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Can Freezing and Melting Water Warm a Home? Answers Here!

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Does Water's Permittivity Affect the Dissolving Process of NaCl?

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What force does Pete exert on the rope?

  • Kdawg
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Work done on a stationary swimmer in a river current

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Calculating Acceleration in Different Positions Using Newton's 2nd Law

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Calculating Force on the Bottom of a Cylinder in Fluid Physics

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Normal force as a function of time for a mass sliding down y=e^x

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Time for a dart thrown horizontally from 1.8m to hit a board at 1.5m

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How Does Changing Charge Magnitude and Distance Affect Electrostatic Force?

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How to Name a Compound with Both Double and Triple Bonds?

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How to Calculate Enthalpy Using Specific Heat Capacity and Mass

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Simple Harmonic Motion of a car's tires

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Circumcenter poi (triangle) - confuced

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Why can't string length, wave velocity and frequency determine tension?

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Finding tan(θ) from sin(θ) in the fourth quadrant

  • aisha
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How to Calculate Electric Potential and Work for Multiple Charges?

  • thursdaytbs
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Why does an object have kinetic energy even when it's not moving?

  • courtrigrad
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Optimal Number of Passengers for Maximum Railroad Revenue

  • courtrigrad
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Finding the charge given distance apart + some more

  • thursdaytbs
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Finding tension in cord when dart-block pendulum swings back down

  • physicsgirl101
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Solving z^4 + 2z^3 - 5z + 1 = 0

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Resolving Ecuations with $\Psi$, $\vec{v}$, and $\nabla$

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General Equation for an Ellipsoid

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At what displacement is the speed maximized in SHM

  • Soaring Crane
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Answer: SHM: 45g Mass, .35m Amp - Speed Half Max Velocity

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How'd this happen in my experiment?

  • !Live_4Ever!
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Lens/Radius of Curvature Question

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Green fuktion on the wave operator in 1 dimension

  • nobody2100
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Understanding Nabla Operator with Vector A

  • Raparicio
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How Can You Show That Two Ships Will Collide Using Vectors?

  • NinaL
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Find the turning point of y=4x^2-8x-5

  • footprints
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Finding x and y in a Right-Angled Triangle with Given Hypotenuse and Area

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Simple Harmonic motion of particle on a table

  • Clari
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Why Is the Moment of Inertia of a Uniform Disc 1/2MR^2?

  • CuriousJonathan
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Can I Upload Images Here? Problem Solving for Non-Native English Speakers

  • Nguyen Thanh Nam
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How Fast Must a Pion Travel to Cover 15 Meters Before Decaying?

  • Eich
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Optimizing Distance for Swimming and Running Combination

  • recon
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Finding the Coefficient of Friction: Wrong Answer and Need to Fix

  • Port
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Help Quickly: Solve Coefficient of Kinetic Friction Problem

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Calculating Distance of an Electron Moving in a Plane Using Derivatives

  • courtrigrad
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What is the derivative of (b^2*x^2 + x^2*y^2 = a^2*b^2) with given values?

  • courtrigrad
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Electric potential energy with unknown mass and charge

  • thursdaytbs
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Cart pushed with 12N force, 85N child added, distance in 3.5s?

  • Port
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Does vacuum actually exist or is some medium required?

  • Zaimeen
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Sin cos problem finding exact value

  • aisha
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How Does Thermal Expansion Affect the Tension in a Stainless Steel Band?

  • ballahboy
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Six momentum problems with cars, cannons, bullets and collisions

  • Beowulf
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Thermal physics How would I go about this one?

  • benji
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Not sure how to approach problem

  • Markd
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How do I evaluate this properly? Trig

  • aisha
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Couldn't find a specific heat for coffee

  • benji
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How to Determine Velocities After a Collision in a Physics AP Mechanics Problem?

  • physicsgirl101
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Calculating ∆H for a Chemical Reaction

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Volume of Solid w/ Semicircular Cross Sections in 1st Quadrant

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How Do Doppler Effects Determine the Frequency of a Whistle in Motion?

  • Jacob87411
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Physics concepts for a paintball game project

  • Cephalid-Hunter
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What Are Some Data Management Project Ideas on Environmental Issues?

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Physics (mechanics) AP Problem-involving kinetic energy of a moving object

  • physicsgirl101
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What are some common misconceptions in thermodynamics?

  • Kawrae
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Physical Explanation of a Pull-Back Car

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Finding final velocity of dropped ball using F = dp/dt

  • UrbanXrisis
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Measuring stress on bridge models

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Can Consecutive Integers Minimize This Mathematical Expression?

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[Early Phys. Science]: Speed Equation

  • Jessi
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What Determines the Maximum Height of a Self-Supporting Column?

  • Jacob87411
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Indirect Proofs: Shaping the Proof

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Upthrust Question: 2 Conditions for Independence on Depth

  • Zaimeen
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Is It Safe for a Painter to Walk to Both Ends of a Scaffold?

  • Jacob87411
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Inclined Plane Friction Question

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Heat capacity and viscosity in real life

  • !Live_4Ever!
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Car decelerating from 35 m/s with 2000 N braking force

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Change of momentum and kinetic energy

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Steel beam deflection with central load

  • physkid
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Explanation of Bernouilli's principal of lift?

  • xckycheezwhizx
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Solve Calc Problem: Find y if dy/dt=ky and k is a Nonzero Constant

  • radtad
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Derivative of Force and Work in Respect to Time

  • UrbanXrisis
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Where'd I go wrong (sound problems)

  • Jacob87411
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Whats A Right Handed Triplet In Vectors ?

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Should you carry a crate from the upper or lower end on stairs?

  • jocs_1116
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AP Physics impulse problem

  • BITI
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Gravitational potential calculation

  • Sanosuke Sagara
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Calculus based elementary physics

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Finding initial force on marble up 45° ramp without time given

  • deserthaze06
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Total energy; confusion with teacher's statement

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Calculating Table Torque to Tip Over: 36 kg Weight

  • Jacob87411
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Finding Integers Divisible by 2, 3 or 5 - Solve Here!

  • Physics is Phun
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Finding Specific Heat of 2 substances mixed

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Can Hess's Law be used to systematically manipulate chemical formulas?

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Angle of line of sight for a vertically lauched rocket

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Interest rate for $150 growing to $275 in 8 years

  • sp00ky
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How do I find the derivative of y using implicit differentiation?

  • courtrigrad
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When was Brampton's population 51003?

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Computational Physics - Scaling

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The question:Rewriting Series with Sigma Notation

  • Mo
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Can I express angle X in circular motion using L, M and ω?

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