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3.0 kg bottle thrown upward with 55 N force for 80 cm

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Derivatives in relation to curve sketching

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Calculating Force on a Table Attached to Hinges

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Shouldn't Conservation of Momentum Be Conserved in this Problem?

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Solve Magnetic Field from Perpendicular Wires Carrying Same Current

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Calculating Characteristics of a Sinusoidal Wave Propagating on a String

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Hwk Problem: Mechanical Energy

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Thermal conductivity: are liquids better thermal conductors?

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Finding XL-XC in RLC circuit with 6.72A current and 55.9° phase angle

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Conditions on the coefficients of conics equations

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Simple Harmonic Motion of a Mass on a Spring

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Solving Geometric Series: Find x Values |r|<1

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Pressure Difference in a 2-m Deep Swimming Pool

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What Current Makes the Magnetic Field at the Center Zero?

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A conceptual question on vectors

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Linear Momentum and Collisions of meteor

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Minimum Height for Object to Travel Around Loop-the-Loop

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Vector Addition Q: Find Z Component of A X B

  • Naeem
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What is the finite difference method and how does it involve a grid?

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Source-free 2nd order lin. circuit

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Area enclosed by parametric curve x=t³-2t, y=9t²

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Quantum Mech. Si Wavefunction probability

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Calculating the Dieing Time of a Pendulum

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Is My Slope-Intercept Equation for Farmer Jack's Milk Prices Correct?

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A weird domain and range? anybody up for a challenge

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Problem using variation of parameters

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Partial fractions for (2x-1)/(x²(3x+1)(x²+1))

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Does the alternating harmonic series √n converge?

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Distance and time for a treadmill

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Calculating Vapour Pressure for 1L Container with 5mL Water at 20°C

  • ChemRookie
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Building a Quake Tower for High School Physics Class

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Plotting y=(3/2)^(1/3)·arcsin(x)^(2/3) with domain constraints

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Balancing iron (III) chloride formation from elements

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How to integrate x/(x⁴+1)

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Calculating Power Generated at Hoover Dam

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Horizontal tangents and normals to curves

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How to find lim (pi/2 - x)/cos(x) as x -> pi/2?

  • gillgill
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Why can't you charge all identical capacitors in this circuit?

  • apchemstudent
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When is Re(z²) = (Re z)² and Im(z²) = (Im z)²?

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Constant frequency for light waves?

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Electric field outside a positive wire in a negative cylinder

  • colonel
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Starting a Limit Problem with x^3/(tan^3(2x)) as x Approaches 0

  • gillgill
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Low lunar orbit vs synchronous lunar orbit for communication satellites

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Finding force, distance, time on a threadmill

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Calculating Solar System Reach of Pioneer Craft Without Assist

  • six789
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Software for learning matrices?

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Work to stop a spinning wheel: why is my answer negative?

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Calculating Work to Place Satellite in Synchronous Orbit

  • six789
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Finding intercepts of the hyperbola (x-1)²/9-(y+2)²/25=1

  • aisha
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Escape velocity ratio between Mars and Earth

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How Is Coulomb's Law Demonstrated with a Suspended Charged Ball?

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Calculation of a half-life how?

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Why does higher gravitational pressure mean lower acceleration?

  • apchemstudent
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Electric Charge in a Magnetic Field

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Parametric equations for a circle

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Solving Polynomial: x^(3/2) + (1+x^3)^(1/2)

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How to Calculate Energy to Push an Object 100 km Without Knowing Its Mass?

  • Chewy1976
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Friction: Does Contact Area Affect Force?

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40 or 400 which has greater standard deviation?

  • aisha
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Trig substitution integral with x bounds 0 to 5

  • RadiationX
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Magnetic Field Calculation for Perpendicular Currents at Point P

  • NotaPhysicsMan
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How do you find current with both series and parallel resistors?

  • Burrow
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Sketching y = (x-1)²/(x+1)(x-2) with intercepts and asymptotes

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Find diameter of steel wire - stress

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Involving Errors In Calculations

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Why Does Momentum Seem Unequal in a Ball-Wall Collision?

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Banked curve involving friction

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Parametric equations for a loop

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Write an expression for f3 in terms of f2

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Unit Step Function and Laplace Transforms

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How Does a Pendulum React in Freefall? CN Tower Experiment

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Volume, arc length, and surface area for curved building base

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Why Does Interference Still Occur with Red Light Passing Through Slits?

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What is the Domain and Range for f and g?

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What causes ghosting of a TV picture?

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What are the orbital parameters of a planet orbiting a star?

  • jaymode
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Period, max speed and acceleration for 1 kg mass on spring

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How much internal energy is produced in the battery

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How Do You Calculate the Energy in a Complex EM Wave?

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How Do You Solve These Complex Geometry and Rate Problems?

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Magnetic Field Intensity Question

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Converting a Complex Number to Polar Form

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Finding yield rate for two bonds with different coupons

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Can You Solve This Kinematics, Energy, and Momentum Diagram Problem?

  • six789
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Good books and sites for revising SPM General Physics

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Find $\frac{d^2y}{dx^2}$ for Parametric Equations x,y

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Disinfectant and bacteria experiment VERY

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Work Done on Sled by Rope: 5.0s, 250N, 470N

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3 free response practice AP problems

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Pre-Calculus - Regarding finding the area of a certain region

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Seemingly easy quantum question

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Finding M2 in a two-mass spring system with known M1, k, and period T

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Understanding Linear Momentum: Ranking Force and Slowing Regions

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HEat energy given off by a person

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The limit of the product is the product of the limits.

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