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Which formulas do I use to solve these pr

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Why does the point experience NEGATIVE field strength?

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Calculating Radial Acceleration of a Rotating Wheel

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Kinematics involving an airplane

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Maximum load platform can withstand

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Geometric Similarity: Solving for Lp and Lm | Prototype and Model Lengths

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Force Calculation in High Jump Takeoff

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Magnitude and Direction of Frictional Force on a Moving Object

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How to Calculate Net Resistance in an Infinite Sequence of Resistors?

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Pressure calculations in a manometer

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Energy conversion in a spring SHM

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Dynamics of Rotational Motion and hinge

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How Do You Calculate Energy and Speed on a Roller Coaster?

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Drawing a heat curve of ice melting

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(Special relativity) Two masses connected by spring

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Reversing an electron's speed in a magnetic field

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Longitudinal and Transverse waves transmitting at same Veloc

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Deriving Discharge Expression for Broad Crested Weir Model

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Phase problem in a damped RLC circuit

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Please check my answers: Combined Circuit

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Ball rotated on a string vector diagram

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What is the Maximum Height Achieved by a Soccer Ball Kicked at a 45° Angle?

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Ratio of size of prototype and model

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What are the equations for solving combined circuit problems?

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How Do You Calculate Forces on a Crate on an Inclined Plane?

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How Does Hill Angle Affect Pedal Force on a Bike?

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Conservation of Momentum Spaceship Question

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Calculating Work Done by a Child Pulling a Toy Car

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Electric field of a disk & u-substitution

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Use a bubble chamber photo to find collision/decay particles

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Conservation of energy: Conceptual question

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Charged particle in centre of equilateral triangle

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Buoyancy correction in a Kater's pendulum

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M=Fl solve a Moments problem (force X distance)

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Calculating Maximum Height in Projectile Motion on a Trampoline

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Angular velocity and acceleration

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How Does Carbon-12 Have a Lower Rest Energy Than Its Separate Nucleons?

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Work, Power, energy: Appliances (refrigerators, freezer etc)

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Pressure of wheel after being pumped

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How does stirring a cup of tea affect the entropy of the tea and the universe?

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How to Calculate Gas Usage in Pressure Drop Situation?

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Which of the following strong reactions is possible?

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Electrostatics problem- two sphere

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Ship draft (draught) word problem buoyancy

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"AC Circuit Analysis - Find i1(t) & i2(t)

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Hardy Cross method correction problem

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A question on percentage uncertainty

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What distance does the block slide?

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Thickness of object to halve the stress

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Time Dilation particle lifetime

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Can some explain vector a+b must be great than a-b

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Treating a projectile like a rotational system?

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Understanding Velocity and Acceleration in Rotational Motion

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Simple problem calculate total Resistance parallel

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Young's double-slit interference?

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Calculating Water Depth Using Snell's Law and Trigonometry

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How Can Ohm's Law Help Determine Current in a Parallel Circuit?

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Question About Electric Circuit

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Solving Work Done by Pushing a Lawnmower

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Calculating focal length from a number of focal ratios

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Question about Electric Fields and Charges

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Question about Centripetal Force

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Work done in moving a charge to infinity

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Second Newton's law in rotation with pulley.

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Motorcycle Police Officer Chasing Car

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How to calculate the height of a skier

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Question about parallel plate stuff

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Resultant Displacement with direction problem

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Relatively simple vectors question, but no numbers....

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Electric circuitry, confusion about the electric charge

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What is the average power of a boy

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Satellite Low-Earth Orbit: Does Air Friction Slow It?

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When Does the Rate of Change of Magnetic Flux Equal Zero?

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Solve Fluid Mechanics Homework: Q, m, t, P

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The speed of a projectile when it reaches its maximum height

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Fluid Mechanics-Bernoulli and Energy Equations

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The block and spool problem (dynamics of rigid bodies)

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With which speech goes the Mass through the Equilibrium?

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Fluid discharge from pipe to atmosphere

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Solving the Network of Pipes: Two Possible Answers?

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When Will the Proton Meet the Rear of the Ship?

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How to solve for Initial velocity Problem

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Triognometric problem with vectors (how to solve)

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Best way to calculate UV-Vis absorption onset?

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Ball rolling down an incline gaining mass

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What Are the Damping Mechanisms in Grand Pianos?

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Potential Difference: Electron Accelerated to Relativistic Speed

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Another electric field question

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Solving angular acceleration Problem

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Trigonometric Solution for Resultant Vector Magnitude and Direction

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Position of electron motion 2D

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Mass point sliding on a rotating line (Lagrangian)

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Process which electricity is generated (Nuclear power)

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Electric Field question - Why is this answer negative

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3 masses on an incline (connected)

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Force applied on cable attached to car and tree

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