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Laplace transform of complex exponential

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How Do You Solve These Challenging Physics Problems?

  • TJ the Tornado
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Electric field at different distances from a charged sheet

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Federal income tax calculation with tiered rates

  • vee123
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Find the angle theta at which the ladder leaves the wall

  • HiPPiE
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Electrostatic force electroscope

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What are the 5 characteristics of life?

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What is the limiting value of his average velocity?

  • courtrigrad
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Solving Physics Problem with Garden Hose

  • Physik
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Find the velocity of the rain with respect to the car and the Earth

  • tubworld
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Is the equation x² - 2xy + y² + 5x + 5y = 0 a parabola?

  • TonyC
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Did Police Make the Right Call in Speeding Arrest Based on Skid Mark Length?

  • courtrigrad
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Rotating axes to eliminate xy-term in 8x²+64xy+8y²+12x+12y+9=0

  • TonyC
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What Is the Average Acceleration of an Arrow Shot from a Bow?

  • courtrigrad
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Number of electrons on charged sphere

  • srhly
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Can You Rearrange Equations to Solve for Unknown Variables in Physics?

  • Serj
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Finding sphere volume and density using water displacement

  • rawr101
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What is the value of c that makes f(x) continuous on the entire real line?

  • hotrocks007
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How can we design a container to protect an egg from a 5 meter drop?

  • Jacobpm64
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How Much Does 1ml of Protons Weigh?

  • tish
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How Do You Calculate Instantaneous Velocity in Acceleration Problems?

  • TJ the Tornado
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14 kinematics questions on motion, velocity, and acceleration

  • courtrigrad
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Determine Max Speed for a Pickup Truck

  • PhysicsDud
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Cloud droplet rainfall calculation and force dimensions

  • brad sue
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What is the Mathematical Treatment of Thermal Stress and Strain?

  • maverick280857
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What is the average velocity of the train during this run?

  • courtrigrad
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Finding Point of Origin Formula

  • Mendas
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Object A catches Object B, at when?

  • PrudensOptimus
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What do the upside down deltas in Maxwell's equations mean?

  • FluxCapacitator
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Understanding Local Extrema with Two Variables and Partial Derivatives

  • Guero
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Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

  • Qyamat
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Solving a Physics Problem: Maximum Speed with a Crate of Eggs

  • PhysicsDud
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Calculating Filling Time for a Large Bottle of Water

  • aceXstudent
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Finding lim x→0+ x^(x²) using L'Hôpital's rule

  • laker88116
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Soil Pressure Calculation for Leaning Pisa Tower

  • SVG84R
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Where can I find hard kinematics problems

  • Petar Mali
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Can a vector be zero if one component is nonzero?

  • courtrigrad
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Limits using basic analysis theorems and logic?

  • broegger
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Mechanics Problem, Cannot understand

  • mathwurkz
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How Can Quantum Potential Be Tailored for Specific Energy Levels?

  • eljose
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Why Do High Jumpers' Centers of Mass Pass Underneath the Bar?

  • physicsstudent12
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Potential divider and potentiometer principle

  • nutzweb
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IVP Unique Does y' = x^5 - y^5 + 2xe^y Have 1?

  • Benny
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Solving Problems with Attractive Inverse Cubed Force

  • danai_pa
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Is the Intersection of Two Matrix Subspaces Nontrivial?

  • gazzo
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Find the equation for a parabola with given vertex and point.

  • TonyC
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Why Does a New Light Bulb Burn Out Immediately After Connection?

  • phyphysics
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Hyperbola opening up and down with given domain and range

  • yourmom98
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Find the Function G for Given F(x) = 1/x and (f/g)(x) = (x+1)/(x^2-x)

  • jai6638
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How Is the Tension in the Right Support Wire Calculated?

  • pkossak
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Special functions and application to physics

  • jaan
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Why is the potential of a conducting shell kQ/R2 and not kQ/R1?

  • heman
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Does Cutting a Spring in Half Change Its Spring Constant K?

  • physicsstudent12
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Torque on charged square plate rotating in 1/r² electric field

  • robousy
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Max spped for a car to go around a curve track without skidding confusing

  • Brianne
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What is the Energy of a Charged Sphere of Radius R?

  • heman
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Electric flux and field with circles, spheres, and cylinders

  • arutha
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Calculating the Fine for Speeding Using the Doppler Effect Equation

  • asdf1
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Hoop with backward spin returning due to friction

  • Wen
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How Do Spring Scales Measure Weight When Two 100-N Weights Are Attached?

  • Francis Oliver
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Speed of sound and wind velocity from observer time intervals

  • EmoHeartz
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Convergence and radius of convergence for ∑(-1)^n z^(2n+1)/(2n+1)

  • broegger
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Convergence/divergence of series

  • Benny
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Find parabola equation with focus (-5,0) and vertex (-5,-4)

  • TonyC
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Verifying Parabola Equation: y=1/9x^2, Origin, (-6,4)

  • TonyC
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Starting to forget my physics: silly energy question

  • Physics is Phun
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Where can I find the even numbers questions answer?

  • frozen7
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Integrating (x+9)/(x²+9)

  • laker88116
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Kinematics - One Dimension Problem

  • antimatter1422
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How Long Does It Take to Travel 144 km East at 48 km/h?

  • QT
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How Do You Calculate Tension and Compressive Forces in Engineering?

  • sarah18torquay
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Helphow does a clinical thermometre differs from a laboratory thermoeter?

  • Dark Angel
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What tools do you use to draw diagrams for physics reports?

  • Galileo
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How Does a Train's Midpoint Velocity Calculate When Passing the Same Point?

  • amitchhajer
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Triple integral over intersection of sphere and cone

  • iNCREDiBLE
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Calculate solubility of fluorite in water

  • hexa
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Conceptual Difficulty with Lagrange's Eqn

  • H_man
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What is the optimal boat hull shape for maximum speed?

  • Bafsemann
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Proving a function can take all real values given x is real

  • Tau
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How Do You Calculate Initial Velocity in Complex Projectile Motion Setups?

  • lost_cause
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What are difference and recurrence equations?

  • Benny
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Cart accelerating, turning, launching and landing on a track

  • altecsonyc
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Power Dissipation in 70W/240V Globe

  • forevermoreOC
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Solving a Spring Problem in Engineering Statics

  • teknodude
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What does |r⟩ mean in the Schrödinger equation?

  • Dathascome
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Freefall Problem: Solving for the Height of a Cliff

  • antimatter1422
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Binomial coefficients and pascal's triangle

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Momemtum/conservation of momentum

  • elissadi
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Finding moment of inertia of a flywheel given work and speed change

  • Arden
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How Do You Calculate the Meeting Point of Two Runners with Constant Velocities?

  • TJ the Tornado
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Integrating the function 1/x^2. Something I don't understand

  • VietDao29
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Bungee Jumping: Reasonable Assumptions for College Student's Adventure

  • philo51
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How do I solve s = ut + 1/2 at² using calculus?

  • rush007
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