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Distance from sources of different intensity to get same loudness

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Factor of safety for combined direct and shear loading

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Simillar long question which will come out during my test,

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How does rotational kinetic energy increase in rolling downhill?

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Can classical waves experience simple harmonic oscillator potentials?

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Superposition of Waves - Standing Waves

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Jun 26, 2013How to Find the Speed of a Block in an L-Shaped Track

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Finding initial velocity in a motorcycle braking problem with reaction time

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Super Fun Projectile Motion Problem Such Wow

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Plank pulled on two rolling cylinders with no slipping

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What are the forces and acceleration of a rolling cylinder?

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Inelastic Football Collision Problem

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Sound (harmonic) waves questions

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Calculating the Impact of Sand on a Dump Truck's Weight

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How Do You Calculate Rope Tension with Friction and Constant Velocity?

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How Do Friction and Normal Force Affect Stability in a Pinned Structure?

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Inelastic Collision Calculate the Percent Change in KE

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Mixing Gases, temperature, and the Kinetic Model of Matter

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Simple Harmonic Motion: Pendulum theory, trouble understanding

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Is the bar in static equilibrium?

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Changes in entropy of an isolated system

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Work done - moving a charge in an electric field

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Bound charges and electric displacement.

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Finding velocity with given force

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When Is the Superposition of These Plane Waves Zero?

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How Is Force Calculated When Wind Hits a Wall?

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Normal forces on sphere between wedge A and wall B

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Cylinder rolling down a wedge - wedge should not slip

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True/False -ish question, buoyancy

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Voltage over bulb with broken filament

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Free Charge Moving in Uniform Magnetic Field

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Applying cross product to some problem

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What is the Dispersive Power of Glass and How is it Calculated?

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What is its linear speed at the bottom of the incline?

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Calculating Earth's Shape as an Ellipsoid

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What is the Apparent Weight of a Pendulum on a Trapeze?

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Climate Sensitivity math problem

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Is heat absorbed, when volume is increased?

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Planet and Car rotational movement

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Work by rope force at 15° and coefficient of friction from block on floor

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Least squares fit to maxima and minima in Franck Hertz lab

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Average force on yo-yo string when it reverses direction

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How Far Apart Are the Two Slits in a Double-Slit Experiment?

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Calculating Bond Energy of Steel Using Theoretical Strength Eqn

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Is the Stick Lying Against the Wall at Rest?

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How to Determine g from Centripetal Acceleration Graph?

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Work done is the area under a voltage against charge graph

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How Many Bounces Until the Ball Reaches 2.44m?

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Speed of two bodies that sticks together after collision

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Momentum transfer: Trolley colliding with spring

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Pressure change with constant volume

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Difficult inductance + torque rolling rail problem

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What Is the Angle Between Velocity Vector and Trajectory at Maximum Height?

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Solve] Time to Boil 1.1 kg Water with 1500 W

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Angular velocity of flywheel driven by falling mass

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How Do You Relate the Accelerations in a Disk and Pulley System?

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Electric Potential: Does Energy Increase/Decrease?

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Reaction Force of Rod at 90 and 180 Degrees

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What Forces Act on a Hanging Peg?

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Film thickness for strong reflection at 610 nm

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Torque Problem Static equilibrium

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Finding final speed of cyclist from power output and efficiency

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Find the tension in the horizontal cable that supports the boom

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Calculate Cyclist's Speed in Race: Energy-Work Problem Solution

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Magnetic Field due to a current carrying wire

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Angular size in degrees problem,

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Angular momentum of a glancing inelastic collision

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Rotational Mechanics: Plank Acceleration and Frictional Force Calculation

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Projectile motion rock off a cliff

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Angular momentum: bullet through block with rod and pivot

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Minimum Rate of Rocket Fuel Consumption

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Confusion on applying right hand rule

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Fourier transform of a single pulse and pulse sequences

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What is the Color of 250nm Light Passing Through a Material with n=1.6?

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Angular acceleration with a mass

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Rotational Kinematics - Angular Acceleration

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Newtons 2nd Law - Acceleration Problem

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Finding unknown forces in a triangle in equilibrium

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Rotation of Earth relative to a distant star

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Finding Other Force in 2-Force Problem

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Simple harmonic motion equations derivation?

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Uniform circular motion and tension of a string

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What is the Angular Momentum of a Projectile at a Given Time?

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Collision between two masses with spring

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Normal force, shear force and bending moment on four loaded beams

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How to solve the moment questions, I tried couple of times but

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How long does it take the penny to reach the ground?

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Area moment of intertia of a t-bar

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True or False, Parallel Axis Theorum

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Optics: What is phase matching, and mode locking

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General topology of a two terminal electrical device

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Average speed and velocity for a return journey

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Finding tension and reaction force on a lever with angled support

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Angular Velocity of Ice Skater Around a Pole

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Magnitude of the resultant acceleration

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