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What is the Normal Force on a Rider in a Ferris Wheel at the Midpoint?

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A 63-kg student stands on a 34-kg cart that is free to move

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Static Equilibrium of mass and wire

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Moving wedge, conceptual problem

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How Do Infinitely Long LC Circuits Behave?

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Electric Field Magnitude at Point P Inside a Charged Sphere

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Calculate Center of Mass for a Figure of Uniform Density

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Buoyancy Problem Involving Archimede's Principle

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Find the total entropy of the system?

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Why Does an Egg Break Differently on Grass Versus Sidewalk?

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Friction force on a skidding car on ice and snow

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A shell explodes into three fragments of equal masses.

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Calculating work done in a thermodynamic process

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N-body simulation- objects accelerate *past* each other

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Calculating Pressure Increase in Arteries with Fatty Tissue Build-Up

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Conflict normal force in inclined plane

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Best way to produce electricity?

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Caluclating tension in string that is moving in horizontal circles.

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How much is the mass of the sun losing every second?

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Why does the muon decay problem involve the Lorentz factor?

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Solving a Hard Energy Physics Problem: Pendulum Cut Question

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Why is the phase difference -k'r for diffracted waves in diffraction?

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How Does Static Friction Influence Rolling Motion and Torque?

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Physics Heat Ice Water Mixture Question And Find Initial Mass Of Ice

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Finding speed of a 2.2 eV electron from total energy

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Projectile fired from 350 m cliff at 30° to 470 m target

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Heat and work. Fit ring over rod, remove ring from rod

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Throwing ball in air and final velocity.

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Heat and temperature change in liquid

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What Is the Maximum Force to Pull a Box Without Tipping?

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Seven electrons in a rectangular corral with spin

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How do I calculate static and kinetic friction coefficients?

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Power of a Fan and WindMill using Energy vs dynamic method)

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Torque/Rotational Dynamics HW Problem

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Conservation of Momentum Conceptual Questions

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Solving for t in a distance equation.

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Displacement with and without friction

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Ball bouncing off inclined plane: finding post-collision velocity

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Rotational motion/conservation HW problem

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Centripetal Acceleration/Rotational Motion HW Problem

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Would the light bulb light up from the electromagnetic wave?

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Conservation of momentum/mass when dropping an object on a spring.

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Projectile motion apple throw problem

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I dont know how to graph these pendulum things

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The polonium isotope 210Po, an alpha emitter, has a half-life of 138

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Pressure force on aquarium wall with depth change

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SHM: finding time intervals between positions with phase angle

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What Volume Does One Mole of Ideal Gas Occupy at 300 K and 1 atm?

  • physgrl
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Determine Moles of Gas in a Container

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De Broglie wavelength, kinetic energy

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Physics Problem on Angular Momentum

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Statics/Equilibrium - Find the Tension in the Wire

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Problem involving mercury thermometer

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Angular Momentum and collisions w/o friction

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Finding amplitude and phase angle for SHM with initial velocity

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Best problems in a Physics textbook

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Tension in a rope, wavelengths, etc. I

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Determine d if a plank is not uniform

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What Force is Necessary to Submerge Mary in Fresh Water?

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How to calculate pressure of a mixture of oil Reservoir fuids?

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Finding angles in a static weight system

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Two spinning cylinders stuck together: angular momentum after collision

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Calculate Magnitude of Work from 0.22 Lawnmower Engine in 1 Second

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PV Diagram Problem (ideal efficiency vs actual efficiency)

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Transverse harmonic wave Equation

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Force of a hinge on a hinged beam

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Car Crash on Inclined Circular Racetrack

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Finding the period of a vibrating string

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Linear speed/how many revolutions are made?

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How Fast Should a Space Station Rotate to Mimic Earth's Gravity?

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Amplitude at various points on a string

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Direction of friction force in circular motion

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Number question, addition and multipulcation

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Thermodynamics expansion problem

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Finding Change in Kinetic Energy

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Doppler Effect + Wavelength problem

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Lab Problems with Simple Harmonic Motion in Springs

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Finding magnitude and direction

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Wooden block pulled over pulley by hanging mass

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Finding Charge From Changing Magnetic Flux

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Acceleration of falling mass and tension in the cord

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Calculating moment of inertia about a door hinge.à

  • Becca93
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Why does vmax = ωA give zero velocity at t=0 in SHM?

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Maximum Intensity Between Dark Fringes, Diffraction

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Two Masses Hanging on a Massive Pulley

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Velocity and acceleration of a standing wave

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Impulse Multiple choice question

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What is the Maximum Angular Velocity of a Ball in Horizontal Circular Motion?

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Minimum turns for rope wound around cylinder to maintain equilibrium

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Maximum speed and acceleration for 1.11 kg mass on spring

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Find Acceleration At Time t For Mass on a Spring

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What Should Be the Tension in a Guitar String Producing Middle C?

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