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How Long Does It Take for a Feather to Fall 1 Meter on the Moon?

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Designing a Balsa Wood Beam: Max Strength, Min Weight

  • Struggling
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Stone thrown at 45° on a 5° downward slope

  • Atilla1982
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Refraction of Light: Understand Physics Behind Bending Light

  • Spastik_Relativity
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2 questions on Motion along a straight line

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Solving a Probability Problem: Purchasing Defective TVs for a Hotel

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Calculating Laplace Transform of g(t)=x(2t-5)u(2t-5)

  • mathrocks
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Alpha particle equilibrium near line and plane charges

  • RhysticGenesis
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Trying to find the voltage of a circut

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Isolating time from the kinematic equation x = v₀t + ½at²

  • rockmorg
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Relative Motion: Sum or Difference of Vectors? - Sarahchichi

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Find force from a function of displacement?

  • beanryu
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Understand Laplace alot better now

  • mathrocks
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Understanding Acceleration: How a Speed Skater Slows Down on Rough Ice

  • vbplaya
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Finding Total Vector Displacement for a Multi-Directional Trip

  • chris_soft_engineer
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How Do You Calculate Tension and Acceleration in a Two-Pulley System?

  • lily_stein
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How to Calculate Frictional Forces and Acceleration in a Physics Problem

  • fiestytig
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I with my design engineering homewrk

  • vondutchgurl
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Calculating the Moment of a Resultant Force

  • physicsss
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Solving Newton's First Law: Spider Attached to Two Threads

  • brad sue
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Response of System to sin(3t) and tri(t-1) Inputs

  • mathrocks
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Calculating sup, inf, limsup, liminf, and limit points of a sequence

  • *melinda*
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Can You Prove the Inequality of Supremums Theorem?

  • *melinda*
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More physics kinematics problems

  • rockmorg
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Can a knight make every possible move on an 8x8 chess board exactly once?

  • JasonJo
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What is the height when the object has half its initial velocity?

  • rockmorg
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What is the speed of the car when it hits the tree on a grade of arcsin (1/10)?

  • Dorothy Weglend
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Easy calc 3 question: points on a plane

  • meadow
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Questions about forces on surfaces

  • Pseudo Statistic
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Force following same rules as vectors

  • xailer
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Calculating Coal Usage for a 1000 MW Steam Power Plant

  • physicsss
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How far above the coconut should he aim with his slingshot?

  • brad sue
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How High Would a Pellet Reach if Fired Upward from a Cliff?

  • rockmorg
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Linear stuff: I never get the awnser

  • cmab
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Kirchhoff's Rule: Impact of Ammeter Resistance on Total Current?

  • tin llenaresas
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Measuring unknown emf by potentiometer

  • tin llenaresas
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How long does the ball stay in the air before hitting the ground?

  • bommer
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What Metals Have the Best Magnetic Properties for a Physics Project?

  • .ryan.
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Reflecting surface equation using Fermat's principle

  • CaptainQuaser
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Understanding Compressional Forces in a Tripod's Legs

  • kidia
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Finding equilibrium and period for 2y - 5 = sin(144t - 45)

  • cscott
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Kinematics problems: projectile motion and acceleration

  • r3dxP
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Finding transfer function for two-mass spring-damper system

  • formulajoe
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Mass in circular motion on frictionless table

  • brad sue
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Train Acceleration Problem: Finding Final Car Velocity at 190m Distance

  • confusedaboutphysics
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Solve Limit of n(a^(1/n)-1) as n→∞

  • jenia_2k
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Combinatorics-next problem with numbers

  • Jurij
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What is the purpose of trigonometric identities

  • chound
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Egative power indicates an inverse

  • gillgill
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What is the magnitude of the runner's total displacement?

  • thschica
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Velocity Unit: Is 30 m/s^2 an Example?

  • IB
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Human cannonball and projectile motion homework problems

  • r3dxP
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Spaghetti bridge design to hold 10-15 kg

  • liv
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Physics: strange vector hw problem

  • oldunion
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Electric n magnetic field vectors

  • benitta
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Finding power output from press-ups without mass given

  • alias25
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Mass is the amount of matter in a material?

  • beginner16
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Significant Figures and scientific notation

  • happykid
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Newton's third law with ropes and connected objects

  • xailer
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How Does Gauss' Theorem Transform Volume to Surface Integrals?

  • dreamfly
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Solving Geometric Optics Problem: Raising Height of Camera

  • eep
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Where on the X-Axis Does the Electric Field Equal Zero?

  • confused1
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How Does Entropy Change in an Irreversible Adiabatic Expansion of Nitrogen?

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What is the maximum transverse spread of Mr. Leonelli in his seat?

  • quasar987
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Find the two-digit number BA where 3AB + BA = 4AC

  • jacy
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L'Hopital's rule for solving limit

  • mousesgr
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Motion on Incline: Solving for Velocity

  • amcavoy
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Find value h so the matrix has infinitely many solutions?

  • mr_coffee
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Finding the Magnitude of a Displacement Vector with Multiple Components

  • thschica
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Find Limit: <Undefined,Undefined,6/5>

  • Whatupdoc
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Parametric equations for the tangent line

  • Whatupdoc
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Sum of forces does not equal zero

  • Cyrus
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Converting to unit impulse function

  • mathrocks
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Damaged multimeter by putting black probe in A port instead of COM?

  • Haftred
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How do I rearrange Vp = ∛x + 4/3y to make p the subject?

  • stepha
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Average velocity of an arrow shot upward on the moon

  • linhthuy256
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Proof of Limit: $\varepsilon$-$\delta$ Definition

  • kidia
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Will the wavelength decrease when the wave moves from a light string to a heavy

  • insertnamehere
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Record of Travel Problem Guidance

  • gasapple
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Parametric equations for a hyperbolic paraboloid

  • Townsend
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Graph a line through the origin that is parallel to the graph of x+y=10

  • modeman
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Percentage difference of two numbers?

  • pivoxa15
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Finding Electric Field at 35.6 cm from Charge Distribution

  • notmetalenough
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Some physics work, show me what i am doing wrong.

  • Pepsi24chevy
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Projectile motion airplane speed problem

  • dethlok777
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Algebra Confusion: Proving (A+C)*(A'+B)*(B+C) = B*C

  • zenity
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Electric Potential V at Point P: Multiple Choice

  • srhly
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Calculating the Yearly Cost of 131 kW Cooling System

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Calculating acceleration and tension in a two-mass pulley system

  • irrehaare
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Calculating Tension in a Rope: A 2kg Stone and 1m Radius

  • Atilla1982
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Net force on each side of a heated sealed box with air at 400K

  • ice87
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Water at Niagara Falls cascading at 49.4 degrees below horizontal

  • Morokana
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Where to find a video of a Wilson cloud chamber

  • Spastik_Relativity
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