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Golf Balls and differential equations

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Equal centripetal and tangential accelerations

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How Do Batteries and Capacitors Interact During Charging?

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[EE] Figuring out the E and B fields from two dipoles

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Rockets and accleration with kinematics

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Trunk dragged up 20° ramp with force at 30° angle

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Work done by force with cubic position function

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Spherically symmetric charge density given electric potential

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What was the plane's landing speed?

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Force between Two Current-Carrying Wires

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Where does an electron emit or absorb radiation

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Finding tension of 2 wires at different angles

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Kinematics - getting different answers when using different units

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Need to find the distance for the physics problem.

  • NasuSama
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How object distance varies with distance(depth)?

  • NANDHU001
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How to deal with vectors (Motion in two dimension)

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How to find the net force, acceleration, and speed of Hovercraft?

  • turtle4yj
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Mr. H Falls from the Top of a Climbing Wall

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Help with lever equilibrium problem

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How High Does Henry Bounce on the Trampoline?

  • MarkB4077
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Where Do Two Bouncing Balls Meet?

  • pmd28
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Rolling motion with mass attached to the rim

  • kushan
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Car going up a hill. Find the Angle of the hill.

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Given vi and a(v) calculate 1. v(t) 2. time to stop 3. distance to top

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A person slides downa spherical, frictionless surface.

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Calculating Acceleration in a Wedge-Block System on a Frictionless Table

  • oldspice1212
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Uniformly Charged Circular Disk

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Work done by gravity and air resistance on a falling raindrop

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Calculating Bounce Height Using Conservation of Energy

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Force of kinesin molecule within cells

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Finding work done by friction on a pulled sled

  • NasuSama
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Why Is My Acceleration Calculation Not Matching the Expected Result?

  • Bashyboy
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Equivalent Voltage for Thevenin Equivalent Circuit

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Sandbag Dropped from Moving Balloon

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Force on a Wire In Uniform Magnetic Field

  • bmb2009
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Tension Problem, with slope and 2 masses

  • thoradicus
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Find the force needed to move the elephant

  • BoJunior
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Distance, Acceleration and Time Question

  • student34
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Rocket thrust and exit diameter with nitrogen at M=3.0, 5.0, 7.0

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Finding the acceleration in a gear rotating and constrained by a link.

  • theBEAST
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Which vectors are collinear with S30W and perpendicular to E20S?

  • Vroc
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Pick-up truck braking distance on dry and wet concrete

  • tratata
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Force exerted by tractor towing 3700-kg trailer up 18° incline

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Collision between two moving blocks with a spring

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Calculating Net Force for a Viper Accelerating at 45 km/hr in 2 seconds

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Statement about ball thrown upwards

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Centripetal Motion along the horizontal with an angle

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Diagonal resistor in parallel circuit

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Why is the normal force on a roller coaster's peak greater than mg?

  • Smileyxx
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Helicopter Flight and Jet Pack Adventure

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Finding Resistance from internal resistance and Power in a circuit

  • MasterVivi
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WOrk done by a variable force (in two dimension)

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Sign of ey term in electron Lorentz force calculation

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How Fast is the Other Car Going Relative to You?

  • Hannah1
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Deriving Kinetic Energy in a U-Tube with Varying Cross-Sectional Area

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Why is Fe/Fw = 0.12/0.43 in charged sphere equilibrium?

  • yudi
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How Much Energy Can We Obtain from 211g of Peanuts?

  • Hannah1
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Atomic Energy Levels - Calculating the Minimum Energy of Light Emitted

  • LovePhys
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Cylinder floating at interface between two liquids

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How Do Friction and Surface Affect Block Acceleration in a Pulley System?

  • joel amos
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Super fun projectile motion ski slope problem

  • Peppo
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Structural Mechanics - Statics / Truss

  • physicx_1
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The Physics Behind a Bullet Hitting The Human Body

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Wordy Physics on Forces, Pulleys, and Friction

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Using steam tables to find boiling point, pressure and enthalpy

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Gravitational acceleration of a satellite above Earth

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What Is the Instantaneous Axis of Rotation for a Pure Rolling Disc?

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Calculating Static Friction Coefficient w/ Angle of Uniform Slip

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Finding acceleration of a box with two forces acting on it

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FreeFall motion Assumptions in proving

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I'm LOST Car is suppose to overtake truck but at what velocity?

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of a Chair from Force and Acceleration?

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How Is the Center of Mass Calculated for a Solid Cone?

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Ski Jump (Conservation of Energy)

  • Albeaver89
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Maximum flow velocity for laminar flow in a pipe

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Work done by variable force F(x) = 15000 + 10000x - 25000x²

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Box sliding on 35 degree grade

  • joel amos
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Conservation of Momentum of a shot bullet

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Magnitude of Acceleration and Work

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What Goes on the X-Axis and Y-Axis in a Centripetal Force vs Period Graph?

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Find the Initial and Final states of an excited Hydrogen Atom

  • Mrbilly
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Einstein's energy mass relation

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Natural force down incline plane

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How Do You Calculate the Momentum of a Moving Car?

  • Hannah1
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What is the Momentum of a 75 kg Freshman Moving Southward at 3m/s?

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AM (SSB-SC) Signal Bandwidth 941 kHz 20 Hz-19 kHz

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What Are the Correct Units for Momentum?

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Rolling Object, Moving Incline

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Capital Punishment @ the Dark Ages Penitentiary.

  • Hannah1
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Momentum of a Ball tossd in the air.

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Change in Momentum: Truck v Volkswagen

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Momentum if Velocity is Doubled

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Calculating acceleration in X and y direction

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Overcoming static friction - easy

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