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Distribution of acceleration over axes

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Question on energy conservation with centripetal acceleratio

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How does friction create spin in a tennis ball

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What is the third force acting on a plank attached to a wall by a hinge?

  • Jimmy87
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Work done by a 20% efficient heat engine

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Question about conservation of linear momentum

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Why does centripetal force not apply in gravitation problem?

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What Happens to Angular Acceleration and Moment of Inertia in a Pulley System?

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How to calculate the potential energy of a spring?

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How Far Will a Car Coast Up a Hill After Running Out of Gas?

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Calculating Work Done by an Electron in an Electric Field

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What is the width of a square well if its ground-state energy is 2.50 eV?

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Image formed by lens-water-mirror system

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Warren's Cannonball Launch Velocity?

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Calculating Major Head Loss Due to Pipe Friction

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Young's Modulus Question: stretch of a wire

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Ratio of Power between Two Cars

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Calculating Oil Flow Rate in Cast Iron Pipe

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Calculating Intensities of Out-of-Phase Sound Waves

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Length of one day on another planet

  • Balsam
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Force Direction: Understanding Upward Motion on Lowering Objects

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Final Velocity Calculation for Inelastic Collision of Freight Trains

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Physical Pendulum - Rod - Period and Distance From Center of Mass

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Damped and undamped oscillations (integration?)

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Find the force a distance from a fixed point

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Kinematic Question -- Car braking to avoid hitting a fox

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What is the function of a car muffler and how does it work?

  • alexandria
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Calculating time of zero g (Glider)

  • Bradley87
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Start-up acceleration, max speed and torque of a transfer car

  • r_prieto5
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Newtonian mechanics; word problem; calculate forces

  • late347
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Pendulum Length and Period Calculations

  • reminiscent
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How do I Taylor expand the gravitational field in terms of h/R <<1?

  • spacetimedude
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Which Formula for Friction Factor in Rough and Smooth Pipes?

  • foo9008
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Speed of charged particle moving in E and B fields

  • AnwaarKhalid
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Vector Addition: Find the Resultant Vector

  • jove8414
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Sine Wave Questions: Wavelength, Frequency, Speed

  • PrettyLights
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Acceleration around a running track

  • Ardinos
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Calculating Vertical Force on a Fireman Sliding Down a Pole

  • Amelina Yoo
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Finding deceleration of a ball?

  • Amelina Yoo
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Maximal repellence between charged spheres

  • JulienB
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Implementing wind into projectile calculation.

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Which Object Will Roll Farther: Solid Cylinder or Hoop on an Incline?

  • Keissterr
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Calc force needed given objects mass & required acceleration

  • Amelina Yoo
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Find Speed of 65kg Diver Diving off 10m Tower

  • Amelina Yoo
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How Is the Vertical Force on a Sliding Fireman Calculated?

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Finding Maximum Number of Interference Maxima?

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Please help, stuck -- Standard error in speed of sound wave....

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Calculating frequency and wavelength in solution

  • Carrie
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Distance from an initial position that two objects will meet

  • Amelina Yoo
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Finding acceleration of an object given force and mass?

  • Amelina Yoo
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How does the rotation of a diver in the air conserve angular momentum?

  • Jainal
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How to find tension in a rope when given the force?

  • Amelina Yoo
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Finding acceleration of a car when it is braking

  • Amelina Yoo
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How to find the distance the block travels?

  • marieb
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Help Solve Physics Problem: Lamp Moving at v=c/4

  • radimkupcak
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Entropy of mixing - Ideal gas. What is x?

  • navm1
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Electric Potential and charge flowing between 2 spheres

  • erisedk
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SigFigs in Volume and Uncertainty?

  • maxhersch
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Finding angle of refraction given angle of incidence?

  • Martin Hanna
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Estimate gravitational energy from supernova

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What is the maximum height of a spring toy launched at an angle?

  • Evangeline101
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Archived Why Use m=8 for Calculating Thin Film Interference?

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How does high internal resistance make high voltage power supplies safe?

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Understanding Internal Resistance in Batteries

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Electric field strength in metal sphere

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Interference vs. diffraction patterns

  • vetgirl1990
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How Does Binding Energy Affect Mass in Nuclear Reactions?

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Hydrogen Electron Transitions (Allowed/Forbidden)

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Determine the compression in the spring

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Finding Increase in Temperature for Two Rods

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Ball is thrown vertically upward from a window

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Quantity of heat and changes of state

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Finding Power when no time or velocity are provided?

  • samg1
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Audio Amp with negative feedback

  • Marcin H
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Satellites Orbits and Energy Problem

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Problem with equation / proving formula

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Quantum Physics: Work Function and Electric Potential

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Learn How to Calculate Fill Time in Compressible Flow | Pressure Velocity Help

  • JayeOFarrell
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Why Does Angular Momentum Stay Constant for a Spinning Ice Skater?

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EMF about a loop moving toward a wire with current

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Electric Field in all of space from charges along the Z-axis

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Kinematics problem: Ball rolling off ramp & table

  • Bob Rudd
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Deriving back focal length using Fermat's principle

  • Woolyabyss
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Young's Double Slit with 2 Wavelengths variant

  • JohnGaltis
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Power delivered by battery in simple RL circuit

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Electric charges and fields: Crossed dipoles

  • Ujjwal28
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Relativity and Lorentz Transformations

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Minor loss due to sudden expansion

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Newton's laws -- Block sliding on a Prism

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What is the force acting on the fixed points of an inclined bar?

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Calculating Wavelength from Radiative Power and Orbital Geometry

  • vetgirl1990
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[Mechanics] Circular motion outside sphere

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Is distance traveled proportional to relativistic momentum?

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Working out tension of string holding a ball underwater

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Newtonian Mechanics: Pully/Two Block System

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What Causes Pressure Changes Along a Pipe?

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What Does Number of Diameters Mean in Pipe Flow Analysis?

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Ice skaters collision with angle

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What Is the Minimum Time for SHM Particle to Travel Between Two Points?

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