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Solve 2.00 & 4.60µF Capacitors Voltage: Help Needed

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What is the center of circular path?

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Block accelerating down a 30.0° incline with friction

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How Does Electrode Separation Affect Spark Plug Efficiency?

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Relative Velocity as far as I can tell

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Emu acceleration and velocity with constant deceleration

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Finding total distance from velocity-time graph

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Rabbit vs. Tortoise: A 100-m Race

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Finding Velocity and Displacement

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Calculating Buoyant Force: Brain Blocks Pt II

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Is Harmonic Oscillation Independent of Gravity?

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Why Are Repeating Decimals Less Than Denominator?

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Finding the Displacement of a Duck Undergoing Multiple Forces

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Calculating Electric Field Strength at a Corner with No Charge

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Calculate Bagel Tossing Speed and Catching Position?

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Finding equilibrant vector and x-y components from magnitude and angle

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How many grams of Ca(OH)2 and NaCl for these solutions?

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Commutator [H,U(m,n)], operator matrix expansion, and projector form of K

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How do I find displacement and its magnitude from position data?

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Has Anyone Participated in the DuPont Science Essay Contest?

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Simplifying and Integrating Cosine Functions

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Involving a line being parallel to itself

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Having some trouble interpretting several problems (link fixed)

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How Is Maximum Height Calculated for a Rocket in Free-Fall Acceleration?

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Finding acceleration from two forces at 45° angle

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How Is the Spring Constant Dimensionally Analyzed in Oscillation Equations?

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How to Determine Reaction Forces at Points A and C in a Structured Beam?

  • Clausius2
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Proofs advice/places to find more practice proofs

  • Mark
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Help with Mechanics: Towing a Barge with Flexible Cable

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How Does a Plumb Bob Deviate at 34.5° North Latitude Due to Earth's Rotation?

  • xcutexboax
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Solving 2cos(x/3) = ln x for x in [0,2π]

  • UrbanXrisis
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Calculating Elephant Seal's Displacement - Kinematics Problem

  • shawonna23
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Choosing the right substitution for trigonometric integrals

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Calculus-based physics mechanics

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Vector and Free Fall Problem Solving

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Find a when y equals a minus ab

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Displacement and distance for book moved around a table perimeter

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Solve for Launch Velocity Components in a Football Field Goal Attempt

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Algebraic Equations for Motion and Currency: Solving for Variables

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Just can't seem to get this one

  • JohnQ
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Probability a statement is true if inhabitants lie 2/3 of the time

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Solve Math Word Problems: 2 Examples & Help Appreciated

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How much time does it take the walker to make the round trip?

  • EaGlE
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How do I set up physics problems correctly?

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Having alot of trouble with projectile motion prob

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Finding Angle for Ball to be Thrown to Catch Woman

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Calculating Distance of Ball Launch in Semicircular Chute

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Proving that x=f*sin(wt+θ), y=g*sin(wt+φ) traces an ellipse

  • DarkEternal
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Finding Stationary Points in a Rational Function

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Solving Quadratic Word Problems: Finding the Dimensions of a Rectangle

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Calculating Net Force: Equilateral Triangle with Point Charges

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Integral problem with natural log ($5 to whoever gets it)

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Calculating Distance and Direction in Whiteout Conditions

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Energy Question - Burning off Breakfast

  • coglon
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Two drag racing cars with 1s start gap: do they stay equally spaced?

  • Omid
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How Does Plate Separation Affect Voltage in a Parallel-Plate Capacitor?

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How Long Does a Train Take for a 48 km Trip with Intermediate Stops?

  • physicsss
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Why is Everything Accelerating on the Surface of Earth?

  • Omid
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Average acceleration = inst accleration ?

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What are the components and sum of two vectors?

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How Can I Join Stick Heads for Walking Stick Figures?

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How Does Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory Explain Quantum State Evolution?

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How do I graph x=y-y²?

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Modelling Salt and Water Flow in a Tank

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Probability Density in Quantum Mechanics

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How to solve this trig equation in radians 2sin^2(x) + sin(x) - 1=0

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Where can angle x terminate if sin(x) = cos(x)?

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How Do You Solve These Probability and Combinatorics Problems?

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Kinematics Problem and final velocity

  • Brett
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Finding electric potential from a point charge using integration

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How Do You Calculate Conditional Probabilities with Joint PDFs?

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How High Does the Rock Go When Thrown from a Building?

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How Do I Solve This Complex Kinematics Displacement Problem?

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What is the formula for the sequence of points Pn approaching (2/5, 1/5)?

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Electric Fields x-component problem

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Finding an angle that's 20 more than four times its supplement

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Finding mass from friction force and coefficient of friction

  • KatieM
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How do I evaluate arcsin(sin 3π)?

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How Much Force Must a Diving Suit Window Withstand at 150m Depth?

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What Do These Constant Velocity and Acceleration Formulas Mean?

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Finding the limit of lim_(h-->0) (f(1+h,2) - f(1,2))/h

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Law of sines or law of cosines for AP physics problem

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Limit of (1 - cos(x))/x² as x approaches 0

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What is the difference in time the balls spend in the air?

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Trajectory of diver with vertical and horizontal velocities

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Work done together problem

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Alternating current from rotating coil with 6 ohm load

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A leaky 100 microfarad capacitor is charged to a potental difference

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Physics book slides off a horizontal

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Projectile Motion - A little Lost

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Free fall acceleration flowerpot problem

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How Can a Tourist Escape a Bear by Calculating Displacement and Velocity?

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