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How Do You Calculate Time Squared for a Falling Object?

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Low Water Pressure in high rise buildings

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Forces and energy in a system of a group of walkers

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Impulse and Momentum of a rocket

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Finding unknown charge given net electric field at origin

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Calculate Final Speed of 58kg Skier on 25° Slope w/ 70N Friction

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Question on thermal equilibrium?

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Work done pulling string on rotating mass equals kinetic energy increase

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Vertical energy of a pendulum - is there one?

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Solid Angle Rutherford Scattering

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How Do You Calculate Elevator Cable Tension for Maximum Acceleration?

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Maximum upward acceleration of a 2125 kg elevator

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Determining the Acceleration (Inclined Plane Problem)

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Hydrostatic pressure on a plug in nested pipes with two fluid columns

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What branch or branches of physics is the following?

  • saintrenz
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Determining the Acceleration (Two objects in contact)

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How Is Extra Energy Calculated in a Stretched Wire?

  • Tulatalu
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Tension Problems Given Two Weights

  • yandereni
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What is the Ideal Temperature for Cooling a Cup of Tea?

  • The28
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Racecar acceleration in g's and horizontal force from kinematics

  • yandereni
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Resultant of two perpendicular 50N forces

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Sound waves in a closed pipe Problem

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Setting up differential equations for two boxes connected by a spring

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Rocket maximum velocity calculation with unit conversion

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Kirchhoff's and Ohm's law circuit diagram issue.

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Initial Velocity + Free Fall = Time

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[Optics] Concave-Convex lens radius

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How does a magnetic field perform no work?

  • mahrap
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Magnetism and Current Concept Query

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Latent Heat in Solid-->Liquid transitions (phase change)

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Heat capacity ratio yields inconsistent results

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How does drop height affect trampoline amplitude?

  • Nancee_K
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Electric field and electric potential problem

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Plotting plane, cylindrical and spherical waves in Matlab

  • allamsetty
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Car parking lights: current, resistance, and battery life with parallel bulbs

  • stephenranger
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Why is pressure negative at lower end in Bernoulli equation derivation?

  • kashan123999
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What is the correct force on q1 and the electric dipole moment?

  • henrybrent
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Finding PE given mass, distance, and energy lost.

  • Adam Affagal
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Gravitational force between Earth and sun calculation

  • Thegiver431
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How Do You Calculate Thevenin Equivalent Circuit Without a Load Resistor?

  • Alexander Max
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Dog accelerating from 2.0 m/s to 5.0 m/s over 14.0 m

  • RachaelA
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Circular motion problem -- A ball rolling down an incline

  • bijou1
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What Is the Temperature of Compressed Air in a Diesel Cylinder?

  • Karol
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Fluids acceleration on inclined plane

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How high does a 1000 N boat ride in salt water vs fresh water?

  • BrainMan
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Physics Problem with Spring Constant and Kinetic Friction

  • Q7heng
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Very basic form of the diffusion law for gasses

  • Coffee_
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Object is accelerated from rest , find KE

  • discosucks
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Increasing Gravity and Acceleration

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Calculating Initial Speed for a 45 Degree Angle Basketball Shot

  • oreo
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Perpendicular force with a spiral

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Pressure of gas in sealed sphere at different temperature

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How Do You Calculate the Net Force on an Accelerating Car?

  • discosucks
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Physics Problem with Lifting Force and Drag Coefficient

  • Q7heng
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Work done by the tension on a cable

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What is the K.E. of the satellite?

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Pump compresses air into a tank

  • Karol
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What Determines the Speed of Waves?

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Calculating Delta V for Orbit Change

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Why doesn't 2A+2B=2C work for three equal vectors?

  • rasen58
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Radius relation to centripetal force

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Solving for final position with a negative work value

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How long would Archimedes' lever need to be to move Earth?

  • wolfspirit
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Transverse waves oscillation direction

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Velocity is proportional to distance

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Finding sample age from U-235 and U-238 abundance ratio

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Three Springs in an Equilateral Triangle

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Nuclear physics reaction, minimal energy to make it work

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How Does Angular Velocity Relate to the Angle in Nested Cylinders?

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Mean value of graph - is my reasoning correct?

  • PhysicStud01
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Box and hanging mass acceleration in pulley system

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Pendulum measuring acceleration of car

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Binary Stars and Apparent Magnitudes

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How Does Discharging a Capacitor Affect Its Internal Magnetic Field?

  • Ben Whelan
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Acceleration of m1 when F=0 in pulley system (K&K 2.20)

  • wesson
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Torque seesaw problem- rotational equilibrium

  • bijou1
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Different angle in different frames, intro relativity

  • Coffee_
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Question regarding why an example In kolenkow mechanics

  • MidgetDwarf
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Finding Acceleration in a Pulley and Slope System

  • Jazz
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Just a confusion -- A mass falling onto a pivoting rod

  • Satvik Pandey
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Water flows from a compressed tank

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Tension in rope using principle of moments

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How is Rocket Propulsion Affected by Gravity?

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Time-energy uncertainty and derivative of an operator

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Cross section and collision rates in particle beam attenuation

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Mass of Pion in Gev/c^2: Calculate and Convert

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Where is North, given this current?

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Electromagnetic emission lines for a hydrogen atom

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Constant horizontal force and friction

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Does the Golf Ball Land Before, In, or After the Lake?

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Atwood's machine with angular momentum

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Normal Reaction in the following cases

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Tension in a vertical twisted string with mass

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