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Checking FTC integral calculations with substitution

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Why would a HCl molecule have a dipole moment?

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Instrumentation Amplifier question

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Centre of mass speed and composite mass in relativistic collisions

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Quadratic forms, linear algebra

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What Energy Causes Motion in a Suspended Sphere Apparatus?

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Equation is a parabola with a vertical axis of symmetry

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How do you calculate force on a mass swung along an arc on a string?

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Electric Potential at Cylinder Center: Calculating Error

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Look for a value of delta limit

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Corner reflector reflecting light back parallel to incidence

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Weight decrease of 1% at 45° latitude with elevation

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NBA Salary Growth: Solving for Average Salary and Future Projections

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Solving Equations of Motion: When Will 100g Mass Overtake 1.5kg Shot Put?

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Example of only a single force occurence?

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Anti Parallel Currents and Magnetic Field

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Proving Invariance of Polynomial Size Measurement for Positive n

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Build a Mousetrap Car for 5 Degree Incline - 14m Goal

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Finding fuel mass to change rocket course by 24.8 degrees

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How Do You Calculate the Center of Mass of a Parabolic Plate?

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Momentum and Breaking force of car

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What Forces Keep Objects in Circular Motion?

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Right hand Rule - Check if i did this right

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How Much Does the Spring Compress When an Elevator Falls on It?

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Electric field needed to dissociate N_2 molecules

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Finding the tension of a string

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How does a Van de Graaff generator work?

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of a Rod with Non-Uniform Density?

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Three common magnetism problems

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How do you find a normal of a direction vector in 3 space?

  • thomasrules
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Integrating an expression with a square root of a quadratic

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Calculating Force and Acceleration Vectors

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What fraction of light is reflected from the air water interface?

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Car braking from 25 m/s with 3.0 m/s² deceleration

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Answer:Work-Energy Scaling: R_k,R_w = 3,1

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Work and Kinetic Energy of a sled

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How Many Revolutions Does a Proton Complete in a Cyclotron?

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How Do You Solve This Equation?

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Struggling with a Metric Space Problem: Show A is Closed

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Force between 100g and 50g masses pushed with 1N applied force

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Calculate Torque Exerted by Fish at 20° Angle

  • UrbanXrisis
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Calculate Speed of Ambulance with Sound in Air Problem

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How Do Quantum Mechanics Handle Particles at Potential Steps with E<V_0?

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Bifurcation Diagrams: How to Plot Stability

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What is the equilibrium position of a ball attached to two springs?

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What is the maximum angle for a bob to slide upwards in a rotating funnel?

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2 Questions on Ohm's Law and Power

  • Lovely
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Use a GEOCENTRIC reference frame to explain the earth's orbit

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How Do You Design a Circuit for a Triple-Scale Voltmeter?

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20x20 square puzzle with cycling numbers and 10x10 zero region

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Cross sectional area of cylinder?

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Centripetal/angular acceleration

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Why does an elevator scale read the normal force, not net force?

  • tony873004
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Proving the BAC CAB rule for vector triple products

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How to Find the Displacement and Angle of a Drifting Balloon?

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Calculating Zn Required for 2.00g of Au in Chemical Reaction

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Finding Distance b/w Point A and B with Kinematic Formulas

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A heat engine and determining Power

  • JasonL
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Does 0.999 Equal 1? Maths Project

  • chickenguy
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Physics of sailing project ideas for grade 11

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What is the voltage across each capacitor in this circuit?

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Energy required to ionize a hydrogen atom from n=1

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Calculating Plane Height from Radio Wave Interference

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What is the center of mass of a lamina with variable density?

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What Determines the Maximum Angular Velocity for a Coin on a Turntable?

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Confusion with Electric Potential/Potential Energy

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Moment of Inertia: Easier Way to Determine Formula

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How Far Does the Diver Travel from Board to Stopping Point Underwater?

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Volume under z = 2x + y² bounded by x = y² and x = y³

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Power loss in electricity transmission at 12,000V vs 50,000V

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2 mp problems that I sorta understnad but dont?

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Boat moves 0.7m when Juliet walks across it—how does that work?

  • Satoy
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Solving 5sinθ + 2√3 = √3 + 3sinθ for θ

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Impulse and work done by a tennis racquet on a 0.06 kg ball

  • Satoy
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Force when 2 blocks pushing against each other

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Projectile Motion: Designing a Launching Device for Basketball Hoop

  • Physics_wiz
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Angular Acceleration of Rotating Object: $\frac{\pi}{8}$

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Why did the cotton ball insulated cup freeze the slowest?

  • TooManyHours
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Spring work and velocity with friction and frictionless surfaces

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Method and circuit for an NTC thermistor experiment

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How Much Heat Must Be Removed to Make 3.1 kg of Shaved Ice at 0°C?

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Currents and resistors and series and parallel you get the idea

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How Does Friction Affect Ball Rolling on a Ramp?

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Energy as heat when 50 kg hiker climbs 1000m mountain

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Mass staying stationary on frictionless inclined plane

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Use a calculator to evaluate the following powers

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Why does my average velocity vs time line not cross the origin?

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Physics and chemistry of the glowing pickle experiment

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Head scratching integral calculus hw

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Resistors in series and parallel

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Electric potential energy - how is it conserved?

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Minimum Angular Speed for Safe Ride on ROTOR

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Plotting a direction field for y'=te^{-2t}-2y in Mathematica

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