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Oscillation and Rotation: Can You Solve These Equilibrium and Motion Problems?

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Find velocity of gun and bullet on frictionless surface

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Lift force on car roof at 100km/hr

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Membrane Potential and Permittivity

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High Pressure in Tyres, Won't Burst

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Speed of longitudinal wave 30 times the speed of a transverse wave?

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Particle's Velocity in t: -kt^3 + c

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Can the spring constant k be negative ?

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Magnetic Field of a Coil Problem

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Physics momentum and impulse questions

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How to Calculate Work Required for Moving a Charge in 2D Electric Field

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Centre of mass problem; Non uniform rod with ball weights

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Physical meaning of a commutator?

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Deriving x = A cos(ωt) for simple harmonic motion

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Calculate the pressure experienced by the sensor ?

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Kinetic friction, mass on track when will it stop.

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A plane is flying through the air at a velocity 88km/hr

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Find the speed of fluid using bernoulli

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How Far Should a 100kg Mass Be Placed from Point A to Keep a Rod Horizontal?

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Calculate the distance the aircraft has travelled ?

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Sound Intensity and Bird Watching

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Looking for tables of data - Nuclear/Particle physics

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Maximum current in parallel conducting rods above and below weight-lifter

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Equilibrium of Two Rods: Finding the Point of Toppling

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Rotating and Nonrotating Rods Superposed

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Calculating Time for a Person Pulling a Lawn Mower

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How Can Precision and Setup Influence Metal Rod Mass Measurement Accuracy?

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Calculate the voltage drop of the train (Picture included)

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Finding Moments of a Beam: Where Did I Go Wrong?

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Simply supported beams bending moment

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Finding speed and mass from kinetic energy and magnetic radius

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What Is the Hydrostatic Force on One End of a Tank Filled with Gasoline?

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Confirming Data Table for Mars Lander Speed-Time Graph

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Electric Potential, conducting sphere in a conducting shell

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Kirchoffs Law and simple circuit problem

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Calculating torque, force and angles

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Conservation Laws in Lagrangian Mechanics

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Finding the magnetic field at a point with two wires.

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Inelastic collision of two identical carts

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Why isn't linear momentum conserved?

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Calculating Applied Torque for a Grinding Wheel

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Java calling methods: how do I use them?

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Finding Max Determinant of 6x6 matrix

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Superposition of harmonic oscillations

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Nit-Picky Questions on Induced EMF, and Electromagnetism in General

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Resistors connected in parallel and series

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Does an Inelastic Collision Affect Conservation of Mechanical Energy?

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How far does the putty-block system compress the spring?

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In which situation is the magnetic force nonzero?

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Finding angular velocity of a car and period of a planet's rotation

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What is the angle of static friction for two boxes with different masses?

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What is the Tension Force of a Swing Set at the Bottom of its Path?

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How Does Inductance Affect Light Dimming in AC Circuits?

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Conservation of momentum vs conservation of kinetic energy

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Momentum question involving an elastic collision

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Thermodynamics: two pistons; different pressures, volumes, and temperatures

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Noted and corrected, thank you!

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Velocity - time home work check

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Standing sound waves for fundamental and first two overtones

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How Fast Does the Tip and Center of Mass of a Falling Rod Travel?

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Adiabatic Expansion: Solving for Pressure and Volume

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Angular momentum of ball spinning on a pendulum around a support point

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How Does an Ant Manage to Move a Caterpillar on an Inclined Plane?

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2D motion: frames of refrence: calculating velocity,heading and time

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Why is the constraint force on a rotating rod in the radial direction?

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Kinetic Energy of a Bowling Ball

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Solving a Monatomic Ideal Gas Expansion Problem

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Force Required by Rockets and Angular Acceleration

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Understanding Momentum and Conservation in Falling Balls

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What Is the Mass of the Second Ice Skater?

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Skier Going Uphill - Intro Physics Problem

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Potential Energy of System (Uniform Rod and String)

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How do you simplify the following expressions?

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Friction Force on Banked Curves

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Electric Field via partial derivative

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What is the force exerted by a golf club on a ball in a typical swing?

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Vertical Displacement of Electron (Millikan's Oil Drop)

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Conservation of Momentum in Different Frames of Reference

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Rotational Plus Translational Motion for Sphere of Yarn

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Conservation of Momentum possibly?

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Estimating current pulse duration and magnitude in Faraday's coil experiment

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How High Will Each Ball Swing After Elastic Collision?

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Angular and Linear Acceleration on a Wheel

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How to find the binding energy of a photon?

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Max speed of a car at a curve banked road.

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Expressions for the energy density of electromagnetic waves

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A person moves a full sam's club shopping cart mass=80.0 kg from rest

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Net Magnetic Field at the Center of a Loop and X Distance Away From a Wire

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Charging and Discharging capacitors

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Velocity and Loss in Energy onedimensional

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Elastic Collision or Inelastic Collision? Two balls colliding.

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Elastic Collision between billiard balls

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