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Which Bottle Rocket Fuel Achieves Higher Altitudes?

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How Do You Calculate Distance and Direction Using Vector Coordinates?

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Statics Problem: hanging disk, tensions etc.

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[Concept] Why is potential 0 when electric field isn't?

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Rolling without slipping - too many equations

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Vector diagram - particle collision

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Understanding Doppler Formula: Solving for Vs and Equivalencies

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Alternating Current Wheatstone-like Bridge

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Why is heliocentrism preferred if geocentrism is mathematically equivalent?

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Combination of Capacitors and Equivalent Capacitance

  • arl146
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Basketball hangtime physics problem

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Two Dielectric Materials in Capacitor

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How Fast Must the Hammer Move to Ring the Bell at the Carnival?

  • Parzival
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Calculating Force on Cushioned Legs from Dropped Mass

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Vectors - crossing a river w/ given flow

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Centripital F. : Solve for Velocity given ax and r

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Show that Q is proportional to V for capacitor

  • jsmith613
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Electric potential at a distance r from a non-conducting sphere

  • Wheelwalker
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Deceleration during braking is not constant

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Find momentum of particle in B field

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How Do You Calculate the Phase Angle in an LCR Circuit?

  • Sleepy_time
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Lifting a prism; coefficient of friction

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A man walks on a straight road from his home to market 2.5km

  • reshmi
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How does a thin sheet of aluminum impact capacitance in a circuit?

  • aimiit
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Finding magnitude direction and speed of a plane trip

  • wbetting
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Solving an ODE-45 from Euler-Lagrange Diff. Eqn.

  • Axecutioner
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Calculate the KE of an electron emitted from the beta decay of a neutron

  • chirumu
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What constants are known when a ball rolls off a table?

  • jillime
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Max. n for TIR - air-medium interface

  • psyphy
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What are the limitations to the equipartition theorem

  • imagemania
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Maximum impulse a human can withstand?

  • bduffany
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Who Crosses the River Faster, Boy A or Boy B?

  • daysrunaway
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Relationship between the angle and time of a tilted falling object

  • bug13
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How Does a Neutral Metal Ball Interact with a Nearby Point Charge?

  • funoras
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Force per unit length between two parallel whires of +/- X volts

  • kryzlof
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Wave Velocity: Improper approach, or incorrect differentiation?

  • rusty65
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Determine the thermal effieincy of a heat transfer process

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Velocity of Transverse Waves problem

  • rusty65
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A circuit problem involving voltage/current.

  • thoradicus
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Solving gravitational force between two 70 kg masses 1 m apart

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Force of Spring and Potential Energy of Spring Pushing a Box

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Pith ball and parallel plate capacitor prolem

  • nyxsilverjk
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How do I calculate the length of a rod?

  • exibo177
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How to find terminal velocity from experimental data?

  • greco117
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Calculating Wattage Rating in Series/Parallel Circuits

  • nyxsilverjk
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Collision distance and speed with braking police car

  • wbetting
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Why is explosion energy added to initial kinetic energy, not final?

  • physics.geeks
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Finding coefficient of friction on a rough section of a ramp

  • tmb1986
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Oscillation - car losing contact with bridge

  • jsmith613
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Speed and Direction of Electron orbiting within a Solenoid

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Calculating Centripetal Acceleration of a 7200 RPM Hard Drive

  • goracheski
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Why is Random Error Higher than Literature Error?

  • huey910
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Mechanics Question for a diver jumping off a Board

  • muzamilg
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Find velocities after elastic collision of 60 kg and 220 kg balls

  • Mushroom79
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Torque/moment of beam in equilibrium

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Calculating quality of steam after isentropic expansion

  • Ortix
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Heat transfer, energy needed to heat house

  • Leaffy
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Solving Relative Momentum and Rest Mass Confusion

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A motor takes Ts to cover the distance ?

  • manal950
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Newton's Second Law finding value of force problem

  • goomer
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Can You Solve These Linear Equations for Variables a and w0?

  • manal950
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Visualization of uncertainty principle [graphs]

  • moniqu3
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Rotational Motion, angular velocity

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Finding angle between two towns and antenna height

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Finding Earth's radius from sunset timing with elevated viewpoint

  • TrevorRyan
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Potential of spherical and non-spherical mass distributions?

  • Schmetterling
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Questions in linear motion and rotating motion

  • manal950
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Simple Harmonic Motion, spring periods

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When does the spacecraft reach a distance of 3 AU from the sun?

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Finding sphere radius from mass and density

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How Fast Is the Skier Going Before She Lands?

  • Parzival
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Find Average Power Given Mass and Velocity

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Velocity due to increasing mass

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Individual Spherical Capacitors

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Finding spring constant and unstretched length in SHM

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How Do You Calculate Wave Properties in a String Experiment?

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Two-lens system with virtual image from first lens

  • bob778111
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Basic Kinetics Question: Calculate Velocity on a Circular Path - Homework Help

  • Femme_physics
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Rotational mechanics sphere collision problem

  • shreyashebbar
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Spring stiffness calculation - Curved beam

  • Vasan
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Find the coordinate where net electric field is 0

  • 1MileCrash
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Which Method Requires Less Force to Move an Object 1.2m?

  • World
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Parallel plate capacitor by an electric field between the plates

  • SMSeeds
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Calculating the force during a collision.

  • mnaik3
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Finding volume by using cross section?

  • exibo177
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Where Should I Place My Telescope to Observe VY Canis Majoris?

  • Johnboy
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How can i find breaking strength of steel, if it's possible at all?

  • exibo177
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Total energy of mass spring system?

  • Questions999
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Sound, phase difference and number of minima

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Center of mass of a tank (military vehicle)

  • fondrika
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What is a Dual Vector in Bra and Ket Notation?

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Quantum Mechanic. penetration distance and probability Density

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Quantum tunneling and radioactive decay.

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