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F = ma 2012 #20 (Apparent weight when dunking wood in water)

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Fraction of electrons removed from a charged copper ball

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Determining The Mass Of The Earth

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What Are the Correct Responses to These Basic Physics Questions?

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Find the average speed from t = 0 to t = 1 s

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F = MA Exam 2011 # 13 (Rotation/Rolling)

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Finding speed and distance of a train

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Solving a Spring/Force Problem: Mass, Spring Constant, and Acceleration

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Electric Force Textbook error?

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Calculate the amount of work required to assemble a system of charges.

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Calculating Push Time for a Moving Crate

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Gauss' law flux through cylinder ends with discontinuous field

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Determining the electron speed in parallel plates

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Find the resultant of these two force vectors using the following methods.

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Solving an Acceleration Problem Involving a Super Ball

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Determine the final temperature of the mixture

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Will the Block Tip Over or Slip on an Incline?

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Amplitude Change in Oscillations with Varying Spring Constants

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Solving for time with an Overdamped Oscillator

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How large torque is needed for acceleration

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Car crashing into truck: momentum and energy loss

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How do you find the centre of gravity?

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Calculating Altitude of a Geosynchronous Satellite Orbiting Jupiter

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Find the Velocity when accelration is not constant

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Invariance of the y coordinate for a boost along the x axis

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Calculate resultants of two forces

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What is the final velocity of a stone thrown downwards from a roof?

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Curvilinear Motion: Rectangular Components

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Determining current direction at a node using Kirchhoff's junction rule

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Force on an airplane window, given altitude and area of the window.

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Finding Time and Distance in a Lion-Monkey Chase

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Wheel attached to a spring with teeth

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F = MA 2011 # 14 (Creating a uniform sound)

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Convert 1460 tons/hour to lb/sec: Solution

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F = MA 2011 Exam # 8 (Fraction of an object above surface of water)

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F = MA 2012 Exam # 19, 20 (Using Graphs)

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Should Vout be negative or positive?

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Air pressure at different room temperatures

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Finding net force using velocity graph?

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Adiabatic compression of ideal diatomic gas

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Height of the water in a rotating water pot

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Uniformly charged disk and the E field some distance Z from the center

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Find Acceleration using Velocity and a given equation

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What is the correct way to interpret resistor bands in a circuit?

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How Does Coulomb's Law Calculate Forces Between Two Point Charges?

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Time, velocity, deceleration and the constant K

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Diffraction limite of the human eye

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Two point charges

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Natural Log on Radioactive Decay Formula

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Net flux through a closed sphere

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Direction of force on the charge?

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Ranking forces between charged particles

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What is the final temperature of the mixture?

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What Is the Phase Difference Between Two Speakers Emitting Sound Waves?

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Kinematics and acceleration problem

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Find the electric field of a square at a given point?

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What Is the Relationship Between Voltage and Length in an Electrical Circuit?

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How Do You Calculate the Moment in a Force-Couple System at a Pivot Point?

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Question on the derivation of Intensity

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Light through 3 linear polarizers

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Hooke's Law: How to find Amplitude

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Fourier Series Representation of Signals (Proof)

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X-ray question - frequencies and energies

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Electric potential and Field Lines

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Diffraction from a loud speaker

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1-d kinematics food fight in space

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Electricity and magnetism ( word problems )

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Three Charges in an Electric Field

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Proving length contraction exists

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Finding mass of block with applied force and friction

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Finding cliff height from rock drop and sound travel time

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Determine relative density qualitatively?

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Simple Forces question I cannot seem to get

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Raising temperature with no external work applied

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Static Friction and minimum force

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Instantaneous Particle Velocity from Wave

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Determine Orbital Period Of Satellite

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Uniform Circular Motion Derivation of Radial Acceleration

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Total energy when potential graph is given

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Newtonian Mechanics - Particle in Motion with Air Resistance

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Why does replacing t with t-x/w give the wave equation for a string?

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Total gravitational potential energy of four objects

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Transforming double integrals into Polar coordinates

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Are spring forces at both ends always equal in magnitude?

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Electricity and Electric Field Questions

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Determining moment of a force about point O

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Car Passing Truck: Solving for Time Required

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Relating accelerations in a 3-pulley system with constant string length

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How to Calculate Normal Force on an Inclined Surface with Tension Force?

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How do you finish rearranging the Doppler shift formula

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How to find the acceleration with polar coordinates?

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Average acceleration from velocity function v(t)=α+βt²

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Velocity, Speed, and Time question

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Boat crossing river at 35 degrees northwest

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