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Total Elastic Potential Energy 2

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Implementing MergeSort with the given method signature

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How Do You Calculate Kinetic Energy and Velocity on a Roller Coaster?

  • bls555
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Jet accelerating from 300 m/s to 400 m/s over 4.0 km

  • oldunion
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Electric Current - What Am I Doing Wrong?

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How to start trigonometry problem 2 from Math 120 Synthesizer

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Understanding Stochastic Calculus and Expected Value Formulas

  • courtrigrad
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How do I solve a system of equations with multiple unknowns?

  • ProBasket
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Acceleration of mass on frictionless incline and the wedge it sits on

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Coulomb's Law Problem and charged particles

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Couple of quick combination questions

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How can I handle the possibility of x = 0 in solving systems of quadratics?

  • b_ball_chic
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Why does the mean value theorem give ξ = x₁ + θ(x₂−x₁)?

  • courtrigrad
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How Can the Mean Value Theorem Prove the Derivative of an Indefinite Integral?

  • courtrigrad
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Why can't I solve this system of quadratic equations correctly?

  • b_ball_chic
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Determine the actual depth of the shaft to the nearest metre

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Charge to mass ratio of an electron shot through a cathode-ray oscilloscope

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Time of Bomb Dropped from 2000m: Calculation

  • hype_chicky
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System of particles - find energy

  • kingyof2thejring
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Find Inverse of -3x^2+6x+2 - TiA

  • preet
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Solving Timescales Physics Problems: Timesteps and Normal Distribution Analysis

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Tip to tail vertor diagram using pythagorian theorem?

  • Gogsey
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How Do You Calculate Wave Speed with Wavelength and Frequency?

  • Teekie
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Solving a rational inequality and a logarithmic equation

  • Help_Me_Please
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Calculating Resultant Velocity with Vector Diagrams

  • Gogsey
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If xy/(x+y)=a, xz/(x+z)=b, yz/(y+z)=c with integer a,b,c, is x rational?

  • SpatialVacancy
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Insufficient Data: Calculating Orbital Energy Gain

  • Parth Dave
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Why is there no electric field inside a hollow cylinder?

  • garytse86
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Project: Hydraulic Jump or Ball Spin

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Calculating Magnetic Field Between Parallel Wires with Opposing Currents

  • Parth Dave
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AZINGLY, How Does Energy Transform and Why?

  • whatzzupboy
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Explicit Formula for the nth Fibonacci Number

  • DivGradCurl
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A physics question with simple harmonic motion

  • Wooh
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Are Focal Radii Equal to 2a in an Ellipse?

  • xLaser
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Does Coulomb's Law Also Govern Magnetic Forces?

  • markm
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What Is the Minimum Deceleration Needed to Avoid an Accident?

  • pedro
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Sound when a droplet of water or other liquid falls on a hot surface

  • Kikki
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Find Coefficient of X^5 in (3x^3 - 1/x^2)^10

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Why does light propagate as a wave in a vacuum?

  • whatzzupboy
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Power rule and product rule problem

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How to find orthogonal vectors?

  • meteorologist1
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Finding the magnitude of vector B added to C = 3.0i + 4.0j

  • Kp0684
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Word Problem. Am I wrong, or is my Algebra book?

  • BenDamo
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Estimating Number of Stars in Milky Way Galaxy: Kepler Problem Solution

  • CinderBlockFist
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Calculating Altitude of Synchronous Orbit on Rotating Pluto

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How to Calculate Total Elastic Potential Energy in a Spring System?

  • Zurtex
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How High Will a Projectile Go if Fired at 8.2 km/s from Earth?

  • CinderBlockFist
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How Do You Calculate the Mass of a Pulley in a Physics Problem?

  • theknownothing
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Calculating Probabilities for Job Bidding: V and W Firms

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Two neutron stars gravitational collision velocity

  • CinderBlockFist
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Relative Motion of a football player

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Momentum and uncertainty in the 1D infinite square well

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How to find the efficiency of a heat engine between two temperatures

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How Do You Calculate the Magnetic Field in a Cylindrical Conductor?

  • wisper
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Calculating Work in an Adiabatic Process for a Diatomic Gas

  • sisigsarap
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Calculating the Height of a Tower Using Projectile Motion

  • Kp0684
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Terminology Question (drawing a vector triangle)

  • DLxX
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Calculating net force on three charged particles using Coulomb's law

  • neonerd
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Finding x(t) with Given Coefficients

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Diff Eq and the Dirac Delta(impulse) function.

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Rolling Ring on Inclined Plane: How Far Up?

  • skiboka33
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Calculating the Acceleration and Kinetic Energy of a Proton in an Electric Field

  • gratefuldreamer
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Quick Thermal Dynamics Question

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Finding units and price from demand function x = 1450 - 3p³

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How Do You Determine Maximum Acceleration from a Velocity-Time Graph?

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How long is a ball in air when thrown up from 25m at 11 m/s?

  • sp00ky
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Conservation of momentum formula

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Force on bat from ball collision with 64.9g ball

  • DLxX
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Solving Spring AB Equilibrium Position for Mass 5 kg

  • kingyof2thejring
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Solving for time and displacement

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What is the minimum number of items to manufacture for the lowest unit cost?

  • thomasrules
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How do you graph an integral of f(x) = x?

  • courtrigrad
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Generator rotation speed, motor counter emf, and induced current in coil

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Integral Involving Irrational values

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What Is the Intermediate Value in the Mean Value Theorem for These Integrals?

  • courtrigrad
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Work and internal energy for isothermal compression of ideal gas

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Finding the inside angle using trigonometry

  • Matt.D
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Three collisions between particles with coefficient of restitution 0.5

  • kingyof2thejring
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ACOBI ITERATION How do Jacobi iterations work in linear algebra?

  • EvLer
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What amount of heat should be transferred to the gas

  • jbot2222
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An EASY work and energy problem. Is my answer correct?

  • DLxX
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What are the Maximum and Minimum Values of the Function s(t) = 1+2t-8/(t^2+1)?

  • thomasrules
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Coulombs Law with one unknown charge

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Physics Questions - Electric Fields, Electric Potential, etc

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Water balloon timing and total internal reflection at pool

  • the_little_guy
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How Do You Set Up Indefinite Integrals for Different Functions?

  • courtrigrad
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Argand diagram regions and complex modulus with trigonometric form

  • fasterthanjoao
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What is the Mass of a Proton?

  • hype_chicky
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How Do You Correctly Solve This Definite Integral Problem?

  • courtrigrad
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How to Evaluate Integrals Using the Definite Integral Properties

  • courtrigrad
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Arrow hitting apple 27.8 m away at 34.6 m/s

  • Physics_Hates_Me
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Mid-term tomorrow, need some checking of answers of review packet

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A system with varying mass - two long barges

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