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Trouble Setting Up Projectile Motion

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Where Can the Electric Field Between Two Unequal Charges Be Zero?

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What is the current if the battery is shorted momentarily?

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Incline Problem: Block Projected Up 35 Degrees, 8.2 ft/s

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Does cream soup roll farther than broth due to rotational kinetic energy?

  • Parth Dave
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Hey physics instant velocity ques

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Quadratic drag equation by partial fractions

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Ideal gas temperature and pressure in a rigid insulated box

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Banked Curve with Friction Problem

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How Do I Solve These Tricky Integration Problems?

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Problem on electric field due to dipoles

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Check My Math Answers - Is It Right or Wrong?

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How Do I Isolate the Friction Force in This Physics Equation?

  • pinky2468
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How can I solve these two physics problems involving work and springs?

  • Fused
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How do I rearrange the kinematic equation to solve for time?

  • TheShapeOfTime
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Discrete math problem college level question

  • afang
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Solve Atwood's Machine w/Initial Velocity: Change Accel.?

  • pinky2468
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Studying for an Upcoming Special Relativity Exam

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Finding horizontal force when a car stops in 61 m

  • Angeluzmaia
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What is the force constant of its rear suspension

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Calculating the Force on Electron Near a Long Straight Wire

  • GreenDinos
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Finding derivatives of square root and rational functions

  • buffgilville
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What is the tension in the cable problem.

  • Dominic
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Limits involving radicals and trig functions

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Solving Sound Reduction Index Problem: Air to Water

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Max Hill Steepness for Low-Powered Cars

  • physicsss
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Proving there exist unique integers m and n bounding a real number x

  • YourLooks
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In Preparation of 1st Physics Exam

  • quality101
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Calculating r(dot): Dynamics Time Derivative of Radius

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Solving a Puzzling Problem Involving Mass and Angle

  • SnowOwl18
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Velocity based frictional force equations

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Different techniques of integration

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Deriving the geometric series sum formula

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Solving the Problem: Calculating the Tension in a Sagging Wire

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Solar energy flux, Earth's population

  • phy
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Calculating Force of Gravity in Circular Motion: Formula and Explanation

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Thin Lens Exp: Prove Linear Graph, Determine Slope and Intercept

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Stopping distance on slope and conical pendulum angle

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What Is the Correct Acceleration for Each Object?

  • Alkatran
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Finding N for Fibonacci ratios converging to golden ratio

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How Do You Find F'(8) Using Given Function Values?

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HOW can I find the displacement of a sailboat tacking against the wind?

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Solve Projectile Problem: Cowboy Dropping from 25m High

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How Far Does a Bullet Fall in 0.5 Seconds?

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Trouble Figuring out what object this this

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What are the kinetic frictional forces in an accelerating elevator?

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GRE 61, small oscillation problem

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Is the Open University Online Physics Degree Worth Pursuing?

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Electric field of a Hemisphere

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Interesting and annoying power problem

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Velocity Changes: Understanding Direction and Acceleration in Changing Objects

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X versus t graph, simple kinematics?

  • WillParadigm
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Showing by definition that limits exist

  • physicsuser
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How Do Uncertainties Combine in Measurements?

  • UrbanXrisis
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Uniformly accelerated motion- a weird kangaroo prob

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Finding the antiderivative of x² √(9-x²)

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Force needed to pull a 75 kg water skier at constant velocity

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Current through body grasping 20 kV power supply terminals

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Finding Initial Velocity of a Freely Falling Object

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How to show that 2^n is O(n!) without induction

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Solving Kinmatics Problem - Ball Dropped from Rest

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What components in a car can accelerate it?

  • justinbaker
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How can I simplify this electrical circuit problem?

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Acceleration of a 33 kg rock falling with 239 N air resistance

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Drawing Lewis Structures for VSPER: Problem Solutions

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Work done by gravity on a load pushed horizontally

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What would happen if you travelled at 3/5 c

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Non-crossing handshakes for 20 people at round table

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Is there a continuous function with no tangent line anywhere?

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What Is the Work Done by Gravity on a Horizontally Moving Load?

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What Is the Person's Velocity After the First 25 cm of the Chin-Up?

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GRE # 37 ( elementary particle question)

  • quantumworld
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Will Applying Brakes Prevent Sue's Collision with the Van?

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Electric potential of a spherical shell with uniform charge density

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Derivation of the electric field from the potential

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Kinematics - find velocity and acceleration

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Pumped Energy Storage and Available Power

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Dynamics of uniform circular motion and bohr model

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How Fast Are Romeo's Pebbles When They Hit Juliet's Window?

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Finding strip dimensions for conductance of 1mA V−1

  • Christopher
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Problem with average velocity in a circle

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Speed and height of a projectile at its highest point

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How Does Friction Affect a Stationary 1kg Mass on a Horizontal Surface?

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Master Motion Problems: Time, Velocity, and Trajectory | Expert Help ASAP!

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Solving a quiz problem with basic math

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Projectile Motion baseball hit question

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Object rolling off 13 m cliff and officer jumping between buildings

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Is an analogus function useful for proving sequence monotonicity?

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Finding period and amplitude from max acceleration and speed in SHM

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