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How Many Ways to Get Three of a Kind in a Four-Card Hand?

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Setting up triple integrals with region bounds

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How Can Car C Gain on Car D Despite Both Accelerating?

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Calculating Potential Height of Kinetic Energy Jump

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Chemical Tests for Identifying Sodium Carbonate and Sodium Chloride

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Induced EMF in moving square loop with Faraday's law

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How Does Spring Compression Vary with Different Methods of Loading?

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How does weight change in an accelerating elevator?

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Light ray at 45° through equilateral prism with n=1.5

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Solving Refrigerator Problem: Calculating COP and Work

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Relatively simple friction problem

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How Does Projectile Motion Affect a Ball Thrown from a Cliff?

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Angular frequency - how is it derived?

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Power series for ln(1+x) and x*ln(1+x)

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Average force on baseball bat hitting 120 mph fastball

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Calculating Time of Flight for Ball Thrown at 45° with Initial Speed 31 m/s

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Conceptualizing two tangent lines to an ellipse

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Why can't adenine and cytosine pairs form?

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Man walking on frictionless sledge toward shore

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Can an Adiabatic Process be Isothermal?

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Sum to infinity of x^n/(n(n+1))

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How Fast Do Entwined Movie Foes Slide After a Stuntman Swings?

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Transitional state of electrons.

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Electric flux through a square surface at 35° to the field

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Solving Two-Pendulum Collision: Find Max Angle

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Frog and Horse Trough Questions

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Solving simultaneous equations with logarithms

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Checking net ionic equations for Cr, Al, and Zn reactions

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Integrating z over a tetrahedron bounded by x+y+z=1

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Evaluate Surface Integral: Solve x^2 + z^2 = 9, x=0, y=0, z=0 and y=8

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What is the emf induced in the loop?

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Why is apparent weight less than true weight at the equator?

  • naren11
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Find the terminal speed of a 750-kg rocket

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Finding the more massive block's mass in an Atwood machine

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Calculating Angular Acceleration for a Solid Cylinder on a Frictionless Bearing

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Physics of Catapults: Seeking Advice

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Convergence tests for series with restricted digits and nested radicals

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Sample optics exam with solutions for thin lenses and diffraction

  • Physicsme
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Tracking the Ball's Motion After a Throw at Ground Level

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Calculating Wavelength and Intensity in Opposing Phase Vibrations

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Integration by parts with x³e^x² and xe^x/(x+1)²

  • mad
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Check my algebra homework answers

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Solving for Electric Field with Gauss' Law

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How Is Work Calculated When Lifting an Object with a Tension Force?

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Why am I getting probability greater than 1 for rolling a 4 twice?

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Integration of X^2 exp(-aX^2) from 0 to infinity

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Angular acceleration of a pulley

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Calculating Power Output: A Homemade Ice Cream Maker

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Determine divergence/convergence of an integral?

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How Fast Will the Spacecraft Crash into the Lunar Surface?

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Calc. Double Integrals: Setting Limits

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Force components on a rolling sphere at the top of a loop

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Finding P(B) using complement and union rules

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What Spring Constant Fires a 10g Mass to 100m When Compressed to 10cm?

  • NoHeart
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Two skaters pushed apart by spring: find Al's mass

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Solving dy/dx = (4y - 3x)/(2x - y) and verifying the solution

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How do I find the satellite's altitude above the earth's surface

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Finding the Scalar for a Vector in a Linear Combination

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Problems concerning magnetic fields, induced current, emf

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Conservation of momentum - Collision of pool balls

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Direction of magnetic force on moving charged particle using cross product

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Calculus II Problem: Dams and intergration by slicing

  • JasonJo
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Calculating Boat Speed with Rainfall Accumulation

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Show Global Min. of f(x,y): x>= 0.1, y>= 0.1

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Where Can I Find Extra Calculus Practice Questions Online?

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Calculating Heat Requirements for Phase Changes

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Understanding Maxwell's Equations

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Thermodynamics Block of Copper Problem

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Does the Series Converge Pointwise and Uniformly for Certain Values of x?

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Question on induced emf in a loop

  • Giuseppe
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Lim -> inf, x(sin(1/x)) = 1, why?

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How Do You Determine the Direction of Oscillation in Differential Equations?

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Recent astronomy telescope diagram

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Find a vector c that bisects the angle

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Can velocity components be determined from force in magnetic fields?

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Projectile motion particle question

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What is the new force between two charges after they touch?

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Solving Question: Speed of Ball with Rigid Cannon

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What do the notations in NMR spectral data mean?

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Viscosity of Honey decreases. But why?

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How Do You Solve a Vector Calculus Integral Over a Sphere?

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Rod + 2 Particle masses = angular acceleration

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Calculating Impact Speed of a Wrecking Ball: A Quick Energy Question

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Calculating Force in a Dynamics Problem

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How Do Damping Constants Affect Amplitude in Simple Harmonic Motion?

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How to Linearize a System of Differential Equations with Equilibrium Points?

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Proving Inequality with Cosine Rule and Schwartz Proof

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Arithmetic series sum 610, three terms form a geometric series

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Two People, One Fly: How Far Will It Fly?

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What is the width of the Hudson River?

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