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How do you delete a thread you've posted?

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Skier at the top of a hill

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Vector evaluation & Lorentz force 02

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Why is weight positive if gravity is negative?

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Tensile stress with unequal forces

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How Is Power Calculated for Lifting Sewage in a Pumping Station?

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Magnitude of electric field at a point

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Trying to find the equation of motion of a model

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What Is the Oscillation Period of a Pendulum Suspended by an Inclined Wall?

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Finding the diameter in the walls of a pipe (related to current)

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How Does Wave Motion Affect the Path of a Point on a Wave?

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How do I find the acceleration of gravity

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Field inside a finite solenoid - At the ends and in the middle

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Applied Force to a Sliding Frictionless Ramp

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What takes more energy rolling a ball up a hill or carrying it up

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Calculating Forces and Friction in a Moving Package

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Solving Pulley System Questions: Tensions, Weights, and F=ma

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Formation of the Solar System (Astrophysics Homework Help)

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How Do You Calculate the Velocity of a Soccer Ball Relative to the Ground?

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What is the Potential Difference Across the 4.50-kΩ Resistor?

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Down an Incline with Spring: Finding Distance and Maximum Speed

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Solve Collision Questions: Cannonball Speed & Dog Mass

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Find the Current After the Capacitors Have Lost 80% of Stored Energy

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Is There an Error in the r+-r- Expression?

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A Woman Running Towards a Bus Which Pulls away

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Solving for Density: Buoyant Force & Force of Gravity

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Velocity, Work, and Energy of a Falling Meteor

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Two small beads having positive charges 3q and q are fixed

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What is the final speed of the cork in a spring loaded cork gun?

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Showing that a near earth orbit is P = C(1 + 3h/2R_E)

  • jeanbeanie
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What could T^2 be? Pendulum lab

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Mass of a suspended ball and a force

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Force of block pushed against wall

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Work done when dragging a crate 15m at 37° angle

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1-dimensional non-conservative force that depends on position?

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Statics Questions involving finding forces

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What Is the Ball's Average Speed During the First 2.7 Seconds?

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What Is the Final Velocity of the Larger Ball After Collision?

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How Does Kinetic Friction Affect a Skier's Ascent Up a Hill?

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Relation between Signal to Noise ratio and Logical Interference

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What is meant by no gas enters or leaves the cylinder ?

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Calculating Swing Angle for Equal Kinetic Energy: Man vs Car

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Calculating KE Gain with Velocity Vectors: Explained and Simplified

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A force acting on a particle moving in the xy plane is given by

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An object under water has mass 100 kg. What is the buoyand force?

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Calculating Volume of Water Displaced by 12 kg Wooden Block

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Force Exerted by 20,000N Boulder in 0.4m^3 Tank

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Muscles opperating with efficiency of 18%

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Projectile Motion - Finding theta

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Magnetic Field at the centre of Spiral

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Find the entropy for the process

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Multiplication using dot product.

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Questions on phase space and CanonicalMicrocanonical ensembles

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Basic kinetic friction and mass quesion?

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Find velocity of a moment before terminal velocity is reached?

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Mass hanging on a spring - find acceleration

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How Do You Write the Wavefunction for Two Electrons in Quantum States?

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Cable tension force from applied force

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Elastic potential energy of vertical spring

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What is the tension in the string?

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How Do You Solve 2D Equilibrium of a Rigid Body?

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How does the tension in a pulley system change with different masses?

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Underdamped harmonic oscillator with a sinusoidal driving force

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Find Distance: Skydiver Jumping from 36000m in Stratosphere

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Perpendicular Forces and Change in Momentum

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How Far Will You Travel Before Hitting the Mosquito?

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What is the total displacement of a delivery truck given its route and time?

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How do you find delta X using Voy and Vox?

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Circular motion under gravity; a car travelling on hills

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Difference Between Bound and Free charge

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Calculating the Speedbump Radius to Stop a Car: A Homework Challenge

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Normal Force during centripetal acceleration

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Liquid oscillating in a U-tube problem

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Was My Approach to Solving the Physics Problem Correct?

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2 dimensional projectile motion

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Ampere's Law and Magnetic Fields

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How Do You Calculate the Flow Rate of Air Through the Trachea?

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Physics Question involving a person pulling himself up

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Gauss's Law: Finding Electric Field of Line of Charge

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Solving for Tension in Rope: A & B Blocks, Theta=30°, us=.25

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What Is the Takeoff Angle for a 7.5m Long Jump?

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Vectors as Paths with measuring degrees

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Why classical physics work in quantum mechanics

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Finding Velocity on a Position/Time Graph

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How to Find the Magnetic Field Gradient from Four Parallel Wires?

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How Does Newton's Third Law Apply to Motors and Elevators?

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Help Needed: Solving Ramp Problem with Inclined Wedge and Block

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Determining initial velocity of an electron

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Calculating Charge with Capacitors in Series

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Finding the magnitude of Torque

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Solve for Pulling Force for Sled w/ Mass, Angle, & Coeff. of Friction

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Moment of Forces about Point A help.

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