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Calculating the Cost of Climbing Stairs: $4.75?

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Calculate Momentum of Photon and Number of Photons Needed to Stop Li Atom

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How many times more intense is 44 dB than 32 dB?

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Projectile Motion Problem with 2 Moving Cars

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What is the Wavelength of Neutrons at Room Temperature?

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Solve Rope Physics Problem: Find Time to Travel Length of Rope

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What is the FTC saying about the derivative of the integral of a function?

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Solving Displacement of Prismatic Bar AD with Loads P1,P2,P3

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Norman window area as a function of width

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Acceleration/deceleration problem

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What Are the Correct Steps to Determine the Range of a Function?

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How Do You Calculate the Potential of a Simple Quadrupole Using Point Dipoles?

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Impulse from force-time relationship and ball speed after kick

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Calculate the charge on the ball

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Induced EMF and Current in a Moving Plate Through a Solenoid

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Cell Membrane and Hollow Spheres

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How Do You Calculate Car Weight and Required Motor Force?

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Solve Simple Wave Problem: Find v_2

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Speed of a salmon jumping 3.56m at 45 degrees

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If sup A < sup B, is there an element in B that is an upper bound of A?

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Calculating the Line Integral of a Vector Field Using Vector Calculus

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What Is the Original Concentration of the Solution?

  • DB
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Work energy theorem problems cracking my heard

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Does my paragraph make any sense at all?

  • !Live_4Ever!
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Net electrical force on alpha particle between two charges

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Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle

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Writing √3 - 1 to create an equation for √3

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Black Body Equations (more of a math prob)

  • Rob Hal
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Spherical balloon with conductive coating

  • meteorologist1
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How Does Temperature Affect the Speed of Sound in Air?

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How do I describe vector direction from a figure?

  • vitaly
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How Does Gravity on Zond 4 Compare to Earth?

  • Gogsey
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Two Physics problems Work and Electricity

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Finding the Zeros of a Polynomial Function

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What is the lifetime of a subatomic particle at rest?

  • aptiva
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Cart rolling down a ramp colliding with a stationary cart

  • Markd
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Finding the Magnitude and Direction of a Force Vector Using Trigonometry

  • shawonna23
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Can the Laplace-ian Problem be Simplified?

  • Raparicio
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Maximizing box volume by cutting squares from 30×42 metal sheet

  • courtrigrad
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Force Lines and Equipotential lines

  • figs
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Increasing and Decreasing Functions

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Apology for gravity theory thread from psychology project

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How to Verify an Antiderivative for the Function f'(x) = 4x^2 - 3 + sin(x)?

  • courtrigrad
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How fast is the shell moving when it hits the rocks?

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Forces in chains supporting a swing with person and soda can

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Finding Final Volume - almost got it

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How Deep Could Tarzan Dive While Breathing Through a Reed?

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Solving River Current Speed: 67m Downstream, 100m Wide

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What Is the Equation of Motion for a Pivoted Rod on an Accelerating Car?

  • matpo39
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Cargo Plane Drops Supplies to Dogsled Team in Antarctica

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What Happens to sin(1/x) as x Approaches Zero?

  • Echo 6 Sierra
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Non-standard calculus (infinitesimals)

  • danne89
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An odd Volume problem/how to find the area of a part of a circle

  • Wooh
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Atwood Machine simulation problem

  • extreme
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How Does Substitution Work in Solving Homogeneous Differential Equations?

  • kdinser
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Partial Fractions - Deduce the Equation for given fractions

  • whkoh
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Solving Gaussian Elimination Algorithm Problems (Matrices)

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Calculating Power Factor of RL-Capacitor Parallel Circuit

  • bulbanos
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Is Courant's Calculus Book Suitable for AP Calculus and Cost-Effective?

  • courtrigrad
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Pulley and spring system from Vector Mechanics chapter 2

  • gparizek
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Does horizontal velocity affect projectile maximum height?

  • sundrops
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C++ printing and positioning with loops

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Electric potential energy and particle charge

  • figs
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(Electric Charge and Electric Field)

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How Does Integrating Planck's Formula Relate to the Stefan-Boltzmann Law?

  • mathlete
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Anyone here Uses MASTERINGPHYSICS.COM

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How Many People Can Stand Inside the Pentagon?

  • reyazi
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Derivative of f(x)=1+2p(x-1)+(x-1)^2

  • UrbanXrisis
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How Does the Kinetic Energy Theorem Apply to Bonny Blair's Skating Problem?

  • Femme06Fatale
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Solving Snell's Law: Prism Refraction of 700nm Light

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What is the escape speed of a projectile fired from Earth's surface at 8.2 km/s?

  • CinderBlockFist
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Solve Pendulum Problem: Find Position in 1.6 Sec

  • beanryu
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Light Interference: Why Don't We See 2 Sources? 2 Reasons

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Rocket race fuel strategy and optimal projectile angle

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Equipotential Contours and Point Charge

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Football kicked at 50° travels 20 m: finding initial speed and flight time

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Help w/ conservation of mech. energy

  • Femme06Fatale
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Calculating the Unbalanced Force in a Pendulum System

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Two conducting spheres with initial charges attracted then repelled

  • Berg
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How Are Group Velocity and Phase Velocity Related in Wave Packets?

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What Does 'Earth Radii' Mean in This Homework Problem?

  • CinderBlockFist
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How Does Torricelli's Law Relate Water Height to Flow Rate in Physics Labs?

  • Washable_Marker
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Leslie cube: wavelength, intensity, and power from black surface

  • jaidon
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How Does Planck's Law Simplify for High Frequencies?

  • Nylex
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Is the integral of 2x + x + 1 equal to (1)(3) + \frac{1}{2}(1)(3) + 1?

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Solve Net Gravitational Force Problem: Earth-Moon Distance

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How can I accurately measure g using freefall and a simple formula?

  • Matt.D
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Can sensors trigger a seatbelt at the right time to reduce impact force?

  • theknownothing
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Finding pipe radius from water flow rate and manometer heights

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Understanding Electric Field Distribution in Various Charge Configurations

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Partitioning an integral with a discontinuity at x=6

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Fire Hydrants, pressure and velocity

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Two blocks on ramp connected by rope with friction

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How Does Resonance Frequency Calculation Work in LC Circuits?

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