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How Long Does a Call Travel via Satellite Between Quito and Belem?

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Calculating Static Frictional Force on an incline

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Possible resistances using 3 resistors?

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Calculating Power Output of a Car Accelerating from 0 to 27 m/s in 60 seconds

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True/False Questions about Capacitance

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Force Diagram, Position vs Time Plot: Construct, Calculate, Sketch

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How does wheel angle affect sliding speed down a slope?

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How Do Ions Achieve Their Velocity in a Mass Spectrometer?

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Single Degree-of-Freedom Problem

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Single Degree-of-Freedom Systems

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Ideal Batteries' Internal Resistance

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Why Is Tension T=2mg and Not T=mg at Time t=τ?

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Finding the Transferred Energy for a Block Sliding Down a Ramp

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Electric field and force between charges at varying distances

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Finding magnitude of current of 3 rods, so 1 can levitate.

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Thermal Properties of Solids and Gases Problem

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Go-cart lighting circuit with five bulbs and two batteries

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A closed organ pipe has a length of 2.40 m?

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Falling Weight Attached to a Wheel and a Sphere

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Diffraction Patterns: Does Distance Affect Diffraction?

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Equations of movement of partical that slides inside a container

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Reaction enthalpy for propane combustion at 30°C and 1.08 atm

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Projectile launched at 60° with velocity change -20 y^ m/s

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Projectile Motion - Range of projectile

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Vertical projectile with initial velocity 400 m/s

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Hot air balloon - Archimedes Principle

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Supposedly Simple Tension Problem

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Projectile Motion man tosses object

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What is the Correct Minimum Force to Move a Ladder Against a Wall?

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How Much of the Granite Rock Ball Must Be Submerged to Float?

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Calculate the z position of the particle as a function of time.

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Coulomb's Law (3 charges in equilateral triangle)

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Find the current in the 2Ω resistor marked A

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Contribution to the magnetic field at the point by a thin wire

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Entropy of a system water-reservoir

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Transistor/Amplifier pre-lab; Inverting vs Non-inverting

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How Does Throwing a Medicine Ball Affect Beam Displacement?

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Velocity and Range of a Soccer Ball?

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Free-Body Diagram for a Brick and Pillow System: Mass and Forces

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Wires with constant power and increasing voltage

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Potential of Concentric Spherical Insulator and Conductor

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How Should a Quarterback Throw to Hit a Stationary Receiver?

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Does the acceleration cancel out?

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What happens when force is not constant in work calculations?

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Does a flashlight battery have internal resistance?

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Projectile Motion- What angle does range equal max height?

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Maxwell's theory of wave propagation

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Calculating Flux Through a Circular Ring

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Find total E of muon using time dilation

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Conservation of Energy through friction and cliffs

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Minimum speed of the bullet to penetrate a sphere

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Nuclear physics problem - energy of reaction

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How can I find work, horizontal force, and time contact?

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Energy Collected in one pixel on a CCD.

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1.5V/3W lightbulbs with a 9V battery. Will they burn out?

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Terminal Voltages of a flashlight cell?

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USAPhO 2014 F=ma exam #19, (tension, static equilibrium)

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Eigenvalues and eigenkets of a two level system

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Fermat's principle to derive lens formula

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How much force and torque should motors have for a pipe-climbing robot?

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Use Work (net) to find coefficient of static friction and speed

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A lamb grows with its mass proportional

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Three boxes on different inclines

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How Does a Star's Mass Affect its Properties and Position on the HR Diagram?

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How Do You Determine When a Chain of Charges Breaks?

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How Does Mass Redistribution Affect Angular Velocity?

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Charge of three small spheres when connected to a big one

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Solving a Charge at the Center of a Sphere Problem

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Physics question - Forces on a mass on horizontal surface

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Electric Field Strength Between Two Parallel Plates Problem

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Checking moment calculations for points A, B and C

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Solving Battery Problem: Transport 2.6 kg Chocolate up 1000m

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How to Calculate the Brackett Series in Excel?

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Circuits - Calculating Effectice Resistance

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Right hand rule - Magnetic field

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Potential for a system of a solid sphere and spherical shell

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Thermodynamics - Hot-air balloon

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Simplifying Digital Logic Equations: Using Karnaugh Maps and 2x2 Method

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Calculating Forces Homework: Net Force & Friction

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Finding total capacitance with multiple current paths

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Finding current between nodes using superposition principle

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How Does Material Choice Impact Physics Experiments on Absolute Zero?

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Heat and final temperature problem

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Work to stop object traveling twice as fast

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Motion of a Charged Particle in a Constant Magnetic Field

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Combining Equations for Solving Complex Problems

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What is the magnitude of the charge on a second object?

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Coefficient of Friction of a piano

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Three parallel planes - calculating charge

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Finding battery voltage from engine power and weight lifted

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Solving Stick Thrown in Air with Initial Condition

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Work done by doubling the magnetization of a rod

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What Is the Acceleration of a Charged Sphere Fired Toward a Fixed Charge?

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