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Calculating the horsepower for a motor

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Finding angles of Phi. Very challenging.

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How to Calculate Final Pressure of an Ideal Gas with Changing Conditions?

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Supersonic airplane emits a sound when right over a listener

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Falling rod, finding velocity of CM

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Expansion of Van der waals for small pressure

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Balancing a Beam: Man and Cans Experiment

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Conservation of Energy Problem

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Time difference between 2 events in moving frame

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What are the components of F and how can vectors be used to determine them?

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Calculating Speed of MRO Orbiting Mars

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How can I find the length of a day on Jupiter from wavelengths?

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What is the Equilibrium Angle of an Immersed Wooden Stick?

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Image formed by a mirror - What is asked?

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What is the role of sinh in Snell's Law?

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Pot cooking food and being cooled, how does the pressure change?

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Magnetic field, current with arced path

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Solving Flux Graphs - Need Help!

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Conceptual doubt in angular velocity

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Calculating work done using vectors

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Circular Motion Rotational Axis

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Solve Quadratic Equation for Cliff Height

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Dynamics- Net Gravitational Force

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Abstract question- solving for acceleration up an inclined plane

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How Can I Calculate Reciprocal Lattice Vectors for a 2D Lattice?

  • jonesj314
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Determine the balls mass from force by gravity

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How Do You Calculate Kinetic and Potential Energy in Free Fall?

  • KTiaam
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Horizontal Pulley Question [Forces]

  • harujina
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Determine total mechanical energy

  • nickb145
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Centrifugal Force, Centripetal Force, and Space

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When should I use cosine or sine for sum of forces in the y or x direction?

  • eseefreak
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Violation of first/second law in a Cylic process

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Find Force from Flux: Solar Sail at 3 AU

  • ma18
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Solving a Car Coasting Downhill Problem: Average Retarding Force

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How Does Bertz Law Calculate Wind Turbine Power?

  • courtneywetts
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Friction with two blocks and tension

  • fogvajarash
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1D Elastic Collision - Velocities in the CM/ZM Frame

  • Zatman
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Electric field for an infinite slab with non-uniform charge density

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How Far Does a Box Slide Down an Inclined Plane to Compress a Spring?

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What is the work of a moving bowling ball?

  • domo
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Is the Ideal Gas Law Applicable to Non-Isothermal Processes? | Homework Question

  • SherlockOhms
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How Does Horizontal Acceleration Keep a Block Stationary on a Wedge?

  • Rococo
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Determine which mass is going to reach the bottom first

  • fireblasting
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Induced emf in coil with decreasing current

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Coil, 110 GA, r = 70m. How much tension force is generated?

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Solve Toppling Problem: Understand Torque Equation

  • Saitama
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Computing the work of a turbine.

  • S. Moger
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Inleastic collision with unknown mass

  • Solemony
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Calculating impact velocity of freefalling object with increasing grav

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How Can You Correctly Calculate Forces in a Truss Analysis Problem?

  • lecammm
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Rigid Body Kinetics: Find Reaction Force at A

  • lecammm
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Velocity Vs. Time Graph Extension Help

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Calculating Coefficient of Air Resistance

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Cycling Up a Hill: Calculating Work Against Gravity

  • zaddyzad
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Some Qustions of Electrostatic Induction

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Acceleration Problem: Need Help Solving!

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Banked Curve Impossible Problem

  • physicsnobrain
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Projectile motion - equations giving different answers?

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Projectiles launched from platforms of different elevation.

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Equations for Accelerated Motion Problem

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Physics Particle Decay Question (Cons. of Momentum?)

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Equations for Accelerated Motion Problem 2

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Equations for Accelerated Motion 4

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How Much Speed Can You Generate Using Mechanical Energy?

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Centripetal Acceleration of rope and bucket

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Equations for Accelerated Motion 3

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Discussions on certain questions.

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What Forces Keep the Book Stable on an Inclined Bookshelf?

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Object on Inclined plane with Force applied and Friction

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How do I calculate the diameter of a cyclinder using F= P x A ?

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Wave function and infinite square well potential

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Understanding RC Circuits and Voltage Distribution

  • oreosama
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Birds Colliding mid-air, Conservation of Momentum

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How to calculate detector voltage from resistances?

  • PhizKid
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How Much Power Can Niagara Falls Generate with 90% Efficiency?

  • courtneywetts
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Calculating Buoyant Force for Submerged Materials

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Calculating mass of air displaced in compressor.

  • SherlockOhms
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Projectile Motion Lab: Accuracy and Factors Affecting Range

  • lilyxmo
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Tension in cable and reaction force

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Forced Damped Oscillator frequency independent quantaties

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Sulfur Hybridization and Bonding

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Particle on a sliding inclined plane

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Calculating Spring Constant and Mechanical Energy

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Electric Field over a charged cylinder using only Coulomb's Law

  • PeteyCoco
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Field strength is the potential gradient graph question

  • mrcotton
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Conceptual Question on Impuldse of inelastic collision

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Magnetic Field Inside a Charging Capacitor

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What Are the Equations for Equilibrium and Motion in Physics Problems?

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Solve KVL and KCL for V0: Find Voltage Using Kirchhoff's Laws

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What is the direction of the magnetic field at point P?

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Grade 12 Physics - Circular Motion - Universal Gravitation

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Angular Momentum tricky problem

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V=[k(q)/r] + [k(-q)/r] Finding the points where v is equal to zero.

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Vertical Circular Motion problem

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Finding current through a resistor

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AP physics- finding buoyant force

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What was the relationship tested in the running shoe ramp experiment?

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