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Power series solutions to diffeq

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Torque from sign and beam with guy wire at 1.20 m from wall

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How Do You Calculate Momentum in Different Collision Scenarios?

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Why does my kinetic energy calculation give 4243.12 instead of 320J?

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Moment of Inertia/Acceleration of a Swinging Rod

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How Does Temperature Affect Net Power Emission Ratios?

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Estimate Standard Deviation of Mean Average w/ Maximum Likelihood

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Integrating tan³(4x)sec⁴(4x) — my answer vs the book

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How Does Bullet Impact Affect Spring Compression in a Frictionless System?

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Calculating Induced Voltage in a Rotating Rectangular Loop

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Prove that Ae^iax + Be^ibx = Ce^icx implies a = b = c

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How to Calculate Delta G and Keq for Chemistry Test?

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Work problem, deals with great pyramid

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Two runners approaching flagpole and displacement problem

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Higher Gravity Environment Investigation

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How Does Vertex Degree Range Affect Edge Count in a Graph?

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How Far Will Jill Run to Catch the Cart?

  • stangeroo
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Proving Limit of (sin 5x)/x: Squeeze Theorem

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Force on wire 1 from magnetic field of wire 2

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Solving the Equation: k^3-3K2+31k-37=0 with Synthetic Division

  • skysurani
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Prove whether or not the following are linearly independent

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Finding primes with n^2 - 79n + 1601 for n=1 to 100

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Concave mirror magnification with different object distances

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Calculating Frequency in Standing Wave Resonance

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Grades K-12 Equivalents in England - American to English

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Approximate y(3) when dy/dx = e^x/x with y(1) = 2

  • Naeem
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Moment of inertia of rectangular plate about center and corner axis

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Energy and momentum.The misunderstanding have prevailed

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Spinning around a cylinder with a person inside

  • Mathman23
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Generators (know r, l, B, angular speed of coil) how to find peak EMF?

  • michaelw
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Simple Harmonic motion and collisions

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Finding Jacobian and image of parallelogram under linear transformation

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Angular speed and intertia problem

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How Do You Calculate the Launch Angle and Velocity of a Cannonball?

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How Fast is the Area Changing in an Equilateral Triangle?

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Finding the Average Force Acting on the Floor During a Vertical Jump

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How Does Back EMF Affect Motor Performance?

  • michaelw
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Find Length of Parametrized Curve: x(t), y(t)

  • ILoveBaseball
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Calculating the Net Force on a Spherical Shell Around the Sun

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Angular speed and rotation of a tire at 100 km/hr

  • trigger352
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How can you get power used from step down transformers

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Parallel plates - direction of electric field

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Compute Standard Deviation to Estimate Uncertainty

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How to Calculate Potential and Speed of a Proton Near a Barium Nucleus?

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Calculating Average Value of f(x,y,z) in Solid Bounded by Cylinders

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What are sine and cosine and how do I use them?

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Laplacian in Polar Cooridinates

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How do I find the Taylor series of ln(x) about x=e?

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What is the relationship between frequency and wavelength?

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Finding where electric field is zero between two point charges

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Calculate Optimal Gear Ratio for Electric Motor Winching

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How to Find the Volume of a Region Enclosed by \(\rho = 2 \sin\theta\)?

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ORTIZATION TABLEMonthly Mortgage Payment Calculator

  • aisha
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How to Determine Matrix B in Matrix Multiplication Problem?

  • theCandyman
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Finding d²y/dx² at (4,3) on the circle x²+y²=25

  • UrbanXrisis
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Calculating Volume of Solid Bounded by Cylinders and Plane

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Why Does the Expression -dy/dx/dx/dy Calculate the Slope at a Point?

  • ktpr2
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Is the Calculation of lim_{x->1} (x/ln x) Using L'Hopital's Rule Correct?

  • UrbanXrisis
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What are Kepler's laws and why are they named after him?

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Polarizing Sunglasses physics problem

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Physics matching activity on work and energy terms

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Phys: Induction and Induced Current (2 loops)

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Can someone explain Maxwell's equations in simple terms?

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Dividing 6x^4 - 3x^3 + 5x^2 + 2x - 6 by 3x^2 - 2

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Separation of variables for skydiver velocity with dv/dt = -2v - 32

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Electron Undergoing Annihilation

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Average value of f(x,y) = xy in quarter circle x^2 + y^2 < 1 in Q1.

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Thermal Physics problem: Heat transfer coefficient?

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Solving 2 Slit Diffraction: Find Central & 10th Maxima Intensity

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Why is it harder for women to do push ups then men?

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Transformations in double integrals. (Jacobian)

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How Many Revolutions Does an Electron Make in Hydrogen's First Excited State?

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Arch involving CONICS hyperbola equation

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Bayes' Theorem for Probability of Drawing Coins from Pouch and Purse

  • EvilPony
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Understanding Periodic Functions: Solving for f(7) Given Specific Values of f(x)

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Integrating (1-u²)^(1/2)(2u²+1) with change of variables

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Probability mail arrives before noon on at least one of two days

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Adding a constant V to the wave equation

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Finding Local Extrema with Derivatives

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How Many Molecules Match the Given Structural Description?

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Solving a 3D System with Spiraling Confidence

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Transducer terminology question

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Can Experiments Confirm the Wave-Particle Duality of Light?

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Reasoning problems on kinematics without numbers

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How Do You Calculate Instantaneous Velocity at Point 2?

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Proving Unbiased Estimator: E(2/n*sum from 1 to n of Y(i)) = theta

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Where does one term end and the other begin?

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Calculating Average Velocity in Spring-Mass System

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Parallel Plates and charge density

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How to Calculate Multiples Within a Specific Range?

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