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Longitudinal Waves - are they very different?

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How to find tension using integration

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Two Stage Rocket: Max Height Above Launch Pad

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How much power is needed to steer tires?

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Finding friction force when pulling a crate at an angle

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What is the Wave Equation for a String?

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Use Planck’s radiation law to derive the Stefan-Boltzmann

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Find period of astronaut when Normal force of ship = normal force on earth

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Dimensional analysis for equation of state constants a and b

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Mass, Weight and the local acceleration due to gravity

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How Far is Charge Q1 from Point P Where the Electric Field is Zero?

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What is the speed of the string? (wave problem)

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of a Steel I-Beam?

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Calculating Kinetic and Potential Energy of a Falling Object

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Why does Rutherford's formula fail for small-angle alpha particle scattering?

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Net force from three forces at different angles

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Tension in Fixed Pulleys: Understanding Forces and Equilibrium

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What Was the Initial Velocity of the Bullet in the Momentum Problem?

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Attraction of a steel rod with a solenoid

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Find Io in the network nodal analysis

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Special Relativity, calculating velocity of Kl0 meson with reference frames

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How Do You Calculate Time in a Charging Capacitor Equation?

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Finding the resultant of two forces at 60° angle

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What Is the Velocity and Net Force After Two Football Players Collide?

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Three blocks Newtons law help have I got my answers and sign correct ?

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Two trains on same track: which collision time is correct?

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Find distance x for pole equilibrium with hanging object and wall friction

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Vector addition word problem question

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Velocity of a steel ball bearing due to magnetic force

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Electron/Positron Annihilation

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How Do You Calculate Angular Motion for a Child on a Merry-Go-Round?

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Determining the time of a collision

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What will be the acceleration of an electron when it is at the origin?

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Circular motion x, y acceleration

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What Is the Least Time for Blocks to Move 7.20m Without Sliding?

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Three point charges in a line and charge redistribution by contact

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Thrust separate from acceleration?

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How Do You Calculate the Speed of a Plane with Respect to the Ground?

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Constant Acceleration of a skier Problem

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How Do Forces Affect Motion on Inclined Planes?

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Finding Work function and Plank constant

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Find the components of a unit vector

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Charge on a point in three different locations with a thin semicircular rod

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Acceleration and Kinetic Energy

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Finding the impedance of circuits.

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Are Identical Masses' Angles Equal for Different Charges?

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Locomotives on a collision track

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Thermodynamics and Mechanics questions

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Standard deviation of the mean for five ammeter measurements

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Polarizing Light through Two Filters

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Why is my calculated mass off by a factor of 100 in spring oscillation problem?

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Optics question, locate mirror and its focal length

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Rate of energy release by Polonium-210

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Forces Acting on Mass M on Wedge

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What is the strength of the gravitational field?

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Can we calculate the Sun's mass without knowing the Earth-Sun distance?

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Beam bending, overhang with 2 concentrated loads

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Problems with Critical Damping and Underdamping

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I have got a lab on 'Braking distance of a wooden block'?

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Finding Final Temperature of Boiling Water and Potatoes

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Dr Evil( Straight line motion)

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Superhero and sidekick hanging from a rope

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What Does the Area Under a Force vs Time Graph Represent?

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Confusion on wording of a dimension problem

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What is the acceleration due to gravity?

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Can Electrons Really Conduct Heat?

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Scaling up a test cannon to a life sized cannon

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How Do You Determine if a Meteoroid Has an Open Orbit?

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What is the net pressure force on a pressurized jumbo jet flying at 10 km?

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Two line charges lie in the XY plane

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Calculating Average Speed of a Baseball in Horizontal Projectile Motion

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Help Solve 2012 F=ma Problem 21

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What does a scale read when you're free-falling?

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Calculating Car Acceleration: Kinematic Equations

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Finding launch angle for soccer ball kicked from 260m building

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Kinematics of Constant acceleration word problem

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Relativity: A bus with a vertical windshield

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Question on considering final velocity

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Most probable speed of Aluminium

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Solving for Acceleration when weight is in Newtons instead of Kg

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Circuit with two resistances and inductance

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Can I reverse the PdV integral for work?

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Two Rotational Dynamics Problem

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A Uniform Beam Supported by a Cable

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Sketch of an interatomic potential

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How Do You Analyze Acceleration on a Position vs. Time Graph?

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Newton's second law - jumping from a height

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How to derive the capacitance formula for two capacitors in series

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Rifle recoil velocity from a 15 g bullet fired at 220 m/s

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Mechanics - marble rolling in dish

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Latent Heat and conservation of energy

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The First Law of Thermodynamics

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