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Checking 7 freely falling body problems

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Finding block volume from weights in water and alcohol

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How Does Kinetic Friction Affect Motion in a Pulley System?

  • lizette
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What is the Spring Constant and Angular Frequency of a Car's Suspension?

  • RIT_Rich
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How Far is a Loudspeaker from Two Observers Based on Sound Levels?

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What Causes Increased Horizontal Velocity After a Perfect Bounce?

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Overtaking car at 60 km/hr alongside car at 40 km/hr, 100 m apart

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Solving Physics Mechanics Problem: Snowball Off Barn Roof

  • Tony Zalles
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Can Different Moving Speeds Have Identical Acceleration?

  • physicszman
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Why Does the Ball Appear to Rise Vertically to the TA?

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IB Math Methods- Problems with Problems

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Have You Ever Wondered Why Sunsets are Red?

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Maximum force to keep two blocks moving together without slipping

  • lizette
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What could be causing the discrepancy in my circular motion calculations?

  • PianoMan
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Force exerted by floor on compressed tennis ball

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Conservation of Momentum and Energy in an explosion

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Why Does a Car Speed Up on a Sloped Driveway Despite Friction?

  • imaqueen
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What is the Total Force Exerted on Block 3 by Block 2?

  • Juntao
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Uniform Circular Motion-Centripetal Force

  • PianoMan
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Solve for wInertia Confusion: Calculating Speed of a Merry-Go-Round

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Rotational motion of a washing machine

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Speed of electron after collision with Photon

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How to Graph y = 9/x² Without a Calculator?

  • Integral0
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How Much Force is Needed to Move a Box with a Rope at an Angle?

  • missrikku
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Pogo stick energy and spring-mass incline friction problems

  • Nanabit
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Calculating Mass of Equal-Mass Binary Star System

  • liljediboi
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Calculate the velocity vector as a function of time

  • Tony Zalles
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How Accurate Are These Chemistry Calculation Methods?

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Solving for an Unknown Mass Using Hooke's Law and Simple Materials

  • daodude1987
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Equilibrium temperature as function of latitude

  • StephenPrivitera
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A race car traveling at +44 m/s

  • Integral0
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How do Tension Forces and Pulleys Work?

  • lurch0038
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Conservative and nonconservative potential energy

  • Nanabit
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Tension Strongman problem from Physics

  • havechanged
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When water waves travel from a deep region

  • Hyperreality
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How Long Does It Take a Bullet to Stop Inside a Tree?

  • Nanabit
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What is the charging current for a 120 ampere-hour storage battery?

  • da-outcast
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Banked curve, car, friction problem

  • groundknifer
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How Far Apart Will the Cheetah and Antelope Be After 17 Seconds?

  • Skyblitz
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Water shooting from hole in tank: optimizing horizontal distance

  • MisterNi
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Solving Two Concurrent Vectors: Find G's Angle

  • ccb056
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Golf ball projectile motion and particle on inclined plane

  • mcintyre_ie
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Find two unit vectors that are parallel to the xy plane

  • PiRsq
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2 simple Physics q's driving me nuts

  • kangta
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Swimmer in river relative motion crap

  • rdn98
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What's the Time for One Complete Revolution on a Hanging Swing Ride?

  • robdawg
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Horse acceleration components and 2D kinematics errors

  • Mesmer17
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Does the following matrix have an inverse?

  • frankR
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Collision Problem using Conservation of Momentum and Energy

  • Moxin
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Resultant of two forces on a 3000 kg car at angles

  • caity232
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Does the Hockey Puck Reach the Hole on an Inclined Ramp?

  • evelynn33
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Static Friction: Finding F_min for Box on Board

  • Spectre32
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Proof Using Def. of Groups and Def. of Subgroups

  • wubie
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Centripetal acceleration formulas and examples

  • nychic3000
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Proving abelian property from (xy)² = x²y² and g² = u

  • wubie
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P-V diagram for ideal gas with isobaric and isometric processes

  • zaf
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What are the physics problems involving velocity and acceleration?

  • meteoguy04
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How do you calculate mass yield of a solution?

  • Cod
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Understanding Groups in Algebra: A Question of Closure and Inverses

  • wubie
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Solving Incline Forces: Acceleration, Tension, and Speed Calculations

  • Valerie
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Force and Newton's laws (airbag)

  • missrikku
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What are the top US universities for studying physics?

  • < Ali >
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Two pulley system with masses m1, m2, m3 accelerations

  • StephenPrivitera
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Easy Vertical Motion Question

  • Inquiring_Mike
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Tension, incline, friction coefficients and towing force problems

  • Nanabit
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What is the energy lost due to friction?

  • tristan_fc
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Temp diff in Greenland and Iceland

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The problem about tension forces

  • barbieprincess87
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Uniform circular motion - airplane

  • missrikku
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Why Does Height Affect Calculations in a Block's Kinetic Energy Problem?

  • Physicsit
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Poisson stats: signal to noise

  • StephenPrivitera
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Finding velocity in circular motion with angled force

  • NINHARDCOREFAN
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Help with Acc Linear Motion: Part 1 & 2, Part B: Prove u > 9.8

  • mcintyre_ie
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Question regarding tension and friction

  • tristan_fc
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How is Capacitance, Resistance and Time to fully charge related?

  • Sociopath^e
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Finding net force and acceleration from force components

  • NINHARDCOREFAN
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What is the acceleration of a box on a 20 degree inclined plane?

  • fish
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Converting velocity and acceleration graphs to force graphs

  • Spectre32
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If a rock is dropped off of a sea cliff

  • kbrowne29
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Why Does the Ball Thrown Upward Return to the Man in 2 Seconds?

  • rdn98
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Age puzzle with two conditions about John and Julia

  • Jeebus
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Finding the Inductance of a coil

  • discoverer02
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Help with geometry questions

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How High Was the Girl When She Released the Rope?

  • Mesmer17
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Max Velocity on Elevated Curve: Solving for Mu_s

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Determine the acceleration of rope hoist

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Solving a Force Problem: Finding the Angle of a Hanging Object

  • Flaming Toilet
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Finding Initial Velocity of a Ball Using Time and Distance

  • thegreatone09
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Integral of 1/(√x(√x+1))

  • Khan
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