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Glancing Collision and Kinetic Energy

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Finding the height of a body through conservation of energy

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Why do capacitor equations have q=Q(1-e^-t/RC) and q=Qe^-t/RC?

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Popeye pulling himself up using a pulley

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Angular acceleration of two fastened cylinders with hanging ropes

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Magnetic Field of a bent infinite wire

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Collision and Kinetic Energy Problem

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Photon emitted when proton changes state

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Calculating Torque for Parliament Clock Tower Hands at 3:01

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What are the cord tension and force on the hinge for this angled beam?

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Energy of relativistic particle in LHC

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Energy stored by a point charge

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Does a Roller Coaster Conserve Mechanical Energy?

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Calculating Electric Charge: Find the Current in a Wire

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Two Infinitely Long Perpendicular Wires

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How big is the friction force on the truck?

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Finding the distance of a space shuttle using radio wave transmissions

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Potential Difference ( Battery + Motor )

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Frictionless pully acceleration

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What is the Tension in Each Cable Supporting the Lamp?

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Conservation of momentum problem regarding a missing mass of a ship

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Photons fired from the back of a moving spacecraft

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Gr12 charge attraction repulation question

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Rotational dynamics - direction of friction

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Heat Transfer Through a Styrofoam Container

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Finding The Dielectric Constant

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Work done by torque on a wrench with a nut

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Stone thrown upward from 30 m cliff: time to reach ground

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Thermodynamics - Saturated Vapor Quality Question

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What circumstances avoid a power factor below 0.8?

  • physics97
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Why substitute ΔQ differently for line charge vs ring charge

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Circuit with two batteries and three resistors - Find current

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What happens to the resonant frequency of a wine glass as you fill it

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Understanding Car-Wall Collisions: Net Force and Assumptions

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Size of pipe needed to transport helium problem

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Using Advanced Dynamics to find the Force Applied of a Truck

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Why Do Sound Waves Travel Faster in Steel Than in Air?

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Curling simulation position functions

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Pebble stuck in tire: when does static friction fail?

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Minimum force to overcome static friction

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Do we need any assumption when using Newton ring's formula ?

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Finding the Distance between fringes given different wavelengths

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Musical frequencies, harmonic or nonharmonic?

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Static Equillibrium. [T=0, [F=0? Problem finding force using component

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Moment and tension problem maybe

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Simple displacement and acceleration question

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How does the earth exert gravitational pull on the sun

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Tension in string - hanging block

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Question related to heat and thermal energy

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Force exerted by a current carrying wire

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Calculating Building Height: Quick Kinematics Question

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Finding the Angle Between Two Forces

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If the mass of the moon were tripled and it was moved to half as far f

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Work/Kinetic energy, running a race with mass and speed

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Momentum Planetary Motion Problem

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Power dissipation in a circuit (Kirchoff's Laws)

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Linear Motion: 0.525kg Ball Travels 200m in 10s

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Current direction when wire moves left in magnetic field

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A uniform spring whose unstretched length .

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Potential difference in a uniform electric field

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2 dimensional projectile motion with rifle and bullet

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Fluid mechanics - Water flowing through a pipe

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Do noise-cancelling headphones use spatial or temporal interference?

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Finding terminal voltage given two batteries

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Final image distance using lenses

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Simple gravitational force problem (Gregory Classical Mechanics)

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Parallel boat to dock jump. Sense of Humor required

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Maximum angular velocity and free body diagram

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Force and potential energy function

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What is the tension in a system of 2 pulleys when acceleration is 0?

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Vectors in Volleyball (finding distance ball will go)

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Moving a point charge out of a cavity in a conductor

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What is the Length of an Aluminum Rod Creating a Standing Wave at 6180 Hz?

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Relative Velocity of Bolt in Elevator

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How Far Does Superwoman Travel in the First 8 Seconds?

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Tension of the rope with 2 objects

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Static equilibrium against a wall

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Acceleration and velocity problem.

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Question on the nature of induction

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Finding the Center of Percussion

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What is the instantaneous speed at t=30 minutes on the given graph?

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Heat engine: moles/temp unknown

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How to find wavelength with only distance

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Two balls are thrown vertically upward, one with an initial speed twic

  • cmkc109
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Center of Mass and Linear Momentum

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Determine current using Kirchoff's Junction/Loop Rule

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Solving for T in an acceleration equation

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Speed of Block after Newton's Second Law

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A lot of considerations about the Bohr's Hydrogen Atom

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What Causes Energy Loss in Cables?

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Earth orbiting around sun - finding speed with known mass and radius

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Circular Motion and Static Friction Problem The Wall of Death ride

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Banking curve problem (find maximum speed)

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A mass of 30kg on a smooth horizontal table is tied to a cord running

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