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Question involving Newton's laws

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Vector A has y-component Ay= +12.0A makes an angle of 32.0

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Friction increase decrease Help

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Momentum, Ball being thrown on Ice

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Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

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Accelerating Car Free Body Diagram

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A monkey falls from a tree problem

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Finding the charge on a capacitor

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Finding the Optimal Resistance for Maximum Dissipation

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How Fast Must Air Travel to Draw Water Up a Straw?

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Electric potential across a simple circuit

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How Do You Solve Projectile Motion Problems with an Initial Launch Height?

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Energy Stored in an Inductor, calculating inductance

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Which Way Will the System Move and What Is the Acceleration?

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Finding the Tension of a cord between two masses

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RCC circuit, posible mistake with constants

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I really don't get this question

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Discharging a capacitor, how variables change over time

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Instantaneous velocity in one dimension

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Potential applied across two points with batteries

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Question regarding electrical potential energy required to assemble a system

  • Parad0x88
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River bank problem Need help ly

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Thermodynamics Problem(Water and Ice)

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What is the pressure inside the cylinder?

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Simple collision between two moving bodies.

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Work done by an electric FIELD = Work done by electric FORCE ?

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Ball rolled off top of stairs - which stair does it hit?

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What Type of Energy Conversion Occurs When a Cable Car Runs Downhill?

  • Hannah1
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How Do Velocity and Time Relate in Physics Problems?

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Finding the force given the mass and radius.

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Two Masses One on Table, One Hanging

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Net force, tension, acceleration, and magnitude

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Confusion on displacement question

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No prefix: How far does a car move before running out of gas on a road?

  • ArcherofScience
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Solving for v(f) using trig functions.

  • Apollinaria
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How to determine the force of friction from a graph?

  • Arooj
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Electrons motion at de broglies wavelength

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Two-Dimensional Projectile Motion

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Determining the electric potential at a distance

  • Parad0x88
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A car is moving by gravity force

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Simple pendulum with friction ODE

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How Do You Solve Partial Fractions with Quadratic Terms in Physics?

  • Nano-Passion
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Line of sight between two people

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Calculating Distance and Direction Between John, Paul, and George

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A rocket moves toward a mirror at .8c. My answer conflicts with chegg's

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How to Calculate Tension in a Massless Wire Correctly?

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How Does Bernoulli's Equation Apply to Hurricane Wind Pressures on a Roof?

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Struggling with Ohm's Law Lab Report?

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Heat and Conservation of Energy

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Finding the maximum/absolute error in calculating the density of a metal sample.

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Physics Lab Questions: Rubber Band & Force Probe

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Find the Proper Time given the time and distance between two events

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Fraction of the initial kinetic energy is transferred?

  • DrMcDreamy
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Electrostatic force using vectors

  • pcleary
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Max Altitude Reached by Rocket at 53° Angle

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How to get the distance traveled from the force and mass functions?

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Thermodynamic process, gas expansion

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Electricity and Kirchhoff's Laws

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Find the coefficient of restitution

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How Does Angular Momentum Affect Local Spacetime Curvature?

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Mechanics, Year One, Forces and perpendicular vectors

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2 quick questions (Force vector questions

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Refractive Index of Optical Fibre Core and Cladding

  • ~Sam~
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Friction Force - Bullet hitting a sandbag

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Photoelectric Effect in a Circuit

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Force Problem, Constant F=30N , 30*angle with ground, d=100m

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Tensile force in elevator problem

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How to find the horizontal range of the car rolling off an inclined cliff

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Particle disintegration problem from Landafshitz

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Maxwell Boltzmann Speed Distribution

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Synchronized Clocks: Time Dilation and Lorentz Transformations

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Is the Force F Conservative? Determining Work Along Different Paths

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Finding the total pressure acting on a submarine

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Latent heat of vaporisation question

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Moving Reference Frames: One Car Passing Another

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Skateboarder with a mass of 150kg

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Horizontal Force Required to move a box up a ramp

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Solving the Mystery of Skydiver's Acceleration

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Calculate the Frictional Force with Force, Mass, and Acceleration given.

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Why is the work of the skier against resistance not negative?

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Physics laws related for work and force.

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Solving for Mass of Block of Ice w/ Newton's 2nd Law

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Solving Circular Motion Problems: Displacement, Speed, & Acceleration

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Pendulum of unknown length and unknown g, only period given

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Checking Whether a Force is Conservative Using Integration

  • SHISHKABOB
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Tension in a light inextensible string

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Tennisball bouncing on wall - momentum

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Magnitude and direction of net force acting on a charge.

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Calculating Impact Velocity Using Coefficient of Restitution

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Finding the depth of a well after dropping a rock

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Finding the possible values of a force pushing a block

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Projectile, max height half the range, find angle

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Normal Force of an object being pushed

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Solving Circuit Questions: Finding Vth and Currents

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