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How to Solve This Rotational Motion Problem?

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What is the Moment of Inertia for a Rod?

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Question: How is the power exerted by the monkey on the rope calculated?

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Kinematics Motion Average Speeds

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What is the acceleration of the elevator in these scenarios?

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Rotational motion problem with a wheel and torque

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Components of torque in a solid sphere

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What is the Net Force on the Top of an Equilateral Triangle?

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Finding energy from graph area and calculating cosθ in two problems

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Stress Calculation for a Reinforced Timber Tie with Aluminium Bar

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What is the Solution to a Rotational Motion Problem?

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What is the solution to this rotational motion problem?

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Theory about electric field intensity

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What is the solution to this Rotational Motion problem?

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Latent heat of Fusion and transfer problem

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Stress and strain compound bar question

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Why Is the Initial Speed of a Ball Thrown Vertically 19 m/s?

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Gauss' Law for Infinite Sheets of Charge

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Electromagnetism, dynamics and energy

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What is the correct stress in the concrete column?

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Solving the Yoyo Problem: Velocity After Fall of h

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Statistical Mechanics - Change in Entropy

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How should I protect an egg dropped from a building for a physics project?

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Calculating Energy Required to Rotate a Spiral Spring by 180 Degrees

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Conservation of Energy and Angular Speed.

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How much water is needed to cool a block of aluminum to a specific temperature?

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Solving for an angle in 2-D kinematics

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How Much Does the Spring Compress When Hit by a Rolling Ball?

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Solve 1-D dynamics problem using integration and ?

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How Fast Must a Book Be Tossed to Clear a Windowsill?

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Strength of magnetic field required to balance gravitational force

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Calculating Angular Acceleration for a Rotating Compact Disc

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Mass places o that it is in equilibrium

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How Fast Were the Trains Moving at the Point of Collision?

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Can Constants with Variables Cancel Out to Create a Constant?

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Electric field magnitude midway between 2 charges

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How Can You Prove the Voltage-Time Relationship Using Logarithms and Graphs?

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Centripetal force lab: relating velocity, radius, mass, and period

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Calculate Momentum Change for a 1.0 kg Firecracker at 25 m/s Launch Speed

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Finding the point where the net electric field is zero

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Centripetal Force Lab Questions?

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Differing weight on scales depending on approach

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Calculate the kinetic energy of the mass

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1 gram of water @ 10Celsius + 1 calorie of heat =1 gram of water @

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Angle between vectors a and b when magnitudes are equal

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Electric field midway between an electron and proton 0.8 nm apart

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Rotational dynamics with constant CM velocity

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Calculating Tension and Acceleration in a Pulley System with Applied Force

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How Do You Calculate the Maximum Height of a Rocket Launched at 70 Degrees?

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Finding Maximum Speed of an Object - 24.4X9.8

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Calculating Capacitance: A Derivation

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How to Apply Partial Differentiation to V=f(x²+y²)?

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Can Rotation Affect the Linear Motion of an Object's Center of Mass?

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Factors Impacting Pressure in a Static Fluid

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Finding equilibrium height and force after charge redistribution

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Finding magnitude P and direction of resultant from two forces

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Archimedes principle - special case

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Electric field (at any point) due to a finite cylinder

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Falling Through Earth's Center

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How Do You Calculate Impact Duration and Average Force in Momentum Problems?

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What would be the speed of the charge

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Derivatives of coordinate equations

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Potential energy: where is the error in my logic?

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Electric field from nitrogen nucleus at 0.4 nm and 0.2 nm

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Conservation of Momentum/Collision

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Finding Distance D Using Conservation of Energy

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Magnetic Vector Potential and conductor

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Two gear system in static equilibrium

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Adding three SHM oscillations of equal frequency?

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Rolling without slipping and a string

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Do negative charges gain or lose PE moving to lower potential?

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Images produced by a simple two lens microscope?

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Centripetal/Tangential Acceleration

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Amount of work done in an isothermal expansion

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Rocket Launch Kinematics motion

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Particle sliding down a helix wire with energy conservation

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Wave sources vibrating out of phase (destructive/constructive)

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Calculating Work Done by a Force on a Particle Moving Along the X-Axis

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Max Velocity and Height of Roller Coaster Track

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Frequency versus motor RPM and number of poles

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Determining directions of electric fields

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When does passenger catch ball thrown upward from rising balloon?

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Physics 2: Electromagnetic Theory (Amperè's Law, Biot-Savart, etc)

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Why Is Calculating Slit Spacing in a Diffraction Grating Confusing?

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Find mass flow rate using heat differential

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What is the period of the spring's motion after the car strikes it?

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Finding flux through a part of infinite disc

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How Do Two Divers' Speeds Compare When Jumping from a 3m Platform?

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(Elastic collision / shadow problem) I suspect my professor is wrong.

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How Does Speed Influence Complete Revolutions in Circular Motion?

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How Do You Calculate Net Force Components on a Tilted Surface?

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Finding force components from a 4 m/s resultant

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How Fast Was the Rock Thrown to Meet the Helicopter?

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How to measure rings in a Zeeman effect lab to find the Bohr magneton

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