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Hortizontal acceleration of a motorcycle

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How Does Constriction in the Bronchus Affect Air Pressure?

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How Do You Calculate Kinetic and Potential Energy in Projectile Motion?

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Simple harmonic motion in a rocket?

  • PhysicsPhun
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How Much Power is Needed for a Car to Climb an 8% Grade?

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Object position for 4x upright image in concave mirror

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Vector in cylindrical polar coordinates

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Find n where the sum from i=1 to n equals 34

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Resistance of parallel resistors

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How does torque relate to stopping a rotating wheel?

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What is the period of a standing transverse wave on a flexible string?

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Why is wavelength equal to tank length in wave tank experiment?

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Is {(sinx)^2, (cosx)^2} a Basis of W in Linear Algebra?

  • discoverer02
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Heat Effects on an Aluminum Annular Ring

  • Xamfy19
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Calculating the Volume of Water Displaced by a Kayak

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Input and output voltages of a transformer?

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How do you develop your own study habits for science and math?

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Batmobile Physics Problem: Solving for Time on a Straight Street in Gotham City

  • raferalston
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Environmental significance of fossil fuel use

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Solving tan(γa) = −γ/β for γ with varying parameter a

  • Norman
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Solving Trig Equations: 2cos^2(x)+cos(x)-1=0 in the Interval x≥0 and x≤2π

  • krusty the clown
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What is the final nucleus after a series of radioactive decays?

  • athenaroa
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How Does Stretching a Wire Affect Its Resistance?

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Internuclear separation between ions in a crystal-

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Why do capacitors in parallel and series discharge at different rates?

  • UrbanXrisis
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Light wavelength in liquid and critical angle for total internal reflection

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How Do You Calculate Diffraction Angles and Grating Lines?

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Angular acceleration of a wheel with multiple dynamics questions

  • ProSk8ter474
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Angular Acceleration Calculation: Solving Problems with Missed Physics Notes

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How to draw a force diagram for a charge moving in a magnetic field

  • UrbanXrisis
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Saturn's rings and tidal forces on neutron star probes

  • Dingo Jellybean
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B field btwn two current carrying wires

  • sonya
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A Plane, A pulley and two boxes

  • Divergent13
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2002 ap physics c free response #1 question

  • dlau
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Solve Algebra 2 Problem 43: 7^3x/2^7x-1=(43.2)^x+2

  • mustang
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Trigonometric equations - strange results

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Understanding Critical Values of a Function

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Calculating Tension in a Model Plane's Horizontal Circular Motion

  • st3dent
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Problem23: Highest Order for 585 nm Grating w/1483 Lines/cm

  • mustang
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How Do You Calculate Tension in Wires Supporting a Loaded Rod?

  • jonny17
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How Can Rayleigh's Method Determine Beam Oscillation Frequency?

  • JamesJames
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Electricity Generated by Magnet Motion Over Coil

  • UrbanXrisis
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Linear accelerator physics problem

  • carnom
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Making an electromagnetic motor

  • cor_18
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Minimum copper and lead mass to sink floating wood

  • jamdr
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How Does a Magnetic Field Influence Particle Motion and Flux Calculations?

  • physadam2
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Conservation of Linear Momentum in an Explosion of Particles

  • Clutch306
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Calculating Average Value of y=x^2√x3+1 from 0 to 2

  • tandoorichicken
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Calculating the Impact: Measuring Dive Heights from the Pool

  • fightinag07
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Finding Magnification of a Gem Using a Converging Lens

  • mustang
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Converging lens focal length and magnification problems

  • mustang
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Proper Punctuation: Parentheses and Question Marks in English Writing

  • aychamo
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Understanding Waves: Period, Frequency, and Speed of a Vibrating String

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Finding member forces in a three-member truss by moment analysis

  • paul11273
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Second-order diffraction angle for 3224 slits/cm grating at 463.2 nm

  • mustang
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Bifocal lens power for distant vision with near point at 40 cm

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Mass dropped into hole through Earth

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What symbol represents momentum: P or ρ?

  • masamune
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Centre of Mass & SHM: Help Understanding & Graphing

  • nic0la
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Structure constants of Lie groups

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Impulse response? I need a bit of help with this if anyone can?

  • lizm
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Help with Bohr model and hydrogen energy level problems

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Projectile fired - find maximum height

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Cracking the Physics Olympiad Problem: Expressing V in 5 Parameters

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Is the Book's Answer Correct for This Circuit Problem?

  • KingNothing
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What is the deceleration on an incline?

  • KingNothing
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Minimum ionosphere height for destructive interference with radio waves

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Having trouble with differential equations and separation of variables

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Geomagnetic field demonstration

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Special Relativity- Muons in a Storage Ring

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Can You Convert an Integral Into an Infinite Series?

  • maxpowers_00
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Series and Parallel Circuit Problem

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Series convergence and binomial series in relativity

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Designing an AM Demodulator Circuit with No ICs

  • Trancid
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How Does Quantum Mechanics Describe Particle Velocity?

  • curious george
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Mechanical energy of cannon ball

  • physics phan
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Struggling with AP Multiple Choice: ky Differential Equation

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Solving a Camera Lens Problem: Height of Image on Film

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Does Earth's mass increase from solar energy using e=mc2?

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Calculate Amplitude of SHM for Block Connected to Spring and Embedded Bullet

  • PhysicsPhun
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How Do You Convert dB to W/m² in Sound Intensity Calculations?

  • new324
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Relative Brightness of A-E, C+D

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QM scattering - Section 19.5 in Shankar

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How Do Molecules Stay Distinct Between the Stratosphere and Troposphere?

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Finding overall uncertainty in g from freefall measurements

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Magnetic flux through a wire cross-section using Ampere's law

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Eagle flying between two approaching trains at 80 km/h

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What is the inductance of a solenoid with a soft iron core?

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Calculating Angular Momentum and Precession of a Toy Gyroscope

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This is very confusing multiple choice question

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Calculus - Derivatives and Applications

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Finding concavity with implicit differentiation at a point

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Induced superficial charge distribution of a sphere

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