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How Does Newton's 3rd Law Apply When Pushing a Wall?

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How Is Tension Calculated When Lifting a Bowling Ball?

  • physicsnobrain
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Linear algebra ordered basis problem

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Solve following problems by using energy conservation theory

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Light refraction problem in water & air

  • MrMoose
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What Is the Initial Speed of a Horizontally Thrown Stone from Height h?

  • Radarithm
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Find angle of polarizing sheet given original & transmitted intensity

  • MrMoose
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Solve Mobile Pulley System: Acceleration of 3 Masses

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How Does Current Frequency Affect Wire Oscillation in a Magnetic Field?

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Tension in ropes between accelerating bodies

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Soccer ball rebouncing of the goal post

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Tension in a Pendulum String - Oh my

  • Engineering101
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Potential of a dipole in E field

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How Does the Formula for Acceleration in a Pulley System Work?

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Roller Coaster Physics in a Gravity-Less Park?

  • murrskeez
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What are the Corresponding Reaction Forces in a Suspended Bowling Ball System?

  • physicsnobrain
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Finding velocity after collision if you know mass and height. Help

  • astru025
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Distance Needed to Reach Terminal Velocity

  • elli
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Circular Motion: Deriving r for Two Objects on a String

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Re: Physics Homework Help, Please

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When does the mass of object comes into projectile motion equations?

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Is Zero Net Force Required for Momentum Conservation?

  • RevX
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What Determines the Acceleration of a Box on a Moving Plank?

  • asaspades
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Did the ball travel far enough to make the goal?

  • azukibean
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Finding Vector C Using A-2B=pC: Magnitude, Direction, and Components

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Identifying Freefall: Analyzing Graphs for Acceleration

  • komender
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Conservation of Energy in Conjunction With Momentum

  • Bashyboy
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Determine the magnitude of the magnetic field.

  • NasuSama
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Friction of a rope wound around a stationary rod

  • TheLil'Turkey
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Radius of centripetal force when on an angle.

  • Esoremada
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Finding acceleration and tension on an incline

  • soysauce
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How can I determine the force at support B in a rigid bar system?

  • coconut62
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What are my units when finding % diff. In kinetic energy?

  • astru025
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Motion in a Magnetic Field problem

  • kjlchem
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Relating to potential energy of a spring and mass on inclined plane

  • NewSoul
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Why Is Work the Same for Different Distances on an Inclined Plane?

  • lovelyrwwr
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What Forces Determine the Sliding of a Block on a Wedge?

  • makerfeldt
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How Do You Calculate Vector Components of a Rocket's Velocity?

  • josephcung
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Find minimum force to move block

  • the_sense
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What are the vector components of a rocket's impact velocity?

  • josephcung
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Question about Newton's first law

  • coconut62
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A block spins around a circle with thrust

  • oneamp
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Deriving the Equation v^2 = u^2 + 2as

  • Marcsmeets
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Find beats formula using imaginary parts

  • mbigras
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What is the effect of overdampening in a circuit?

  • kickthatbike
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What Is the Final Temperature in an Adiabatically Expanded Air Chamber?

  • CAF123
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Calculating Tension in Frictionless and Massless Pulley Systems

  • BMcC
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Vertical Projectile Motion, Please Check My Answers

  • TheRedDevil18
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Finding Surface Charge Densities in a Spherical Conductor

  • MostlyHarmless
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Physics momentum/ speed question. Need help

  • astru025
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Time period of oscillation and gravitation

  • Saitama
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Work,Energy And Power, Please Check My Work

  • TheRedDevil18
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Sketch of energy - height graph

  • songoku
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How to Convert a Velocity-Time Graph to a Position-Time Graph?

  • pebbles3
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Thermodynamics - example with answer

  • manal950
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Does Opposite Acceleration Decrease Car Speed?

  • chrissy9624
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The wave fuction for particle in a box

  • VHAHAHA
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What is the distance from the pivot when the seesaw is balanced?

  • Tepictoc
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Thermodynamics when work being negative or positive

  • manal950
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Finding work and velocity through acceleration

  • Pudim
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Find V(t) of train car with changing mass.

  • oddjobmj
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Grade 12 Physics: Banked Roads and Friction Analysis

  • pinkyboo
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Re: Entropy - Actually a question about working in Polar Coordinates

  • iScience
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Distance traveled sliding down incline

  • learnitall
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Diffraction grating with combination light

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Finding the Displacement Vector from 3 Given Vectors

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Centripetal force problems for dynamics

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Experiment question- energy consumed from single shower

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Theoretical Uniform Magnetic and Electric Field

  • Yosty22
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Multiplicity of a two state system

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Kinematics and finding acceleration

  • JohnCy
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Modeling Thunderclouds with Point Charges and Conducting Planes

  • CAF123
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A momentum question? Not too sure

  • noobphysicist
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Error Calculations: Calculating the Gradient & Error Propagation

  • BOAS
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Newton's second law clarinet problem

  • vanitymdl
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Find the work and heat transferred in a carnot cycle.

  • Kelsi_Jade
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Determine Radiation pressure at angle given Perpendicular Pressure

  • MrMoose
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Solving for Building Height and Time in Horizontal Projectile Motion

  • harujina
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Gauss's Law for Spherical Symmetry

  • Vectorspace17
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Mass and Energy of Object that struck Earth and created moon

  • bowlbase
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How Is Oscillation Frequency Calculated in a Parabolic Potential?

  • AdrianHudson
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Capacitance of two parallel plate capacitors

  • Violagirl
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Calculate the avg speed for the ENTIRE trip.

  • physicsnobrain
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Forces, find net with velocity and distance

  • yogoes123
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Solve Min Velocity for Ball Not to Touch Hemispherical Rock

  • 012anonymousx
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Calculating Average Force for a Baseball Batting Exercise

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Electric potential graph analysis

  • freshcoast
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Relating Light Angles in a High-Speed Reference Frame

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I in finding correct Coefficient of friction

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Deriving a value for Full Width Half Maximum

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Finding Tension and Resultant Force | 3000N Cable Force Problem

  • Sam Fred
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Sinking bucket - differential equations

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Why Does Susan Fall Forward When the Metro Brakes?

  • fogvajarash
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Calculating Tension Force After Elastic Collision

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