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Find the speed of water out of a nozzle

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Calculating Electric Potential in a Series of Capacitors

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Converting Electromagnetic Energy To Temperature

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Solve Gauss' Law Question: Find Max Acceleration of Two Balls

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Calculation of Kinetic Energy in Rotation Motion

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Holding a block of mass in equilibrium on a slope

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Is Angular Momentum Conserved in Circular Motion?

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Special Relativity problem -- An electron travels at 0.422c....

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2D Kinematics - Dropping object from a zipline

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Rotating Coil in Magnetic Field

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Moment of Torque; Am I solving this correctly?

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What Are the Gravitational and Normal Forces on a Skier on a Slope?

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Circular Motion/Newton's Laws-- Swinging a Pail

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How much energy is stored in a discharging capacitor after one second?

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Archived Find the vortices of a square after a transformation given by a tensor

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How Much Work is Done by the Cake Batter on a Falling Worker?

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Finding Work and Force in a Thrown Ball Problem

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Parallel and Series Capacitors?

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Exercise with a total charge null

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Calculating Light Spot Size on the Moon for a Diffraction-Limited Laser Beam

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How Do You Calculate the Final Image Position in a Three-Lens System?

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Understanding Newton's First Law & Safety Measures for Roller Coaster Rides

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Ideal Gas compressed at constant pressure

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Force Acting on Area: ucos(theta)dA vs usin(theta)dA

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How Much Should the Spring Be Compressed to Keep the Mass on Track?

  • Jamest39
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Forces - calculating the net force

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How Do You Calculate Currents Through Multiple Resistors in a Circuit?

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Calculate Vertical Displacement with Drag Force Equation | Physics Homework

  • John Lam
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Terminal Speed for Skier Going Down Slope

  • adamwest
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Force magnitude and direction Problems

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What is the voltage across battery terminals?

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Finding average velocity in a velocity distribution

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The laws of motion-a block pulled by a light cord

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Archived Entropy Change of an Ideal Gas

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Determining the Free Body Diagram for a Dolly & Trailer

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Resistance equivalence and circuit current

  • Robb
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Pulleys, displacement by vertical height

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How can the density of air be measured using simple equipment?

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Measurement of Focal length with Laser beam

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Calculating Electric and Magnetic Field amplitude

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How Does Adding a Cat Affect the Acceleration of a Block System?

  • David112234
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Calculating Buoyancy Force & Length of Submerged Cube

  • vinamas
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Braking Torque Needed to Stop Shaft w/ 34kg m Inertia @ 600rpm

  • Louis Harriss
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How do I convert a spring constant of N/cm to N/m

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Confusion regarding application of Conservation of Momentum

  • Amartya Sen
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Electric Potential Homework: Proton vs Alpha Particle

  • Philip KP
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Kinematics - Identifying and describing types of motion

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How can we obtain this equation?

  • Lattes
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B-field to create average emf in rotating coil

  • ChuckB
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Finding the center of mass in a system of pipes

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Describe the angular momentum of the ball and net torque on

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What is the gravitational force on the 52[kg] mass

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How do you find electric field given only time and distance?

  • maddieamy
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Gravitational Potential Energy

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Index of refraction for converging lens

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Rotational Energy, ball on a loop

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What is the relationship between focal length and focal points?

  • vetgirl1990
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How Does Soap Bubble Thickness Affect Light Interference?

  • vetgirl1990
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Pendulum and spring; Would like to check if the result is correct.

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Moment of Inertia for a Thick Spherical Shell

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Density of chromium ions in ruby

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Collision of Two Particles: Conservation of Momentum and Final Velocities

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Work done moving charge near a line of charge

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Compton Scattering; Relation between scattering angles

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Wooden Cube submerged length and the carry limit

  • vinamas
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Electron's Velocity: Calculating w/ Gauss' Thm

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Special Relativity and Space-Time Diagrams

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What Rotational Speed is Needed for a Satellite's 30-Minute Scan Cycle?

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Pressure due to uneven water distribution in connecting pipe

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Calculate speed at a distance from power

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Rearranging x=x0e^-lambda t in the form y=mx+c

  • Mike Shandon
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Change in velocity due to force acting over given time

  • Giu1iano
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Seemingly simple mechanics questions

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Calculating Resultant Force and Energy in Physics Homework Problems

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Finding the force to pull a block up a frictionless slope?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Optimizing Forces in Towing: Minimizing FB for a Given Resultant Force

  • newbphysic
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A 14.0 kg sign hangs from 2 lengths of rope

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Calculating Initial Velocity of Car 1 in a Collision | Homework Problem

  • Ellen W.
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A 300 kg rocket sits on a launch pad. What is the thrust nee

  • j doe
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What is the acceleration of a wedge with an inclined mass resting on it?

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Kepler's Laws, two large bodies

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Question on AP Physics C FRQ 2013. #3

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Calculate the velocity of a mass

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Energy stored in a LC circuit

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Number of electrons making it through an NPN transistor

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What are the components of an applied force?

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Find Meta Center for Object Stability

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How does mass of the bungee jumper effect a safe jump

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Rate of water flow experiment question

  • Mike Shandon
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How Should Null Results Be Reported in an Astrophysics Lab Report?

  • Emily R.
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Is I/V Submerged a Valid Formula for Calculating Metacentric Height?

  • foo9008
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Calculating Force Exerted by a Water Fountain on a Vertical Board

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Solving a Math Problem: ΣKQ^n & ΔQΣKnQ^(n-1)

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Calculate the Average Surface Temperature of Earth

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Surface charge density of conducting disc

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Optimal Right Ascension Values for Star Viewing at Different Latitudes

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Question on relative velocity -- Find time?

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Distance between Isotopes in a mass spec

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