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Temperature need to melt this ice in 400 years

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How Do You Calculate Dragster Deceleration Time and Distance?

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Quantum mechanics relation between p, λ, E, f in a wave

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Reaction and friction coefficient on a cylinder

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Spring Constants: Does Changing Diameter Affect Constant?

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Projectile problem -- How much to increase Vi to reach a farther target?

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Solving Gauss' Law Confusion: q/ε & Changing Surfaces

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How Does Atmospheric Pressure Affect Water Stream Shrinkage?

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Calculating Coefficient of Static Friction on an Incline

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How to find the age of boat (carbon dating)? please

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Determining speed of orbiting object

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Solving Problem on Tension Homework Statement

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Error Propagation: Dividing By 20 in Pendulum Timing

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Calculating the maximum load that can be carried & extension

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Reaction force on a leaned beam

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Finding Equilibrium in a Three-Pulley System

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Conservation Laws in Rotational Motion

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Solve Energy Change Homework: Why Alternative Fails

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Why is k/m denoted as omega squared in simple harmonic motion?

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Series Combo Of Capacitors, Smaller Than Single Capacitor

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Finding theta for Coloumb's law suspension

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Motor Effect: Lorentz Force vs Electromagnets

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Gravitation - Position of Stable Equilibrium

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Effect of a diverging lense on a nearsighted patient

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What is the resultant electric field?

  • shanepitts
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Normal and tangential forces on a cylinder

  • Karol
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What is the wavelength of radio waves at 1250 kHz?

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Calculate the work in Joules by the Acetylene gas

  • ThymeSeer
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Calculating magnetic force on circular coil carrying current

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Photon energy and calculating frequency

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A question about a certain math argument in Griffiths

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Particle collision and deflection angle

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Pulley Problem (with force upward)

  • terryds
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Freefall to rolling with no slip

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Dropping a package with initial velocity

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Projectile motion of a flying object

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Gravitational field owing to a uniform circular plate

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Efficiency of a combustion motor

  • Karol
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Troubleshooting Steam Plant Output: Tips for Evening Class Assignment

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Gravitational force between 3 masses

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Kinematics - projectile with acceleration that depends on V

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Static friction between a cylinder and a wall

  • Karol
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Atomic clock: energy between two levels

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Comapring acceleration of person in elevator

  • songoku
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Focal length to get clear image

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Do I have the right amount of sig digs?

  • EgpYo
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Calculating the Time Difference in Special Relativity: Alphonse's Joy Ride

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In which case car must do more work -- Kinematics

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Optical System with Diverging Lens and Concave Mirror

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How can the log in the denominator of the charging equation be simplified?

  • Dr. Ficus
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Acceleration of massless pulley and blocks

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Calculate Tension Between Car and Trailer

  • Thomas Hochkins
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Instantaneous Displacement of a Sound Wave

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Finding reaction components and resultant reaction

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Circular Motion Problem: Finding Tension in a Vertical Circle [11.8 N]

  • PhysicStud01
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How Does a Muon's Travel Illustrate Relativity Principles?

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Calculating moving speaker through two detectors

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Collision of a particle with a thin rod

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Electric Dipole Potential Energy Calculation

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Motion with gravitational, elastic, and friction forces

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Elastic balloon of volume V in vacuum

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Tension in String Homework: 300g Disk at 10ms^2

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Manipulating Mass and Distance to Quadruple Gravitational Force

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Which Expressions Describe Traveling Waves and Their Velocities?

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Fluid Mechanics: Rotating cylinder viscometer

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Distinguishing between Raw Egg and Hard-Boiled Egg

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Showing functions are eigenfunctions of angular momentum.

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Why is my time calculation for the ball's flight incorrect?

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Electron trajectory between charged plates with 45° initial angle

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How much deeper does the barge lower?

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Projectile motion -- launched 60° above the horizontal

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Is the decay constant , constant for all isotopes of element

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Relativity and kinetic energy, mass-energy systems

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Projectiles, and acceleration problems

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Solving the Slinky Wave Problem: HELP!

  • andkand97
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New Velocity/Distance Question 1/25

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Motion between two charged surfaces, find initial speed

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Electrion moving between two parallel plates

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Roman Inverted Siphons and Fluid Dynamics

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How Do You Calculate the Increase in Internal Energy for Neon in a Tank?

  • PhysicStud01
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What's the Force Exerted? and how long it takes to stop

  • Hoyin
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What's the speed of ball when travelling over the fence?

  • Hoyin
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How Does Tension in a Pulley System Account for Static Friction?

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Solving 3 Block and Pulley Homework

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Motion within a circle and path kinematics

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Magnitude of an Electric Field of a Sphere at a Distance

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Finding Accel. of Particle: t1=2s t2=5s | Mean Accel.

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Adding & Subtracting Vectors: How to Determine the Final Vector Result

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Satellite Frequency: Revs/Day Calculation Homework

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What Is the Average Angular Speed of a Race Car on a Circular Track?

  • TeslaCoil
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Static friction and maximum/minimum force

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Max Horizontal Force for Block-Wedge Problem

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Weighing with A 400 N Scale and 80 N Spring Dynamometer

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Mechanics Pulley Platform Problem

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Friction : BLOCKS AND A PULLEY

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Conservation of Momentum - Inelastic Collisions

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Coulomb's Law - Calculating Net Force

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I need to know how to find acceleration

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What is the Time Period of a Pivoted Rod with Attached Springs?

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