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Just a quick check for my solutions - ice patch friction

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Newton's Third Law of Motion and wrecking ball

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What is the Acceleration of a Small Body Moving on a Parabola?

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Bead sliding on a rotating rod Lagrangian

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An outsider begging for assistance - motorcycle acceleration

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Finding 'a' when 'x' is given as a function of 't'.

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How to Convert Units for Coulomb's Law Equations

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Calculating Centre of Mass of a Uniform Object

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How Do You Calculate Magnetic Field Magnitude for a Specific Flux?

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Dennis and Carmen problem with my trial solution , is it right?

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Model Rocket Impulse and momentum problem

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Calculate Pressure Increase of Frozen Water in Engine Block

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Calculating Acceleration and Velocity in Newton's Third Law Scenario

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Electric field conductor question

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Calculating Rotation Rate for a Diver Jumping from 13m High Tower

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Speed at Maximum Height and Initial Velocity

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Understanding Current Sense in Circuits: The Reversal Dilemma

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How Do I Calculate the Magnitude and Direction Angles of a 3D Vector?

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How Does Newton's Second Law Apply to Highway Safety?

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How Do You Calculate the Moment of Inertia for a T-Shaped Section?

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Hohmann Transfer Orbit (Simple)

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What is the speed of a piece of a spaceship that blew up?

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Solving for current in a circuit

  • Miike012
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Capacitance 3 dielectrics sandwiched between two conductors.

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Solving a Tricky Tension Problem on a Moving Train

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Checkpoint: Conservative Forces And Potential Energy

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Isothermally Expanding Question

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How Is the Contact Force Between the 7kg and 11kg Blocks Calculated?

  • Nicolaus
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Electrical repuls./attract. btwn uniform charge density and object

  • prslook26
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Burning fossil fuels math problem

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Area of triangle given 3 vectors pointing to vertices

  • majinsock
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Conservation of Angular Momentum Question

  • PsychonautQQ
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Conservation Of Energy, Block Sliding Down Incline Onto Spring.

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Which Iceboat Finishes with Greater Momentum?

  • learnitall
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Calculating Displacement for Cody and Megan

  • mirandaeb
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Finding minimum electrostatic energy

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Equilibrium of frame with two masses

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Tension of an object hanging in an airplane

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Behavior of Air Molecules when Heated

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What Determines the Electric Field Inside a Spherical Cavity?

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Capacitance in a conducting cylinder

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Electric potential of a uniformly charged thin rod.

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Physics Energy - how fast ball is moving from certain height

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Finding magnitude of vector B given resultant and angle

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Why Is the Current Negative in This Circuit Division Equation?

  • Miike012
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Solving Dynamics-Friction for Max θ w/ μ_s=0.25

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How Do You Calculate Normal Force with Angles and No Friction?

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How Does Rocket Mass Variation Affect Its Motion Equation?

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Find the force required to prevent the mass m2 from descending

  • fogvajarash
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A fire helicopter carries a bucket of water

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How Do Pulleys Influence Circular Motion Mechanics?

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Is Work done when there is constant velocity?

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Deriving the Lorentz transformation equation for time

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Calculate Magnitude of Impulse on 920-kg Car

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Calculating Acceleration in Non-Uniform Circular Motion

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Maximum Spring Elongation for a Block on a Horizontal Ideal Spring

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Wave function eigenfunction of energy and momentum operators

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Solve Kinematic Equations for Collision of Carts

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Angular Momentum Collision Problem

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Blockk on a table with a pulley

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Max height of thrown object with 12m/s at 1/5 of height

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Solve Dimensional Analysis: Find Dimensions of B

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Can you correctly measure wave properties but get wrong wavelength?

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Effect of resistance on photoelectric current

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Converting Galvanometer to Ammeter: Resistance Wire Placement

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Find Displacement/ Velocity/ Acceleration of clock

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How High Does the Flowerpot Rise Above the Window?

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Ball thrown from 15m cliff at 30° above horizontal

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Thermodynamics - Question with my answer

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Accelerating a Mass up an incline by pushing said Incline

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Displacement of a diving dolphin

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Velocity and Pressure Distribution in a rotating cylinder

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Calculating Box Mass from Work and Height: 250J, 10.0m, g=9.81m/s^2

  • woaini
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What are the equations for solving planetary motion problems?

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Power and Speed Relationship for Lifting Objects

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Electric field between two wires

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What is the Correct Formula for System Acceleration to Prevent Slippage?

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How Much Force Can Be Applied Before the Top Box Slips?

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How Does Throwing a Ball from a Moving Flatcar Affect Its Trajectory?

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How to find angle of inclination of an equilateral

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Angle Calculation for Particle Velocity and Z-Axis at Given Time t1

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Conservation of motion and basketball shot

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Speed of freight car (momentum transfer)

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Conservation of energy in a circle arc.

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Finding a relationship for the ball's speed with the following clues.

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Lagrangian Mechanics, bead on a hoop

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Calculating Q for Shear Flow at Box Girder Points

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