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Rounding Sig Figs: 6.941+63.996+35.45 = 106.387

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Force exerted by a seatbelt, on driver, after collision

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Capacitors, Capacitance and Dielectrics

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What Defines the Practice of Science?

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Finding the couple vector of this ice boat

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Why does Bernoulli's equation represent energy conservation?

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Finding the Overall heat transfer coefficient

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Flow of water in a venturimeter

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Find the distance x using Coulomb's law.

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Finding reaction forces on segmented beam with axial loads and moment

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How long does a moun live during a measurement

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How much does Newtons 3rd Law account for Lift in %?

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Unit Conversion: SI to British Units with Real-Life Consequences

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Finding wall thickness for a hollow lead sphere to float in water

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Basic thermo question: heat engine efficiency

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Kinematics: Constant Acceleration

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Mass vs. weight with a falling rock and a spring scale

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Making Inferences From Motion Graphs

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Electric field inside a solid sphere

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Conservation of Energy in Satellite Motion

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What is the radius of the track

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Buoyancy to find mass, density and force to submerge

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The classic car-passing train problem ( really bad)

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Electric Field in a Square Problem

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Magnitude of the electrostatic force

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One-D Kinematic Question w/ rising hot air balloon

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How correct is deriving Coulomb's Law from Gauss's Law

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Find Distance Traveled From 40m Height for 20m/s Velocity at 0° Angle

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What is the Electric Force in Equilibrium?

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Motion project investigation ideas for grade 11

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Calculating the Tension in Cables for Elevator Movement

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Finding Propagation of Uncertainty?

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Find the currents i1 and i2 in the circuits

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Electromagnetics Question Circuits

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Calculating kilowatt hours concerning a toaster

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Equipartition Theorem and Microscopic Motion

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Friction force on an inclined plane

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Compression of a spring with friction

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How to calculate the efficiency of a trebuchet?

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Momentum of a free falling object

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Electric Potential - Work: Negative or Positive

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Springs and Impulse (how can I relate them)

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Average velocity of a falling object problem

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Finding the angle of a dive bomber droping a bomb.

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How Does Coulomb's Law Apply to Non-Point Charged Particles?

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How Fast Does the Elevator Reach Its Top Speed?

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Tricky Charge/Net Force Problem

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What Force is Needed to Push a 40kg Sled on Ice with μk = 0.05?

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Free falling particle with air resistance

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Motion of a particle on a rotating frictionless turntable

  • Tanya Sharma
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Make a rough estimate of the volume of your body (in cm3).

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Advanced physics probelm involving conservation, from six ideas Unit C textbook

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Cross product of vectors (4i+3j-2k) and (2i-3j+2k)

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Heat Transfer Rate of 2 Heating Coils on Aluminium Plate

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Projectile problem: throwing something off a tower

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Physics of Flight - From where does lift come?

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Finding the Current in a circuit, with series opposing voltage sources.

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2-D Kinematics: Distance of Rocket from Launch Pad

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Roller Coaster Friction Problem

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Car traveling at two speeds: finding total distance and average velocity

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Fluid mechanics gage pressure - did I do it right?

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Avg Velocity Avg speed question

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Equivalent angles and Trig Fucntions

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Finding various currents around the circuit

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Magnitude of momentum between each pair of adjacent locations

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How to find Instantaneous acceleration with points from a graph

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Ohm's Law and its Physical Consequences

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Gauss's Law - point charge and charged sphere.

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Light pulse from moving clock in special relativity

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Motion with Constant Acceleration problem

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Potential Energy problem (i think)

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How Long Does It Take for an Aluminum Cube to Warm from 10°C to 20°C?

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30º above the horizontal with initial velocity problem

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Current, Power dissipation in a cord

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Super congfused about finding distance with constant acceleration

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The Sun, on average, is 93 million miles from Earth. How many meters is this?

  • Potential123
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Spherical Percent Uncertainty and Violent Storm Question

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Integrate Plancks Function to find Stefans Law

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[Non-uniform Air Density] Pressure problem

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Doubling speed and distance traveled

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Hubble's constant and the age of the universe calculation

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Capacitor directly connected to a DC battery.

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Converting 1.419 × 10^6 g to kilograms

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Basic conversion question physics 101

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Small angle approximation in trigonometry

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Simple Vector Question Related to Conservation of Momentum

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Finding the acceleration of a car based on a velocity vs time plot

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Calculating electron speed from distance and time

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Flow of fluid out of vertical tube

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Acceleration and weight question

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Displacement Vectors finding magnitude of R and theta

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Can Police Catch the Speeding Motorist?

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Vertical Jump Time Calculation for Basketball Player

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