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How can I determine the curve and tension in a hammock with damaged cords?

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Initial Speed of Hanging Mass (HW Check)

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Angular velocity of rod supported by yoyo

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Fraction of Kinetic Energy from Rotating Wheels in Moving Car

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Finding Final Velocity or Setting it Equal to 0(Kinematics)

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Potential energy of particle in gravitational field of disk

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Finding vectors needed to cancel out given sets of forces

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Finding the direction of an angle in the unit circle

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Calculating Work on a Falling Raindrop

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∆KE if angle between force and displacement varies

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Effective cross-section of catching a comet with the Sun

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Circular motion - velocity vector

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Solve for vectors needed to cancel out given sets of forces

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Minimum work needed to compensate for a heat leak

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Thermodynamics-T& P & v relationship

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What is the energy needed for Deuterium-Tritium fusion to occur?

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Induced Electric Field In Circuit With Varying Resistance

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The pendulum is released from rest with θ = 30deg

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How Does Thermal Conductivity Affect Heat Transfer Between Two Water Vessels?

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How Is the Average Power Output Calculated for an Airplane Propeller?

  • mcchoy528
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Electric field outside 2 same charge parallel plates

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Centripetal Acceleration Problem: Finding Angular Speed

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Cyclotron Radius of Proton: .625m

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Falling object, time between images

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Calculating Impulse and Energy in a Car Collision

  • MooPhysics
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A weightless ladder....but why move the pivot point?

  • mistermill
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Finding the time for charging Voltage

  • Mohamed Abdul
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How can I find the maximum KE of the photoelectrons?

  • sodnaz
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Finding x and y components of a magnitude

  • aron silvester
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Field between two parallel postive plate different voltages

  • maxelcat
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Problem in central force motion

  • Vashist Settipalli
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Board on top of two cylinders - inclined plane

  • WannabeNewton
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Two Questions on Newton Law Problems

  • Lori
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Driven resonance v. natural resonance

  • BunmiFariyike
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Newton's third law - normal force

  • Lori
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Calculating the Velocity of an Elevator

  • mdavies23
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Swimmer off tower: Velocity and Force

  • Wanting to Learn
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Force on an Accelerating Car: Calculating the Net Force

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Velocities and Acceleration on a rolling wheel

  • Ignitia
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Max Input Signal: 0.3V for 1.5mA Collector Current

  • Pushoam
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Minimum Speed for a Horizontally Projected Diver to Clear a Ledge

  • dregozo
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Does the moon orbit as a classical particle?

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Direction of friction on two stacked boxes

  • fontseeker
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Question about vertical centripital force

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Question Regarding Changes in Kinetic Energy

  • Chan M
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Finding the Formula for Speed and Distance on an Icy Hill

  • artireiter
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Entropy - show positive net entropy change....

  • TristanJones
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Optics - Adding magnification in an optical system

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Calculating Acceleration of a Toy Plane Flying in a Circle

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Calculating Tension in a Telephone Wire with Mass and Angle

  • SillyYak
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Distance or Displacement-time graph equation explanation requested

  • tsuria
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Am I allowed to ask my answers to questions to be marked?

  • Medeiros
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What is the velocity of a decelerating boat after 4.9 seconds?

  • Lenart Kovac
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Acceleration, Displacement, Graph Interpretation

  • lthcn99
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Understanding Tension on a Pulley

  • TiredCollegeStudent
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Change in momentum for a satellite in circular orbit

  • Peter Coe
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Entropy- change & the condition when a system reaches equilibrium

  • Pushoam
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Griffith Intro to QM, 1st order perturb theory in time-dep

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Work extracted from a general cycle

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Calculating Height of a Twice-Daily Orbit Above Earth's Surface

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Conservation Laws and the Movement of Particles around a Pole

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Vectors and Angles in Helicopter Flight

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Understanding the Harmonic Motion of Two Masses Connected by a Spring

  • Jahnavi
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Problem Set Involving Inertia and Balloons

  • Matt Poirier
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Could a steering wheel cause acceleration/deceleration of a car?

  • bahtiyar
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What is the required velocity to make the field goal?

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What Forces Affect an Electron in a Particle Accelerator?

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Calculate the angular velocity and angular acceleration (pendulum)

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Frame of reference (non inertial/inertial) in an Atwood Mach

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E&M separation of variables and Fourier

  • Mike Jonese
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Strength of materials -- Normal stresses and Shear stresses

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Is Vertical Circular Motion Ever Uniform?

  • Sam McCrea
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How to calculate pressure of a bulb in a system

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Maximum mass value possible to fuel a spaceship

  • Daniel Sellers
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Maximum height from which a cuboid can fall and not be damaged

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Solving for Radius in Magnetic Field: q of Sr+?

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Three masses in an elevator accelerating downwards

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Object on a vertical Ring with spring attached

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Motion of a particle in a magnetic field and viscous medium

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Magnitude of the Electric Field at the Following Distances

  • Darkgora
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Electric Flux through Cubical Surface Enclosing Sphere

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Angular Velocity & Acceleration for a Series of Connected Objects

  • Mandex Chak
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What errors did Rutherford encounter in his experiment

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Pulling an object at an angle with friction -- find the Kinetic Energy

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Momentum comparing between two bodies

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How to know whether a given process is reversible?

  • Pushoam
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Two forces questions - Extremely difficult

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Calculating R with Beta in a Circuit

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Constant thickness lens varying refractive index

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What is the relationship between ds vector and theta in flux integrals?

  • Marcin H
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Ball rolls without slipping in an accelerating car

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Derive a general expression for range when launch angle=0

  • aron silvester
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Two particles on a vertical ring

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Calculating Solar Panel Area Needed for a 1MW Power Output

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What happens to the charge and amount of energy stored?

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Determining the direction of the magnetic field

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Rocket thrust force calculation

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