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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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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,

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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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Static Equilibrium and Torque Homework Question

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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?

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

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I with a problem from yale physics open courseware?

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Circular Motion (finding speed)

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Is My Satellite Gravitational Forces Homework Correct?

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Using Bernoulli to find volume of water to pass through hole

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Thevenin equivalanet and max power question

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Calculating Resultant Vector from Angle & Vectors

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Calculating Tension and Friction in a Pulley System

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Meteor Accelerating towards the Earth

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Apparent Weight in a Spinning Space Station

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How to arrive at answer for integration question

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Fluid pressure (verification please)

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Universal Gravitation Question (solving for distance)

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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

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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?

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Application of archimede's principle

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Water Pressure in One Pipe Flowing to Another

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Basic Question about Forces: Understanding Normal and Reaction Forces

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Forces with angles, Find the acceleration

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Finding entropy change when house leaks heat

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Another Addition of Vectors question.

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

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

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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

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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?

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In desperate need of help with this statically indeterminable problem

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

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

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Equation help - water pressure at bottom of a pond

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Force = Mass x Acceleration + Gravity?

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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?

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Finding Time For Projectile Motion

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Help me solve question from last months exam paper please

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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.

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Trying desparately to wrap my head around proportional relationships

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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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Mastering Scientific Calculators: Tips and Tricks for Accurate Data Entry

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Calculating Work: 100N Block on Incline of 37o, 2m Distance

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Solving Normal Force Problem: Find Fn with Ks=46.0 J, v=4.50m/s

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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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Rutherford scattering experiment question

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Projectile Motion Question HELP

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Projectile motion and mechanical energy and a bunch of other stuff help

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Gr 11, Projectile Motions question?

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Calculating Momentum for Egg Drop Project

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Universal law of gravitation problem

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