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Solving the Rock's Final Velocity Off a 33m Cliff

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How Do You Calculate Tension and Compression Forces in Physics?

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Calculating Centripetal Force for 6 kg Object

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Angular vel. and mom.-origins vs. axes

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How Do Magnetic Forces Affect Parallel Wires and Moving Protons?

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Slipping on Rainy Days: The Impact of Footwear on Tiled Floors

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Finding Resistance of a Voltmeter

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Confirming Answers for Oscillating Mass on a Spring

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Dynamics, dependent motion analysis

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Magnetic Force in a Current Carrying Wire

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Momentum and Energy and Galilean Relativity

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Finding velocity and work involving friction Work Energy

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Circuit With Three Batteries Two Resistors

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Does charge remain on a capacitor after disconnecting the battery?

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Finding the magnitude of the magnetic field of a moving point charge

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How Do You Calculate the Moment of Inertia for a Rotating Wheel?

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Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum

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Calculate the magnitude of the magnetic field

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Grand partition function for helium absorption on a metal surface

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Infinite-distance object lens depiction

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Launching a Potato with a Spring: Solving for the Spring Constant

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Work to push a 600-kg crate up a 3m ramp at constant speed

  • dani123
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What would my uncertainty be with these 2 values?

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Snapshot and history graphs for a string under tension (drive mechanism)

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Mechanical Waves On a String - Speed, Amplitude, and Power

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Kinematics - calculating acceleration

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Finding displacement from variable acceleration

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Lifeguard swimming across a river with current

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Comparison of Net Electric Force on a +q

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How is energy lost to heat calculated?

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Bottle half filled with water rolling down an incline

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Total internal reflection at hypotenuse in 45-45-90 prism

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What is the Speed and Angle of a Comet Crossing Earth's Orbit?

  • Sekonda
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Is the Flow Laminar or Turbulent? Determining with Reynolds Number

  • joe98
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Inductor considered as a broken wire.

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What is the Correct Equation for Deviation by a Thin Prism?

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Quantum Mechanics: Understanding Probability and Current Flow

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Statics: System in equilibrium - determine height (h)

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Transient heat conduction in a slab

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Magnitude of tension force using moment

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Finding the angle between two vectors given sum and difference magnitudes

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Calculating Average Acceleration in Terms of g's for a Car Collision

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Approximation of distance to a Type Ia

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Tension in a rope connecting charged spheres.

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Tension of wires holding a suspended sign in equilibrium

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Magnitude of changing magnetic field

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Work Energy Theorem A Baseball thrown from a roof

  • MissEuropa
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Distance away to create the same magnetic field strength?

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How Much Work Does Alice Do in Pushing Jeff Up the Ramp?

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Calculating Work for a Dipole: 90J

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Roller Coaster Physics- Determining the highest point's height

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Moment vector expression to magnitude of moment

  • kleeds
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Calculating forces using point charges.

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Rectilinear motion (displacement, position) calculus

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Conceptual Question For Vectors

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What Speed and Angle Does m2 Leave After Collision?

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Why Is Heat Capacity at Constant Pressure Independent of Pressure?

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Calculating Swinger Mass with Limited Information

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Uniform Rod Pendulum - Lagrangian and Equations of Motion

  • urkirsty
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What is the surface charge density?

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Collisions and relative energy loss

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How long does it take for the police car to overtake the speeding car?

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What Are the Limits for Calculating the Radial Electric Field Potential?

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Derive expression for induced voltage and current

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Kinematics of a point in rectilinear motion

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Kinetic friction on an incline.

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Fluid flow rate lab- with analysis

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Satellite Hohmann transfer problem

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Gravitational potential energy concept question

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Magnetic Force Experienced by a Loop of Wire

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Calculate Tension in 5m String Attached to 4kg Bob

  • John78
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Particle Accelerator problem with a proton beam hitting a target

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Outward radial motion in unbanked turn

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Solving Algebra: How do we go from 1 to 2?

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Resolving force F1 into components along u and v axes

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Derivation of simple pendulum formula

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Changing A,B,C and D Beams to Chain for Perfect System Performance

  • zizodev
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Astronomy - Hohmann Transfer Orbit

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To double the energy stored by a capacitor, you should:

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Calculating Enthalpy Change in Adiabatic Compression

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Collision rates of argon and water vapor at 1 atm

  • roam
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Conservation of angular momentum in a spinning figure skater

  • chaotiiic
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Finding angle of inclination. Hanging object.

  • EVriderDK
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Some of mechanical apptitude test

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What Factors Affect Absolute Pressure at Lake Depths?

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Deriving Kepler's third law and geostationary orbit conditions

  • Tryan
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Physics Laboratory (Projectile Motion)

  • Mathoholic!
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Cylinder rolling down an inclined plane

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Lamborghini Speed test Calculations

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Magnetic Fields from Currents in a Wire

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Why does heat enter a system when entropy increases?

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The mass of a proton is 1836 times the mass of an electron.

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Finding the total resistance of a complex combination

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Calculating Final Velocity of a Bowling Ball

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Electron drift speed, Current, and Electric field in hollow wire?

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