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6kg object falling 1.8m onto a spring with k=2×10³ N/m

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Firing mortar and cliff edge, Feynman Lectures 4.17

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What Is the Voltage Between Points a and b?

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Thermodynamics: Free Energy Confusion

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Central Maximum Shift Due to Glass Slit in Double Slit Experiment

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What Is the EMF of a Cell with Given Energy Dissipation and Current?

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Just want a little hint related to magnetization

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Conceptual Laplace's/Poisson's Equation Solution Questions

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Is the Total Charge of Polarization in a Non-Homogeneous Dielectric Zero?

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Problem ODE from mechanics equation

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Exhaust velocity of a fire extinguisher

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Constrained Motion of a Pair of Rods

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Why is the height of point 2 same as point 3?

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Average velocity with equal distance or time segments

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Calculating Work Required to Stretch a Spring by Additional Distance

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What is the equation for kinetic energy of a bicycle?

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Is There an Easier Method for Solving Truss Problems?

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Electric field in a capacitor with a dielectric

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Pressure reported from a water line, gauge or absolute?

  • EastWindBreaks
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Wave constructive destructive interference

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How Do You Calculate Velocity and Acceleration from a Position Vector?

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Finding coefficients of static and kinetic friction for a 5 kg box

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Surface Charge density of glass cyclinder

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Max Velocity of Damped/Undamped Spring

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I am off by one decimal and I cannot see the error in my work

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Is the mass of Liquid N2 and its rate of mass loss related?

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When can the thermodynamic identity be used for entropy changes?

  • WWCY
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Questions about finding dBm values

  • Mohamed Abdul
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How Does a Dog Running on a Ball Affect Its Motion on an Inclined Plane?

  • Joshua Benabou
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Resultant Force and Acceleration of Space craft

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Tension required to tune a string to the note of ##E_2##

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Forces on a plane in level flight

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Calculating force to tip over a cabinet (static equilibrium)

  • Mitch17
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Why is the second approach incorrect? pulley problem

  • EastWindBreaks
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Super Fun Rollercoaster Problem

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Force on a Circular Loop Due to an Infinite Wire

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How Do Hydraulic Systems Apply Pascal's Law?

  • Abu
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Finding the velocities of two balls before they touch each other

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Spherical conductor shell problem

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Speed of an object sliding down

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Calculating the Force Needed to Push a Sofa Up an Inclined Plane

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Conservation of Momentum With Changing Mass

  • Fascheue
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Basic Forces and Motion Problem (friction)

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Calculate the vertical motion of a piece of debris from an explosion

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Kirchhoff's laws with missing data in circuit problem

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Finding time using Impulsive forces and momentum

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Find tension of a rope and kinetic force

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Equivalent Resistance of Figure

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Inelastic Collision with a Mass attached to a Rod

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Finding the speed to orbit Deimos

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RLC Circuits - Q Factor and Amplitude

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Combining High and Low Pass Filters

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Why does friction exceed the gravitational component on a 30° incline?

  • Cooojan
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What is the largest pulling force before the string breaks?

  • Johnny1999
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Thermodynamic Identity: Chemical Potential

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How to find the volume of an irregular porous material like a sponge

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Determine the shear stress in the bolts

  • Shivansh Joshi
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Calculation of the net force on a test charge

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Good coordinates and degrees of freedom

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The path of the 3.6-kg particle P is an ellipse

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Finding water rocket height from 7.35 second hangtime

  • Justin Murphy
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Finding moment of inertia of a cylinder with a falling mass

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Cloverleaf highway interchange - determine car acceleration

  • Alexanddros81
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Deriving motion equations for two blocks on a rough table

  • TonyV
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How Much Energy Is Needed to Move and Rotate a Weighted Tray Using Rubber Tires?

  • Home Improvement
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Average Force of two people pushing away on carts

  • Tasdel
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What Is the Speed of Five Coupled Freight Cars After a Collision?

  • Sandro Romualdez
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How Can an Astronomer Derive the Distance to Alpha Centauri B?

  • Physics Dad
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What is u in the equation for delta U=m(u2-u1)?

  • EastWindBreaks
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Calculating the velocity and acceleration given vector velocity at 1 second

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Residence time of SO2 in the atmosphere

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What does the constant u represent in the equation of motion d²x/dt² = −u/x^n?

  • I am Meaningless
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Newton's laws of motion problem -- Knife penetrating cardboard

  • Shivansh Mathur
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What Is the Molar Heat of Transformation for Phosphine at 30.29 K?

  • patrickmoloney
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Finding torque by integration of weight

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Puck bouncing off fence momentum and force calculation

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Ranking velocity vs speed differences for two accelerating objects

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Finding velocity given radius and acceleration

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How Much Power Does a Jogger Expend Against Air Resistance?

  • Nick1234284
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Refresher on pulling weight on a wheel

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Brightness of bulbs depending on their watt level

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Suvat - Two cars approach each other on a straight road

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Projectile Motion of football receiver

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Acceleration of a block on a moving wedge

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How to find internal energy with constant temperature?

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Image Magnification: Find Height of Image with f=42

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Magnetism: magnetic feild strength of a wire

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Dew Point -- will we be able to see our breath?

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Percentage of Block Energy Dissipated

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Slope of Force vs Frequency^2 and Radius vs Period^2 Graphs

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Dimensional Analysis involving power

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Deriving position y(t) for projectile with gravity and air resistance

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Dynamics and Circular Motion Problem

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