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Elastic collision between Tarzan and Jane using energy conservation

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Kinematic Question -- Car braking to avoid hitting a pedestrian

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What is the Work Done on the Person+Sled System in an Amusement Park Ride?

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Hydraulic diameter vs hydraulic radius

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Isolated Point Charge and Work?

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How to find the horizontal distance from projectile motion?

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Capacitance Question - Total Energy, Potential Difference

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What is the Acceleration of a Vehicle at Different RPMs?

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Determining Direction of Tension Force: Find Answers Here

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Archived Simple roulette in terms of circular motion

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What is the Final Velocity of Puck B After Collision?

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How does opening multiple valves affect the water flow through pipes?

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What is the opposite direction of E 20° N?

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Half-life from radioactive decay dice model

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Ranking proton accelerations in a uniform electric field

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Finding hill height for 35kg child on 5kg sled reaching 30 km/h

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Magnetic field from a wire segment using Biot-Savart law

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How Many Hours Must Bulbs Burn to Save $73 Million Annually?

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How to Determine Flow Rate in a Pipe Using Fluid Dynamics?

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How Long Until a Crate Reaches a Specific Velocity on an Incline?

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What does the symbol F_net mean in Coulomb's law problems?

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Internal and external forces in momentum

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IV curves for motor and Thevenin source don't intersect

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Atomic Nucleus (first year college)

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Coefficient of static and kinetic friction for a sofa

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Newton's first law, forces, charges

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Finding Spring Constant from Mass and Extension

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How do you calculate the length of a board using torque?

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Calculating errors after curve fitting (linearizing) graphs

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Find tension in cables supporting giant swing

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Find transformation matrix for 120° rotation about equal-angle axis

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Question on theory for solving 2015 AP Physics C Free Response Questions

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Capacitor Energy With Different Dielectrics

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Question regarding a two-lens system

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Trouble Determining Moment Arm (aka Lever Arm)

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How to Calculate Resistors in Parallel Uncertainty

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Why is FTcosθ - mg = 0 for a pendulum in an accelerating car?

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Conceptual question on angular momentum and Emech.

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Archived Problem with non linear increase in voltage/amperage

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What is the Internal Energy of 158 moles of CO2

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Solving a Term about gravitation to r

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Change in time period of pendulum

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Why Does Water Flow from Low to High Energy Levels?

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Apparent weight loss 2nd Newtons Law elevator problem

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Tension variation in a rotating rope

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Why can't I find acceleration by dividing distance by speed?

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Calculating Vertical +Horizontal Forces of Beam in Equilib.

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Finding potential differences across ideal diode and resistor with forward bias

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Final velocity of two railroad cars after inelastic collision

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Momentum density of states for pion decay.

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Electron in a box - wavelength of photon

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Collision Conservation of Energy

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Conservation of energy at terminal velocity

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Ground wave vs. sky wave stability

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Finding number of charges using Coulomb's Law

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Find resistance of resistor connected in series

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Reflection coefficient for air-to-glass transverse electric wave

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Solve Work-Energy Problem for Girl Cliff Diving

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Electric field between inner and outer cylinder

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Vectors A + B: Are Any of the Above True?

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Man sledding down 30-degree hill with friction and initial velocity

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Tension in cord for three-block pulley system with block on table

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Why is the efficiency of a rubber band slingshot constant

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Calculating the charge to mass ratio

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How does emf relate to current, potential and resistance in circuits?

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How Do You Calculate Net Force on a Diver?

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Inductance of solenoid (length = diameter)

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Is moment of inertia only for rotating objects?

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Maximum balloons from helium cylinder at constant temperature

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What is the speed of sprinter running away from lens?

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What Are the Forces in Truss Members BH and HG?

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Is state an energy eigenstate of the infinite square well

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Why doesn’t the motor start right away?

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Archived Spectrometer CCD Homework: Calculate Spectral Range for m=4

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Marble dropped from elevator in Kleppner problem

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How do I combine equations for absolute independent motion with pulleys?

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Solving Satellite Orbit Problem: Finding Time in Hours

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Calculating the Radius of a Metallic Ball

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Magnetic Field of Spherical Electromagnetic Wave

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Magnetic field of a moving charge

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Finding Magnitude of Magnetic Field

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Transformations of energy in oscillatory motion

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Simplifying forces for a block on an incline with applied force

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Total Length of a Stretched Spring: How Do I Calculate It?

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Motion of charge in electric and magnetic fields

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Determine the location of her center of mass

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Circuit with Four Resistors and Two Switches

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Problem using Newton's 2nd Law F= m x A

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Required heat, entropy change of object dropped in water

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What time interval between wave fronts in S and S'?

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Acceleration of object at specific height?

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Are these torques correct for a simple balancing/fulcrum exp

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