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What Does R(n) Represent in a One-Dimensional Chain Model?

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Static Friction -- A ladder leaning against a wall starts to slip

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Is K.E. Conserved During an Elastic Collision in Billiard Ball?

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How Does Crew Movement Affect Acceleration on a Space Station?

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Capacitor charging and discharging

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Sphere rolling down an incline problem.

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Frequency, transverse waves, low-pitch strings

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Power lines from an electrically charged ball

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Tension in a rope at an angle with a hanging mass

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Solving Power Transmission Homework for Small Town | 1.00MW @ 35km

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Physics car tire throwing competition

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Use the Node Voltage method to solve

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Waterslide and Energy Conservation

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Adiabatic expansion against constant pressure

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Physics hacksaw problem, harmonic motion

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Why Must Acceleration Be Constant for the Equation v² = u² + 2as?

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Hypothetical Bernoulli situation with Pascals Law(Efflux torcellis result)

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Solve Refracted Ray Problem: Find Angle of Refraction

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Problem regarding sounds and waves

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What is the block's displacement when it first comes to rest again?

  • PhysicsMan999
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Calculating Altitude from Sonic Boom and Angle of Sight

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Piston Question: Have solution, don't understand rationale

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Force problem -- a painter is standing on a scaffold supported by ropes

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Calculating Tension when you swing a ball around a piece of string

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Why does a bullet hit lower than a laser beam aimed at the same target?

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Find the longest wavelength for two Bragg diffraction maxima

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What Are The Thevenin and Norton Equivalents for This Circuit?

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What is the Velocity of a Block Released from a Compressed Spring?

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100 meter running with constant acceleration

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Calculating the initial charge on an object

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How Do You Calculate the Force Needed to Accelerate a Grindstone?

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Bowling ball sliding time with friction and rolling

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How Does Induced EMF Vary Inside a Solenoid?

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How to find the coefficient of friction in a rotor-ride?

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Finding final velocity of rock thrown upward from 14m cliff

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Free-body diagrams and normal forces for two connected blocks

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What is happening in simple circuits with inductors and capacitors?

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Current direction in a falling magnet through a wire loop

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Normal Force at Highest Point of a Rotating Ferris Wheel

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Calculating percent energy loss in a pendulum collision lab

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Why do pitot tube and venturi meter give different flow rates?

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Optimal Placement for Net Zero Electrical Force in a System of Charged Spheres

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What are the forces on a wagon being pulled up an inclined hill?

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Solving a Spirit-in-Glass Thermometer Problem

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Uniform rope of length L and mass M, work to pull it up.

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Finding speed of sound from resonance distances in a pipe with end correction

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Finding angular velocity from a position-time graph

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How do you convert ordinary frequency to angular frequency?

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Centripetal force stunt driver problem

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Find Initial Velocity of a Bullet

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Paddle wheel wave equation and amplitude at different distance

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Design a Winning Egg Capsule Challenge

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What formula can I use to calculate momentum transfer?

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How High Must the Brass Ball Start to Complete the Loop-the-Loop?

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Rotation Problem - Constant Acceleration

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Calculating Uncertainty of an intrinsic function

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Two Opposing Forces and Velocity

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Electric Field due to Point Charges

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Which ball reaches the circle first rolling down different chords

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Flow measurement in venturi meter

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Simple harmonic motion acceleration

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Science Fair Project involving Vectors

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Finding velocity components of point in the middle of a tricycle

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Meteor Gravitational Field Question

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How much time does an object use to travel.

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Uniform Circular Motion on a race track

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Calculating Pressure from Contact Surface

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Velocity over time with constant power

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B. What is the net force acting on the object?

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How Do You Calculate Tension and Acceleration in an Atwood Machine?

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What Speed Do You Need for the Rest of Your Trip to Average 2 m/s?

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Finding the Final Temperature of Hot Coffee in a Cold Cup

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Ohm's Law Validity: Does it Change with Heat?

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What is the optimal ratio of R/H to minimize the energy for a fixed volume?

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Work-energy theorem with friction

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Uniform Circular Motion of a centrifuge

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Setting up a extremization problem

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Total rate at which electrical energy is dissipated by resistors

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Find fourier series of wave function

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Non-uniform circular motion problem

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Solving a Physics Problem: Large Weight Over a Building

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Find Forces on Hand and Arm Holding a Ball

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Creating a Numerical Model for a falling Ball

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Scale in an elevator, time, mass, and velocity function given

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Acceleration proportional to frequency in SHM

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What is the Average Power Output of a Human Heart Pump?

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How do I use a taylor series expansion to find effective spring constant

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Haaland Equation, find the Reynolds Number

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Question relevant to Moments of Inertia

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