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How Far Can a Particle Travel at 0.99c Before Decaying?

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Maximum and minimum curvature on the polar curve r = 3 + sin θ

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Deriving the y' acceleration component in special relativity

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Who Will Reach the 200 Meter Line First: The Runner or the Bicyclist?

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Challenging math questions involving polynomial functions

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Solve Entropy Change of Nitrogen in a Polytropic Process

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Why did copper sheeting corrode the iron nails on HMS Alarm?

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Simple integration but i forgot how to do it

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Speed of Motorboat Going Downstream at Point 'a': 6 km/hr

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How do you determine the average velocity of an object?

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Strategies for Evaluating Trigonometric Integrals

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Fourier series for sinh t on (-1,1) and 1+|t| on (-π,π)

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Proton orbiting a charged sphere at 3×10⁵ m/s

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Are There Infinite Plane Formulas for a Given Vector?

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Motion of a Pendulum: Find Max Velocity

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How Wide is the Canyon Based on Echo Time?

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Maximum angle for pushing a box across floor with friction

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Implicit differentiation of xcos(y) + ycos(x) = 1

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What is the formula for finding the area of a sector in a circle?

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How to derive coefficient of friction?

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Calculate the total momentum after the collision

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Why Are These Dynamics Problems So Challenging?

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Determine Projectile Motion velocity

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Bond Angle, Can Someone Tell Me if I'm Correct?

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Vibrations and the wave equation

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Force of gravity on a spaceship - can't get right answer.

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Solving the Speedster Puzzle: Calculating Time to Catch Up

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Six astronomy problems: gravity, light, orbital mechanics, Mars communication

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Calculate Photons/Angstrom at Cassegrain Telescope - V=9, zenith=60°

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Finding the Initial Velocity of an Egg Thrown Near a Building

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Solving 3^{20} $\pmod{100}$ Without FLT

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Particle sliding on rotating inclined plane with Coriolis force

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How Does Gravitational Force Affect a Snowball Fired from a Cliff?

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Max speed and displacement of particle on rotating slope with Coriolis force

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How Does Bessel's Method Determine Lens Focal Length?

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Projectile Trajectories: Finding Optimal Firing Angles and Flight Times

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Find the average and uncertainty of the length of the table?

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Sprinter acceleration and jet aircraft speed problems

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Challenging question think you're smart enough?

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How to find resultant for 3 given vectors

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Can You Determine the Basis for the Range of a Linear Transformation?

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Linear Transformations: Proving Linearity and Finding Inverse Functions

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What is the Most Probable Speed of a Gas at a Given Temperature?

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Calculate Force on Electron in Magnetic Field: 61500V, 0.477T

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Linear vs Proportional Relationship

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How Do You Derive the Formula for the Sum of Consecutive Squares?

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Watch hanging at 15° from vertical on accelerating moped

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Solving a System of Forces Problem: Analytical Approach

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Minimum stopping distance for 6000 kg steel load on truck

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Find the Shortest Distance Between Two Lines: L1 and L2

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Calculating initial velocity for object

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Solving an Inhomogeneous System: A Coset of W in R^m

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Vector Space Axioms which fail certain matrices

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I found a proof for the vector chain rule, but it makese no sense to me

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Confusing arken/weber problem (del in triple vector product)

  • Brad Barker
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Probability and Multinomial Coefficients

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Find the probability it will be red

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Sketching the plane curve r(t) = <cos(t), sin(t)>

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What is the max volume given certain restrictions?

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Proving the cross product rule for derivatives

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Shotputter projectile motion with release above ground

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Velocity of a person falling 100 meters with air resistance

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Need some math help very difficult problems

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Is the center of gravity always inside the object?

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Law of conservation of enegry and one task

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How Do You Calculate the Second Derivative in Implicit Differentiation?

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Is my u-substitution for ∫(x+2)√(x-3)dx correct?

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Finding real-valued solutions from complex solutions of y''+y=0

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Magnitude and angles of resultant couple moment from two valve handles

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Finding distribution by using mgf(moment generating function)

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Why Does a Marble Fall Faster in a Pool Than in a Narrow Tube?

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Solving Snooker Ball Physics Problem: u^2(m-M)=v^2(M+m)

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Reaction forces at supports A and B with distributed load

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Coulomb's Low And Dirac Delta Functio

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Ampere's Law and current density

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Finding Banked Angle of a Curve on Level Road

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Solving the System: x^2+(y-5)^2=9 and y=x^2+K

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Finding Coefficient of Static Friction for Amusement Ride

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How can I find the height and time of a freely falling object?

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Proof of Simple Limit: f(x)≤g(x) for all x

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Ball dropped from roof passes 3 m window in 0.25 s

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Where Does the Normal Line Intersect the Parabola Again?

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How Is Spring Potential Energy Calculated?

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Solving for Min Speed with Applied Newton's Law

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Hey, I on log and continuous growth.

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Getting different determinant for this 4x4 matrix

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Projecting a vector along a direction onto a plane

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Why Does Ladder Slipping Depend on the Ground's Surface?

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