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Atwood Machine Tensional Value Problem HELP

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How Long Does an Electron Accelerate in a Particle Accelerator?

  • RyanH42
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Can someone double check my answers to this practice exam?

  • RUphysics3
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Calculating Pump Power and Fountain Height from Water Ejection Speed

  • amanda.ka
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Help With Finding The Speed of an Alpha Particle

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

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Understanding the Pi-Meson (π0) and its Anti-Particle

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Pigeon two car and a Motion Question

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Understanding Motion in Physics: Homework Inquiry

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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

  • Robb
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What are Oniums and How Do They Exist?

  • Mathilda
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Conductor in a capacitor problen (E&M)

  • PhysicsPrincess
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Solving Torque Problem: Unknown Forces & Equations

  • 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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What will happen when a large amount of water at 0C....

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

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

  • Calpalned
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Rotational Acceleration of an Amusement Park Carousel

  • kolua
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Calculating something wrong with Poiseuille's Law

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Which one of these motions is at constant acceleration?

  • Lilygu3
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Basic Electric Field in Conductor Principles

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

  • TimSon
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How Does Weight Affect Speed of a Soap Box Car?

  • Haleybell514
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Average Energy Density of Capacitor

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Advanced Engineering Problem: Asteroid on a collision course

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

  • PAstudent
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Calculating Race Time and Length with Different Speeds and Rest Periods

  • Optikspik
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Mechanical waves transmission through different mediums

  • **Mariam**
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Zero Velocty is Constant Velocity?

  • RyanH42
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Centripetal Forces and Speed Question

  • RoyceB
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Easy university problem Newton's 2nd law

  • Optikspik
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Two capacitors in parallel rearranged

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Coefficient of friction on an inclined plane?

  • Sharlyn
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Velocity & Accel of a mass inside a slot on a rolling disk

  • zealeth
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Angular momentum about inconvenient pivot point

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Block moving on a horizontal surface

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Velocity of Center of Mass of Disk

  • Tanya Sharma
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Magnetic bar rotates rather than oscillates when magnetic fi

  • Mddrill
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Forces, Friction and James Bond

  • SilentBronco
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Charge and Electric Field Problem

  • Callix
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How Do You Calculate Acceleration and Distance in Physics Problems?

  • ElegantSir
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Helicopter Velocity - Calculating Speed of Air

  • Drizzy
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The law of conservation of momentum

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

  • NinjaChachi
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Electron velocity through earth's magnetic field

  • sa1988
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Finding the potential V and electric field E

  • Abdul.119
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Can the Ideal Gas Law Adequately Explain Argon and Xenon Gas Behavior?

  • sa1988
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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

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

  • DeathEater
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What will be the horizontal acceleration

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

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

  • Faris Tulbah
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Two objects acceleration problem

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How to find wavelength of wave?

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

  • DeathEater
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Girl running after a bus, kinematic equations.

  • LogarithmLuke
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Equations for instantaneous displacement of a particle

  • AJDangles
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Grade 12 Kinematics Vector Problem....

  • Dhyan Patel
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Maximizing Angular Acceleration

  • kitsh
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Bernoulli's equation and (mostly) sealed containers.

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Deriving Kinematics Equations from First Principles

  • jackrc11
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Finding launch angle and velocity

  • Forrest
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Finding net force or acceleration given 2 masses

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

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

  • robbyrandhawa
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How to find the maximum/terminal velocity?

  • Jessica Lewis
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Gravitational attraction of plumbline

  • TimSon
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Shock Waves Traveling to the Ground from a Jet

  • Barry Melby
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Waves: determining the max distance of a traveling wave

  • Barry Melby
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Refraction and Snell's Law, A complex question

  • Oguzhan
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Half atwood machine with accelerating pulley

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

  • MRi04
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Force and Potential Energy Coordinates

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How Do Rollercoasters Use Circular Motion and Acceleration?

  • helpme101
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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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It's a work and energy question

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Solving an RC circuit using explicit euler

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What Creative Electronics Project Can Be Built With Basic Components?

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Realistic Capacitor with leaking dielectric

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Calculating Luminosity and Temperature of the Sun from Pluto

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