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Finding time required via force equation

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Find force required to move pole with static friction

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What Calculations Reveal Tarzan's Vine Tension at Point 3?

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Area under force vs displacement graph :D?

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Conservation of Energy - Max height WITH Air resistance

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Statics problem: man lowering himself from tree w/ friction

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Statics Problem Tipping Refrigerator

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Solve "Energy with Friction Homework

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What forces would act upon any general egg drop device?

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Moment of Inertia of a Disk and Pulley System

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Gauss Law for finite line/plate

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Forces in Two Dimensions: Net Force and Components

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How Is the Scale Factor R(t)/R(0) Calculated in Cosmology?

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Amplitude and Velocity of Component Waves

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Velocity of neutron using uncertainty principle

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Problem with signs in the Lorentz Transformation equations

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Refrigerator- thermodynamics: how do i start?

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How Fast Is the Large Hoop's Center Moving When Aligned Vertically?

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Help please -- convex lens problem and focul length

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Time of a falling object when the force of gravity isn't constant

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How Do You Calculate the Efficiency of a Heat-Transfer Process?

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Does Acceleration Affect the Stability of an Atwood Machine in an Elevator?

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I need an essay question about sports aerodynamics

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Rotational motion-why are torques not in opposite directions

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Find the force function for a particle subject to a central

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A particle of mass m moves in a one dimensional potential

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Double Slit Diffraction:Finding Greatest Angle for Minimum

  • Zach Hughes
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Energy of Satellites(Homework question)

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AP Exam Help Oscillations/Hooke's law

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Relative weights in air and water

  • ScifiGen
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Help in Homework -- difference b/w kinematics friction and static friction?

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Newtons' Second Law with Kinetic Friction Problem

  • SpacemanRich
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Homework Help on Kirchoff's Laws and Magnetic Induction

  • Dhooy7
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Need help in Phase of time in SHM

  • Chrisemo
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Graphing Oscillating Objects: Can You Find the Spring Constant?

  • MEGHY
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Magnetic Flux Φ and Moving Bar ζ: Investigating the Change

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Scalar triple product invariance under circular shift proof

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Gravitational Potential of Hanging Cord

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Pressure of a fluid contained in a steel container

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Equilibrium Process for Calculating Tension in a Tight-Rope Walker's Wire

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Electric field at the origin of a quarter-circle

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How to find the total acceleration (magnitude and direction) of a rotating disk?

  • Physicsnoob90
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A wheel rolling on a horizontal flat or inclined surface

  • Yam
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Gauss' Law: Calculating charge enclosed

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Initial and Final Energy problem

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Need to sketch the potential energy of the spring system

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Power Factor of an L-C-R curcuit

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How to Solve a Basic Sliding Box Problem on a Frictionless Ramp?

  • Brendan Webb
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The moment of inertia for one spoke+ball would be 0.92kg*m^2.

  • Westin
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The acceleration may be related to the distance travelled?

  • Gizmo91
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Combining Resistors: Determine Net Resistance b/w a & c/b

  • Angie K.
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Difference between Tangential and CoM acceleration

  • prettydumbguy
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Parallel and Series circuits and current

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Path of an object at the vertex of an equilateral triangle

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Factors affecting drift velocity?

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Calculating the E-Field inside and outside a sphere.

  • Alex_Neof
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Longitudinal Wave Equation from Transverse One

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Finding maximum of a wavefunction?

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Concept of Moment of Inertia and its limits of integration

  • Yam
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Transformation from Body-frame to ECEF-frame

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Thermodynamics First Law Question

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Fluids, mass of object floating over oil above water

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Speed of wind and speed with respect to wind

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What is the acceleration and tension in this inclined pulley system?

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Addition of Velocities Special Relativity Problem

  • Jared Austin
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Watts accelerating mass in a frictionless environment

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How to determine rectangular and polar radii of gyration?

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What's in the center (at r=0) of the sun?

  • elif
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Heat Exchange and Efficiency in a Fridge

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How Do You Calculate Net Resistance in a Triangular Network?

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Difference between frame of reference and coordinate system?

  • toesockshoe
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Resistance between two junctions in a 2D mesh

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Constant power, resistance, work, energy

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How do electrons know that there are other resistors?

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Total potential difference of an electron

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What are the units of Lz and L^2?

  • smileandbehappy
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Simple classical physics inquiry

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Average shear rate of of particle sureface

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Absolute pressure, buoyant force, tension problem

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Converting Matter to Power: Calculating Mass for 3200W of Energy for 3 Days

  • Ethan_Tab
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Finding Currents Using Kirchhoff's Laws

  • Angie K.
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What is the Relationship between Arc Length and Angle Phi on a Helix?

  • sitzpillow
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Magnetic interaction between moving and stationary charge

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What Is the Oscillation Frequency of a Weight Hung on a Spring?

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Direction of Electric Field in an Electromagnetic Wave

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Conceptual question about torque

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Thermodynamics - Calculating Work/Heat, Piston/Cylinder

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How Do You Calculate Electrostatic Potential in a Decaying Electric Field?

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Euler's Method and Planetary Motion

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How Does Electric Force Affect Acceleration in Charged Objects?

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Angular Velocity and Acceleration for Elevator Mechanism

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Bandwidth Theorem: Find Min Angular Freq in Propagating Wavepacket

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Ampere's law and induced current

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Calculating the Frequency of Vertical Vibration in a Bouncing Car

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What is the force exerted by a ramp on a mass?

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What is the Junction Equation for this Circuit?

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Find resistance of inductor in series RLC circuit

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Gold Electrodes and Capacitance

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