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Very simple conversion problem

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Pilot turning 150m in two circular arcs to align with runway

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Can not understand how to divide the components of the vector.

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What is the force on a test charge at the center?

  • spaghetti3451
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Why Can't a Full-Size Thermometer Measure Thimbleful Hot Water Accurately?

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How to calculate instantaneous speed from a speed - time graph?

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Why does a voltmeter read 6V when the light receives less?

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How Close Can a Helium Nucleus Get to a Gold Nucleus?

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Work and internal energy for monatomic ideal gas on PV diagram

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How can I show the sun rotates?

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How does a falling ball's apparent radius change with time?

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Magnetic force Particle trajectory

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What is the velocity and time needed to solve this kinematics problem?

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Determining resistance of a series resistor in a simple series circuit

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Finding Tension Between Garfield and John at the Olympics Parking Lot

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Calculating distance using the speed of sound through two different mediums

  • Joe Schmoe
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Braking distance and time for car at twice the speed

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Current needed to keep conducting bar stationary on inclined plane

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Neutron, proton collision problem

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Time Dilation in Relativity: Solving a Simple Observer Problem

  • unscientific
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Why Is Kinetic Energy Zero at Escape Speed?

  • SecretSnow
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Why does a satellite orbit when the Earth curves away from it?

  • SecretSnow
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How Does Symmetry Solve a Cubic Resistor Network?

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How Does Rsinθ Relate to Extra String Length in Physics?

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North Pole Entering a coil wound counterclockwise

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How Do Measurement Uncertainties Impact the Calculation of Gravity?

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Scaling factor of a simple pendulum between length and time period.

  • mrcotton
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Moment of Inertia for 2D Rectangle: Does it Depend on Both Sides?

  • peripatein
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Finding potential differences across capacitors with switches

  • unscientific
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Force needed to lift 60N box with three pulleys and two ropes

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[Relativity] Energy and momentum question

  • radiator0505
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Question how to find acceleration with kinetic friction involved.

  • baird.lindsay
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Equilibrium - The physics of a clothesline.

  • L_0611
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Minimum momentum of a quark confined in a proton

  • DunWorry
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Problem deriving failure of simultaneity at a distance

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Finding where gravitational forces balance between Earth and Moon

  • slybuster
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Work done by a force with a given equation

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Conservation of momentum - falling from hovering helicopter

  • Hilarry
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How many nodal and antinodal lines are there?

  • Ilan
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Statistical Physics - average energy of a system.

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Finding the speed of a proton in a mass spectrometer

  • Mack199
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Why Is Tension 3mg at the Lowest Point?

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Young's Experiment and the Wave-Particle Model

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Calculating Rollercoaster Energy and Designing for Conservation

  • BlueCardBird
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Magnitude and Direction, Canoe on River

  • ap_physics
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Turntable Problem: Homework Solution

  • teeheehee
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How Does a Vacuum Cleaner Belt Influence Rotational Motion Dynamics?

  • ehabmozart
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Angular momentum of two balls hitting opposite ends of a stick

  • DunWorry
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How Do You Linearize the Euler Equations for Fluid Motion?

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Heat Loss of Liquid, Solve for Time

  • jsh562
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Why does the spring contraction equation give two different solutions?

  • assaftolko
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Magnitude and direction of Vectors using head to tail rule

  • bllnsr
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Optics (double slit experiment)

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2kg mass dropped on spring: why doesn't it reach initial height?

  • assaftolko
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What Is the Acceleration of a Car Coasting Up a 10 Degree Incline?

  • romanphysics
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Bar of uniform mass hinged to the ceiling.

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Helicopter blade tip speed and velocity over one revolution

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Electric field of a line of charge and direction

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Finding gravitational potential inside solid sphere

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Tangential velocity of the earth

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Planets, Meteors, and booster rockets space

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Compton Effect, frequency question

  • Kennedy111
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Maximum Extension of a Hanging Spring

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Bungee jumping with elastic cord and rigid rope

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Understanding Tangential Acceleration in Circular Motion

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What is the proper time interval in relativity and how is it determined?

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What Determines the Frequency of a de Broglie Wave?

  • yogifromindia
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Finding f and d in Lab Experiment

  • lionely
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Experiement of determining specifc latent heat of vapourisation

  • lionely
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Classic Hemispherical Analyzer

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The work done by an electric field in accelerating a charged particle?

  • Dongorgon
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Can't understand why work done on a spring is given by .5fx^2

  • deliciousiron
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Finding acceleration on an incline plane with static friction

  • Arclite Cham
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How is my text book getting the components of a vector?

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Acceleration in two dimensions. Hockey puck question

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Two Masses Connected by Spring Against Wall

  • Gill987
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Collision with orientation, finding velocity

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Electricity and magnetism confusion

  • Dongorgon
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Uniqueness/Gauss Theorem - General Difficulty/Misconceptions?

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Why is Method 2 More Precise than Method 1 in Statistical Analysis?

  • arierreF
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How Far Does the Goalie Slide on Ice After Catching a Hockey Puck?

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How Far Does a Goalie Slide After Catching a Puck?

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Dynamical friction due to gravity

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How Fast Does the Train Accelerate to Outpace the Car?

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Diffraction With A Single Slit And A Lens.

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Mass of an accelerated electron?

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Calculate Perihelion Distance of Mars Using Solar System Parameters

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Linear and angular momentum problem

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Electric circuit explanation question involving voltage changes

  • question dude
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Charge Between Two Conducting, Connected Shells

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Finding the magnitude and direction of current thro Kirchhoff law

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