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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?

  • W29EMP
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Sliding box question- finding applied force with friction

  • jgray
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How Does Temperature Affect a Pendulum Clock in Alaska?

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

  • Eblack904
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Effect of wire heating on battery EMF

  • Molly1235
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Potential and Electric Fields: Understanding Charges and Fields on a Line

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

  • Agrasin
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Estimating Moon's mass from Earth-Moon gravitational equilibrium

  • calculator20
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Constant velocity and an object at rest

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

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

  • jdawg
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Effect of a net force of zero mechanics question

  • Tiven white
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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?

  • MystiqThunder
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At what height objects will pass each other?

  • patelneel1994
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Increasing the number of pulleys

  • Blonde1551
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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)

  • Saitama
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Can we add displacements from SHMs with different frequencies?

  • hav0c
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How Do You Calculate Acceleration from Distance and Final Velocity?

  • patelneel1994
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Momentum eigenvalues and eigenfunctions

  • White_M
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Free Fall Question: Find Height from Half-Distance Traveled

  • Speedking96
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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

  • Tiven white
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Prove that a projectile launched on level ground

  • negation
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Coriolis force of a stone throw

  • Karol
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Answer check-derive a general formula for horizontal displacement

  • negation
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Balls at opposite ends of a beam in equilibrium

  • gcombina
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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.

  • ichivictus
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Throwing a projectile so that it clears the window

  • negation
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Water poured over ice until temp is at equilibrium

  • castrodisastro
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Plane landing, finding the velocity

  • albertnewton
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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)

  • Agrasin
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Help choosing kinematic equations for rocket and ball motion problems

  • SirWestofAsh
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Suvat equations - car braking hard to avoid a collision

  • Apothem
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Calculating initial trajectory without time

  • Latsabb
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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?

  • JessicaJ283782
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Capacitance/Capacitor Conceptual Problem

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

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

  • yaro99
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What Is the Work Done in Climbing and Descending a Hill?

  • darwined
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Resistance & Force In Inclined Planes

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

  • NewtonRoxU
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Electric flux through the earth

  • sashab
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Finding unknown currents using Kirchhoff's current law at nodes

  • yaro99
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EM wave described using a sine function.

  • Darren93
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Calculate 2C*(3AxB) for Vectors A, B, and C

  • jdawg
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Calculating Net Charge: How Many Electrons Does it Take?

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

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

  • evan1997ere
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Estimating starlight deflection near the sun's surface

  • Chemp_93
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Heat Capacity and specific heat

  • garyd
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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?

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

  • howie8594
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Acceleration and speed as m*s^-1

  • Xecutive
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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?

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

  • xtrubambinoxpr
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Collision of baseball with falling person

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

  • puzzledup
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Height of a building with a Projectile

  • guma671
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Velocity of water from a hose using projectile motion experiment

  • Ben1
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Which Law Determines the Strength of a Pull?

  • Tiven white
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Electric fields of a spherical shell

  • MathewsMD
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Thermodynamics and Internal Energy of a gas

  • castrodisastro
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Divergence theorem (determining the correct direction for normal vecto

  • Miike012
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Static Electricity and Number of Electrons

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

  • CiVi
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Four charges each Q in magnitude

  • britt
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Speed of proton and alpha particle

  • colmes
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Three charges q, uniform circular motion

  • colmes
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What Radius Produces Intensity Minimum?

  • tg22542
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Physics 2 , two Styrofoam balls on insulated thread

  • nathancurtis11
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Final velocities of 0.3 kg gliders in elastic collision

  • cherioslover
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Hurricane Fluid flow, torque, cross product

  • Frozen Light
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Finding airplane mass from wing lift using Bernoulli's equation

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

  • Tiven white
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Moon Earth and Satellite gravitation

  • Frozen Light
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Which statement is false about constant velocity?

  • Tiven white
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Formation of Pluto, solar effects on life, and cooling of stone

  • Ewrim
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Relativity - Sphere flattening due to relativistic speed

  • Jon.G
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What is the draft of the barrel?

  • kyaranger
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Why can momentum be expressed as an operator

  • bfusco
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Newton law of universal gravitation

  • Tiven white
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Tutorial In Introductory Physics: charge

  • Salamandersam
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