Horizontal Surface

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Solving for Maximum Spring Length With a Dropped Clay Ball

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What angle yields the maximum horizontal range for a projectile?

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Why Does a Car Behave Erratically When Its Back Brakes Are Locked?

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Pressure/force hydraulic lift problem

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Rotational Dynamics and angle of theta

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Calculate Elevator's Acceleration with Person on Bathroom Scale

  • confusedaboutphysics
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Solving Projectile Motion Displacement

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Approximate the minimum kinetic energy of an electron

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What Is the Total Force on a Charge at the Center of a Semicircle of Charge?

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Work done lifting a safe and kinetic energy in shot put

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Determine the tension in the cable attached to the chair

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Calculating Activated Speed in a Cylindrical Tube

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Work done and motion of 4 kg block with friction

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Motorboat Downstream Velocity: Point A to 6km Away

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Why is earth's rotation period < 24hrs

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Solving Spring/Work Problem: Find Min. Work Required

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Calculating Buoyant Force on a Boat

  • PhunWithPhysics
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How to Calculate Fn, Highest Point, and Acceleration on an Inclined Plane?

  • killerinstinct
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Football kicked at unknown angle travels 45 meters horizontally

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Finding acceleration in y-direction on a tilted air hockey table

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Special geostationary orbit condition

  • JamesJames
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Solving Physics Problems: Ball Drop and Race Calculations

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Newton's law and two blocks on vertical inclined plane

  • SpicyQ
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How Much Tension Is Needed to Lift a 1800 kg Car Upward at 0.60 m/s²?

  • confusedaboutphysics
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Question involving beats and finding an unknown frequency.

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Ear Damage from a Small Firecracker

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Football Projectile Calculations

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What is the coefficient of kinetic friction for the incline?

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Calculating Plank's Velocity on Frictionless Ice Surface

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Frictional force and largest angles

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I need a formula for Height equals length of arc.

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How to calculate the rebound distance of the bungge jump

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TENSION: how do you calculate it?

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Solving the Blackbody Problem for Main Sequence Stars

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Solving Resonance Problem in Air Columns

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Incline Equilibrium with Unique Applied Force

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What Force Must Be Exerted at 35 Degrees on a 30 Degree Hill?

  • Hitokiri
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Mass Spectrometer and Electric Field Problem

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Work required to pull a hanging chain

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Finding tension between two fish hung from a fishing line

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Solve Angular Acceleration Prof's Puzzle: Conservation of Energy

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How Does Kinematics Calculate the Trajectory of a Thrown Ball?

  • tiarakiyoshi
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Find the net charge on the shell

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Force needed to push a 3.8 kg block up a vertical wall at 35 degrees

  • Kumar9
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Projectile motion with air resistance proportional to velocity

  • don_anon25
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How Do Velocity and Acceleration Relate in Circular Motion?

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What Is the Maximum Car Acceleration Without the Book Slipping?

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One Dimension Free-Fall Problem

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Finding time and initial velocity from projectile launcher distances

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Calculating Net External Force in a Two-Body System with Gravity

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Skier coasting down slope with initial speed and friction

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Trouble with Harmonic Oscillator Problems in Quantum Physics

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Tuning fork resonance in variable length tube

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Solving 3sin(x+10)=4cos(x-10)

  • brandon26
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Final speed and compression in a kinetic-potential energy problem?

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Problem with charge distribution and potential

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Volume of a cone is 10 cubic cm

  • LauraJane
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What is the temperature of the bath?

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How to find the time elapsed between successive resonances?

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Finding where f(x) = x + 9/x is increasing and decreasing

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Deriving the Lorentz Velocity Tranformation

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Time for projectile to cross a line through the origin

  • don_anon25
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Proving Isometry Preserves Distance in R^3 with f(0)=0

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What happens when two people pull on a rope with different forces?

  • Kristin
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How Does Catching a Ball Illustrate the Conservation of Momentum?

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Finding electron speed in a magnetic field with given field strength

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How Can a Swimmer Land Directly Across a River with a Current?

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Expansion of E-Field of a Uniformly Charged Flat Circular Disk

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How to Manipulate Lim Sups and Lim Infs in Proofs?

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