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Does Heating a Pop Can Increase Internal Pressure?

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Pulling my hair out over this one

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Find max height of inclined plane

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Building a Sand-Travelling Car that Fires a Projectile

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Two Balls - One Suspended, One Stationary

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Projectile shot horizontally from a 620 m cliff at 220 m/s

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How Long Does a Hohmann Transfer from Earth to Vesta Take?

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Movement caused by wind (changing force)

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Kinetic Energy and Parabolic Motion

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What is the meaning of m3 kg-1 s-2 in gravitational constant

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Find the normal force on an inclined plane.

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Torque from rope tension at an angle on a tree

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Electromagnetism/Permeability Question

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A 50-kg object was dropped from a height of 2 meters from water level

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Solving for Acceleration & Tension: Newton's Laws

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If wind blows at 39 m/s over a house,

  • Carnivroar
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Static equlibrium with friction

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Answer Right? Calculate Satellite Slow-down, Find Relativity Speed-up

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Field Intensity of Flat Capacitor

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Some Easy Questions About Electricity

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How Does a Deuteron Splitting in a Cyclotron Affect Particle Trajectories?

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What Is the Magnitude of the Impulse Delivered to the Football?

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Hiker on a bridge: forces on supports at each end

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Calculating Speed & Acceleration of Banelings

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What is the net force acting on a submerged juniper wood plank?

  • kieslingrc
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What is the displacement after traveling on two different compass headings?

  • Scooter I
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Induced current in aluminum ring around solenoid

  • twisted079
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I with a problem from yale physics open courseware?

  • lezoujonathan
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Circular Motion (finding speed)

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Satellite orbital radius, speed, and period from gravitational force

  • HarleyM
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Using Bernoulli to find volume of water to pass through hole

  • mm2424
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Thevenin equivalanet and max power question

  • takeiteasy
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Finding resultant vector given two vectors and the angle between them

  • danialq15
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Calculating Tension and Friction in a Pulley System

  • LiFK
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Meteor Accelerating towards the Earth

  • HarleyM
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Apparent Weight in a Spinning Space Station

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How to arrive at answer for integration question

  • Alexenn
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Force on tank bottom from gauge pressure

  • kieslingrc
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Universal Gravitation Question (solving for distance)

  • lindsey0307
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How Do Energy Conversions Occur in a Spring-Loaded Device?

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Statics problem - bridge made of 2 segments

  • Kattik
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How Do You Calculate Normal Force and Speed in Physics Problems?

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Bird Flies Between Two Trains Crashing at 60m/s

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Dropping from 4 times the height, how much longer does it take?

  • Kaldanis
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Application of archimede's principle

  • vrinda mukund
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Pressure drop in tapered water pipe using Bernoulli's equation

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Why does the normal force point away from the surface?

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Forces with angles, Find the acceleration

  • plumeria28
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Finding entropy change when house leaks heat

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Finding displacement for two successive walks

  • Scooter I
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Conservation of linear momentum applied to rotating systems? (with picture)

  • lillybeans
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Reading a P-V Diagram for heat in/out and work in/out

  • mm2424
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Taking the derivative of displacement

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Roller coaster rider weight problem

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Two blocks tied to a string with mass and accelerating

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Concentric Metal Sphere - Gauss's Law

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How do black holes relate to physics?

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Rotating rod with little rings that slides out

  • amiras
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What Are the Correct Units of Coulomb's Constant?

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Rigid Body Dynamics: balls colliding

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Circular motion-mass and radius given- finding frequency and force

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How Does Moving a Boat Affect Scale Readings and Torque?

  • canicon25
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Finding force at hip in statically indeterminate leg model

  • Chelsiukas
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Are my answers correct? (Newton's laws etc)

  • Kaldanis
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Why Is the Change in Momentum 8Ns Instead of -8Ns?

  • thoradicus
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When to include hydrostatic pressure term in force problems?

  • elchoi
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Force = Mass x Acceleration + Gravity?

  • glambeth
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How Fast is a Clock Moving if It Runs Four Times Slower?

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Electric Potential related to velocity

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Problem with Thermodynamics. Period dependence on temparature.

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How Do You Calculate Normal Force and Tension Direction at Point O?

  • laimonel
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Finding Time For Projectile Motion

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Help with NCEA physics exam questions

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Can you write the ideal gas law this way?

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Torque/Moment of inertia. Find the mass of the sphere.

  • whatusername
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Trying desparately to wrap my head around proportional relationships

  • Ontophile
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What is the required impulse to bring the car to rest?

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Electric field of a point near a dipole

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Torque problem involving bicep holding ball

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Avoiding calculation errors when entering numbers into my calculator

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Work done pushing a 100N block up a 37° incline 2m

  • Saitama
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Finding normal force on a block moving up a frictionless ramp

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How Do You Calculate Initial Temperature Using Newton's Law of Cooling?

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Mechanics of Materials - Shear and Compression

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Monkey force diagram and tension problem

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Tension Problem: How a Horizontal Force Affects Rope Tension

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Required tension of rope around a cylinder to hold a object.

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Resonance frequencies question (first and second resonance frequencies)

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How Can Theta Be Integrated into the Projectile Motion Equation?

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Question on Archimedes principle.

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What is the Tension in a Vertical Circular Path with Given Parameters?

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Finding mass of a planet when density varies with radial distance

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