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Seesaw: simple statics problem?

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Sink and Sources in Fluid Mechanics: Attraction, Repulsion, and Vortices

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Unstable particle decay distance and muon energy at 15 degrees

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Unleashing the Power of a Mousetrap Engine: max Velocity of 50g Car

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Separate Ag^+, Ca^2+, and Ni^2+ ions from a solution

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How to Find the Sum of Arctan Series?

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How to integrate int (x^2 + 4)^(-1/2) dx Is it a substitution?

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Is v²=2ax dimensionally consistent?

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Fluid Mechanics - Torque at hinge of closed vessel

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Percent Uncertainty in Volume of Spherical Beach Ball

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Angular Acceleration of Solid Cylinder: Mass, Force, Time

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What system does this lagrangian represent?

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How Does Adding Mass Affect the Angular Velocity of a Merry-Go-Round?

  • melissa_y
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Where Can I Find a Free Font with the Electric Field Symbol for Word?

  • El Hombre Invisible
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3 charges arranged in the form of an equilateral triangle

  • mr_coffee
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Lightly Damped Harmonic Oscillator

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How Does Mass Affect Angular Velocity in Rotational Systems?

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Setting up a salt tank mixing problem with differential equations

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Solving Real Vector Space R>3 Bases Problems

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Max Distance Mass M Can Be Placed Before Wire Breaks

  • melissa_y
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Angular Velocity: Calculate New Speed After 4 People Step On

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Angular Acceleration Problem/ Solid Cylinder

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Angular Speed of Rolling Sphere: 32o Roof, L = 7.0 m, 12 kg, 13 cm

  • melissa_y
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Max Charge Capacity on a Spherical Body: Calculating the Limit

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Checking if a Java string is a valid binary number

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How Many Unique Pizza Combinations Can You Order With Given Options?

  • himurakenshin
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Will touching a 2 MV wire while standing on an insulator cause a shock?

  • primarygun
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Varying the concentrations of half-cells

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Plotting output response of system ot the input stimulus given

  • Brian Moughtin
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Simplifying Square Root Equations

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Why is the distance always greater than or equal to the displacement?

  • jacyh
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Calculating Angular Speed: 70 N-m Torque on a 160kg*m^2 Disk for 10s

  • Gulheider
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Speed and its centripetal force of circling object

  • bigman8424
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Airplane sound level with one jet engine shut down

  • smith22
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Finding p so that A, B and C are collinear

  • omicron
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How do I convert 500 km in 2 hr 15 min to speed in km/hr and m/s?

  • nutsy76
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Two spaceships are orbiting a massive body

  • CarlB
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Why Does Destructive Interference Occur at Different Frequencies?

  • vroman
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If there is enough charge getting moved by a magnetic field

  • michaelw
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One-Dimensional Kinematics problem

  • tchronos
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Momentum head on collision problem

  • recon
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What is the acceleration when the cord has been stretched?

  • mahtab_lovelygirl
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At what angle does a skier lose contact with a frictionless snowball?

  • Swatch
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Forced Vibration Questions: Solve Equations for Answers

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Help with an identities theorem problem

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Why do nails have pointed ends and what stress types do they experience?

  • ermines
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Tar sands excavator bucket position integral problem

  • Mozart
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Identifying Coordination Compounds: [CU(CN)3]2- and [Ni(H2O)6]2+

  • joejo
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How Does Gravity Affect the Acceleration Between Two People?

  • bigman8424
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How to Calculate Volume Flow Rate Using a Venturi Meter

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Cherenkov-effect + other EM relativity derivations: sources pls?

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Angular frequency of oscillation

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Van de Graaff generator energy question

  • Aprilshowers
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System with complex eigenvalues and initial conditions

  • VinnyCee
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Inhomogeneous linear system with matrix differential equation

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What Is the Internal Resistance of the Used Battery in This Circuit Problem?

  • liajohnson
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Solving Infinite Series: a_n = \frac{2n}{3n+1}

  • ziddy83
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Two wheels merging: angular velocity and kinetic energy change

  • samemikejones
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Finding eigenvectors for 3×3 system of differential equations

  • VinnyCee
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How Many Balloons Can .1m^3 He @ 150atm Blow Up?

  • Erik Horwath
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Thermal Physics > Air and Internal Energy

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Does 1/√(n+1) count as a p-series with p = 1/2?

  • Benny
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Electric Potential and Electric Field Strength

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Solving tan^2 x + 6tanx - 7 Algebraically over 0 and 2π

  • seiferseph
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Rigid Bodies and rotatational motion

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Understanding Initial Conditions for Solving Pendulum Motion

  • EvLer
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Impulse from croquet mallete problem

  • in10sivkid
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Circular motion of a tether ball

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What is the derivative for arctan(2/x)?

  • EvLer
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Proving the matrix inverse formula with cofactors

  • James Cutler
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Force between two electrons separated by distance r

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When is the force between two charged particles maximum?

  • auee
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Find Constant Force F Vector Form: 34Nm Work Done A to B

  • devious_
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Show acceleration makes 30° with radius vector in polar motion

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Heat of combustion of methane using Hess's law

  • joejo
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How Many Balloons Can a Helium Tank Fill?

  • Erik Horwath
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Volume Question with cirular base and square top

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Understanding Coulomb's Law: Calculating Force on a Line of Charges

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Finding limit of (x²+3x+2)/(2-|x|) as x approaches -2

  • naicidrac
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Solving x^y = 9 and y^x = 8 simultaneously

  • ssj5harsh
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Sin+cos solution undetermined coeff. de

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Wave equation properties and diffraction limit of the eye

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Mechanical energy of a basketball

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What is the Ke value for the given reaction at 1800ºC?

  • joejo
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Pie shaped loop of radius a carraying a current I

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Why cathode ray velocity differs from textbook calculation

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Weight of a person in a elevator going down

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What is the electric field between two charged particles?

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Train acceleration and deceleration; pressure in a cylindrical tank

  • jhaywood
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Question regarding Electrical conduction(Resistance)

  • Sanosuke Sagara
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Resistance of wire wound into 200 coils on a cylinder

  • Sanosuke Sagara
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Physics of Indiana Jones rope swing

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Simple pendulum tension at different angles

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Converging lens 15 cm focal length, object 53 cm away

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