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Projectile Motion - Solving for initial velocity w/o time

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What is the acceleration of the crate?

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What Happens to Velocities in a Head-On Collision?

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Finding force and equation of motion

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Does this paragraph about a falling cup make sense?

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Proving Velocity Vector Magnitude Equals c

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Hoop rolling on cylinder without slipping

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What is the correct way to analyze a circuit with resistors?

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Bullet passing through a block using energy and momentum

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Work Done by Isothermal Expansion

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Temperature rise in concert hall from body heat over 2 hours

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How Do I Correctly Determine Angular Velocity?

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How Does Physics Influence Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Dynamics?

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Dimensional Analysis: Matrix Setup for M/(L^2T^2)

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Trajectory (Quick Question) -- where would it be maximum speed?

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Ladder against wall with friction on both surfaces

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How do periods and masses relate in oscillating springs?

  • littlejon
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What is the acceleration of the particle

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Show that the function satisfies the Schrodinger eqaution

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Calculating Speed in Circular Motion: A Roller Coaster Conundrum

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Solving Electric Field of an Insulating Slab

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Frequency of Oscillation, with mass and k value given

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How Do You Calculate the Time Derivative of a Non-Constant Vector?

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Time to Reach Highest Speed of Simple Pendulum

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Angular Acceleration of a Wheel on a Turntable

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Spherical bubble rises to surface, Ideal Gas, Thermal Energy

  • MaryCate22
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Help with biomechanics homework on mechanical energy and joint moments

  • Hakan Can
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A position versus time graph involving the unit circle

  • littlejon
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Why don't Current and Voltage increase (series/parallel)

  • Prof. 27
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Why is normal force greater than weight on a banked curve?

  • FlyDoc
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Block in vertical circular motion with constant speed

  • Mickey Tee
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Why is the work done on a gas zero if it doesn't move?

  • littlejon
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Why do component vectors not work ?

  • Newton22
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Projectile Motion of a Football Problem

  • Esau Garcia
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Conservation of Momentum - BOMB EXPLOSION question

  • gcombina
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Euler's method for a mass sliding down a frictionless curve

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Conservation of Energy falling rod

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Block on moving wedge (Maximum force for equilibrium problem

  • Omar Wali
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Mass Needed to Accelerate a Box Along a Pulley

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Temperature change with gasses.

  • littlejon
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Intro to elementary particles, electron - nucleus collision

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Just starting with friction, question

  • CollegeStudent
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Two identical cylinders different gasses

  • littlejon
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Electromagnetic Induction and a coil of wire

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Magnitude of electric charge on a glass rod

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Why does an oscillating graph decrease over time?

  • littlejon
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Confusion with non-head-on elastic collisions

  • Jazz
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Relativistic Uniform Accelerated Motion

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Angular Momentum vs Linear Momentum

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Work required to move a mass away from two others

  • BOAS
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Capacitor: charge and energy calculations

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What Are the Best Low-Budget Materials for High and Low Friction on Ramps?

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How Do You Calculate the Half-Life of Thorium-232?

  • sam400
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Momentum and Impulse questions

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Minimum Height Needed for Bungee Jump Problem

  • harihrn
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What is the distance at which an antenna can receive signal?

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Commuting quantum mechanical operators

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What is the pressure force on the gate at point A?

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Angular momentum, block plus bullet

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Two balls, of masses mA=45g and mB=65g, are suspended

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How Massive Must an Asteroid Be to Extend Earth's Day by 28%?

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Second order relation of entropy

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Force between masses in a spring-mass chain with a traveling wave

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Basic Decay Equations possible? - Parity, symmetry concepts

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Determining the mass of a beam and using percent uncertainty

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Magnetism: Forces between two parallel wires

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Calculating Time for a Swimmer to Cross a River Using Pythagorean Theorem

  • Nicole924
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D’Alembert’s principle and conservation of energy principles

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Nonlinear System Homework: Potential Energy & Stability of Fixed Points

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How Does Hovercraft Speed Affect Race Time on a Bowl-Shaped Track?

  • geoffrey159
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How to Determine the Speed of Light Using Planck's Constant?

  • Rishav sapahi
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Coating thickness for reflection maximum at 400 and 600 nm

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Isothermal Expansion of a Diatomic Gas

  • MaryCate22
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What is the concept behind sound waves in my class notes?

  • fruitbubbles
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Bungee Jumping Energy (with drag)

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Linear Mass Density - Bars (Center of Mass)

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Vertical spring oscillation with disc and block system

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Heat Capacity and Thermal Equilibrium

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Satellite Energy and Orbit problem

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Torque v. Time Graph -- Find angular velocity

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Introduction to energy problem - did I do this right?

  • JSmithDawg
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Investigation into the behavior of microwaves

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Thermodynamics: Stiff and isolated container

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Asteroid Collision: Calculating Impact Speed

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A question related to Center of Mass and Linear Momentum

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Kleppner and Kolenkow (block sliding in a ring)

  • geoffrey159
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Can I figure out the force exerted on an object if i know

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Maximum vibration speed of a traveling wave

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Required tangential force to move spool

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Doppler effect w/ percentage frequency shift?

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Magnetic flux linkage and area as a vector

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