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Tension in string connecting masses on inclined plane and hanging mass

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Solve Spring Gun Problem: Recoil Speed Calculation

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Where can I find a good textbook for special relativity?

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How can you accurately measure the volume change of an empty juice box?

  • charles bigby
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What is the potential of an uncharged sphere?

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Can Friction Suppress the Up and Down Movement of a Flying Disc?

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Speed Question: Two bodies are hit/ final momentums?

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Determining power output at different time intervals

  • cmkluza
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Finding the force of kinetic friction without a coefficient

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Angular momentum of a bullet problem

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MCAT Collisions of a wooden block and bullet

  • Joseph Phan
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Simple Tension Exercise: Acceleration and Final Velocity Calculation

  • Kernul
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Masses connected to spring momentum

  • Raj Kishore
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Object is dragged across a semicircle's perimeter

  • Const@ntine
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Finding orbital velocity of a moon 300,000 m above a planet

  • physicaled
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Two waves of light in air travel through a layer

  • Any Help
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Calculating Distance Traveled by Cart with Sliding Block

  • Raj Kishore
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Will any charge flow through the circuit?

  • donaldparida
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Image by Refraction through Flat Surface

  • Tom MS
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Calculating Work in Lifting a Bucket

  • Brian McKalip
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How to find vertical distance with antiphase waves at 180 degrees

  • ravsterphysics
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How Do You Solve Problems Involving a Spring's Force Constant?

  • Miyla
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Determining the total current of many batteries

  • Asmaa Mohammad
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Harmonic oscillation in classical mechanics

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2 discs connected by spring, airborne?

  • alindao
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Finding Vx when 2A passes through a 6Ω resistor

  • Schaus
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The longitudinal displacement of sound wave

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Difference between a clock and a series of radar pulses

  • Ken Miller
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Mesh analysis with dependent sources

  • Cocoleia
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Find the final velocity of a metallic bar

  • TobyRaicoon
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How much work does a crane and gravity do on a large box?

  • Warlic
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Calculating Ambulance Frequency Change: -113 Hz

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Doppler effect (source and detector moving together)

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Dirac notation Schwarz Inequality Proof

  • interdinghy
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Charge on pith ball between two plates

  • fizzicmaniac
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Ball dropped down from 5m, what is its speed when it hits the ground

  • MrGoATi
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Hooke's Law Second Order Differential Equation

  • Kernul
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Understanding Net Force and Net Moment in Statics

  • WesTech
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Momentum not consistent with definition in Landau's book?

  • zhouhao
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Fundamental frequency of a wire wheel spoke

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Waves: fundamental frequency of taut cable

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Find magnetic flux density B circulation in closed contour

  • Tegalad
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How Can I Build a Golf Ball Roller Coaster with Recycled Materials?

  • nerds
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Grounded conductor and Electric field potential question ?

  • Karamany
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Ballistic pendulum muzzle velocity equation with conservation of energy

  • ujellytek
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Roller coaster physics conceptual question

  • Ryan Saunders
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Temp. rise that will cause liquid to fill vessel completely

  • King_Silver
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Number of modes in Cubic Cavity

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Equation of motion for a tilting stick with an off-center mass

  • mathewmical
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Finding absolute zero from best fit lines with and without uncertainty

  • PancakeSyrup
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Momentum and impulse of jump problem

  • KevinFan
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Why is the final potential of spring (Usf) equal to zero in problem b?

  • F1ght4h0n0uR
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The Sun treated as a perfect Black Body

  • Keiner Nichts
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Total Time for Newton's Law of Gravitation

  • Phys_Boi
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Speed of a bead at different heights with energy conservation

  • Sophie Martinez
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Angular acceleration of cylinder rolling around another cylinder

  • Happiness
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What is the Potential Energy of a Spring Between Two Masses?

  • rakshit1992
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Potential energy as a form of mass?

  • Vitani11
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Nuclear reactions, cross section, reaction rate

  • Incand
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How long does it take for sound to travel 1 mile at a speed of 740 mph?

  • thetexan
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Force of Gravitation and Centripetal Force

  • Taniaz
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Point body of mass hung from a ceiling on two ropes

  • Simon Akbar
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What distance is needed for a body to spin in circular motion with a spring?

  • Eitan Levy
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Speed from a distance vs. time graph

  • ravsterphysics
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Application of Gauss' law - point charge in hollow sphere

  • pesslovany
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How could a DC electric motor be used to power a computer?

  • angie19
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Calculating Torque in a Hanging Rod System

  • Joosh
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How do we know if a resistor is added or subtracted?

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A problem Simple harmonic motion

  • harini07
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Find the height the block rises to after an elastic collision

  • Neon32
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Problem Newtonian mechanics French

  • leoleo
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Water level before and after metling of ice cube

  • wei1006
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What is the static friction force acting on the object?

  • unknown physicist
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Rotating Friction Discs For Project Design

  • person123
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How Do You Calculate the Angular Motion of a Pulley System?

  • ikihi
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Friction vs NonFriction problem

  • SalahL
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Diffraction Grating Question, Dispersion and Resolving

  • PhilJones
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How to ameliorate this Wheatstone bridge?

  • JulienB
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Solving Oscillating Systems Homework: Angular Frequency & Velocity

  • Adriano25
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Tension in an object moving with circular motion

  • Nat Reed
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Does a falling mass make the spool rotate counterclockwise?

  • Adriano25
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Magnetic field in an offset hole in a conductor cylinder

  • zweebna
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Aeroplane follows circular trajectory-Tension? (geometry)

  • Const@ntine
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Statics:Find the Tension in a rope holding a boom

  • fishturtle1
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First Law of Thermodynamics issue

  • ghostops
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Slipping transitioning to rolling without slipping

  • lightofthemoon
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Max reaction force - ferris wheel

  • krbs
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Showing the force on a magnetic dipole

  • rebc
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Velocity of a satellite in a eccentric orbit

  • farolero
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Maximum force so object on top wouldn't start sliding back

  • Arquon
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Deriving Snell's law from plane wave superposition at interface

  • zhouhao
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