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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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Calculate acceleration due to gravity

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What is the solution to the straw paradox?

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Kirchhoff's Loop Rule Problem.

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Why Does the Bar Exert More Force Than the Gymnast's Weight?

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What Happens to a Partially Inserted Dielectric in a Capacitor?

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Changing pitch in frequency ratio?

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Coefficient of kinetic friction between a car and the road

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Air is compressed in a cylinder

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Laws of Motion topic -- Car being decelerated by a headwind

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How Does Changing the Wheel's Axis Affect Platform Rotation?

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Neutral Point between point charges

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Change in voltage due to additional source

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What is the effect of air resistance on a parachutist's acceleration?

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Using Compressed Air Tools Outdoors: Can it be Done?

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What is the acceleration of a falling coin?

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Finding velocities of asteroids after an inelastic collision

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Question of Force - why it differs in reality?

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Velocity of end points of the rod

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''Invariant mass of the electron and electron antineutrino''

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Ray transfer matrix - Plano convex lens

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How to describe motion of the wall of a liquid container?

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Energy and momentum in a car accident

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Why Does Rearranging an Inductor Yield Different Magnetic Fields?

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Why multiply by speed instead of area in magnetic flux calculation

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Calculating Mean Free Path of N2 Molecule in UHV Chamber

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FRW dust universe: deriving energy-momentum conservation equation

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Calculating Mass Increase of Coffee Using Specific Heat Capacity

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Labeling + or - on random point on circuit- What does it mea

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Does a Silvered Plano-Convex Lens Act Like a Concave Mirror?

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Motor Principle and Magnet on Balance

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How High Can a Garbage Can Be Lifted by a Geyser?

  • geoffrey159
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Nuclear / Particle Phys Notation quick q spin, parity,J

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How Does a Pendulum Bob's Speed Relate to Its Displacement Angle?

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A wheel with rotational inertia I = 1/2MR^2

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Find a for infinite distance travel with drag force F=kv^a

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Redrawing circuit with series/parallel combinations to match solution

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Given Force is 4xDisplacement, find work done

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A rotational tire and tape problem.

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Wind turbine powering alternator of car instead of engine?

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Why Does the Laplacian of 1/Vector r Equal Zero?

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How to calculate wind turbine output?

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Tensions of cable over a pulley

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The 1100 kg mass of a car includes four tires

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Determine the speed of the rock as it leaves the spring.

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Question based on using vectors

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Why is nσvdt a probability for molecular collisions?

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Impulse and average force in a baseball collision

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Induced electric field due to a moving wire

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How much oxygen escaped from the container?

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Find the Tension and Acceleration of Cable B in Picture 3

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Electric current function of time

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The voltage and an electric heater

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Latent Heat Solid->gas Liquid->gas transitions

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Angular momentum of non-coaxial rotating disks

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Energy, momentum and centre of mass

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Resistance grows with temperature

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Sign of Frictional Torque in Pulley Equation

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Matrix representation of an operator in a new basis

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Modulation of waves (Communication Systems)

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Find Tension of Rope in Two Blocks System: 5kg, 7kg, 4kg, 200N

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What Factors Affect the Speed of a Skydiver One Second After Jumping?

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Dependence of resistance on temperature

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Calculating Heat Capacity of Calorimeter

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Oxygen and mercury in a tube problem

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Amplitude Modulation of a wave

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How Does a Rope Fall Through a Hole in Physics?

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What Is the Fastest Way to Cross a Flowing River by Boat?

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Find resistance of resistor in RC circuit

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What Is the Stopping Distance for Cars A and B?

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Does a static container apply a torque on Earth ?

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How Does a Gravitational Slingshot Affect Spacecraft Velocity?

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Calculating Velocity on an Incline Slide

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Why Do Planets and Stars Revolve Around Their Center of Mass?

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Finding Effective Resistance using Kirchhoff's Rule

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Notation for marking the voltage drop in this picture

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Is the Bar of Gold Real? Using Buoyancy to Determine Density

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Maximum Angle for Non-Null Initial Velocity of Billiard Ball Hit by Cue

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Accelerating projectile force needed

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Water discharging vertically from a pipe at 5 m/s

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Horizontal velocity over an uneven surface

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Why does the thinner wire experience 4 times the stress, not 8 times?

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Elastic properties of solids problem

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Calculate the buoyant force on a solid object made of copper

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At What Distance Will a 10 km/s Bullet Fired Vertically from Earth Arrive?

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How Long Should the Inclined Plane Be for a 100 kg Box?

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Bubble in water tank affects overall weight?

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Resultant Velocities / Elastic Collision / 1-D?

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Resonance Experiment:-Air Tube Column

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Understand Effusion of a Gas: Speed & Angle Distribution

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Finding final position with initial conditions but no acceleration given

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