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Conservation of energy of a dart gun

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Impulse on a truck braking from 24.0 m/s to 10.4 m/s west

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Rocket Motion: Solving the Rocket Equation for Lift-Off

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A Question of De Broglie Waves?

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Check my integration work and help with problem 25

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What is the formula for velocity and acceleration?

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How many revolutions does a diver make while falling from a cliff?

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Formulae for sums of first n even and odd integers

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Boat speed after throwing bricks at once versus one at a time

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Calculating Scale Reading in an Accelerating Elevator

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Power plant energy extraction and efficiency with cooling water

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Can Prime Numbers x Satisfy x^2 = v^3 + 1?

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How would i find the speed of the water

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Solving 3 Object Tension Problem with Frictionless Pulleys

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Prove DF² = AF·EF and BF = DF for tangent lines to a circle

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Minimum static friction problem

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Where is the Center of Mass for a Semicircular Wire?

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Calculating Internal Energy Change in Isobaric Expansion

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Finding Vertical Distance of a Horizontally Thrown Ball at 45.08 m/s

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Ways for 6 girls to sit in 10 chairs with Sue and Sally together

  • Dooga Blackrazor
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Solving the Ice Block Bullet Problem: Calculating Melting Quantity"

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What's the Hill Incline Angle Based on Car's Power Difference?

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What is the coefficient of friction and weight of the block?

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Solving Equations with Multiple Variables

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How Does Tension Balance Dirty and Laundered Money in Physics?

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What are some easy projectile experiments for 11th grade physics projects?

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Detailed problem I did need verification

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Find the integral of x/(x-1)^2 with respect to x

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Calculating the Radius of a Banked Curve Using Newton's Second Law

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What Values of a Allow a Polynomial to Have Reciprocal Roots?

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Bullet embedded in block with friction: find initial speed

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Solving Kinetic Energy Change in Inelastic Collisions

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Epsilon in Simple Harmonic Oscillators

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Law of conservation of energy problems

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Calculating Spring Compression and Impact Speed of a Dropped Block

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Do conservative forces mean no external forces and is momentum conserved?

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Conservation of Energy and coefficients of friction

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Project Ideas for Physics Class Vehicle Contest

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Linear approximation, implicit differentiation, and mean value theorem problems

  • buffgilville
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Rather simple bouncing ball problem average acceleration

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Pendulum tangential acceleration, torque, and rotational dynamics

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Static and kinetic friction, tension, and equilibrium problems

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What Are the Values for Which H(x,y) Always Equals y?

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Finding derivatives and critical points for two functions

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How Strong is the Gravitational Pull Between Tom and Sally?

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Vector formulas and how to apply them in problems

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What is the initial velocity of the stone?

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Planar Kinetics of a Rigid Body

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Solving for an x^2+y^2=Ae^x Circle Passing Through (0,1)

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Helicopter rescue and curved runway particle problems

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Isn't this weird? (convergence of a sequence)

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Angular and Tangential Variables

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How can I calculate the time it takes to walk up a working escalator?

  • Phyzix
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Finding force between two charges and resistance of a heating element

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How do you use the pow function from math.h?

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Simplifying complex fractions with nested division

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What Is the Meaning of Finding a Wheel's Moment of Inertia About an Axis?

  • jjiimmyy101
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Why Does My Calculation of Water's Temperature Change Give the Wrong Result?

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Significant figures in Beer's law calculation with colorimeter data

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Car braking problem: finding speed after going 1/3 of stopping distance

  • jhson114
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Calculating Improper Integral of x^3/(x^4-3)^1/2

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Torque from jet engine weight with 9300 N force

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How to Calculate Space Station Rotation Frequency?

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A philisophical Heisenberg and Zeno question

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Birth Ratio Problem: Rabbit Population Triples

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Calc Average Total Force for 50kg Cyclist on 1km Hill

  • jenc305
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What is the distance to the nucleus when the particle's velocity is zero?

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Work and Kinetic Energy equation

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Solving Collision Problem: Finding Speeds of Balls After Impact

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Introductory physics textbooks and resources for college

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How to Calculate Efficiency and Heat Rejection in an Engine?

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Restricting Coefficients in a General Second Degree Equation

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How Do You Solve Rocket and Escalator Motion Problems?

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Calculating Acceleration and Angle on a Frictionless Air Track

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Calculating Force Exerted by 1000kg Car on 450kg Trailer

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Solving "6. [SFHS99 5.P.60.]" Physics Problem

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Solving for Velocity and Mass in an Elastic Collision

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Concentric cylinders and grounding

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Magnetic Field Due to a Circular Loop

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Calculating Rotation Speed for Artificial Gravity on a Rotating Space Station

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If ia charge is placed inside a conductor, is the electric field inside zero?

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Need a setup for a fiction problem

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Find mean distance from asteroid Icarus to the sun

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Help: Solve Kinetic Energy of Pushing Piano up an Incline

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Rotational Motion of a long pole

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Calculating Kinetic Energy Change of Earth's Orbit

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Calculating the Resultant Force at J

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Block sliding down 50° ramp with opposing rope force

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Best Physics AP Books for High School Students?

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Finding acceleration from scale reading in an elevator

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Help Needed: Solving Golf Ball Kinetic Energy Problem

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Solving a Grade 12 Physics Problem: Pulling vs Pushing a Heavy Box

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GAIN and IMPEDANCE of a complex Circuit

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