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Create a physics problem for me!

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The movement of a package on a conveyor belt

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Calculate how much weight the crane could lift

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Energy stored in a double spring system

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Torque calculation based on distributive load

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How Much Explosive Force is Needed to Overcome Drag and Elevate a Car?

  • vbottas
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How should this Beam Loading experiment be designed?

  • Physical_Fire
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Surface area of inclined XY plane at 45 degrees

  • marciokoko
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Two masses on a slope with a connected tension force

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How to write this expression in terms of a Hyperbolic function?

  • Safinaz
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(Magnetism) Magnetic pull force on a steel ball

  • amoghthebad
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Why is the Bridge Crane Force 2820 N?

  • TheePhysicsStudent
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Gauss' law for a cavity in an insulator

  • laser
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Punching a hole in a tape moving at relativistic speed

  • FranzDiCoccio
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Fast and Furious Scene Analysis

  • silento
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Can the polarity at the 2 ends of a solenoid be the same in normal conditions?

  • MadMax_8228
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Special relativity and standard configuration

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How to calculate velocity of infinite-stage rocket?

  • zenterix
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How does burn time affect the parameters in the rocket equation?

  • zenterix
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Tension & Circular Motion Question - Looking for speed

  • dcmf
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Conservation Laws and Velocity Reversal in 1D Collisions

  • skoczek77
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Final Velocity of a car with a opposing decreasing drag force

  • vbottas
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Can You Convert Meters to Kilograms?

  • MeesaWorldWide
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Kinetic Energy being larger than Mechanical Energy in a Hotwheels Lab

  • MrSand
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Amplifier gain in resonant RLC circuit

  • Meow12
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How does a difference in air pressure induce a force?

  • eddiezhang
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Having a hard time learning Newton's 2nd law

  • Sixty4Fairlane
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How Do You Incorporate Drag Force in Free Body Diagrams for Multiple Objects?

  • MeesaWorldWide
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What is the definition of the dalton (Da) unit?

  • heroslayer99
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Magnetic field due to electric wire

  • Silver2007
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Calculate the magnetic moment of a rotating sphere

  • LeoJakob
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Ejected out from an accelerating spaceship

  • brotherbobby
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Find the man's tension pulling the rope

  • Adam Hanns F A Cong
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Calculate density of neutrons in a beam

  • xatu
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How does the rise in temperature of fuse wire depend upon its radius?

  • Darshit Sharma
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Relative Motion: Understanding the Relationship Between Moving Objects

  • MatinSAR
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Catching a loaf of bread thrown vertically at a window

  • brotherbobby
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How do we know the point of 0 electric field is on the axis?

  • laser
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How Does Changing Distance Affect Microwave Path Difference?

  • heroslayer99
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How to find the cube roots of a real number not equal to 1?

  • zenterix
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Position and acceleration in simple harmonic motion given velocity

  • zenterix
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Rigid Body problem please help

  • Goodwill
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Equilibrium problem: Calculate the tension of each cord

  • TheePhysicsStudent
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I Thought I Understood Gauss' Law (Sheets)

  • flyusx
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Determining field between oppositely charged conducting plates

  • Natha
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Understanding the Proper Uncertainty Formula to Use

  • TRB8985
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A water-bottle demonstration of atmospheric pressure

  • Steve Rogers
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Average velocity for two different types of motion along same path

  • brotherbobby
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Heater power keeping a room constantly warm from low temperatures outside

  • Karma1412
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Power delivered to wheels of car with constant air resistance

  • I_Try_Math
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Angular frequency of two hanging bobs of different masses

  • questionas
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Two concentric conducting spherical shells and resistor in between

  • zenterix
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Linearizing a circuit with a nonlinear element

  • zenterix
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Work done by friction on a hockey puck

  • I_Try_Math
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Work done on crate moving on incline

  • I_Try_Math
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What does a Zener diode do in a circuit with non-ideal voltage source?

  • zenterix
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Half life of multi chain decays

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Find thermal capacity of a Van der Waals gas

  • MatinSAR
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Why Is My Bungee Cord Tension Calculation Incorrect?

  • I_Try_Math
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An optics question concerning pictures taken by camera

  • guv
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'Police Car Catching Up' problem in kinematics

  • Ineedhelpwithphysics
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Solving for φ on an oscillation problem

  • indefiniteintegral
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Two dimensional motion problem (kicking a soccer ball into the goal)

  • Ineedhelpwithphysics
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Potential and Electric Field near a Charged CD Disk

  • cherry
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(Help) Surface charge density (σ) for particle to hit plate...

  • chrisbroward
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Electric field strength and direction problem (need help)

  • ks81
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Moments question help requested, unsure where I went wrong

  • TheePhysicsStudent
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Relativity: Cosmic ray proton traveling to Earth

  • Mawl
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Minimizing the Energy of Two Conductors Very Far Apart

  • zenterix
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How Do Signs Affect Energy Calculation?

  • hdp
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Elastic collision with a massless box

  • hdp
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Electric field on the axis of a ring-shaped charged conductor

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Moment of inertia of a rectangular prism parallel to one face

  • eddiezhang
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Find the transit time of the train

  • GLD223
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Question about the thermodynamic temperature scale

  • MatinSAR
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Conservation of Energy with springs

  • heroslayer99
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Force on a charge from a nearby charged rod

  • cherry
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Is my textbook wrong about absolute uncertainties?

  • heroslayer99
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Kinematics, curvilinear motion (a couple of questions)

  • srnixo
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When Do Sand Particles Slip Off a Vibrating Plate?

  • heroslayer99
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Help with this integral on page 34 of Analytical Mechanics by John Bohn

  • RahSuh
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Motion of a Parachuter (Terminal Velocity, Time of Flight, Distance)

  • I_Try_Math
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What is the y-component of the force by the floor on her during the collision?

  • ryancerealbox
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Max distance a truck can travel without box falling off

  • I_Try_Math
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Difficult problem in Rotational Mechanics JEE 2017 Comprehension paper

  • physicsissohard
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Distance-time graph of a ball throw vertically up from a fixed point

  • brotherbobby
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Find tension in string between two blocks on horizontal surface

  • I_Try_Math
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Solved: Help with a block sliding down an Inclined platform

  • member 744828
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Why Does a Free-Falling Object Not Have Zero Final Velocity Upon Impact?

  • Ineedhelpwithphysics
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Find the coefficient of friction and acceleration with masses given

  • SSJBLOOD
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Two different dielectrics between parallel-plate capacitor

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