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Show mechanical energy is not conserved in an inelastic collision.

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Finding Absolute Uncertainty Using Formulas

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Why do electrons flow in that direction around the circuit?

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"Solving Rope Through a Hole Physics Problem

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How Much Air Is Needed to Lower Mercury in a Barometer from 75cm to 59cm?

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Calculate Tension of Rope for 0.5kg Mass Dropped 0.5m in 1.5s

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System of two inclines planes and pulleys

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Linear and angular acceleration problems.

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Variable mass system - sand falling on flatcar

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How to find the maximal mechanical power output of a stearin engine?

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Determining power supplied by battery

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Projectile motion car tires question

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Magnitude and Direction of Electric Point Charges

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Ball thrown vertically caught after 3.6 seconds

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Simple pendulum- ang v at time from mass, length, and ang v at 0 rad

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Finding the Orbit of a Particle with Varying Position Vector

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Motion in one dimension- total trip time

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Determine the components of P in the i, j, and k directions.

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Affect of Friction on Acceleration and Deceleration

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Minimum deceleration for a car to avoid hitting a truck ahead

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Charged Spherical Shell and Solid Sphere

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Maximum Length for Coaxial Cable in a 100 ns Noise Transfer Scenario

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Find Zero Field Location of Two Charges of q1=4μC and q2=-1μC

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Why does a soap film form inside a wire ring?

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Magnetic Field (Hollow Copper Pipe)

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How Do Galilean Transformations Affect Measurements in Different Frames?

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Point charges in electric field

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What does the second torque question about the wrench mean?

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What does the S/m stand for?

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Electric potential of water droplets

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How to combine percentages (Solely Simple Math Problem)

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Connecting Charged spheres by a conducting wire

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Why Does Earthing a Charged Sphere Neutralize Its Charge?

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Electric field for point charge

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What is the Fraction of Electrons Removed from a Charged Ball of Copper?

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Ball colliding with spring-block system: elastic collision and oscillation

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Calculate Tension in String of Conical Pendulum

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How Far Does m1 Travel Before Colliding with m2?

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What is the net force on the third spider (S3)?

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Find the point b/w two charges where the electric field is zero?

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What is the Angular Momentum of a System with Pulleys and Blocks?

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Trouble with Dimensional Analysis

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Position of elevator given velocity vs time

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Finding member forces in a three-bar structure with angle θ

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Where should a second hole be placed in order for the light [ ]?

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Projectile Motion w/o Horizontal Givens

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Angular momentum and acceleration in a pulley system with two blocks

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Finding the magnitude/direction of a resultant vector?

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Electric field strength and electrostatic potential

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How Is Engine Efficiency Calculated Using V1/V2 in Thermodynamic Cycles?

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Can You Calculate How Long it Takes to Drain a Car Battery with Headlights On?

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Electrical forces between two beads in a hemisphere

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Moles of gas remaining in lungs during submarine ascent

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Deriving of the constants in Fourier Analysis

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Dimensional anaylsis problem involving trigonometry

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Calculating amount of raindrops

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Calculating the speed of a β-particle?

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How to find water vapor volume at different pressures than atm?

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Why Do Inverse Lorentz Transformations Seem Inconsistent in Special Relativity?

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Real fundemental physics problemsDon't laugh

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What is the Instantaneous Velocity at t = 4.0s?

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Locomotive throwing sand in a car

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QM - Transmission coefficient for square well

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Finding velocity equation for object moving in 2 dimensions

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Understanding Vector Addition in Acceleration Problems

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Does Coulomb's Law Apply Equally to Unequal Charges?

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What Is the Period of Oscillations in a U-Tube with Varying Radii?

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Two blocks and a spring system - Finding equation of motion

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Find angle, given the tension of the rope.

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Expansion of gas through valve

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Can somebody walk me through this Special Relativity clock sync proble

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Optics - Find the location of object

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Why is the answer to this GRE physics problem choice A?

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Elementary lens system, microscope with negative ocular

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Parallel Plate Capacitor with Dialectric

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Veritasium - Firing bullet in block - along center and away from cente

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GRE Conservation of Energy problem.

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Is Length Invariant Under Galilean Transformations?

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How high up a frictionless hill will an object with velocity 3.7 m/s travel

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Solving Umax with Pmax and Ohms

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Modified Coulomb model for hydrogen, minimising error

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Which Equation Should Be Used for Finding Maximum Constant Deceleration?

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RC DC Series and Parallel Circuit

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Find the velocity of a particle from the Lagrangian

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Two pendulums banging into each other problem.

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Dynamics in Two Dimensions Question

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Finding maximum height and range with only angle and flight time

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Friction On 2 Blocks + Angled Pull

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Impulse in an inelastic collision

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The balancing point between two point charges

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Shape of mass vs acceleration graph?

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Atmospheric Pressure and Mercury in a Test Tube

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Can Object A Be Neutral Based on Charge Interactions?

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Where did I go wrong in this special relativity problem?

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Special Relativity particle decay.

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