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Where Did F = dp/dt Originate?

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How Does Air Pressure Affect Curveball Distance in Different Ballparks?

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Angular Momentum in a pulley-block system

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Just trying not to look like an idiot to my wife

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Finding 2 of 3 Forces Given 1 and a Resultant

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How to Solve an Ideal Gas Equation Problem with Changing Tire Pressures?

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Tension in cable for descending elevator with downward acceleration

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Torque calculation for a classroom door handle

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Curl of the vector potential produced by a solenoid

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Finding refractive index and interference order from microwave reflection

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Cylinder with point mass angular momentum

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Conducting sphere within a conducting shell

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Electric force on a negative charge in a uniform field

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Calculating Work Done on a Hanging Chain Using Mass Density and Length

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Forces acting on a pulley question

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Hypodermic Needle Fluid Dynamics

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Determine the value of a decay constant

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Could electromagnetism work in a catapult?

  • Hugo Camus
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Potential Energy of a 2D Crystal Lattice

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Specific heat capacity of metal

  • Vir
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How Do I Resolve Discrepancies in Magnetic Circuit Calculations?

  • c.jinkuan
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Equivalent Resistance between A and D

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Equations of Kinematics, including gravity

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How is Wave Intensity Calculated?

  • Janiceleong26
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Calculating Distance with Non-Uniform Acceleration

  • SammyD97
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Tension in two ropes pulling a barge with resultant force

  • David Donald
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Solving a Kinematics Problem: Throwing a Ball to Clear a Peaked Roof

  • Nishikino Maki
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Finding kilograms of water on a spherical planet

  • PAstudent
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How Does the Work-Energy Theorem Apply to a Slipping Chain?

  • Titan97
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When does the bead fly off the rod?

  • Adoniram
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Momentum and Conservation of Momentum Problem

  • ilanmichaeli
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Acceleration of mass with friction

  • Jonski
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Solving rotational motion without torque

  • Zynoakib
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Frictional Force on ball rolling down incline

  • Alex22
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Unable to solve rotation KE problem using torque

  • Zynoakib
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Easy statics problem -- Block being hoisted by a pulley and rope

  • Oxford365
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Wave propagation with water moving

  • fish.frog
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Electric Potential due to two charges

  • Mnemonic
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What is the specific heat of boiling water converting into steam?

  • Kehkashan
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Do py and pz momentum operators commute?

  • drFredkin
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Capacitor plate force when spring compresses and voltage doubles

  • Vibhor
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Magnetic field due to a loop within the area of the loop

  • Yashbhatt
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Diffraction grating that gives max intensity

  • toforfiltum
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DC Current: RA1, RA2, RA3, I1, I2, I3

  • gruba
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Resistance of thermistor in hot water as it cools

  • Barclay
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Moving on a spinning chair initially at rest

  • alec_grunn
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Block and disk on double inclined plane

  • naianator
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Problem of a tank with trapezoidal section.

  • Queren Suriano
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Calculating the total and partial pressure of gas mixture

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Finding out the type of central force given the orbit

  • saadhusayn
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An accelerating conveyor drags a box

  • Karol
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What is the definition of net upward force?

  • Palak Verma
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Calculating Time for Acceleration of Motorcycle Cop

  • hahame
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How Does Doubling the Slope Affect Velocity and Mass Data?

  • hahame
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Shell theorem proof using divergence and symmetry without Gauss's law

  • justinben
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Disk falling while rotating round a point

  • Karol
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Vector Addition. Where did I go wrong?

  • Scorry
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Net force on 2.0 nC charge from two other charges on x-axis

  • Amelia
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Electric potential at center of charged rod

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Mean power dissipated in resistor in ac circuit

  • toforfiltum
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Work done by a conservative force

  • Titan97
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A ball is thrown up at 20 m/s at an agle of 15 degrees

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A Ball Is Thrown Vertically Upwards, Find The Ratio of PE to KE

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Moving frame in a magnetic field

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Two Potentially Easy Kinematics Problems (sliding/rotation)

  • Adoniram
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Refrigerator and Heat Pump question (Very Important)

  • KingDaniel
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How Much Force is Needed to Hold a Hose Emitting Water at 20 m/s?

  • Priyadarshini
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Particle sliding down a sphere - When does it leave the sphere?

  • Adoniram
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Chain-link conversion for money

  • Mr Davis 97
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How Is Total Pressure Calculated in Water?

  • NooDota
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Electrostatics: Find relative permitivitty

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Is there constructive or destructive interference?

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Two balls from a 100m tower: when and where do they meet?

  • Tulpje
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How Does Light Reflect in an Ellipse to Connect Its Foci?

  • Sobhan
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Small sphere rolling off the top of a large sphere

  • myko
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How Do You Calculate Frequency from Wave Loops and Travel Time?

  • ElegantSir
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Force, Impulse and a Changing Mass system

  • Beno123
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Center of mass and Newton's laws of motion

  • Avaron Cooper
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Basic vector addition - my attempts

  • victorhugo
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Vector subtraction and addition questions

  • victorhugo
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How Do You Calculate the Surface Charge Density on a TV Screen?

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Calculate speed 5 meters from the end of path

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Highest velocity reached on a hill

  • Drizzy
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How far is the Earth from the sun?

  • Beanie
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A Uniform Rod Is Attached To A Point With A String---Moments

  • Priyadarshini
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Projectile launched into back of moving downhill vehicle

  • p3nny96
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Momentum problem -- Two bullets fired into a block

  • Zynoakib
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Bicycle Translational Acceleration vs Angular Acceleration

  • UMath1
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Book wrong? Ohms law, Graph, wire, slope change question

  • Barclay
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Refrigerator and Heat Pump question

  • KingDaniel
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Change in ammeter reading due to change in resistance

  • toforfiltum
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Calculating force and work done with 3D vectors

  • r.physics
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Finding charge on two suspended pith balls from string angle

  • Hannahj1
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Object moving through half circle: speed or velocity formula?

  • Dennis Heerlein
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