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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

  • benji
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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

  • JimmyRay
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GAIN and IMPEDANCE of a complex Circuit

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Finding where gravitational force is zero between Earth and Moon

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How Can You Solve Problems Using Newton's Laws?

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Magnetic Fields in Zero Gravity: Do They Interact with Gravity?

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How Do You Calculate Impulse for a Bungee Jumper?

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Finding (x+y)^2 given x^2 + y^2 = 16 and xy = 8

  • Dooga Blackrazor
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Solving (1-h^2*r^2*1.1)tg(h*r)=h*r for h

  • urban
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How Do You Calculate the Height from Which a Tennis Ball is Struck?

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Prove or disprove this inequality

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Force needed for a 0.80m standing jump from a 70kg person

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Write in the form z=x+jy the complex number e^e^j ^=exp

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Finding a Basis for a Subspace with a Specific Condition?

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Estimating Kinetic Friction Coefficient of Jet-Powered Car

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What are the mertis and demerits of thevenin's theorem

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Integrate Even Powers of Trig Functions: Cos²θ

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Apparent weight in elevator accelerating upward

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Synchronizing Clocks in 2 Different Frames: How to Start

  • fresh
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Easy Energy Conservation Problem causing me trouble

  • motoxkx
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Summation of rectangular areas (calculus) problem.

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How Do You Solve Improper Integrals Involving Logarithms?

  • ACLerok
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List of questions i just cannot figure out Someone

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What is the momentum of the box at the bottom?

  • punjabi_monster
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How Do You Calculate Elevator Motion and Energy After a Cable Snap?

  • vtech
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Finding Final Velocity by Energy Techniques

  • GingerBread27
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How Does a Ball Come Back to You After You Throw It?

  • perplexed58
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Why does the cart move if the horse and cart push on each other equally?

  • JimmyRay
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Proving Leibniz Logic: \frac{\urcorner P \equiv false}{P \equiv true}

  • physicsuser
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What is the f, if f(f(x)) = 2x^2 -1

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Speed of sound from lightning-thunder rule of thumb

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Max angle for parking on a steep hill with coefficient of friction 0.8

  • dabouncerx24
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Momentum and impulse practice problems with answers

  • PhysicsNovice
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Is this the correct basic code for a for-loop?

  • tandoorichicken
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Particle velocity limit and definite integral with multiple ranges

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Change in gravitational potential energy for a skier on a 2860 m lift

  • shawonna23
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Integrating 2m/(cx²) from x to 0

  • Speags
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Random problem from vector cal

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Can You Solve These Calculus Derivative Problems Correctly?

  • Alethia
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Calculating De Broglie Wavelength of a 100g Ball

  • Rachael_Victoria
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This shows that the intervals (0,1) and [0,1] are equivalent.

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Solving Tension Bag Problem: Find T1

  • ek
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Springs / elastic potential energy / grav pot energy

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Why does gravity pulls objects downward rather than upward?

  • xtine
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How Can I Solve These Challenging Physics Problems?

  • Scotty
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Why Am I Struggling with Projectile Motion Problems in Physics?

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Having trouble with Hydrostatics problem

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Relativistic Proton Acceleration: Calculate Potential Difference in Volts

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Motion in 2d/Centripetal Acceleration

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Tricky track problem (continued)

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Classical uncertainty principles

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1000 Hz corresponds to I = 10^-12

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Block striking a horizontal spring

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How Much Work Does Friction Do to Stop a Sliding Ball?

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Kinematics: force along x-axis problem

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What does a bathroom scale measure?

  • JimmyRay
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Calculating the Horizontal Force for a Non-Slipping Wedge

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Why Did My Calculation of Temperature Change Result in the Wrong Answer?

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Tension in cord holding 4.4 kg bundle in accelerating elevator

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Stuck on Physics Problems? Let's Solve Them!

  • joej
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How Does Jumping from a Height Affect the Reading on a Bathroom Scale?

  • physicsss
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Relative velocities of trains and collector in special relativity

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How Much Force Must a Painter Apply to a Pulley System to Ascend?

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Calculating Angular Momentum of Disc with Mass Falling 6cm from Center

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How Do You Evaluate the Limit of sin(x)/sqrt(x) as x Approaches 0?

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Moles of malachite from mass of water and carbon dioxide lost

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Speed skater slowing with drag force proportional to v²

  • gaborfk
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Find angle x where sin(x/2)=1/2 and tan(x)=sqrt(3)

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Three Blocks force on each other

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How Is Average Force Calculated in Shot Put?

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Solve Free Body Diagrams: What to Do?

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Determine a point where the electric field is zero

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How Do I Solve Basic Force Problems in AP Physics?

  • benji
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What is the maximum height achieved by the projectile?

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How Do You Determine Electric Fields and Forces Between Charges?

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Weighing a mass over 25 kg with a spring scale that maxes at 25 kg

  • HashBrown
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Why Can't I Solve These Seemingly Simple Physics Problems?

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Minimum value of the coefficient of static friction

  • physicsss
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Conservation of Momentum in Elastic Collisions: Calculating Final Velocity

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Solve 2D Motion Problem: Ball Hitting Canyon Edge

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Calculating Elevator Acceleration: Tips for Solving a Motion Problem

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Evaluating limits of several variables

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Simplifying the cube root of -125m⁻⁴n⁵

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Calculus challenge problem part C and beyond

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Solve cos 2v = cos v and sin 2v = sin v

  • Maria
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Cos(45 - v) = sin (v + 45) for all angles v?

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