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Pendulum periodic motion; period parameter

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Acceleration and Tension in Multiple Pulleys

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Using dimensions to derive an equation

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How the current remains same in series circuit?

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Atwood machine with pulley: tension and acceleration analysis

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How Long Does an Electron Accelerate in a Particle Accelerator?

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Can someone double check my answers to this practice exam?

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Calculating Pump Power and Fountain Height from Water Ejection Speed

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Speed of alpha particle ejected from uranium decay

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How Do You Derive the Distance Traveled by a Projectile in a Viscous Liquid?

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Why doesn't the neutral pion annihilate with itself?

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Pigeon two car and a Motion Question

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How do I find the motion equations from this problem?

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Relating Newton's Force to Black Holes (Calculation?)

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Two cannons, different heights and initial velocities

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Electric Potential -- work due to a non-conducting ring

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How Do You Calculate Change in Momentum Without Mass?

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Electrostatic potential inside/outside sphere

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Centripetal Forces and Roller Coasters

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Infinitesimal Electric field of slice of disk

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Newton's 2nd Law: Calculate Mass of Cart

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Angular acceleration at the bottom

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Find height, range and time of flight for projectile motion

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What are Oniums and How Do They Exist?

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Kinetic energy of conductor slab inserted into capacitor

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Why does my torque equation at point A have two unknowns?

  • Ivan Antunovic
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Calculating Rebound Height for a Ball Colliding with Steel Plate

  • Arlan
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Specific heat capacity coursework

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Water at 0°C mixed with ice at −20°C

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How Is Magnetic Flux Calculated Through a Square Loop Inside a Solenoid?

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What are the units for a in Kepler's 3rd law?

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Rotational Acceleration of an Amusement Park Carousel

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Calculating something wrong with Poiseuille's Law

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Which one of these motions is at constant acceleration?

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Basic Electric Field in Conductor Principles

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Work on a whirling mass (Kleppner 2nd ed 5-5)

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How Does Weight Affect Speed of a Soap Box Car?

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Average Energy Density of Capacitor

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Asteroid falling from Kuiper belt to Earth orbit

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Can the Work-Energy Theorem Determine Speed for Variable Acceleration?

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Calculating Race Time and Length with Different Speeds and Rest Periods

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Mechanical waves transmission through different mediums

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Zero Velocty is Constant Velocity?

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Centripetal Forces and Speed Question

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Easy university problem Newton's 2nd law

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Two capacitors in parallel rearranged

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Coefficient of friction on an inclined plane?

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Angular momentum about inconvenient pivot point

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Block moving on a horizontal surface

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Banked curve: why only normal force provides centripetal force?

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Velocity of Center of Mass of Disk

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Magnetic bar rotates rather than oscillates when magnetic fi

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Forces, Friction and James Bond

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Charge and Electric Field Problem

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration and Distance in Physics Problems?

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Helicopter Velocity - Calculating Speed of Air

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Cement falling into a moving trailer momentum problem

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Magnitude of the average force exerted by ground on a ball.

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Electron velocity through earth's magnetic field

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Finding the potential V and electric field E

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Can the Ideal Gas Law Adequately Explain Argon and Xenon Gas Behavior?

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Fill in the empty columns of a work/power table

  • ElegantSir
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Finding initial velocity of an object reaching 10 m high

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How long does it take a football to reach max height?

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What will be the horizontal acceleration

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How to Calculate Power and Energy Usage for a TV and Clothes Dryer

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Why do I not get the same result when I use change in PE?

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Two objects acceleration problem

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How to find wavelength of wave?

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Finding the Landing Point of a Missile Dropped from a Plane at an Angle

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Girl running after a bus, kinematic equations.

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Equations for instantaneous displacement of a particle

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Airplane velocity with wind resistance using vector addition

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Bernoulli's equation and (mostly) sealed containers.

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Finding velocity of charged object in electric field

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Deriving Kinematics Equations from First Principles

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Finding launch angle and velocity

  • Forrest
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Finding net force or acceleration given 2 masses

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Why does pressure not depend on the shape of the container?

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A 470g firework is traveling straight up at 13 m/s

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How to find the maximum/terminal velocity?

  • Jessica Lewis
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Gravitational attraction of plumbline

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Shock Waves Traveling to the Ground from a Jet

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Waves: determining the max distance of a traveling wave

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Refraction and Snell's Law, A complex question

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Half atwood machine with accelerating pulley

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How Long Does It Take a Ball to Hit the Ground If Thrown Downward?

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Force and Potential Energy Coordinates

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How Do Rollercoasters Use Circular Motion and Acceleration?

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Projectile - 2D motion - incline - acceleration

  • KUphysstudent
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How Should the Rescue Boat Adjust Its Heading if the Child Swims Upstream?

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