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Sinking bucket - differential equations

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Why Does Susan Fall Forward When the Metro Brakes?

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Calculating Tension Force After Elastic Collision

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Calculate the capacitor capacity

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How to Calculate Water Pressure on a Floating Cube?

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Minimum area of a shoe heel exerting pressure

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How to Apply Kirchoff's Laws to Solve Resistive Circuit Problems

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Projectile of 250g at 1200m/s sticks to 3500g object

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Why is Vg negative in this circuit interconnection?

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Finding force magnitude when net effect acts vertically

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Velocity of object falling from Hill Radius to Earth

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How Does Attaching a Weight Affect Spring Equilibrium?

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Zero Gravity Flight: Training Astronauts for Space

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Time dilation in relativity: flashbulb on a moving flatcar

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Projectile motion, throwing a ball at a coconut

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Calculating Vector Magnitude and Angle

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How do I convert c=9e^((-5/2)∏j) to component notation?

  • Sastronaut
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How Does the Velocity of a Suspended Mass Change with Height?

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Frequency Analysis of RC Circuits

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Newton's Laws of Motion - Force Problem

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Relationship between Frequency and Standing Waveforms.

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Showing the expectation values of a system are real quantities

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Simple acceleration, force, and mass question

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Determine Radiation pressure given the fraction of total absorption

  • MrMoose
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How to Find the Electric Potential of a Cylinder on the Z-Axis?

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Simple Conceptual True/False Questions About Magnetism

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Pressure on tyres of a vehicle question - Calculating weight

  • Molly1235
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Current flowing through the resistor

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Special Relativity: Bullets on a train

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When can we use Vpp in calculations involving Ohm's law?

  • Physixs
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Metal block sliding horizontally

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Electric flux through cylinder ends with external charge

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Equilateral triangle charged rods

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Relative Motion - Airplane Problem

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Pebble dropped on rotating wheel, starts to slide after rotation

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Finding electron density from Hall voltage

  • Turion
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Magnetic sphere collecting iron dust with force F=k(R³)

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Electron flow in live and neutral wires

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Henry gets into an elevator on the 50th floor

  • p14r
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Calculating both final velocities (conservation of momentum)

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Adiabatic process with custom internal energy function

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2 boxes stacked, determining forces on each other.

  • mathwhiz
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Steel ball launched at 45° with initial velocity 3.3 m/s

  • astru025
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Direction of induced current in conducting ring due to motion of bar m

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Vector Magnitudes and projectile motion

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High School Physics Competition: Change in Entropy

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How to approach physics problems efficiently

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115 kg person on scale tilted 40° from vertical

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Alternate Solution to Conservation of Momentum Problem

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Answer = 35.3 Watts to Keep 64oz Bottle at 40 Deg in 10 Deg Temp

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Physics satellite velocity and period

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What is the n value for Li2+ ion in the Bohr model of the atom?

  • physicsnobrain
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Solve Tension in Cables (T1, T2, θ3)

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Solving for Position with Zero Initial Velocity

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Does a Planet's Atmosphere Affect an Astronaut's Weight?

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Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics integral

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Average force during a collision

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Checking my work on a Lennard-Jones problem

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What is the minimum tension (in Newtons) in the angled rope?

  • bah83
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Finding the Mass Required for Double the Velocity in a Spring-Mass System

  • brenfox
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Highschool Dynamics Lab. Consistency problem?

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Is this correct?"Calculating Time of Astronaut's Trip Across 15 Light-Years

  • sexy_brittany
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Forces, displacement, and coordinates of a particle

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Finding support forces A and B using moments

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[Motion Problem] When is displacement equal?

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Can You Solve These Challenging Linear Motion Problems?

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Converting spring constant from g/cm to N/m using static method

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Electric flux through a surface

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Concept question on External force

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Determing the kinetic energy of an electron

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How Does Latent Heat Affect Sweat Evaporation in Cooling the Body?

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Which problems could arise from this diagram?

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Acceleration of two blocks connected by a pulley

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Thrust force of a rocket ejecting mass

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Force to pull appart hemiphere under vacuum.

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Mercury Barometer Experiment: Atmospheric Pressure

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How Does Inserting a Dielectric Material Affect Capacitor Charge?

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Three astronauts equipped with jetpacks

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(Engineering Vectors) Why is this answer correct?

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Why integrate at these points? (Electric potential of a sphere)

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Maximum velocity of mass on spring displaced 10mm

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Why Is the Correct Answer mgh/4 in This Energy Problem?

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Line integral of a spherical vector field over cartesian path

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How does the period of a pendulum affect its time measurement?

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What was the speed of the motorcycle before the collision?

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Rotary (Gears) question - angular acc/velocity involved

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Conservation of Energy of an Interrupted Pendulum

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Understanding Rydberg's Constant: What Do R(sub)H and R(sub)infinity Represent?

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Average Power Output for 260000 kg Jet at 9200m Altitude

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Projectile Motion Diver Jump Question

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Error Propogation: Calculating Average Acceleration w/ Uncertainty

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General: Calculating the Moment of Inertia

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Bike Approaching Stopped Truck at Traffic Lights

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Rank the material according to their indices of refraction

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Probability that the electron will pass through the barrier?

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Force Applied at an Angle to an Object on Frictionless Surface

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