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What is the 40th term of this arithmetic sequence?

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How far does a sled with rider travel on flat snow before stopping?

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Waves & Sound: How deep is your well?

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Momentum of child throwing snowball and clay ball compression spring

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Does sodium bicarbonate function as an acid or a base?

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Work done by car engine accelerating up a hill

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How Does a Flywheel Power a 40 T Magnetic Field?

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Why Does an Object Fall 490 Meters in 10 Seconds?

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I'm so lost Volume and tension?

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How to Calculate Phase Difference Between Two Sinusoidal Waves?

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Number Theory Question - Discrete Log mod (pq)^2.

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De Broglie wavelength diffraction and microscope resolution problems

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Finding tension and hinge forces for a hanging sign on a beam

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Calculating Volume Using Archimedes' Principle

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Speed of unrolling tissue paper roll from R to r

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What is the derivative of x^x and how to sketch sin(x)/x by hand?

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Solve Astronaut Wrench Problem: Find x_2 from x_1, v

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Calculating Angle of Globe on Accelerating Train - Forces in Motion

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Volume of a object by being submerged

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Floor function equation and proving a polynomial root exist

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How Does Newton's Third Law Explain Our Forward Movement?

  • UrbanXrisis
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What is the required force to accelerate a child on a sled at 1.12 m/s2?

  • Rapta3
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Two Brainmelting Problems Save Me

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Homework help: discrete schodinger eq. Energy Eigenstates?

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Coefficient of kinetic friction for a hockey puck on ice

  • WCU
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Radial and circumferential strain in an incompressible blood vessel wall

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Help with Fundamental Frequency problem

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Finding current and voltage across resistors in parallel circuits

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Rolling without slipping and frictional force

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What Is the Required Power for a Cable Car on a Slope?

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How to Prove the Moment of Inertia for a Spinning Cone?

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What is the Kinetic Energy and Work Done for Separated Space Vehicle

  • pinky2468
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Find Equation for Ideal Gas in Cube Container

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What Went Wrong in Calculating Tensions in These Statics Problems?

  • Shay10825
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What Are the Characteristics of Protonium?

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Coal delivery rate on a conveyor belt with 60kW motor

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Tension at height y in a hanging rope of linear mass density λ

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Conservation of Momentum of a uniform thin rod

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Two masses and a Gravitational field

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Finding Acceleration for Object on Equator

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Potential Energy of a Three-Particle System

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Calculating Revolutions for Weightlessness on a 15m Ferris Wheel

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Power series for (x+x²)/(1-x)³ and sum of n²/2ⁿ

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Is g Positive or Negative in Bernoulli's Equation?

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Solving Calorimetry Ques: Molybdenum Specific Heat

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Calculating Mass of Asteroid Given Moon's Size, Distance, and Orbit

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How Do You Calculate the Density Ratio of the Moon to the Earth?

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Calculating Acceleration in a Pulley System

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Optics problem: electromagnetic theory

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Nonuniform bar suspended by two cords at angles 36.9° and 53.1°

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How Does a Decreasing Radius Affect the Speed of a Rotating Cylinder?

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Constructing vector diagrams for coplanar forces

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How Do You Solve for a, b, and c in Polynomial Equations?

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Thermodynamics - heating spoon and coffee

  • mikep
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Calculate the distance from the center of the Earth

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Solving 3 Simple Physics Problems

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How Does Acceleration Affect the Period of a Simple Pendulum?

  • cissablecat23
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Need 12 more questions for periodic table game project

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How Do You Calculate Microstates for a Constrained Spin System?

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Air volume increase from -3.5°C to 37°C in lungs

  • mikep
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Fluids (Find the Force Exerted)

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How Do You Identify Resonance Structures for SO4^2- and H3PO4?

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Projectile Motion Analysis: Calculating Safe Distance for a Swimmer in Training

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Formula for mass up an inclined plane

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Which Newton's law describes inertia is proportional to mass?

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Area between x-axis and y=7-8x+x² using fundamental theorem

  • mugzieee
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Prove this is a right triangle?

  • aisha
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Solving Rotational Motion: Coin Rolling Up Inclined Plane

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Bouncing mass with air resistance: total distance traveled

  • mattysimins
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Complex Variables and Integration

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Banking angle for a car to round a curve without friction

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Does a net torque imply the presence of net force in a system?

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How Do You Calculate Tension in a Pulley System?

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Finding angular acceleration for this prob

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Solving the Wave Problem: Transmitted Wave Amplitude

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What Is the Maximum Amplitude of a Wave Pulse?

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Help with Periodic Table Game Project

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Solve a Simple Power Problem: Escalator Work Rate

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Finding where my Kirchhoff's law circuit calculation went wrong

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Calculating F(3) and F(-4) for F(x)= -x^2+2

  • Chikawakajones
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Calculating Coefficent of Kinetic Friction: Box on Floor

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Time difference between two sine waves

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General solution of x²dx + y(x-1)dy = 0

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What Does Retarding Force Mean in This Context?

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Rearranging limits in alternating series and differentiating 2^(x-1)

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What is the Java notation for height in a 2D array?

  • UrbanXrisis
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Why does work up an incline equal mgh, not applied force times hypotenuse?

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Calculating Moles and Net Heat in an Ideal Gas Cycle

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Power and maximum power problem

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Solving Potter's Wheel Friction Problem

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Calculating Spring Compression and Velocity with Friction

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Solve Banked Curve w/ Friction: Formula Needed

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Gravitationnal potential of a sphere

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Does more data points improve line of best fit accuracy?

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