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How High Will the Passenger Be When the Camera Reaches Her?

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Which function is not one-to-one?

  • UrbanXrisis
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Calculating River Flow Using Reference Frames

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How Do You Draw a Vector Diagram for an Airplane Adjusting for Wind?

  • krypt0nite
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Solving Cone Volume Change with Chain Rule

  • Monsu
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Linear Equations with Intersecting Lines: Solving for Unknowns

  • bob4000
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Finding Fourier Transform for x(t): A Math Student's Query

  • cepheid
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How Fast is the Triangle's Area Changing When the Board is 9 Feet from the Wall?

  • buffgilville
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Forces, magnitude and acceleration

  • Angeluzmaia
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What is the Maximum Reaction Time to Avoid Hitting a Deer?

  • UrbanXrisis
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Average speed and velocity for round trip walk

  • tangldupinBlue
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Quiky question before my test tommorow morning

  • EasyStyle4747
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Bullet motion in rifle barrel with v=-5.0×10⁷t²+3.0×10⁵t

  • UrbanXrisis
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Basketball launched at 45° to reach basket 4m away and 0.8m high

  • mad
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How Is the Third Answer Calculated in This Lawn Mower Physics Problem?

  • justinbaker
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Model rocket launched at 50 m/s with constant acceleration to 150 m

  • Egyptian Mafia
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Solving a Physics Puzzle: Average Acceleration of a Tennis Ball

  • TheDividedSky
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Calculating Wind Speed Needed To Keep Hailstones Aloft

  • ScienceGirl502
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Calculating Forces on a Crate on a Frictionless Ramp

  • 1stcool
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Can an Object Have Negative Position and Positive Velocity?

  • star223
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Finding the limit of (n² + n - 1)/(3n² + 1) and its remainder form

  • courtrigrad
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Tension and motion in two multi-mass pulley systems

  • HobieDude16
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Standing Vertical Jump physics problem

  • Whatupdoc
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Force of 3 Boxes: Acceleration of System (m1,m2,m3)

  • strugglin-physics
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Normal forces on inclined plane

  • GingerBread27
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Find the 7th State of Matter for Extra Credit

  • joe4224
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9th grade physics-just a little trouble

  • star223
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Current in a hydrogen discharge with electrons and protons

  • saltrock
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Scale Readings in Accelerating Elevators: Calculations and Analysis

  • Soaring Crane
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How Much Force is Needed to Stop a 1520kg Car in 57.5 Meters?

  • BlackMamba
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Time at constant speed for car accelerating 200m then cruising 160m

  • mad
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Particle Resting On An Accelerating Inclined Plane Problem

  • NoPhysicsGenius
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Calculate Maximum Force Acting on 24 kg Mass

  • strugglin-physics
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Friction-less wedge physics problem

  • holyko
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Epsilon-delta proof of lim(1/x)=1/c for c≠0

  • haribol
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Finding the angle between two planes using normal vectors

  • moca915
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What is the projectiles time of flight?

  • Format
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Mean Value Theorem and electrostatic potential

  • Hypnotoad
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Stone and pebble thrown from 20 m bridge with 12 m/s

  • Faiza
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2 simple oscilliation problems.

  • physicszman
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Engine Performance(Finding Power)

  • austin zitro
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Generalized formula for factoring X^n-Y^n

  • Jacob Chestnut
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Particle position and acceleration from velocity at two times

  • motionman04
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Solving Initial Differential Question: Finding General Solution for y

  • fresh
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Finding Amplitude of Air Vibration from Frequency and Intensity

  • falcon0311
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Solving Exponent Laws: (p^2q+ pq^3)^3 / p^3q^4

  • majinknight
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Probability Distribution and Constants

  • Rachael_Victoria
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Find the value of Electric potential

  • ACLerok
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Horizontal force to displace a hanging chandelier 0.100 m

  • strugglin-physics
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Raising the Window Washer: A Trickier Problem Than It Looks

  • SnowOwl18
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Proving Altitude Sum Inequality in a Triangle

  • nolachrymose
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Helicopter at constant velocity with tilted lift force

  • BlackMamba
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How Fast Must a Limo Travel Near Light Speed to Appear Shorter?

  • jwoosley
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When to use -9.8 or +9.8 for gravitational acceleration?

  • saiyajin822
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How Does Acceleration Direction Affect Object Motion?

  • Faiza
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Variance of 36 standard dice rolls

  • Haatajajunk
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How Much Force is Needed to Displace a Chandelier Sideways?

  • strugglin-physics
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Helicopter Lift Force Calculation

  • strugglin-physics
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Why doesn't a heavier mass fall faster than a lighter mass?

  • Soaring Crane
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Solve Race Car G Problem: How Many G's?

  • strugglin-physics
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What should its speed be relative to the ground?

  • AHuds0n
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Solve for K for Continuity of f(2) at @=0

  • Hygelac
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Finding initial and final n for hydrogen absorbing 4055nm light

  • needhelpperson
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Can an object have a negative acceleration and be speeding up?

  • Faiza
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Calculating Thermal Energy Supplied by Heater in 30.0s - Kilo-joules

  • questionmaster
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Two balls thrown at each other from a building

  • saiyajin822
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Understanding Energy and Momentum in Quantum Mechanics

  • AKG
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Position, Velocity, and Acceleration of a Golf Ball at t = 1.20 s

  • ramin86
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Where to find kinematics and 2D motion practice problems

  • Shay10825
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Find the velocity as it reaches the water

  • Faiza
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Forces on Particle, Find Third Force?

  • GingerBread27
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Questioning the Limit of Sin x/|x| as x Approaches 0

  • xargon
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Solving the Unequal Displacement of Balls Problem

  • Lilly
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Work, power, and kinetic energy

  • PhysicPsychic
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Ratio of areas in parallelogram with intersecting diagonals

  • dekoi
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How Do You Calculate the Pulling Force on a Crate for Zero Net Work?

  • rocky811
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How Can We Solve 2^m = 3^n + 5 for Non-Negative m and n?

  • PrudensOptimus
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Find a model of plutonium. a bohr model

  • vandamme
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How to Prove This Complex Inequality Involving Absolute Values?

  • saint_n
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Problem proving tension in string

  • Dracovich
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Solve Heating Water Problem: 100-W Electric Heater

  • SpatialVacancy
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How Does Acceleration Change with Angle for a Horizontally Moving Bar?

  • AronH
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How Long Does It Take for a Dart to Reach the Board from 1.9m?

  • faisal
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How Can I Group Dots and Filter Mismatched Bits in Data Arrays?

  • kronecker
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How long does a brick take to pass a window 20 m below a rooftop?

  • saiyajin822
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Calculating PE and Initial Speed for Colliding Alpha Particles

  • pulser45
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Limit of f(x): As x Approaches 3

  • buffgilville
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Calculating Recursive Derivatives at Point x=0

  • Monsu
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Young's modulus problem - need a hint

  • redshift
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Determining Force for Toppling 30" Round Table

  • kopplaw
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Sketching Region for |x-y|+|x|-|y| <= 2

  • linux666
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