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Finding the Distance for a Projectile to Land on a Moving Cart

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DISTANCE travelled by the projectile

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Relationships between Current, Voltage and Resistance

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Introductory Special Relativity Problem

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How Does the Speed Distribution Function Determine Vmin and Vmax?

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Resultant Velocity of a Projectile

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Calculating distance of image from lens

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Force needed to unroll toilet paper from a cylinder on a wall

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Expansions in thermodynamics using differentials

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Adding force vectors and then calculating acceleration.

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Is Gravitational Attraction Negligible in Oscillating Systems?

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Relative speed with respect to mirror image in two dimensional motion

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Bernouilli's principle pipe flow problem

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What is the resistivity of a copper wire with given dimensions and length?

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Time period of a pendulum consisting of a rod and bob

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Calculating the Charge of 3 Capacitors

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Calculating Velocity Using Power

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Will Supplies Dropped from a Plane Land Safely on a Small Island?

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What Is the Final Temperature When Ice and Water Mix?

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Initial vs final for a projectile

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Focal length of a convex mirror

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What is the Velocity of a Disc Thrown at a 28° Angle to the Ground?

  • STEMucator
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How fast do you need to travel for a red light to appear green?

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Ball kicked horizontally with wind acceleration on boardwalk

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Why Is Potential Energy Calculated from the Bottom of the Circle?

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Oblique collision with two spheres one of which is at rest

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What are point charges?Why we use point charges for coulomb's law?

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How Is the Focal Length of a Mirror Determined When the Image Size Doubles?

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Calculate charge on object suspended between capacitor plates

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Polarization: ratio of transmitted to incident intensity

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Block, spring, and incline- work/energy

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Does potential depend on relative permittivity in a dielectric?

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Question regarding Magnetic field

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Maximum incident angle for total internal reflection in fiber optic cable

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Polarization and decreasing intensity of light to 10%

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Torque on a point on a sphere in a fluid/finding pressure?

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Oblique collision involving two spheres

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About understanding things and solving problems

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Finding distance by angle of incident

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Electric field lines between 20/30 V point charges vs. 10/0 V

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Energy loss from plastic rod compression in a tube

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The gravitational field g due to a point

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Finding Center of Mass of 800g Steel Plate Triangle

  • Anthonyphy2013
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Calculating work with kinematics and dynamics

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What is the distance to the target?

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How Does Elevator Motion Affect Work Done by Forces?

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How long does it take the ball to come to a hault?

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Two infinite sheets with charges

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Can You Orbit an Asteroid by Running?

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Why do two masses move towards each other under gravity?

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Tension at top of heavy rope connecting two blocks (Y&F 4-49)

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Electric Field and Voltage Equation Applications

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Time period of oscillation of a physical pendulum and spinning disk

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How Is Gas Pressure Derived in the Kinetic Theory of Gases?

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Radius of a Raindrop given Charge and Electric Potential

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Problem regardin an elastic wire.

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Electric Potential and Field Calculations for Point Charges on the x-Axis

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Sensor - Calculate the Capacitance

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Solve the Homework Problem with Work and Energy

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Magnitude of an Electric Field in a Cylinder

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How far up a 6m ladder can an 800N worker climb before it slips?

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The photoelectric effect report

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Finding internal forces and moment at point J on a loaded beam

  • yaro99
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How Much Work Is Needed to Stretch Two Springs and Move a Cube?

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How to solve this without resorting to inertial forces

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Finding a wrench's moment of inertia from its swing period

  • Anthonyphy2013
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How do I calculate the Velocity when only given the force and weight?

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Deflection of suspended coil (fluxmeter)

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Is (0,0) a Valid Coordinate in a Bounce Height Experiment Graph?

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Resolve a force into three parts (3D)

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Finding constant velocity in a trapezoidal motion profile

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Inelastic collisions in 2 dimensions

  • SohailS
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Why does gas leak work increase with initial pressure?

  • CAF123
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A cylinder rotating in Cartesian coordinate system

  • Earthland
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Work and energy- 1 stationary and 1 swinging block (table+pulley)

  • natasha13100
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A balls velocity when it reaches the top of the inside of a loop

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Conservation of Energy of blocks and rope

  • SPiazzo
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How to calculate the work function of a metal?

  • madayag1
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Using the gravitational formula

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Speed of object in circular orbit under central force F = -Ar⁴

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Energy conservation in two dimensions

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Find deceleration from distance and initial velocity

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How to Calculate Impulse and Average Net Force in a Baseball Collision

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Which Sign Describes Phasor Direction in Circular Polarization?

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Rodmechanism relative movements problem

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Geothermal heat pump or heat engine power requirements

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How Does Electric Flux Differ Across a Hemispherical Surface?

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Work done by gavity on an inclined plane

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Acceleration of a system with three blocks

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Calculating Potential Energy and Velocity in Newton's Cradle Lab

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Average power given velocity, kinetic friction, and mass

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Calculating Electric Field Strength Between Two Point Charges

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Applying Coulomb's Law: Changes in Charge and Distance

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Statics problem, trailer and truck system

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Speed of a meteor before hitting a space station

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What Does a Harmonic Wave Equation Represent in Physics?

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Satellite elliptical orbit: torque, speed at multiple positions

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Rotation: angular momentum and torque

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Sound(Determine period, frequency from the plot)

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Statics problem, analysis of a frame

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