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Ice skater angular velocity after tucking arms

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Question For Physics Take Home Quiz that I just can't get

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Solving Exploding Spring: Find Car Speeds

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Calculating Force Needed to Support an Object with Hydraulic Press

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Where is the center of gravity if 58% of weight is on front wheels?

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How Do Two Astronauts Separate in Space After Pushing Each Other Apart?

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Rotating Wheel SHM: Piston Distance Calculation

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How Do Forces Determine Tension and Compression in Roof Trusses?

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Force, mass and acceleration problems with Newton's laws

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Can You Explain Conservation of Momentum?

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Q: Maximum weight for a suction cup hook on a glass door?

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Does viscosity affect the speed of waves in liquids?

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Lifting force from airfoil with 20% longer top surface

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How Can I Build a Non-Traditional Propulsion Car for a Physics Project?

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How Fast Does the Heavier Cart Move After Spring Release?

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Does the observer measure higher velocity if moving toward the source?

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Finding Inflection Points (Applied Calc Question)

  • Sam
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Relative Velocity while swimming

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Where is the center of gravity of this system?

  • timtng
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What Went Wrong with my Kinetic Energy Problem?

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How Much Torque Is Needed for a 2.0-kg Ball's Angular Acceleration?

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Can Physics Solve These Real-World Problems?

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Ballistic Pedulum - Finding Kinetic Energy Lost

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How Do You Calculate Revolutions in Rotational Kinematics?

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Jet Transport Weight Distribution and Normal Force Calculation

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Moment of Inertia for a Solid Sphere

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Solve the Bungee Physics Problem: Net Force and Height Calculation"

  • tandoorichicken
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Solve Parallax Equation: Find Distance to Star in km & ly

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What is the student's speed at the bottom of the inclined plane?

  • ConfusedStudent
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What is the distance between two particles in motion in a vacuum?

  • joc
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How to solve momentum and collisions problems?

  • ScoutFCM
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Police officer catching speeding car with constant acceleration

  • beginner
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Calculating Bullet Velocity in Inelastic Collision

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Calculate the acceleration of the cyclist

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Why use a fuse when earthed metal prevents danger to handlers

  • Shyam
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Physics- falling objects, parabola shape

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How Do I Solve These Angular Speed Physics Problems?

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Calculate the horizontal speed of the box as it falls

  • paigegail
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How Do You Calculate the Lifting Force on a Block?

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What Does the Picture with Four E's and Arrows Mean on a Science Blackboard?

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What Are the Best Botany Career Opportunities in Michigan?

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Physics Puzzler: Solving a Grade 12 Cliff Pushing Problem

  • paigegail
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Transistor bias resistors R1, R2 and base current IB

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Fueling a Complete Game: Calculating Cereal Needs for Baseball Pitchers

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What is R in the moment of inertia integral?

  • StephenPrivitera
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Angular Momentum of an ice skater

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Redshifts and important early events

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Work done pulling a toboggan up a 25.7° hill

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Submarine fluid physics problem

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Why Add 33º to the Force Direction in Pool Ball Collision?

  • shan
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Volume expansion and pressure change

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How Do You Convert Torque from Pound-Feet to Newton-Meters?

  • ShakeWell
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Conservation of Momentum in a Two-Pendulum Collision

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Sound wave molecule returning to normal position

  • timtng
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Solving Vectors: Boater Needs to Cross River at 20mph

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What Laws and Theories Predict Particle Motion?

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How Can You Calculate Gravity Using an Atwood Machine?

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Electric field from a line charge on the x-axis

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What are the forces and connections in this roof truss?

  • exequor
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What is the coefficient of static friction of rubber on wood?

  • marshall4
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What Is the Velocity of the Third Piece After the Ball Explodes?

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Torque on a current-carrying loop

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Completely inelastic collisions

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Does cooling rate decrease as coffee gets cooler?

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Artillery gun projectile motion problem

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Finding power from work equation and work to compress a spring

  • ACLerok
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Calculate Time for Mass to Reach Equilibrium Position

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Ball of mass 450g lands on a spring with k = 5.0E3

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Differences between the magnetic field B and the field H

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Potential Energy, Conservation of Energy problem

  • pezzang
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AP Physics spring compression and elevator work problems

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Does the period or frequency represent an orbit?

  • marshall4
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Calculating Friction Force: Static and Kinetic Coefficients Explained

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Suggestions for projectile motion

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How many earth years is Jupiter's orbit around the sun?

  • marshall4
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Integral of sin(θ)-cos(θ)/sin(θ)+cos(θ) not matching given answer

  • mattmns
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Solve Momentum Problem: Boat's Final Velocity

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Conservation of Energy of a bullet

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Will a Bullet Shot Straight Up Fall Back to Its Starting Point?

  • porkok
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8 kg and 5 kg blocks on a pulley with friction

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Centripetal Force of merry-go-round

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How Much Energy Can a Custom Car Capacitor Store?

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How many bricks can I stack before the bottom one is crushed?

  • nautica
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Calculating Energy of a Conduction Band Electron in Silicon

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Linear momentum ratio when charged particles approach

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What formula would I use to find the horizontal force?

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Energy conservation on a roller coaster

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