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What Is The Sum of Foures On Two Equally Charged Pith Balls

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Find the Power to move a car on an incline

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2D Kinematics - Projectile Motion

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Electric Force of Two Charges on Third Charge

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Find the period of a particle with only max vel. and amplitude

  • here to help
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Why does Moon cause larger tides than Sun?

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Understanding Sound Cavity for Greenhands

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Why do events with lightlike separation cancel out when finding their frame?

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Pressure in a manometer - Absolute pressure

  • JJBladester
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Calculating a and b in excel (any excel masters)?

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Kinetic energy with compton effect

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Total energy of a geosynchronous satellite with mass 1500 kg

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Why is magnetic flux B times area, not B divided by area?

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Ive to work out the uncertainties for youngs modulus.would i take

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Force required to accomplish acceleration

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Force and pressure done by molecules

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Crate on a frictionless ramp, constant speed.

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What is the molecular mass of the unknown gas in the atmosphere?

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Kinetic energy of a recoiled electron when backscattered

  • StephenD420
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Electric Potential due to a charged conductor

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Calculating the number of particles colliding with an area per unit time

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Charged Sphere with off-center cavity Electric field

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Collision. A moving object hits a stationary object and moves at an angle

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Average torque of a rotational freefall

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Tough distance formula. (Answer provided), but how to get the answer?

  • LearninDaMath
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Linear Air Resistance with a proof

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Resistance and Temperature in conductors and semiconductors

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Spring System in Harmonic Motion. How do I find

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Special relativity and Density?

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Relativity: Time Dilation and Length Contraction

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[extremely easy question] the sign (+v or -ve) of potential energy

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Final velocity of two equal point charges repelling each other

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Electron moves from .93c to .99c in some amount of time, how far does it travel?

  • IntegrateMe
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Nonuniform Semicircle of Charge

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Deriving position from angular velocity on a rotating sphere.

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Underdamped Oscillator Solution: Deriving x(0) and v(0)

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Why is the H-field inside a magnet reversed?

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So what is the limit of [cot(x)]^2 as x approaches infinity?

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Find New Frequency When Length AND Diameter Is Decreased?

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Closing a Circuit: Which Switches Turn On Light?

  • physicsguy101
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Waves and sounds, finding the speed of a jet using the speed of sound

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Acceleration and Velocity Direction

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Linear acceleration of a rod fixed to a hinge at one end

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Distance a Block Moves up a Ramp

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Conceptual problem on capacitors

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Converting between Wavelength and Frequency in Resonators

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Baseball struck by bat: impulse and net force with 2D velocity

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Calorimetry: Thermal energy going into translational KE

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Energy needed to reach planets orbit and leave to leave it.

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What is the Acceleration of a Mass on an Incline Plane?

  • Koscher
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Average speed of helium molecules at room temperature

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Stresses and change in length in a compound bar

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Using Graph to determine constants in equation

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What is the electric force acting on the charge at the origin?

  • gotpink74
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Vibration table acceleration with springs at 900 rpm

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Need to calculate acceleration from total distance travelled.

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Unit Vector polar in terms of cartesian

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Introductory Relativity, Time Dilation

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Understanding Free Modes in Simple Harmonic Oscillators

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Electric field at point B in a square of four alternating charges

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Calculate Acceleration Given V0 and X

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Where is the net force zero between two point charges?

  • Sean1218
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Coulomb's Law and Electric Fields for a Triangle of Charges

  • gotpink74
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Electric force between charges of +2.8 µC and -4.8 µC separated by 4.5 cm

  • gotpink74
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2011 F = ma Contest Question # 25

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Why Do All Elements of a String Move Left in a Moving Reference Frame?

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Particle motion on potential energy curve with kinks

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Difference between position vector and displacement vector

  • LearninDaMath
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Charging and discharging capacitor

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Find the net amount of charged contained in a cube

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Dot Product confusion (no calculations involved)

  • LearninDaMath
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What Determines the Detachment Point of a Ball Rolling on a Circle?

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How Do You Calculate the Net Charge of a Substance?

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Calculating Electric Force with Coulomb's Law: Glass and Rubber Ball Example

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Subtracting this vector - as opposed to adding it

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Center of Mass coordinates Question

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Deflection angle of a comet traveling around the Sun

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How Can I Create a Buoyancy Lab for Extra Credit?

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Finding Specific Heat of oil with an electric heating coil

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Simple Harmonic Motion + Regular Kinematics

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Finding charge so that the electric field is zero

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System of particles passing over a pulley

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Sciene fair project, freefall stuff - need one equation for time

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Energy Conservation Design Lab Idea

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What's the Difference Between Mass and Amount of Matter?

  • JJBladester
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Fluid Mechanics of a metal cube

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Work done by air in piston with temperature change

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Find the charge distribution pattern.

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Acceleration when only distance is given for a single second

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Finding temperature change with specific heat capacity

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Calculating Tension on Suspended Rod in Fluid

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E-field inside a non-conducting hollow pear.

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Finding the electric field at 3 points due to 2 identical charges.

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Coulomb's law point charges distance for 0 net force

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Finding acceleration in two blocks, one hanging and other on board.

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