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Ball rolling on flat surface vs inclined surface velocity

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Acceleration of object A in a two-pulley system with equal masses

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Understanding Tension Forces in a Slowly Rising System

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Normal modes: finding initial conditions for coupled oscillators

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

  • Jahnavi
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Rotating disc in a rotating magnetic field

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Stopping distance after a collision down a ramp

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5kN compressive force on component with circular and square sections

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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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Inelastic collision: block moving down a frictionless ramp

  • Ly444999
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Why Does Object A Reach the Bottom First in a Rigid Body Dynamics Experiment?

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

  • Kevodaboss
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Why does an object on Earth push up if gravity pushes down?

  • deuce123
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Impedances in a 5 element circuit

  • gimak
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Group of particles in a magnetic field

  • fishturtle1
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Find time given a force with respect to displacement

  • Kiwigami
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Work done by gas with constant pressure and changing volume

  • Timothy Schablin
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Angular velocity and acceleration of a plank

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Distances where electrostatic potential is zero

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Why do F=ma and work-energy method give different velocities?

  • Kiwigami
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Rod Falling under gravity hits straight edge

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Classical mechanics differential equation F(x) = -kx

  • Salvador_
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Direction of magnetic field and moving particle

  • fishturtle1
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Electric field from uniformly charged wire at perpendicular height r

  • 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

  • gimak
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Air resistnce in projectile motion decreasing time of flight

  • Elena14
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Moles and molecules in a rising bubble

  • Jordan Michaels
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Accelerometer data interpretation

  • Cota
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ROV sinking at constant velocity with buoyancy and drag

  • vincekillics
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Magnetic Forces on objects in nonuniform fields

  • Astronaut
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Thermodynamics cycle work question

  • Vitalius6189
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Solving 2 Rotating Discs Homework: Angular Velocities

  • person123
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Complex power calculation with AC impedance

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Find the gear ratio for maximum angular acceleration

  • fahraynk
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Two blocks colliding head-on: finding final speed of 2m block

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

  • Abhishek Das
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Calculating Water Force and Moment in a Fresh Water Storage Tank

  • AutumnBeds
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Ice and water mixing: will all the ice melt?

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

  • Jahnavi
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Calculating Equilibrium Temperature of Ice and Water Mixture

  • Jahnavi
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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

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

  • deuce123
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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

  • Tanishq Nandan
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Show that the motion is simple harmonic

  • Nemo's
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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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Condition for He and Kr mixture to behave as a 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

  • PFuser1232
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How Does a Capacitor Charge to Negative Voltage in an RC Circuit?

  • ace8888
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Calculating Net Heat Flow for an Aluminum Disk in a Room

  • lonelypancreas
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Forces, 3 masses, 2 by Tension, constant A

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Error Analysis of wall thickness

  • Nikhil Rajagopalan
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How does the gradient of the graph compare to the W force

  • Orm25
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Calculating angular frequency and velocity after a collision

  • Fibo112
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Time varying resistance in circuits

  • Tanishq Nandan
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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?

  • Joseph Phan
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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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RLC circuit with capacitor charge and resistor voltage

  • mathiscool1
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How does weight distribution affect trailer oscillation patterns?

  • Leoo0000
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Pytels Dynamics 12.18: Rocket dynamics

  • Alexanddros81
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Physical interpretation of free body force diagram

  • sassora
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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

  • Alexanddros81
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Tractive Force = 3554 N"Racing Car Acceleration: Find the Tractive Force

  • AutumnBeds
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Mutual Inductance of two coaxial coils

  • razidan
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Two different RC circuit voltage equations

  • ace8888
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Tennis serve angle to clear the net at 170 km/h

  • 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

  • aatari
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Steam added to ice cube: how much melts and final temperature

  • Const@ntine
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Adding Vectors: Understanding Direction and Length

  • aatari
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Does V0 affect acceleration under constant Force?

  • VinnieD
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When can the velocity gradient be set to zero?

  • ScareCrow271828
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Bombardment of Nitrogen-14 with an alpha particle

  • agent5514
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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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Why does terminal voltage change when current flows through a real battery?

  • Tanishq Nandan
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