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Car-truck collision and gravitational force problems

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How to Solve for Coefficient of Kinetic Friction: Practice Test Question

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How is Impulse Calculated in a Collision with Changing Velocities?

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How Much Water Vapor Is Needed to Heat a Pot from 30C to 60C?

  • AlexPilk
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Spring Compression at kinetic energy = 0

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How Long Until the Fox Catches the Mouse?

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Velocity of mailbag hitting ground after helicopter release

  • TanakaTarou
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Newton's force and circular acceleration

  • homo-sapiens
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Angular momentum of projectile.

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Parabolic motion problem: bomber plane case

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Why can a bird survive on a high voltage power line without getting fried?

  • Hereformore
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Zero Electric Flux Through a Closed Surface

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Calculating Magnetic Force: Equations for Moving Charges at Right Angles

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Two capacitors charged in parallel then reconnected with opposite polarity

  • Casey A.
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Electric Potential Energy concepts

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Newton’s law of motion for rotation clarification

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Solving Mechanics Problem: Angle, Speed, Centripetal Acceleration & More

  • Torunn
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Thermal Elongation of 2 different rods

  • Karol
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How do I linearize a square root graph?

  • Varad
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Quadratic and linear drag problem

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String with mass pulling block up frictionless ramp

  • PsychonautQQ
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Galilean transformations - What am I messing up here?

  • Achmed
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How Is Gravitational Acceleration Expressed Using Distance and Time Intervals?

  • monkeylord714
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Projectile Motion with initial velocity

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Wrench falling past 2 metre window in 0.6 seconds

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Flatbed truck going round a circular road on an incline

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How Does Hole Diameter Affect Angular Speed in Water Vortices?

  • gianamar
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Calculating power of one of two resistors

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"best" value for volume of a box

  • PhysicsMan999
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Projectile Motion, only given horizontal distance

  • PhysicsMan999
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Velocity of Baseball at 47 m Height

  • bradsmith
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What is the Best Way to Approach a Basic Dynamics Problem?

  • amondellio
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Forces on Identical Bricks: Ranking Magnitudes

  • ohphysics
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Adding resistors in parallel - Current Change through resistors

  • Hereformore
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Problem resolving forces into components

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Packing fraction of spheres in a HCC structure

  • CAF123
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Physics car problem kinematics

  • benEE2018
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Ball and Ramp: Solving for Time and Evaluating Position

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What Does P Represent in Intensity = P/Area?

  • Maddie1609
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Why voltage divider rule applies separately to each parallel branch

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Ball thrown down vs up from 19.6 m balcony

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Potential due to two oppositely charged half spherical shells

  • oddjobmj
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Mr. Hammer's Epic Battle with Two Ninjas

  • Chasezap
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A ball is thrown vertically upward.

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The moment about a point on a post

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Calculating Magnetic Field Due to Multiple Cavities Using Ampere's Law

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Electric field along a finite rod

  • mintsnapple
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Forces and Inclined plane (ramp)

  • homo-sapiens
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Mass on a Swing Ride: Physics of Thrill Rides

  • Heyhay
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What are the air speeds in a Venturi meter with varying tube diameters?

  • happysmiles36
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How to Add Acceleration Vector in Uniform Circular Motion

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Total force on surface of a plate?

  • eterna
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Resolving vectors into a unit vector

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Thermal elongation-ring on a shaft

  • Karol
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How to Identify the Phase of Steam Using a Thermodynamics Table?

  • dhkdeoen
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A problem about Calorie and Joule transformation

  • Quarlep
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Why does reducing wavelength restore fringes when slit separation increases?

  • desmond iking
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Caption: Understanding Lensing Mass and Velocity in Particle Astrophysics

  • FatPhysicsBoy
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Model rocket with 5m/s² acceleration for 10 seconds

  • HTT
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Special Relativity - Events and Frames of Reference

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Simultaneity and Spatial Separation

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Rolling Ball and Proportionality Between Distance and Time

  • rakeru
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Find direction from three displacement vectors?

  • amhasque
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Light clock - Galilean transformations

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Motion in a straight line and a cyclist

  • Mary1910
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Finding the equation to linearize experimental data

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How can you use Snell's law to find the image formed by a thick lens?

  • darksyesider
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Force on an object placed on an incline

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How much farther does a car skid on wet vs dry concrete?

  • Wapapow10
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Two electric field problems - pick one or both

  • absolutezer0es
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Pressure for Frozen Water: Solving 6.6*10^(8) N/m^2

  • fightboy
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Convert sunlight to electricity in a given area

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Simple Pendulum Damping: Finding Amplitude and Energy Loss Rate

  • toothpaste666
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Interpreting a motion diagram for a kinematics problem

  • Zandabyte
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How Is Kinetic Energy Calculated for a Raindrop Falling at Steady Speed?

  • SUALEH MUSLIM
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Mass attached to vertical spring

  • sualeh
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Plot Range R vs Angle Theta (0-90)

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Airplane flying west with wind from south

  • gallathus
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Solving for Equilibrium Forces on a 5kg Ball

  • Bhupendra
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Gauss's law to solve for electric field.

  • playoff
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How can I solve for average velocities using derivatives and integrals?

  • StrandedStudent
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Flux above a flat horizontal surface

  • sea95
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What in the name of inclined planes?

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How do I calculate the torque needed to turn a one tonne box 360 degrees?

  • Jimmy4455
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What is the correct way to calculate the doppler effect in this scenario?

  • slaw155
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Velocity of boat after two people have jumped off

  • QuanH
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How Do You Solve These Advanced Optics Problems?

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Sound intensities in hearing aids

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Calculating Current in a Cylindrical Region

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Calculating Object-Lens Distance for Diverging Lens Optics

  • slaw155
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Solving Sun Intensity Problem: 685W/m^2 in 6.5 Days

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Resolving Vector Along Non-Standard Axes

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