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Rotation at an angle - Tether ball (Finding length)

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Free fall with air resistance, must find velocity

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How Does Adding Different Dielectrics Affect a Capacitor's Performance?

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Conservation of Energy with a spring

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Is the Ballistic Pendulum a Conservative Process?

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Gravitational Potential Due to a Thin Rod of Varying Density.

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Conservation of Elastic and Gravitation Energy - 2

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Thermal Physics Problem: Determining Volume & Cp/CV for Ammonia Gas

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Momentum, Friction, and Velocity, OH MY

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Potential Energy between molecules

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Calculating Momentum Change of 70kg Passenger in Car Crash

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Thermodynamics - Please help me to calculate the final gas pressure.

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Calculating the Current in a Two battery Combination Circuit

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Circuit help? with two batteries and resistors

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Cubic equation with two unknown coefficients

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Kinematics Problem and stream of people

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Conservation of Elastic and Gravitational Energy

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What is the Intersection and Plane Determination for Parametric Lines?

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What is the support reaction at E for the 9m length beam?

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How to calculate Laws of Thermal Radiation

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Electrostatic Field Lab Question

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Center of Mass of system of particles

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Magnetic field, energy, and mass

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What is the Charge of the Larger Sphere in Electrostatic Equilibrium?

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Friction between boxes - please check if this is right

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Need help calculating angle with coefficient of static friction

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How Do You Create a Line of Worst Fit in Excel?

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Mechanics - work done conservation of energy *Help needed*

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Velocity of electron shot from a solenoid.

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Not sure how to do 2 body problem

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Chaining pressure vessels and outlet temperature

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Calculate Final Position of a Car Using Acceleration on a Level Road

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Optimizing Golf Shot Trajectory for a Hole-in-One

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Relationship of particle charge to speed?

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Help with friction Not sure where to start

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Loop the loop question, given only radius.

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Finding equation for potential between concentric charged spheres

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Probability current inside the barrier of a finitie square potential well

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Gravitational motion problem, degrees along orbit

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Difference between power formulas

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Newton measures the speed of gravity

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Replacing a battery with a charged capacitor

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How far can the remote control extend without tipping over?

  • mmajames
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Maximum Static Force before Blocks Slip

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Magnetic field strength from charged particle circular motion

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Item with Uniform Velocity intersects with Item with Uniform Acceleration

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Understanding Magnetic Fields: Compass Direction in a Bar Magnet

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Momentum when object is thrown at angle

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Series and parallel circuit with multiple resistors?

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How Does Nonconservative Work Affect a Child's Speed on a Slide?

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Kinetic Energy loss in a completely inelastic collision

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What is the initial speed of the ball?

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Finding electric force on electron given acceleration

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How can I solve these three electrostatic problems with different scenarios?

  • Genericcoder
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Magnetic Field, potential difference and speed

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Magnetic Field and Force (in a solenoid)

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Find the Electric Field at a midway point

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Thermodynamics phase changes steam and water

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Help with distance between cities?

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Showing different physics quantities of a drum pad

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Why Are Trigonometric Component Rules Reversed for Vectors?

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70kg climber roped to 940kg rock on frictionless ice

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Coefficient of Friction between slide/girl

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Solving Gauss Law Question: Q/(πR^4)

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Find Resultant Force of F1,3 & F2,3 | .899 N Magnitude

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Simple Harmonic Motion (displacement function)

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Current out of the battery, capacitor

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Finding the work done to remove a dielectric slab.

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Static friction on banked curve

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Problem with variable capacitor and changing angles

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Spring Constant when compressed

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Measuring volatge across capacitor with a not ideal oscilloscope

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Rotation in a Vertical Plane - tension on a bucket

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What does it mean variable Direct Current ?

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Ship and Iceberg - Speed of sound question

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Electrical field strength problem

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So the webpage title would be: How do you show that sin i*theta = i*sinh(theta)?

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Determine the smallest coefficient of friction

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Magnitude of force between blocks

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Circular Magnetic Field and direction problem

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I don't understand how to calculate leg3 for x3? ?

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How Do You Calculate Uncertainty in Stress Measurements?

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How Much Force Does the Top Chain Link Exert on the Middle Link?

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Calculating Frequency Using Doppler Effect in Rotating Speakers

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Need help on direction of acceleration

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Half-life exercise, radioactive/non-radioactive ratio

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Calculating Heat Transfer in a Brick Wall: Homework Question Explained

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Solving a Relativity Homework - Need Help!

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Solving Force Needed for Moving Body from Rest at 5m/s for 15m in 2s

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Can a paper and tape tower hold 1 L of water for more than 1 minute?

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Parallel/Perpendicular to the slope

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Derivation of formula for orbital ranges in hydrogen atom

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Average induced emf in coil with turns

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Extremely frustrated - inclined plane problem w/ friction

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Finite square well potential question

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