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Friction of a stone sliding on a pond

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What Are Rice Company's Total Sales for Desired After-Tax Profit?

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Pressure and Net Force Question

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Pool ball collision with cue and target ball angles

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Find the spring constant and the amplitude of the simple harmonic moti

  • Flinthill84
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How Do I Solve This Webwork Problem Using Stoke's Theorem?

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Calculate Degrees of Freedom for 10 cc Oxygen Gas at STP

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Calcium Carbonate: Enthalpy and Entropy Difference at Room Temp & 0K

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Finding the launch angle for a projectile to hit a target 3.25 m away

  • MojotheMonkey
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Proving Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Ratio

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Solving Frequencies Problem: Lowest Tone in Close-End Pipe 200Hz

  • araw83
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What Is the Correct Approach to Solve This Specific Heat Calculation Error?

  • porschedriver192
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How Do Torque and Hinge Placement Affect a Door's Stability?

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Walking between two 440Hz speakers: why does loudness vary at 3.0Hz?

  • NotaPhysicsMan
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What is the solution for x in 2x^(1/4) = 64/x using indices?

  • Mo
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How Do You Calculate the Force of Gravity on a Spacecraft Above Earth?

  • shrtweez13
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Collision of pucks on frictionless table

  • disruptors
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How High Should a Marble Be Released to Propel a Steel Ball at 150cm/s?

  • darkdryad
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Writing Gravitation Force On Central Sphere In Unit Vector Notation

  • GingerBread27
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Equations of motion for a three-mass spring system using Newton's laws

  • quasar987
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Calculating Moles of Air Required for Tire Pressure Increase

  • mikep
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Solving 2-Unknown Algebra Problems: A Challenge!

  • Warwick
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What Is the 360th Power of the Function f(x) = 1/(1-x)?

  • Link
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Impact Force Comparison: Car vs. Wall Collision

  • sinas
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Physics Problem (densuty, pressure etc)

  • shalei
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Solve Entropy Problem with Heat Carrier - Nille

  • LostInSpace
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Friction acting on a spinning ice skater

  • angelina
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Should You Use Indefinite Integrals for Deriving Formulas of 1/(x+1)?

  • courtrigrad
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Projectile and Conservation of Energy

  • Heart
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Setting up the differential equation for rocket motion with fuel burn

  • LondonLady
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How Does Light Refract When Emerging from Water into Air?

  • daveed
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Where to drill a 1.0 m stick to get the shortest pendulum period?

  • physicsss
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Finding total resistance in a network of resistors

  • aviv87
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Rate of Reaction: Effects of Volume Changes

  • decamij
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Solving -1^n and (-1)^{n+1} Confusions

  • kdinser
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Calculating the Change in Kinetic Energy During a Collision

  • disruptors
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What pasta and glue work best for a bridge building assignment?

  • Namic56
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Find the Height for Equal Pressure in a Cylinder of Water

  • prasanna
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How many dark fringes from 651nm light on a 5.47×10⁻⁶m slit?

  • NotaPhysicsMan
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Solve Damped Pendulum: Find Alpha, Period and Reduction Time

  • physicsss
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What do i need to learn in order to do the following contest questions?

  • furtivefelon
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Finding area under delta x divided by a function

  • Juche
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How Do You Calculate the Tension in a Wire for a Submerged Iron Cube?

  • Bcisewski
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What Steps Are Needed to Prove That a Number Is the Supremum?

  • semidevil
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Quantum Mechanics Problem - [Rotating Molecule]

  • AKG
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Solve Ladder Logic Puzzles: Word Ladder Brainteasers

  • sp00ky
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Solving Friction: Acceleration and Velocity

  • primarygun
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Solving Problems Involving a Skater and a Spring

  • Kissinor
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Don't understand by the phrases 'third second'

  • Sanosuke Sagara
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Closest distance between two planes traveling at different speeds

  • decamij
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Solving a 20% Efficient Real Engine Problem

  • jaidon
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Mutual Inductance of the cylinder coils

  • Romperstomper
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How do I find the formula for the hydrate?

  • Dooh
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Don't understand by the phrases 'retarding force'

  • Sanosuke Sagara
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Max Speed Calculation for Tarzan's Vine Swing - AP Physics Problem

  • AllAmericanGirl2004
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Kinetic energy of massless spring

  • Flinthill84
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Force between two carts pulled by 4N

  • UrbanXrisis
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Are My Calculations for Accident Recovery Probabilities Accurate?

  • OptimusPrime
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Solving Sampling Distributions in AP Statistics: Unbiased Estimators

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Causes of King Duncan's death in Macbeth

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How Does Ship Size Impact the Average Volume of Clothing Shipments?

  • OptimusPrime
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Surface area of atomized molecules?

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Ice cube melting in lemonade at different temperatures

  • mikep
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Normal force on motorcycle in rotating ring

  • Chen
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Calculate Weight Difference at Equator: 715N Gravitational Force

  • Coolbass04
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I dont understand how conditional probabilty works

  • semidevil
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The gravitational force between the aircraft and Moon

  • Omid
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Cockroaches fighting phys. prob

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Calculating Forces on an 80kg Man on a Ferris Wheel

  • HawKMX2004
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Finding height where projectile has half initial speed

  • senseandsanity
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Finding the angle for a pulley system to pull a 4 kg foot straight out

  • senseandsanity
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How to Find the Speeds of Suspended Objects Over a Pulley?

  • elizabethg
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Newton's three laws and friction

  • furtivefelon
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Precipitation reactions with silver nitrate

  • Mathman23
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Calculating Max Ice Production Rate Given kW Input and Temperature Conditions

  • eku_girl83
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Finding Distance of Fragment After Shell Explosion - Center of Mass

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Crane Efficiency: 5.10 x 10^5 Energy to Lift 1000kg 32m

  • puregoodboi
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How Do You Calculate the Area Between Curves in Calculus Problems?

  • buffgilville
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Can like charges accumulate in tight spaces despite repulsion?

  • mborn
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Baffled by Electric Field of a Plate

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Rocket Problem: 0.27kg Mass, 0.18kg Gas, 40m/s Velocity

  • vabamyyr
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Essay on Digital and Analogue technology -_-

  • TimUK
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Block pushed against wall: friction force with 12 N horizontal push

  • disruptors
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Solving triple summation for nested loop time complexity

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How Do Electric and Magnetic Fields Affect an Electron's Path?

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Concave lens with virtual image 0.5 times object size

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How Do Protons Behave in a Magnetic Field?

  • nemzy
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Calculating Minimum Turn Radius for 200 m/s Jet

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At what time was the yeast added?

  • mborn
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How to solve √3x = x + √3 for x

  • Mo
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Can someone explain the circle equation simply?

  • roger
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Which two of Dalton's four atomic theories were disproven?

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Solving for Probability Current Density in Region 2

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How Do You Solve Momentum and Elastic Collision Problems in Physics?

  • krypt0nite
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Calculating Final Temperature of Steam and Water Mixture - Chemistry Question

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