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A dust particle through an electric field

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Electric field of a spherical metal shell

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F=ma 2011 #24: Effects of Increasing Bearing Width & Radius

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Just a simple thought experiment

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Differentiating thermodynamic coefficients

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Cyclist trajectories from different reference frames

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Work done lifting a 10 kg bucket from a 5 meter well

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What is the maximum volume expansion coefficient of ?

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Water Speed From a 1.5m Height Container

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Circuits (Nodal and loop anal. finding current through branch)

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How to Calculate Current from Electron Flow?

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Sliding box question- finding applied force with friction

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How Does Temperature Affect a Pendulum Clock in Alaska?

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Does the bullet train function x(t)=0.0011t³ meet all criteria?

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Effect of wire heating on battery EMF

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Potential and Electric Fields: Understanding Charges and Fields on a Line

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USAPhO 2009 F=MA exam #13, (spring SHM)

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Estimating Moon's mass from Earth-Moon gravitational equilibrium

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Constant velocity and an object at rest

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Difference between W = Fx and work as an integral of F dx

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What's the Difference Between Ax and i-Hat in Vector Notation?

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Effect of a net force of zero mechanics question

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Rate of forward motion from rolling rectangle vs degrees turned

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Organ Pipe Resonance - How long is the pipe?

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At what height objects will pass each other?

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Increasing the number of pulleys

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Why Is My Speed Calculation for the Accelerating Car Incorrect?

  • JacobPeeples
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Solve Sound Wave Problem: Frequency of Sound in Air (336 m/s)

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Can we add displacements from SHMs with different frequencies?

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration from Distance and Final Velocity?

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Momentum eigenvalues and eigenfunctions

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Free Fall Question: Find Height from Half-Distance Traveled

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Effect of doubling a mass Newton's law of universal gravitation

  • Tiven white
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Finding density for identical spheres

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Prove that a projectile launched on level ground

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Coriolis force of a stone throw

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Answer check-derive a general formula for horizontal displacement

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Balls at opposite ends of a beam in equilibrium

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Empty elevator with a max speed going down, find tension on cable.

  • ichivictus
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Find the tension between two train carts as the train brakes.

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Throwing a projectile so that it clears the window

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Water poured over ice until temp is at equilibrium

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Plane landing, finding the velocity

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Which Unit Is Not a Basic Quantity in Mechanics?

  • Tiven white
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Calculate Initial Speed of Ball Thrown Vertically 14m in 3s

  • patelneel1994
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USAPhO F=ma 2010 exam # 17 (Gravitational potential energy)

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Help choosing kinematic equations for rocket and ball motion problems

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Suvat equations - car braking hard to avoid a collision

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Calculating initial trajectory without time

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How close to the end can an 800-N person stand on a plank before it tips

  • gcombina
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Hints on how to approach this vector displacement problem?

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Capacitance/Capacitor Conceptual Problem

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Is the speed of a wave dependent on the speed of the source?

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Draw a Circuit based on the info and find the voltage values

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What Is the Work Done in Climbing and Descending a Hill?

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Resistance & Force In Inclined Planes

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Where is the location of zero net force between two fixed charges?

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Electric flux through the earth

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Finding unknown currents using Kirchhoff's current law at nodes

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EM wave described using a sine function.

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Calculate 2C*(3AxB) for Vectors A, B, and C

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Calculating Net Charge: How Many Electrons Does it Take?

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Why net torque doesn't equal zero for a block on an inclined plane

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Velocity of rock thrown horizontally from cliff at 25 m/s after 3 seconds

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Estimating starlight deflection near the sun's surface

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Heat Capacity and specific heat

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Compute voltage inside sphere of uniform charge

  • Gary Roach
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How Can MATLAB Simulate Particle Motion in a 3D Vector Field?

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Moment of Inertia of Hollow Sphere about Center Axis x-y-z method

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Acceleration and speed as m*s^-1

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What is the pressure inside the tube at 48 meters depth in seawater?

  • Olara
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What Forces Are Acting on a Man Climbing an Incline?

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Why is restoring force proportional to x squared in this oscillation problem?

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Collision of baseball with falling person

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How Do You Calculate Electric Field and Force in a Charged Square?

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Height of a building with a Projectile

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Velocity of water from a hose using projectile motion experiment

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Which Law Determines the Strength of a Pull?

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Electric fields of a spherical shell

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Thermodynamics and Internal Energy of a gas

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Divergence theorem (determining the correct direction for normal vecto

  • Miike012
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Static Electricity and Number of Electrons

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Can someone tell me if conduction is more powerful than induction?

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Four charges each Q in magnitude

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Speed of proton and alpha particle

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Three charges q, uniform circular motion

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What Radius Produces Intensity Minimum?

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Physics 2 , two Styrofoam balls on insulated thread

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Final velocities of 0.3 kg gliders in elastic collision

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Hurricane Fluid flow, torque, cross product

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Finding airplane mass from wing lift using Bernoulli's equation

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How Do Particles Relate to Rigid Bodies in Different Scientific Contexts?

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Moon Earth and Satellite gravitation

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Which statement is false about constant velocity?

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Formation of Pluto, solar effects on life, and cooling of stone

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Relativity - Sphere flattening due to relativistic speed

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