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How to Calculate ω in a Mechanical System

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Angular Momentum and Kepler's Second Law

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Capacitor in Series and Parallel combination

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High Frequency Versus Low Frequency

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Bullet Range Neglecting Air Drag

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Three masses connected by string and pulley with friction

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Why do people say that the person would be weightless?

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How do you identify the axis of rotation for a rigid body?

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Massless and Frictionless Pulley

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Force on a two block and a spring system

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How does the index of a medium affect the focal length of a lens?

  • physicsphreak2
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Question: Calculate Wavelength from Intensity

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Calculating change in energy of a particle

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Min weight of elevator accelerating, constant velocity, decelerating

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Speed-time graph What is the highest speed?

  • alingy1
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Pilots, diving and apparent weight

  • NA19
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Momentum Question Involving Elastic Collision

  • GarrettB
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Constant velocity and net force

  • komender
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What are the correct units for strain?

  • Baumer8993
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What is the tension in the cable and the reaction at D?

  • yaro99
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What is the relationship between tornadoes and dew point?

  • vmedica
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Molar heat capacity for ideal gas in process T = T₀e^(αV)

  • Saitama
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The highest possible potential in a van de Graaf generator

  • Order
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Is Friction Necessary for Rolling Without Slipping?

  • andyrk
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Helicopter air projection velocity problem

  • FBayer
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Calculating an expression for work in a magnetic field

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How High Can Pumped Water Reach in a Building Fire?

  • monicaalves
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Hooke's law spring configurations

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How is tension calculated when a rope changes direction?

  • BadSkittles
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Why is (Kinetic friction)= fk≤fs (Static friction) ?

  • andyrk
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I really with these questions

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Does moving an object back to its starting position count as zero net work?

  • BadSkittles
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Why does a hammer with 100x mass fall at the same rate as a feather?

  • BadSkittles
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Mechanics Of Materials Stress Problem

  • Baumer8993
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Change in velocity from east to northeast

  • Jimbo57
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Physics coefficient of friction question

  • Jasmin99
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What Is the Normal Stress in a Prismatic Bar Under Tension?

  • Baumer8993
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Why we write W/L = 50/0.5 not W/L = 100?

  • anhnha
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Solving Impedance Diagrams: Finding i(t) with XL = ωL

  • k31453
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How can power be the same on two inclined planes with different angles?

  • alingy1
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How is the tension of a rope calculated in a climber's FBD?

  • BadSkittles
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Help Solving Dynamics Problem: Skier Coasting Down Hill

  • lussi
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How can a sphere roll and slip at the same time?

  • andyrk
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Why Is Tension Zero at the Free End of a Rotating Rope?

  • andyrk
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Magnetic Flux of a Wire Sliding on L-Shaped Rail

  • assaftolko
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Thermodynamics: First law and work definition

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Kinetic energy of two different masses (ratio)

  • alingy1
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Calculate the net force on square loop (Magnetism)

  • theunbeatable
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Horizontal force on a post in a Hammock

  • sun.there
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Uniform Circular Motion extended response

  • NickSpain96
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Fnet = ma Ff = -0.3375/0.08 = -4.219N

  • CollegeJunior
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Particle with horizontal velocity and vertical acceleration

  • Robertoalva
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Ball rolling off 32° incline 9.0m high, finding horizontal distance

  • Geminiphysics
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Thermocouples: Advantages and Disadvantages

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Vertical acceleration and horizontal velocity

  • Robertoalva
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Why do two blocks of different mass travel the same distance with friction?

  • BadSkittles
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Net force on a charge - Coulomb's law

  • rms5643
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Block attached to spring - calculate how far it will move

  • jcjc16
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Simple DC motors Current, Torque, EMF and Faraday's Law

  • sleeppotato
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Energy required to heat up a 4000 cm^3 of air to 1500 Celsius

  • Panthera Leo
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Calculating the net force acting on a object from diagrams

  • hg10tr
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Acceleration due to Gravity on Mars

  • mlee16
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What is the tension in a pulley system with multiple weights?

  • JeyGamer
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Work done raising a piston against atmospheric pressure isothermally

  • Saitama
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Understanding the Motion of Electrons in a Magnetic Field

  • Saitama
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Calculating Heat Required to Warm Earth's Oceans by 1.0 °C

  • jwainwright09
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Understanding Electricity and Circuits

  • anhnha
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How do lever arms affect the velocity of objects?

  • NA19
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Acceleration of wedges and particles

  • Woolyabyss
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Invisible Charge: Solving for Equal Distance in Coulomb's Law

  • somasimple
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Why the light increases when Prof. Lewin touch the end of the tube?

  • anhnha
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How many ways to sum vectors in a plane to zero

  • bkraabel
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Why Plot T² Against 1/K for a Straight Line Graph in Oscillation Studies?

  • Peter G.
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Magnitude of force to keep stick in equilibrium.

  • zeralda21
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Terminal Velocity Given Acceleration at Instantaneous Velocity

  • Greatness
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Why voltage in a short circuit is 0?

  • alexmath
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Zero Group Velocity: What Does it Mean?

  • Zarquon
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How? Which Trig Identityis that?

  • k31453
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Hookes law: Calculate the work done by compressing a spring

  • x86
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Momentum Conservation and Rebound Velocity Comparison

  • Fresko
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What is the tension just before and just after touching the nail?

  • andyrk
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How Do I Solve These Equilibrium Equations with T₂ and T₃?

  • Suarden
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Calculating Carbon-14 Activity for Archaeological Samples

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Calculating Heat Energy Changes in a Water and Ice System

  • Ravi Ramdoolar
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Why is the Integral of Force Over dx Equal to Kinetic Energy?

  • BadSkittles
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Solving Momentum Questions: Find Speed of Toy Car After Pellet Impact

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Drift current Is of PN junction under open-circuit conditions

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How Do Two Masses and a Spring Behave on a Frictionless Surface?

  • SqueeSpleen
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What does maximum mean in this physics problem?

  • Fresko
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Trooper catching speeder starting 4 seconds behind

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Conditions for pulleys and strings

  • andyrk
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Calculating Time Difference in Pursuit Situations

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Kinetic energy and momentum in an inelastic collision

  • Fresko
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Angle when a projectile is launched at a height from the ground

  • cookiecrumbzz
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Looking for an algebraic definition of work.

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Penetrating power of radiation questions

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Minimal angular velocity of a swinging homogenous stick ?

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