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Air-Track Cart Oscillating on a Spring, solve for time

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Frequency of Pendulum: Calculate from 41.35s in 20 Cycles

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Gravitational potential energy?

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Law of conservation, and efficiency problem?

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Determine the moment of inertia of the wheel

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How to determine if angular momentum is conserved?

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James Bond Mission: Find Height of Cannon from Sea

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Temperature required for new rms speed

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Total Mech Energy and Conservative forces

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Finding modulus of rigidity G from torsion pendulum experiment

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Light beam displacement through silvered glass at 26° incidence

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Will the top or bottom cord snap when pulling a bird feeder's dangling cord?

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Find the difference in atomic mass between the two isotopes

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Thermal equilibrium, find final temp. or system?

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Rotational Kinetic Energy Question

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Angular Momentum of a beam problem

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Work-energy theorem with negative force on force-displacement graph

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Momentum and Heat Homework: Mechanical to Thermal Energy

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Hanging Mass on a Spring- Fg = 1/2 Fx

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How Thick Is the Paint on the Room's Walls?

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Golf ball dropped in sand: crater depth and meteorite impact

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Apparent magnitude of a binary star system

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Temperature change in Celsius from Fahrenheit value

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Two Electric Charges- Electric Force-Ranking

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2 dimension forces - problem solving for parked car

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Op-Amp basic problem with a LED diode

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Finding Ashley's mass from conservation of momentum on ice

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How do brakes bring a car to rest?

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Finding uniformly increasing acceleration.

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Airy disc rings from Lick Observatory telescope aperture

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Uniform Solid Sphere Moment of Inertia Calculation

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Power output of oscillator on steel wire at 63 Hz

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Mass of a black hole - given only the diameter

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How Does Mercury Completely Fill an Aluminum Container When Heated?

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Sphere 1: +100 C Sphere 2: +1 C

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Finding Velocity When Only Given Height

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Car moving in a circular motion

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How Do You Calculate Tension in a String With Masses and Friction?

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Work done by an external force to move a charged particle

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Pressure inside a helium balloon

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How is the Equation for Steady Acceleration Derived?

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Time for particle to fall from distance D to Earth's surface

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Velocity of golf ball 2 seconds after launch at 96 m/s and 60°

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Calculating Uncertainty With A Sine Function

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Can You Design a Diode Circuit to Turn On at 5V and Off at 15V?

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Acceleration due to gravity lab

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How does induced charge separation work and why can it be confusing?

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Modified Newtons cradle and the Conservation of Momentum

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Newton's 3rd Law Consideration in Circular Motion

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Absolute potential from sphere.

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Finding number density and average distance between molecules

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Heat to vaporize water in piston-cylinder at 100 kPa

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Simple harmonic motion finding velocity trouble

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What is the Speed of a Train Using Doppler Effect Frequencies?

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What fraction of the air molecules

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Does Distance Affect the Outcome in the Monkey and Zookeeper Problem?

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Simple rotational motion point problem

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Electric Field in a wire - creation

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Do merry-go-rounds with more mass take longer to stop?

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Finding Components of Vectors in a Crystal Lattice

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Alternating Current (multiple CHoice)

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The law of conservation of energy

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Citing a source for a value in a lab report

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Oscillations of fluid in a U tube

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Does length contraction occur in gravitational fields

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Viscosity,Fluid flow and terimal velocity

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Heisenberg indeterminacy principle

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How Do You Calculate Efficiency in a Carnot Cycle Involving Argon?

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Calculating the Total Work Done by Gravity

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Px = P cos θx equation question.

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Determine the height to which the center of the baton travels

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How to calulate the height on this manometer

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How far along circular arch is an astronaut

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Magnitude of angular acceleration- my first post ever in physics forum

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Calculating Velocity in Simple Harmonic Motion

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Where does the factor of 1/2 come from in rotational kinematics

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How Much Force is Required to Launch a Ship on an Inclined Plane?

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What Are the Velocities of Two Carts After an Elastic Collision?

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Finding net force and acceleration in a three-person tug of war

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Conservation of energy in a system

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Bernoulli equation in terms of energy per unit volume

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How Do You Calculate Normal Force for a Cup and Saucer on a Table?

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What Is the Direction of Precession for a Rotating Bicycle Wheel?

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2D Kinematics Problem w/ Coefficient of Friction?

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Advancing Your Physics Knowledge: Recommended Books

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Amplitude of sum of waves with different frequencies

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Standard Harmonic Motion of a Plate

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Figureing fps of a projectile with points of impact at 50yards and 25 yards

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Thermal expansion of an aluminum bar

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