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Rectangular box tips over (or not)

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Solving for Electric Force: Two Point Charges

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Kinetic rotational energy problem

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Finding pressure due to a fluid

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What Single Displacement Would Sink the Golf Ball for an Expert?

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What Should Be the Angle of the Slope for a Perfect Ski Jump Landing?

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Understanding Charge Separation in the Presence of Static Electricity

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Projectile Motion: Finding angles given velocity and impact coordinates

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Longest and shortest distance in an elliptical orbit

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Speed related to Average Velocity

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What are the vector directions for the electric fields in each part?

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Pressure with Depth; understanding Apparatus

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Define Angle of Projection with The Given Parameters

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Resultants of Nonconcurrent Force Systems

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Calculating Work for Removing Water from Syringe

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Infinite Sheets of Charge and Conducting Slab

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Help finding instantaneous velocity graphically

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Underdamped Harmonic oscillator with applied force

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Why is the electric field inside a conductor zero?

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Bernoulli's law for water coming out of a faucet

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What Is the Velocity of a Galloping Horse in the First Ten Seconds?

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Dropping sand onto a conveyor belt

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Collision of Equal Mass Hockey Pucks

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How Much Energy is Lost When Charging a Capacitor?

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Physics problem with masses and pulley and a ramp

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New memeber. ball trajectory puzzle

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Solving Spacecraft Slingshot Homework

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How does substituting t in the y-coordinate equation affect the outcome?

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Capacitor Circuit Calculations - How to Find Charge, Energy and Voltage

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Determining Optimal Density for Floating Hollow Spherical Ball in a Liquid

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How Does a Skier's Launch Angle Affect Their Landing Distance?

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What is the potential energy of a pyramid?

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What can we learn from a bouncing ball experiment?

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Where Does the Crate Strike the Wall?

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Century Growth Problem: Rate of Change

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Are there Electrostatic Fields at infinity?

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Motion Attachment: A Scientific Inquiry

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Find Air Temperature in a 25.3cm Air Column with 1024Hz Frequency

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Effect of radius changes on electric fields and potential difference?

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What Happens to Charge When Capacitor Plate Separation Doubles?

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How Urgent Requests Impact Online Help Response?

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Capacitors charge and voltage relationship

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Estimate Water Usage for Local Town of 30000

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Projectile Motion Particle Problem

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U-Tube Fluid Statics: Solving for Water Column Length and Mercury Rise

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(Mechanics)An interesting question about projectile

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Linear Motion - Minimum Retardation to Avoid Crash?

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Calculate Brewster angle for glass

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Calculating Gasoline Needed for 50.0hp Heat Engine Output

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Special Relativity: Time Dilation

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Mass in MeV/c2 of a particle with a mass of 4.032u

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Solving the Last Problem: Finding the Maximum Height

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What is the Probability Density for a Wave Function?

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How to Calculate Tension and Velocity in a Rotational System?

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Where an electric field is equal due to two charges?

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Electric Potential outside of a spherical conductor

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Upstream and Downstream one dimensional motion

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Projectile motion: Finding out the time and Dx

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Speed and Velocity(Driving Me Crazy)

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Horizontal cable with one vertical point force

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Finding vectors parallel and perpendicular to plane

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Rotational Speed/Linear Speed help, need confirmation

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Does Normal Force Do Work in Vertical Motion?

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Two-deminsional motion problem: HELP

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[Electromagnetism] How much work is required in moving Q3 to infinity?

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Spring force with free fall problem

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Energy loss, stopping power equation,

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Heat Exchange: Ice added to water

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Resultant Frequency of two unlike soundwaves

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Soundwave Intensities and power

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What is the charge on a suspended raindrop between two parallel plates?

  • shyguy79
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Projection up an inclined plane

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Finding out the mass of an object given only height

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Thermal Expansion of Brass piston in Steel cylinder

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Two spheres hanging, find charge.

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Total energy of a star in terms of average temp.

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Static Electricity and Algebra Problems

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Finding the number of spheres in a graduated cylinder

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Kinematics In Two Dimensions - Archery

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Maximum charge and voltage on a sphere

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Polar coordinates of an electric field

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What Steps Are Needed to Solve This Circuit Analysis Problem?

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One dimensional motion- object accelerating straight downwards

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Application of Newton's Laws of motion

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Atmospheric Pressure Sounds Intense

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What Determines the Maximum Compression of a Spring in an Elastic Collision?

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Plank and torque, problem with finding center mass

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Energy efficiency - purchasing the right furnace

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Solid state physics-effective mass problem.

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