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Calculating acceleration using Experimental equation

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PhET ramp simulator: how mass and angle affect sliding distance

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Max Charge on Sphere: Calculating with Electric Fields

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How Do You Calculate the Correct Launch Angle for a Projectile?

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How to Derive Formulas for Mass and Angle in Ramp Experiments?

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Revolutions frequency after collision

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More Forces with some trig; I don't know where the mistake is

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Velocity-Vs Time Graphs - 2nd problem

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Sketching Kinematic Graphs for a Person's Movement from a Reference Point

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Frictional force, velocity, and acceleration

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Is Biconcave the Same as Double Concave?

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Spring Constant and Time Period

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What Is the Viscosity of the Fluid in a Concentric Cylinder Viscometer?

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Fluid mechanics calculating force needed to lift submerged disc

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Point slope equation and velocity

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How Do You Calculate Initial Current in a Multi-Capacitor RC Circuit?

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Phase difference b/w air-water interface and water-air interface

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Pressure from a 5kg ball on fingertip and water pressure at depth

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Why electric potential of arc treated like point charge

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Dark matter density calculation

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Charge distribution and electric field with concentric conducting shells

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Why does electric field strength increase as potential gradient decreases?

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Current from stream of particles

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Finding incident angle when only deviation angle is known

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What Is Vo in a Power Source Diagram Circuit?

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Electric field from very long wire

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Work and Voltage Change in Moving a Proton from Infinity to 0.16m

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Calculating Wavelength from Double-Slit Interference Pattern

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Equilibrium under parallel forces

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Resultant forces of coplanar systems

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Find how much a wire stretched at the bottom of swing of pendulum

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Find the Distance of a Toy Zebra from a Chute

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Velocity change by running engine for 1 year

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Ladder leaning against a wall friction factor

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How Do You Calculate Tension and Acceleration in a Two-Mass System?

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What Frequency Causes a Rock to Lift Off a Vibrating Platform?

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Interrelation between energy and momentum

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Block on inclined plane with pulleys and friction

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Solving 2 Loop RC Circuit: Find I1(0)

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Give a symbolic expression for submerging a metal in water

  • Anna55
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What Is the Minimum Mass Needed to Move the Block in a Pulley System?

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A 1600 kg jet engine is fastened to the fuselage of a passenger jet

  • sb13
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Force and Constant Acceleration Problem

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If a 1000 kg car is moving at 10 m/s brakes to stop in 5 seconds.

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Finding a Function from Experimental Data

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Total work done on clay during Spring Compression

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Water Height in Bucket with Filling Hose

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At what phase is the heat capacity the greatest?

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Find Voltage on Y-Axis for y>>s

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How Do You Calculate the Gravitational Force on a 2 kg Mass?

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How Does the Displacement Equation Calculate Position Changes in Physics?

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Acceleration (of an orange, 2 possible answers)

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Is Electron Motion in a Loop Wire Accelerated?

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What is the magnitude of the dipole's electric field at point P?

  • McAfee
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Finding Relationship Information from Graph (direct proportionality)

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Why conservation of energy fails for this inelastic puck collision

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Relationship Between Charge, Mass, and Balloon Intrinsic Energy

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To double the power dissipated by a resistor you can

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Calc Work Req'd for 4 Charges in Figure

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Concept: Air Resistance in Projectile Motion

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Elastic 2D Collision with Lots of Unknowns

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Net force on a particle with potential energy function

  • Koscher
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Finding Electric Field Outside a Charged Conductor

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Spherical conductors connected by a wire.

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Capacitor Problem involving a slab of Copper between a Capacitor

  • Simon777
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Trying to find the appropriate motor for a sliding door

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Calculating the Mass of Saturn Using Orbital Data

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Electric Field on Central Axis

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How Do You Calculate the Charge on Capacitor C5 in a Mixed Circuit?

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Simple Harmonic Motion with Impulse

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Speed of projectile launched propelled by air pressure

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Photon-photon collision - electron-anti electron pair creation

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Instantaneous velocity from avg velocity with constant accelartion

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Simple Harmonic Motion conceptual question

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Ideal Gas Law and pressure in a holder

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Describing the motion of a graph.

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Finding theta on an incline plane

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Complex Numbers added as impedances in parallel

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When you drive a .36 kg apple, Earth exerts a force on It that

  • KellySierra22
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How to Derive Velocity from Newton's Second Law?

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Gauss' Law for nonconducting sphere

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Net force and distance for a hockey puck with friction

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A box slides on top of a cart as a force is applied to the cart

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Pond Hockey: Vector Displacement Calculation

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Magnetic Field required to seprate to ions

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Electric potential energy of two fission daughter nuclei

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Vertical Deflection in Ink-Jet Printer

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Does 1 Joule of Energy Have a Distinct Mass?

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How Does Gauss' Law Apply to a Non-Uniformly Charged Hollow Sphere?

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Electric Potential Difference in a Circuit with Emf Devices

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Using cos and sin in ramp friction problems

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Lorentz Law field equation applied in a field

  • shyguy79
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Newton's laws with buckets and strings

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How Does Wood Slow Down a Bullet?

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Calculating Mechanical Energy Lost to Friction on Ski Slope

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Calculate the Net Force Acting on the Object.

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Kinetic energy dissipation by friction

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