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Find the Total Distance Traveled by an Accelerating Object

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Calculating the Impact Speed of a Bullet Fired Straight Up

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Where did I go wrong in my solution?

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Bungee jump height/spring energy

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Expressing Newton's 2nd law in terms of momentum

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A Child throws a ball vertically upwards, then catches it

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Magnetic Interaction: parallel rods, cross bar free to slide

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Moment of Inertia of ceiling fan

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How many electrons make up a charge of -90.0μC ?

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Parallel-plate capacitor with 2 dielectrics?

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Calculating Electric Field and Force Between Charged Rings

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How Is the Net Electric Field Calculated at a Point in a Square of Charges?

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Force between polar molecule and an ion

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Resultant acceleration Question

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Why does conservation of momentum work but not energy for this collision?

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Applying Bernouilli to calculate pressures

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Asteroid colliding with a planet

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How can there be work due to torque?

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How Do You Calculate Angular Acceleration of a Salad Spinner?

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Finding Power Ratio of Two Pulley Systems

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Which Direction Does the Force on the Electrons Act in a TV Tube?

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Resistivity mean free path and scattering time of copper

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Angular speed of rotating hoop

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Using moon's rotational energy on earth

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Hunter's Recoil Speed from Rifle Shot

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How Does Force Distribution Affect Tension in an Elastic Plank?

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Energy stored in parallel plate capacitor

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Potential and work done by the charge

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Rolling without slipping and coefficient of friction

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Coulomb's law vs. Newton's law of gravitation?

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Diffraction Gratings and Incident Light

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Calculating standard deviation for average force

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Simple kinematics with friction

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Inf. Parallel Plate Capacitors and Potential Energy

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Is there something as instanteneous intensity of a wave?

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Semicircular rod and Electric Potential Question

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Problem of manometry. Is it resolved correctly?

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Parallel wires carrying current out of the page, find B

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Problem with understanding Babinet's principle

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1-D elastic collision between proton and nucleus

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Rotational Period of Large Body

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Sliding down the curved/straight slide

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Resistor Network Circuit Analysis

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Force to stop a rotating object

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Magenetic field due to wire and cyllinder

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Magnetic Field inside plate

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Calculating Net Charge in a Parallelepiped at Inclined Faces

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How Do You Calculate the Final Temperature of a Glass Pot and Oil?

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Girl grabbing a box mid-air: when is momentum conserved?

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Moment of Inertia of 4 Balls on Square Side

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Calculating Power Output of an Automobile Engine

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Conical pendulum velocity calculation with 170 kg mass

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Electric Potential Energy and Sign

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Understanding Work and Energy: Solving a Physics Problem with a Spring

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Minimum Speed for Balsa Cube Tipping Problem

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Height and horizontal distance of a projectile

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Object and Incline Colliding: Velocity and Height at Highest Point

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Why won't any electrons flow through the resistor R2?

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Newton's Second Law. Involving an airplane.

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Unsure where g term comes from? in this equation

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Find the force of friction provided by the floor

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Charge inside of Conducting Shell

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What is the tension in the right cable?

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Find Velocity and Position of Mass on Frictionless Table

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Drawing up a liquid by forward motion of a tanker

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Energy conservation in Special Relativity

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Tension in string and oscillation

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Induced Voltage of a Magnetic Field passing through a loop

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Maximum speed of car on level circular track with friction

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2D Collision of 3 Billiard Balls

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Two conducting spheres with charges 3q and -q

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Determine the magnitude of force on a suspended object

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Location of object that forms an image in 2 lens system

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System in static equilibrium given a nudge. What happens?

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Heat Transfer-How long will it take for a material to heat up

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Vertical pressure on soft drink can

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Spherical capacitor with 51.8 mm and 55.0 mm radii

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Finding equivalent resistance in RL circuit with step input

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Derivation of Ee in Inverse Compton Scattering

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Why opposing current loops repel if field forces seem to cancel

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Linear Collisions: Find Max Compression of Spring

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Coulomb's Law, finding acceleration direction

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Determining the forces in three cables.

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How Much Air Does a 600W Hair Dryer Circulate Per Second?

  • YarnJunior
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Does the refractive index law change according to the medium

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Simple application of Coulomb's Law/Equation

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Galilei and Speed: Solving a Cat and Object Problem

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Induced EMF, bar moving through magnetic field

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Air bubble volume at surface using ideal gas law

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Work done by monoatomic ideal gas

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Equivalent resistance in a complex circuit

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Mirroring using a concave mirror

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Solve Depth of Pool w/ Snell's Law

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Wheatstone bridge, only one R value known

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What charges maximize and minimize the force between two objects?

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