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Normal modes-finding x1(t) & x2(t)

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How High Does the Oil Drum Rise on the Sloping Plank?

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Rotating disc in a rotating magnetic field

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Experiment Investigating Newton's 2nd Law

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Stopping distance after a collision down a ramp

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Mechanical Principals Assignment Question

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Transfer of Momentum: Ball Speed Change?

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Understanding Drag Force against a non-linear Force

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Is My Solution for a Simply Supported Beam Correct?

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Circular wire with ball and spring problem

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What's the shortest length here?

  • Asad Raza
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Complex Capacitor Circuit (for me)

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Viscosity and temperature, density is changing....

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Inelastic collision: block moving down a frictionless ramp

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Why Does Object A Reach the Bottom First in a Rigid Body Dynamics Experiment?

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How Does Force Location Affect Center-of-Mass Acceleration?

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Question about gravity and forces acted upon

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Impedances in a 5 element circuit

  • gimak
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Group of particles in a magnetic field

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Find time given a force with respect to displacement

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Work Done By Gases - Calculating Pressure, Volume & Heat

  • Timothy Schablin
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Angular velocity and acceleration of a plank

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Solving Satellite Orbit & Eccentric Anomaly Calculations

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Distances where electrostatic potential is zero

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Finding Velocity: F=ma or KE = 0.5mv^2

  • Kiwigami
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Rod Falling under gravity hits straight edge

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Classical mechanics differential equation F(x) = -kx

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Direction of magnetic field and moving particle

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Question about uniform charge distribution

  • Chemmjr18
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Finding the Original Charge Given Force

  • Stephanie Hernandez
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Finding the average energy in an RLC circuit

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Air resistnce in projectile motion decreasing time of flight

  • Elena14
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Need help calculating number of moles

  • Jordan Michaels
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Accelerometer data interpretation

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Optimizing ROV sinking velocity using buoyancy and resistive force

  • vincekillics
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Magnetic Forces on objects in nonuniform fields

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Thermodynamics cycle work question

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Solving 2 Rotating Discs Homework: Angular Velocities

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Impedance & complex currents & voltages

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Find the gear ratio for maximum angular acceleration

  • fahraynk
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Need help with collision and conservation of momentum problem

  • Richardparker800
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Why is the electric field inside the dielectric cancelling?

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Calculating Water Force and Moment in a Fresh Water Storage Tank

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Mixing Ice and Water: Final Temp & Composition

  • Jahnavi
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How Much Steam Is Needed to Heat Water from 24°C to 90°C?

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Calculating Equilibrium Temperature of Ice and Water Mixture

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Capacitance between a wire and a plane

  • Kelly Lin
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Magnetic field from a wire at a point

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Not sure if this approach is correct for ball falling past a window

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Problem with torque, angular momentum and forces

  • Granger
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Addition of Angular Momentum for identical particles

  • Gabriel Maia
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Different EMFs joined in parallel

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Show that the motion is simple harmonic

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Find electric Field at a point A

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Find the angle between this vector and the coordinate axes

  • donaldparida
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Quick question about perfect gas

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How to find the radii of these 2 circles given 2 known points

  • Helly123
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Max Drum Rotate Speed of a Concrete Mixer Drum

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How Does a Capacitor Charge to Negative Voltage in an RC Circuit?

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Calculating Net Heat Flow for an Aluminum Disk in a Room

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Forces, 3 masses, 2 by Tension, constant A

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Error Analysis of wall thickness

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How does the gradient of the graph compare to the W force

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Calculating angular frequency and velocity after a collision

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Time varying resistance in circuits

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What is the correct angle between two vectors?

  • Jamison Lahman
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Have a problem with this Rotational Motion question

  • Shuo Xue
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Undamped Harmonic Motion of a rod

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Can Elastic Potential Energy Ever Be Negative?

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Frictional Forces on a Wooden Crate with External Forces

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Electric Field of Linear Charge along a Line Segment

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Solve RLC Circuit Problem Homework

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Investigating the Physics Behind Horizontal Damping of a Trailer

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Pytels Dynamics 12.18: Rocket dynamics

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Physical interpretation of free body force diagram

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Electric field of two plates separated by a spacial charge.

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Pytels Dynamics 12.14: particle moves on helix

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Tractive Force = 3554 N"Racing Car Acceleration: Find the Tractive Force

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Mutual Inductance of two coaxial coils

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Capacitor Voltage Equations: Explained

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2D kinematic problem: Tennis serve

  • williamwong0402
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[Heat and calorimeter] I can't get the correct answer

  • Waffle24
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Vector Addition: Components with Given Directions and Magnitudes

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Thermodynamics: Steam is added to an ice cube

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Adding Vectors: Understanding Direction and Length

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Does V0 affect acceleration under constant Force?

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When can the velocity gradient be set to zero?

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Bombardment of Nitrogen-14 with an alpha particle

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Amplitude and wavelength of longitudinal wave

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Force Acting on a System of connected masses

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Understanding the Variability of EMF in Real-Life Batteries

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Pytels Dynamics 12.10: parabolic path, velocity, acceleration

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How to find the magnitude of Force from an A vs Mass Graph

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How Does Refraction Affect the Visibility of a Fish Inside a Spherical Bowl?

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