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Projectile Motion: Height of hammer thrown downwards

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Why Is the Centripetal Acceleration Positive in Uniform Circular Motion?

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Max Upward Force to Hold Bowling Ball on Wall

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Does ω0 = ωf when radius of circular motion changes?

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Determine the natural frequency

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Electric field & energy in a spherical distribution of charge

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Finding Components of Velocity on a Ramp

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Calculating Ozone Levels from Air Purifier Output: Converting mg/hr to ppb

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How are magnetic field lines affected by the rotation of the sun?

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Trajectory of a particle in a spinning fluid

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Does a Sliding Mass on an Incline Have a Horizontal Acceleration Component?

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Nebulosity of an O Star (Homework Question)

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Parameterization of a path to find work

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Relationship of spring constant and torsion constant?

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Toy car executing a vertical loop

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Quantities without unit of measure

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Electric field above a charged square loop

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How Does a Bungee Jumper's Energy Change During a Jump?

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Puzzled by an equation for relativistic time difference....

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Net electric field of a charged arc

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Calculating Capacitance in Closed Loop Circuits

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Gas Compression Temperature Change

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Effect of mass on skid distance of car experiment

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Relativity: Solving Pion Homework Problem

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Solve Significant Figures Homework

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Confused about voltage & current -- Please check my understanding

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Angular momentum of a rotating door

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Time for Non-Uniform Acceleration

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Electric field strength in an ink-jet printer

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Thermodynamics -- Internal Energy of Water

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What angle should a swimmer aim to land directly across the starting position?

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Reflection and Transmission of acoustic waves at a boundary

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Archived How Do You Calculate Linear Drag Coefficient for Spherical Objects in Flight?

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Estimates of Percentage Errors in Cosomology

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Hall effect -- calculate carrier mobility and density

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Operational Amplifier Comparator Circuit

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Value of resistor for full scale deflection with 10A

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Static friction 2 boxes and force question

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Why does the current need to be small when using an ohmmeter?

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Traveling and Standing Wave Equations

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Tension, Spring and Moments of Inertia

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Thermal Expansion: Glass rectangle

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What is the orbital period of an asteroid between Earth and Jupiter?

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Derivation of formula of normal acceleration

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Energy Required to Lift an Object to Various Heights

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What is the volume of gas at state C?

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Does the Laser Blast the Goths?

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Solve RC Circuit Problem: R1=10k, R2=15k, C=0.4F, V=20V

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Calculating Capacitance and Charge Density: Solutions to Homework Questions

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Magnitudes and Directions In Uniform Circular Motion

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Velocity from Acceleration-Time Graph

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Distance between two events in a moving reference frame

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How long does it take to push this block at an angle?

  • EthanVandals
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Find the velocity given coefficient of friction and radius?

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Conservation of Energy, Down an Incline with a Spring

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[PoM] Average rotational energy

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Rock is being thrown horizontally off a cliff (2d motion)

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How to find Torque without Coefficient of Friction?

  • Tyler Riley
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Solving Part B of a Homework Problem Involving Principal of Moments

  • OnlinePhysicsTutor
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What is the electric field at this point?

  • Luke0034
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Torque needed to accelerate rail-mounted vehicle

  • Ole Forsell
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What is the charge density on the insulator?

  • Luke0034
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Finding Projectiles' Flight Times....

  • EthanVandals
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Evaluating a simple electrostatic field integral

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Period of Oscillation Homework Statement

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Stellar Radius & Effective Temperature

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Theoretical model for damped harmonic oscillation.

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How to Calculate ΔU and ΔH for CO2 Heated Isobarically?

  • dlacombe13
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Amusement Rotor Ride Explanation

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Calculating the Spring Constant from Force-Extension Graph

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Determine the initial acceleration of the 15-kg block

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How Do You Calculate Terminal Voltage and Potential Difference in a Circuit?

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What is the sine of the angle between two given vectors?

  • Jovy
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What is the acceleration at the 5 s mark?

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Effects of frequency on rate of emission of photoelectrons

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Using momentum conservation as holonomic constraint

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What Is the Highest Temperature Reached in the Ideal Gas Cycle?

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Heating Water with vapor at certain pressure

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Summing Op Amp Circuit Troubleshooting

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Projectile motion of tabletop ball?

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Question about stress and strain of a fiber

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Kinematics>>Equations of Motion

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Calculating Charge and Potential in a Series RC Circuit

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(forces) Find the force problem

  • Brittany W
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Why doesn't the gravity affect the torque along the z axis?

  • Physicslearner1
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Why is the velocity at the cusp point equal to the final velocity on the hill?

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What is the solution to the spring and disk rotation problem?

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Mechanics question: Roller passing over a step

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Solving specific heat problem with two materials

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Conditions for waves to be coherent?

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Potential Energy vs. Position Graphs

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Why is the integral of a(x) different from the integral of a(t)?

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Air-Track Carts & Spring (Energy)

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Finding third charge coordinates in an equilibrium position

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