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Trouble with Proof of Optimal Launch Angle

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Newton's Laws Questions: Understanding Deceleration and Resistance

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Downward acceleration greater than g

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Calculating Earth's Greenhouse Gas Absorption

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Solving ε1jk without summation notation

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Force in connected tubes with unequal water heights

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Permutations of n taken r at a time

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How Does a Boat's Velocity Change with Current Direction and Speed?

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Why Does D'Inverno Equate Lbarg in the Palatini Approach?

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How Do You Calculate the Original Volume of Gas After Pressure Change?

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Finding the Zero Net Electric Field Point for Two Point Charges on the x-axis

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How Does a Tape Measure Act as a Spring in a DIY Land Rover?

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Velocity Time graph question [i'm not getting anywhere]

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Calculating Electric Potential in A Uniform Electric Field

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Find Length of Curve: y=x^2+2 from 0-3

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How to Calculate Gravitational Force in Orbital and Spherical Systems?

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How do mass and weight change from Earth's surface to the center?

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Finding where a ball lands on a slope given initial velocity

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Does the oil drop experiment prove quantization of charge?

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Why are school bus passengers jerked backward when it stops?

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How Many Electrons Pass and What Are the Costs of Electrical Appliances?

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Lewis structure, hybridization, shape, and polarity of IO₃F₂

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Thermal Expansion of a hollow aluminum cylinder

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What is this element, carbon, hydrogen, oxyden or aluminum?

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Satellite orbital energy and falling block on a wheel

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MIR space station problem from Armageddon physics assignment

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Need help with electromagnetism problems?

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Calculating Net Force on a Third Charge Using Coloumb's Law

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Area bounded by the y-axis and the curve x = y² - y³

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Does water level rise when a boat in a canal lock sinks?

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Resistance and current problems

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Proton in Magnetic field - am I correct?

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Exam review: don't remember how to do this

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How would it affect our daily lives if Planck´s constant were different?

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Understanding Pendulum Motion and Its Relationship to Gravity and Temperature

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Verifying a first-order linear differential equation solution

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Why is a Shorter Spring Stiffer Than a Longer One?

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Solving dy/dx = y/x + 1/x²

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Finding tensions in a balanced system with weights and strings

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Calculating Total Weight of a Truck with Uneven Loads

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Finding the third cable force AE in a three-cable beam system

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How to Calculate Damped Oscillation Frequency and Amplitude Change?

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Will a falling monkey be hit by a bullet from 20 m away?

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How Long Did the 23m Jump Last?

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What should I include in a mousetrap car project paper?

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Adiabatic compression to ignite gas from 1000°C to 27°C

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Why Do Signs Change in Fourier Series Coefficients Calculation?

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Motorcycle canyon jump: why does the vertical equation equal zero?

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Coefficient of Friction for 25° Banked Curve

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When do reflection, refraction, and diffraction occur?

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Way to remember the difference between energy and power?

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What Is the Second Derivative of f(x^3) Given Complex Function Relationships?

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Kinematics of a thrown rock. Calculate speed

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Finding Flow Speed in Smaller Section: A Puzzling Problem

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Complex numbers. Imaginary part

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How Does Changing Arm Position Affect a Spinning Professor's Kinetic Energy?

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Understanding Shell Electrons and Electron Configuration in Krypton

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Potential Energy of 1000 kg Car at 1m Height

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Finding velocity from position function using derivatives

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The Number Of Proper Subsets is 2^n - 1

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How Fast Does a Man's Shadow Change as He Walks Towards a Street Light?

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Find Largest Rectangle on y=12-x^2

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Particle motion with a(t)=4cos(2t), v(0)=1, x(0)=0

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What is the structure of glass and its properties in automobiles?

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Gravitation: Force inside a sphere

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Motor efficiency lifting 5000kg load 13m in 20s

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Help with calculus final review problems

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Excess electrons and net charge

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Calculating Electron Energy from Potential Difference

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How to Calculate Boat Velocity Relative to Shore in River Flow?

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Should a mousetrap car have a long or short lever arm for distance?

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Writing degree sign on the microsoft word?

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How Do You Determine Horizontal Asymptotes in Functions?

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Acceleration and Rotational Kinetic Energy in a Rigidly Mounted Cylinder System

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How Does Friction Affect the Work Done When Dragging a Crate?

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Which Curve Intersects Every Curve of the Family y = 1/x + k at Right Angles?

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Gravitation, neutron starlooks simple

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Integrating kinematic equations when acceleration depends on position

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Solve Word Problem: Rancher Divides Herds Between Sons

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Gravitation: Rocket's Velocity

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What Are the Answers to These Physics Questions?

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Build a Mousetrap Car Using Only a Spring!

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How Can I Calculate Deceleration and Depth for an Object Falling into Water?

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Shared and unshared electron pairs in ammonia and CH2Cl2

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Definition of derivative integration problem

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration from a Position Function in Kinematics?

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How to Prove Vector Ratios BE:EF = 1:2 and CD:DF = 1:1?

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Testing thermistor and calibration - sensors

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Understand Force Fields: Store and Release Energy?

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Electric Field at the Center of a Square of Point Charges

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