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Why Do Rubbed Materials Attract or Repel Each Other?

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How Fast Must the Enterprise Travel to Shorten 85 Light Years to 20?

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Why a timelike vector and a null vector cannot be orthogonal?

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What Is Julie's Average Speed to and from Grandmother's House?

  • oldunion
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Physics average velocity problem

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What Is the Difference Between Mathematical and Physical Vector Spaces?

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Calc Question: Finding Secant Slope?

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Interpret Hexadecimal Dump in Computer Science

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Moving particle with rest mass double its kinetic energy

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Physics dimensions of acceleration question

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Convergence and Monotonicity in Limits Verification

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What are some potential research questions for an IB Extended Essay in Physics?

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The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for real numbers

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Solving the Monkey-Zookeeper Problem: Minimum Velocity Needed

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Leap River: Solve for Initial Velocity w/o Air Resistance

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Why does (√(n+1) − √n)√(n + 1/2) → 1/2 when √(n+1) − √n → 0?

  • courtrigrad
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Finding speed and momentum when rest mass equals double kinetic energy

  • aptiva
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Can't figure out where to go with this (Centripital Acceleration)

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Electric Field/Oscillation Problem

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How far has the proton been deflected?

  • Heart
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Frequency and wavelength of a wave

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Find the max altitude reached by the rocket

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Rotational Motion of a disc of mass

  • PhysicsNewb
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Phase difference of reflected sound waves in a hallway

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Electric field of two charges on an axis bisecting them

  • Heart
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Solving the Spool's Acceleration with a Constant Force

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Do Smaller Tires Increase Traction on Wet Roads?

  • Dlevy
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Oil slick area with one-molecule thickness

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How Do You Convert Old English Length Measures to Modern Units?

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Show that the force applied by each rope

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Methods for determining stellar composition and interpreting line spectra

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Pendulum clock error with thermal expansion and faulty barometer

  • fasterthanjoao
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Integrate f(t)f'(t) on [a,b] and Show 1/2[f''(b)-f''(a)]

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How can I graph the pendulum function without knowing the constants?

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Finding log_c(√12) given log_c 3 and log_c 2

  • wasteofo2
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Finding the differential equation for the real part of a complex solution

  • Theelectricchild
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How Many Logs Are Needed to Build a Raft for Four People?

  • linemanpete
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Find Radius to Calculate Mass of Moon

  • ucdawg12
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Classifying stars using spectral lines from hydrogen, helium, and calcium

  • hype_chicky
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Air Bubble Volume at Water Surface

  • PRINCESS NOOR
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Uncertainty Calculation for a Complex Formula with Known Errors

  • JamesJames
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Proving the definition of abs. value

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What do logic gates do and why are they needed in computers?

  • courtrigrad
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Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

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Finding Unit Vectors for Angle of pi/3 in R3

  • gunnar
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How Do You Calculate the Error on Variables in an Equation?

  • Exulus
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Find the exact value of tan 285 deg + cos 75 deg + cot 60 deg

  • markm
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Can you use momentum conservation to support your friend's case in court?

  • Gregory
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How Do You Convert a Transformed Function into Standard Form?

  • aisha
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Calculate the Height of a High Rise Building with Trig Word Problem

  • aisha
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EN to the parallel axis theorem.

  • thenewbosco
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Antoine L'Hôspital's rule problem

  • dextercioby
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Finding q1 when q2 is in static equilibrium using Coulomb's law

  • azsktbrdr
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How to Input a Unit Vector Between X and Y Axes in Mastering Physics

  • Heart
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Why did Mexico seek independence from Spain?

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How Does Wind Speed Affect Voltage in a DIY Anemometer-Generator?

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The max. distance of fall of the bungee jumper?

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How to Solve a Tricky Exponential Equation

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Sound wave and a light wave that pass through a piece of plastic

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Limit of ln(1+sin x)/x as x approaches 0

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Solving F=GmM/r^2 for r: What's Next?

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Minimum Speed for Cliff Diving to Avoid Ledge: What Equation to Use?

  • ziddy83
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Horizontal Distance of Cannon Fired at 30 Degrees: 85,000m

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What is the effective resistance in this circuit with two shorts?

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Finding N values for n/2^n < 1/ε using the limit proof

  • courtrigrad
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Sum convergence - is my approach flawless?

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Solve Rotational Motion: Show Tension = 1/3 Disk Weight

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How Much Will the Beam Deflect?

  • chelzey75
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Why does light reflect off a blanket in many different directions?

  • lotsoluv4ya
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My Crazy math teacher says this is solvable

  • The Divine Zephyr
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Covariance of the Wave Equation in Modern Physics: A Proof

  • mike217
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Why does wave speed increase with water depth?

  • Amber
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Starting on elastic collisions

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Weight of chain suspended with 25 N tension at 37°

  • janedoe75
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Coulomb's Law of two copper spheres

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Does water mass or container volume determine force on the bottom?

  • Azeri
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Where does energy come from when a helium balloon rises?

  • Omid
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Why doesn't a cup slide off when pulling a cloth quickly from under it?

  • ThomasJoe40
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Finding the largest number if 8 consecutive numbers average X

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Scale reading when elevator is decelerating upward

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What is the area of the gold leaf and the length of the gold fiber?

  • digink
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Why did chicken broth reach the bottom before pea soup in the ramp race?

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Questioning photoelectric effect theory

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Kinematics of pumpkin shot out of air cannon

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The Speed of Sound (Trick Question?)

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Two distinguishable particles space-spin wavefunctions

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Induced Magnetic Field in Dielectric

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Electric field intensity for a uniformly charged wire.

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Radius of gyration of a diamond with 0.5m sides

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Why Does the Limit of Sine at Infinity Confuse Mathematicians?

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Solving Liquid Problems: Calculating Forces and Height Differences

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Total charge of e in a given volume of water

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