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Help I'm feeling stupid. :( ("A solid sphere rolls down an incline)

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Moment Balance - Angled Wine Bottle Holder

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A path that curves more sharply (e-)?

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Magnetic field strength that emits waves

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How Does Dielectric Insertion Affect Capacitor Behavior?

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Isothermal compressibility and spring constant solids

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Poss Textbook Error Concerning Momentum

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Negative in a Electric Potential Energy/Kinetic Energy Question

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Work-Energy Principle: Pulley System

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How Hot Was the Campfire's Aluminum Can Before Cooling in Water?

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Solving for Constants and Graphing Wave Function: Modern Physics Exam Guide

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Finding the mass of a rotating wheel with an attached mass

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Resistance of wire vs wire with wide middle

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Mass of a rubber stopper being swung in a horizontal circle

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Radius and Pitch of an electron's spiral trajectory

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Resistance Variable Cross Section

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Kinematic -- If object in 5th and 6th sec passes 20

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Simple Pendulum in Elevator: Calculating Angular Amplitude with Acceleration

  • Tanya Sharma
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Solving Problems Involving Dog Walking on a Boat

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Finding the initial speed of two balls.

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Lowest frequency of a water with drinking straw

  • desmond iking
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Finding Displacement in a Box Collision with Coefficient of Restitution

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Solve Eletrostatic Problem: Sphere Charge Q0

  • Anonymous119
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Simple special relativity, length from duration

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Need help with projectiles initial velocity using height and distance

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Wavelength of sound affected by the moving observer?

  • desmond iking
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Frequency of sound detected by microphone

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What Are the Key Concepts in RLC Circuits from a Scientist's Viewpoint?

  • chemistrymole
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Diamond Circuit, Three EMF Sources -- Parallel?

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Lab finding the mass of a flywheel

  • onelove8187
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How Much Does Entropy Increase for Aluminum When Heated?

  • Art_Vandelay
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How to Solve This Complex Current Electricity Circuit Problem?

  • coldblood
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Why Do Balls Launched Up and Down Hit the Ground at the Same Velocity?

  • fightboy
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Why Start a Wheatstone Bridge Experiment in the Middle for Greater Accuracy?

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Is the Velocity of an Upward-Moving, Slowing Rock Still Positive?

  • oreospls
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What is the change in entropy when gallium melts in your hand?

  • Art_Vandelay
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Rotating rubber wheels made to contact. Find final angular veloctiy

  • Dazed&Confused
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Solving Spider on the Rod Problem Using Conservation of Angular Momentum

  • Tanya Sharma
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How Do You Calculate Phase Difference in a Traveling Harmonic Wave?

  • Craig
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Calculating the Average Force on a Meteor Upon Entering Jupiter's Atmosphere

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Angular Acceleration Caused by Axehead on a Rotating Grindstone (Disk)

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Torque Causing Angular Acceleration on a Uniform Disk

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When finding Magnetic Field between two wires

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Potential difference between two infinite cylinders

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Time of approach of two oppositely charged particle

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Motor bringing clothes washer drum to 240 rev/min

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Relative Velocity of Two Objects Moving at Different Speeds

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Angular velocity of a solid disk

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Solving a Physics Problem: Boy & Girl on a Frozen Pond

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Does Time Dilation Affect Observations in Baseball?

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Finding Equilibrium: Solving a Black Hole Parking Problem

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Separation Between Two Charged Particles?

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Entropy & Gasoline HW: Answer & Explanation

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Determine bubble volume change with given temperature

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Solving for Displacement when Jamilla Throws a Stone

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Tension in objects in circular motion

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Calculating Force & Accel. From Cell Phone Dropping Homework

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Uncharged spherical conducting shell

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Finding the velocity of a proton at the surface of a conductor

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Static Friction Experiment: Help Result interpretation

  • Jaimie
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Electric Flux Comparison: Gauss's Theorem and Enclosed Charge

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How Does Adding Nitrogen Affect Pressure in a Sealed Tank?

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Calculating Marble's Fall from a Table Height

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Why the forces in the arch are carried to the ground

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Circuit Question - Driving me crazy

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Oscillation Frequency for Peak Voltage

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How can I use similar triangles to find points on a mirror?

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Electrical force between two objects

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Position-Time Graph to Velocity-Time Graph

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Wave intensity at different points

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How Does the Doppler Shift Affect Observations of the Sun's Rotation?

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Does Wave Intensity Change with Distance in Circular Waves?

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Chain and Elastic string problem

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Tension and Hinge Force Problem

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Why Is My Calculated Error for Resonant Frequency So High?

  • ma18
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Tension in and out of water in constant velocity

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How Do You Solve a Grade 11 Physics Projectile Motion Problem?

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Weight of a person on earth vs. weight on a different planet

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Opel GT on Incline: How Much HP Needed?

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How Much Air Escapes from a Heated Compressed Air Cylinder?

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Difference between flux linkage and flux cutting in Faraday's law

  • Jimmy87
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Specific gravity of mystery fluid

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How Do You Calculate the Spring Constant from Work Done?

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How long the ball remains in contact with the ground when dropped

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Equilibrium Question involving Torque

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RC time Circuit; charge of capacitor as a function of time derivation

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Rotating hoop with body fixed inside of same mass

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How Fast Must a Pion Travel to Avoid Decay Over 1.9 km?

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Properties of progressive waves

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Calculate Mass of Ice Cube from Calorimetry Experiment

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Physics Problem: Fnet=ma or Fnet= 0?

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Maximum possible percentage error

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Radius of circular impulse wave in the hemisphere bowl

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Electric field from two point charges 10 cm right of negative charge

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What is the path length of a heat-seeking torpedo chasing an aircraft?

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Why is this inelastic collision problem solvable?

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Volume of a helium baloon inside a fridge

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