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Atomic collisions must be elastic?

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How to find acceleration from only initial and final velocity

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How Much Energy is Needed to Move a Satellite to Infinity from Earth Orbit?

  • brometheus
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Sending an object to space from earth at different places

  • shotme100
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Finding frequency from wavelength for an LED lab

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How Much Force Did the Rocket Exert on the Sled?

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What Forces Act on a Box Moving Up a Frictional Ramp?

  • freshcoast
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Viscosity of a Fluid measured by a viscometer

  • DylanW
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Resistance in a combination circuit

  • wahaj
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Finding the Commutator of Two Operators

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Gravitational potential energy of a sphere of non-uniform density

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Finding the Range of a Bullet Fired from a Sliding Incline

  • Toranc3
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Horizontal component of force without angle given?

  • Hanyuu
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Pendulum motion and pythagorean theorem

  • sunnyday01
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WHY does curvature of a convex lens affect focal length?

  • Anf31ld
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What is the angle of the hill when the box slides with constant speed?

  • freshcoast
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Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions: Wooden Block Shot with a bullet

  • ahorowitz1
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Point Charge in an uncharged spherical conductor

  • SauerKrauter
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Integrating to find potential energy from force

  • Sneakatone
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WHY does the sign for B1 and B2 keep CHANGING in this Bnet equation?

  • riseofphoenix
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Finding engine power when car accelerates on freeway

  • KTiaam
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Riding a Loop the Loop (velocity at the bottom of the loop)

  • clope023
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Pushing a chair at constant velocity vs increasing the force

  • krackers
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Finding velocity of car in Carnival ride

  • chicagobears34
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How can i get the velocity of waves ?

  • Mohamed9005
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Center of mass of a hemisphere with uniform surface density

  • JJfortherear
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Conservation of Energy, pendulum problem

  • Litcyb
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How Can Fermat's Principle and Snell's Law Help You Find a Car Key in Water?

  • chrisakatibs
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How Does Water Leakage Affect the Frequency of a Vibrating Guitar String?

  • chrisakatibs
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How High Does a Golf Ball Go When Driven at 24.5 Degrees?

  • richardjoe05
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What Is the Linear Acceleration of the Hoop in a Pulley System?

  • cp255
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Velocity(t), of rod moving in B-field

  • serverxeon
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Resistance and How It Varies With Diameter

  • Bashyboy
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Finding electron deflection direction with right hand rule at Earth's equator

  • riseofphoenix
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Electric field on each midpoint of square of side L

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Calculating Self Capacitance of an Isolated Sphere

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Gas pressure in two connected chambers with height difference

  • DylanW
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Understanding Potential Difference in Terms of Electric Field and Distance

  • Miike012
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How far away is she from the centre of the earth?

  • calidreaminn
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Why might the two methods of calculating net torque not agree?

  • Losttime
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Multiple dielectrics inserted in capacitor

  • member 392791
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How fast will your twin crash into the overturned truck?

  • freshcoast
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Why Does a Toy Airplane on a String Tilt When It Flies in Circles?

  • kirafreedom
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Spring/block on horizontal plane SHM

  • physninj
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Calculating Wheel Forces on a Car's Center of Gravity

  • robertmatthew
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Initial speed with Angle and distance

  • Computerguy
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Discontinuity in electrical field.

  • peripatein
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Current and Voltage of Elements of a Circuit with a Solenoid.

  • Thadis
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Kinetic energy formula for electron in lowest energy state

  • Kognito
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Direct-current circuit/Kirchhoff's law problem

  • Lolligirl
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Thermodynamic Efficiency and the maximum possible electric output

  • annie05
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Kinetic Energy in water and the rate carried across each square meter

  • annie05
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Graph Vout vs Vin of diode circuit

  • leroyjenkens
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Acceleration on a parabolic curve

  • issacnewton
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Statics, determine the force required to rotate a body

  • jonjacson
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Making intensity data linear to find sound source power

  • minhdo
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Show that the wavefunction is normalized

  • Von Neumann
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Block on block with friction and relative motion

  • sankalpmittal
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Why does the electric field vary across parallel capacitor plates?

  • Ishida52134
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Finding the Location of the 2nd Antinode in a Standing Wave at 4.10 Meters

  • jamcintyre1
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Finding the semi-major axis of a transfer orbit?

  • kasra12321
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Why sinh, cosh, and tanh relate to hyperbolas

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Finding the Function of a Given Graph

  • lch7
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Calculating Angle and Height in Conservation of Energy Problem with Friction

  • TheMasterFool
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Magnitude of Potential Difference Between Two Points

  • anomalocaris
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Induced currents in wire loops near a current-carrying wire

  • riseofphoenix
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Kinetic and potential energies of a harmonic oscillator

  • Von Neumann
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Telling whether a wave function might have physical graph

  • Von Neumann
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Trouble with a basic one-dimensional motion problem

  • brizznook
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Finding Mechanical Energy without knowing Efficiency

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Which design is better for a popsicle stick bridge: left or right?

  • agm1984
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Conservation of Momentum/Collisions

  • happycreature
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How to Calculate Final Charge on Capacitors Connected in Series?

  • member 392791
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Why do charges exist and why only two types?

  • davon806
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Wave speed in steel wires with different diameters

  • NicoleRosalyn
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Force pushing two gliders on an air track.

  • kevinius
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Using recoil of atom to find correct in wavelength of emitted photon

  • Fluxthroughme
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Ball rolling off ramp - what happens?

  • randomkent
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Solving for Magnetic Flux in a Rotating Wire Loop

  • lovelyrwwr
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Finding RMS Speed of Gas Atoms: Ideal Gas

  • AllenHe
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Number of collisions; elastic collisions

  • Gloyn
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What Causes Oscillatory Motion in a Particle with a Constant Force?

  • Rulonegger
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Rock dropped from cliff with sound delay of 3 seconds

  • miniradman
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Inelastic collision (finding e, don't understand concept)

  • coconut62
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How is the planet-star ratio determined using the transit method?

  • Tryingmybest
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Finding distance between two origin points; waves

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Shuttle moving in a circular orbit

  • clownbaby
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Linear Algebra Applications in Astrophysics

  • Chelsea S
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Finding the Velocity of Light through an Unknown substance

  • OnceKnown
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Trying to find orbital velocity based off of height

  • kasra12321
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Two Dimensional Kinematics probelms

  • riken9
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Significant digits including only one zero

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Statics: Find resultant force and couple moment

  • Chandasouk
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Calculating electron charge in lab

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Horizontally missed target, By how much?

  • lisa1220
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Finding apparent depth with refraction at water surface

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