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Deriving the Volume of a Sphere Using Spherical Coordinates

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Draw a tangent that is perpendicular to the line

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Newtons Law Involving Friction

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Integrating log base 2 in a vector line integral

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Minimum Kinetic Friction for Inclined Block System

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What is the time of flight for a projectile launched from a cliff?

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A complex integral from the text

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Difficulty with EASY equivalence statement

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Computing Tension and Velocity in a Wire

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How Do You Calculate Var(X) in a Conditional Variance Problem?

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Calculating minimum amount of time

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Solve Dynamics: Acceleration with F=52 N, µ=0.22, m1=4.3 kg, m2=1.1 kg

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How does planet mass and diameter affect your weight?

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Integrating $\frac{dv}{dt}=g-kv^2$ from $v=0$ to $v_t$

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Find \frac{dz}{dx} at (0,0,0) for sin (2x+4y+z) = 0

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Compositions into relatively prime parts

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Dimensions of a closed rectangular box

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What Should the Insurance Premium Be to Break Even?

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Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinate systems

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Rotor-ride carnival: minimum static friction coefficient at 0.5 rev/s

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Finding time for block B to fall from height h to floor

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Five competition math problems on sequences, ropes, and geometry

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Calculating Trace of 4x4 Matrix: (A+I)^{-1}

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Football kick projectile problem

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Overdamped and critically damped oscillator

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Solve High School Lockers Calculus Problem

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Solving Related Rates Problem: Finding the Angle of Depression

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How to Calculate Curl for a Rectangular Fluid Path

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How Quickly Does Ice Form on a Pond at -10°C?

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Constant acceleration of velocity

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Why does center of mass behave

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How Should Net Force and Friction Be Ranked for Blocks A and B?

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Prove inequality 2ab <= a^2 + b^2 from 0 <= (a - b)^2

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Several phys201 problems ( on how to approach them)

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PH: product of concentration of H+ and OH-

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What Determines the Oscillation Frequency of a Billiard Ball on a Drum?

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Heat loss from boiling water and ice layer growth

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How to Determine the Aircraft's Ground Path Direction?

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What the test question that just bugged the crap outta me

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Building a projectile launcher for an angle vs. range lab

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Light experiment for 16-year-olds without trigonometry

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Find the limit of (1-x)tan(πx/2) as x approaches 1

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To understand polar coordinates

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Sum of all forces zero,but net torque not zero?

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Calculating Tension in a Suspended Loudspeaker

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Re(eigenvalue) inequality problem

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Average speed and velocity for a runner going east then west

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(sin x)^n-(cos x)^n =1 for all x

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How Do You Calculate Aircraft Velocity with Wind Influence?

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Finding the ratio of the inner and outer radii

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Solving Capacitor Problem - Find q1

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Finding jump distance after 5% velocity increase

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Solving 300/(5vw) + 300/(3vw) = 8 for vw

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Solving for v in a rational equation with two fractions

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Proving Triangle Properties with Sin and Cos

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Work done by friction on a 62 kg player sliding 2.40 m to third base

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Will Changes in Mean and Standard Deviation Affect Median and Mode?

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Find the derivative of (2x+3)³/(4x²-1)⁸

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Prove Determinant of Rotation Matrix is 1 w/Continuity Argument

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Continuity and Intermediate Value Theorem

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Quick swimmer's motion question

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What is the magnitude of the resultant between these two vectors?

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How far does a bicyclist travel in 30 minutes with a 2:1 gear ratio?

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Calculating Volume and Side Length of a Cut Cone - Is This Right

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Calculating the electric potential engery of the system

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Steady state solutions for a damped driven oscillator

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Related rates volume pouring in and out question

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How do I go about this [projectile motion]

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Reviewing Responses to Motion and Forces Questions

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Looking for diffentiation and integration problems

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Falcon falling while traveling 100m horizontally at 200 mi/h

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Checking XOR proofs with Boolean algebra rules

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Calculating Stopping Distance: Reaction Time and Acceleration in Automobiles

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Calculating Tension in a Sleigh Rope on Snow

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Coefficient of kinetic friction on a 26° slide

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Electric Potential in a Conductor

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Abstract algebra proof: composition of mappings

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What is the Frequency of a State Function Describing a Proton?

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Find min. wave amplitude (A_min) for Ant on Tightrope: T_s, mu, lambda, g

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Is Ax = b Consistent Given This RREF?

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Calculate Wave Amplitude for T, u, lambda, g

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Finding T in an Elevator Moving with Constant Velocity

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What is the velocity of the passenger relative to the water?

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Solve Diff. Eq. Problem on Symmetrical Tank with Aperture

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Calculating Electric Field at Point P on a Uniformly Charged Surface

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Normalization of a wave function

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Special Relativity and length contraction

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Finding the inverse and finding a matrix * A = 0 matrix

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3 physics problems concerning inductance and rlc circuit

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Techniques for solving type of Matrix problems

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