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Normal force of weight on the ground

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Energy of incident of light to amplitude of light?

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How Do You Calculate the Sound Intensity of Each Singer in a Choir?

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Why Is Deceleration on Landing More Than Just Gravity?

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Deflection of electron beam in oscilloscope

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Equivalent Resistance: Simplifying Circuits with Symmetry

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Find the Total Current in a Single Loop Circuit

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Converting proton momentum from MeVc⁻¹ to SI units

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Requesting (advice) and help on academic assignment.

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Moment of Inertia of a Non-Uniform Rod?

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Special relativity spacecraft speed question

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Acceleration of a proton in an electric field

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How much ice melts when a projectile is fired at it?

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How Does a Ball's Mass Affect Its Final Velocity After Colliding with a Plank?

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How can I find the tension in a rope at equilibrium point on a high wire?

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Tried to find the acceleration by doing ma=mg-mkv^2

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Thermodynamics - Pressure Question

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Possible friction force needed for a car on a banked curve

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Isobaric process; change in internal energy

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Finding Electric Field at r>= R with Four Point Charges

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Classical Mechanics: Forces on two cylinders

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Not your average car collision (very real life ) - no values supplied

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What's Happening on this Roller Coaster?

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What Are the Energy Transformations in a Car-Truck Collision?

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Heat Engines and Work: Combining Two Engines

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What Factors Affect the Motion of a Toy Car Down a Slope?

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Magnitude of magnetic flux of a solenoid using Biot-Savart law

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Elastic collision between particle and rotating rod

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Gravitational pull with the earth and moon

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SHM Mass Hanging on a Spring - Find velocity at given position in path

  • kchurchi
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Rotational Dynamics about an axis parellel to the axis at the center of mass

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Understanding Why a Rod Doesn't Rotate Around Its Center of Mass

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How do I calculate the new speed given a doubled momentum?

  • Peter G.
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Find sound wavelength from a vibrating string

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Kinematics- police driver acceleration problem

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Pulley system (ideal pulley) Find the angle with vertical line

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Website showing Experimental Lab Reports

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How Do You Convert Astronomical Units to Parsecs Using a Calculator?

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Kinematcis, archer and his arrow

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How do I find the electric field of a charged strip of tape?

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Angular momentum of this classical electron?

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Checking impulse-momentum answers for parts c and d

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Force between two square configurations of point charges

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Solving for accelerations and tension from three coupled equations

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What is special about the center of mass point?

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Finding the height above a window after an object passes it

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What must be the charge and placement of the third charge

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Mechanics Problem (falling object)

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Determining Number of Electrons moving through a lamp.

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Acceleration of a conducting bar on rails in a magnetic field

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How Much Power Does a Pump Need to Move Water from a Deep Hole?

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Calculating Work and Energy in Electrostatic Systems

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Gravitational force of three objects on a fourth

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Non uniform circular acceleration

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Mechanical advantage and force analysis of complex pulley systems

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Electric Fields and Protons: Solving for Time, Velocity, and Distance

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Impulsive force due to a falling chain

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Finding a third force to balance two forces in 3D

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Change in water height of a wave pool

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Potential energy and conservation

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Problem Understanding A Main Sequence Question:

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Static Equilibrium and magnitude

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Equilibrium - Ladder against wall

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Calculate current/equivalence resistance of this circuit

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Radiation pressure force on Echo II satellite balloon

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Stick 2 Rotation: Finding Max Stability

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How Do You Calculate the Final Angular Velocity of a Spinning Top?

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Diffraction gratings - calculating the highest order maximum

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Determine the electric field at the centre of the triangle

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Dot products, show that r'.r''=0

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3D Rigid body dynamics - Rod over rotating disk

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Heat engine- calculating minimum energy per cycle from hot reservoir

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Solving Charge in Conductors: Find Q1, Q2 & Combined Potential

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How Many Meters Did You Win the Race By?

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Friction force and maximum torque

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Total entropy change for ice melting in a room

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Why Does the Car Move When Pushing a Heavier Bus?

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What is the distance between the ship and the submarine using a laser?

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Calculus problem concerning acceleration

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Diameter of circle of light seen from above water - illuminated beneath

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Energy stored in coil with given relationship between current and flux

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How Does a Moving Pulley Affect Acceleration and Tension in a Mechanics Problem?

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Why is the electric field zero inside a conducting shell?

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Why does relativistic velocity addition give 1c instead of 0.81c?

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Work and force: frictionless rollercoaster

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Calculating Doppler Shift for Radar Gun and Moving Ambulance

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Calculating Speed and Kinetic Energy in a Car Collision

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What Is the Speed of a Tennis Ball Dropped from 20m?

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Representation of the wave crests

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Calculate Factor of Safety for Steel Hanger w/ 550 MPa Strength

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Simple position-time function question

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(x1, ct1) = (25m, 25m) - What do the 'm' represent? (SR)

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