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I coming up with an idea for my UP1 paper

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Solving a Warehouse Puzzle: The 20 Kg Crate

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Ball down hill w/ rotational motion

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Calculating Total Resistance in a Series-Parallel Circuit

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Fermi Level - clarification needed

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Hollow sphere rolling down a slope

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Coefficient of Friction in an inclined plane

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How Do Nitrogen Molecules Accelerate and Exert Force on a Wall?

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Drop a stone in a well - Waves problem

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Inclined plane with friction, find kinetic energy.

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Calculating Magnetic Interactions in Parallel Wires

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Angular Momentum: mud hitting door

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Angular momentum raising lowering operator

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Which travels more slowly in glass, red light or violet light?

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Finding Which Resistance and Which Circuit is Series and Which is Parallel

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What color light is transmitted through a piece of red glass?

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Coefficient of Kinetic friction and Friction force help Thanks

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How Do You Calculate the Decay Constant of Copper 66?

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Calculating Power of Pump to Remove Water from Basement

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Find difference in echo times, doppler shift?

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Show what the magnitude of induced emf

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Find inner radius of hollow cylinder given inertia

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Rotating Tangent Circles: How Many Revolutions to Return to Same Position?

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What is the Angular Acceleration for a Rotating Computer Disk Drive?

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How Do You Calculate the Angular and Linear Speed of a Ball?

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Centripetal acceleration of an orbit to the earth help

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Electric Field Strength magnitude

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Pressure and Height in Liquids: A Container with Different Diameter Tubes

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Distance between moon and earth

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Find Pressure amplitude from given decibels

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Work done by a variable force question

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Magnetostatics - Magnetic Flux + Force

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Finding Force From Potential Energy

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Explain Force of Thrust Equation: 6N/3.48s

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Hydraulic Brake Problem How to Start?

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Force due to pressure on barrel lid

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Vector addition and subtraction. feeling stupid for being confused over this

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Finding mass and speed of second car in elastic collision

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Calculating Tension in Suspended Ball with Angles

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Acceleration of a Block at an Incline

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Ball on String, Harmonic Motion

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Conservation of energy (Ramp question) - Thanks

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Elastic Potential Energy and velocity of spring

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What type of collision occurred?

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Angular velocity of a rod rotating around a vertical axis

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Finding velocity when onlu a mass and acceleration is given

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Cummulative blocks on a rope, tension problem

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Another change in unit vectors (d(r-hat)/d(theta)) in Cylindrical

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Conservation of Momentum and Relative Velocity Problem

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Projectile Motion: Time and Impact Velocity Comparison - Homework Question

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Energy needed to pull parallel plate capacitor

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What Is the Impulse Imparted to a Soccer Ball When 'Heading' It?

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Wire loop parallel to and above an infinite plane of iron

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Escape Velocity of the Milky Way

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What is d(theta-hat)/d(theta) in Cylindrical Coordinates?

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Pressure and Bernoulli + Continuity

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Magnet's attraction/rejection Force

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Angular energy vs translational energy

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Calculate Rocket Thrust Force of 90g Rocket Achieving 80m/s in 3.0s

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Newton's Third as logical device to make sense of 1st two laws

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Torque and Massless beam with Two Objects

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Calculating Work and Energy in a Spring-Block System

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Position of a particle is given by x = (2 cm) cos 10πt

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Momentum elastic colliion in 2D

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Solution verification for various problems

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Horizontal Force on a Ramp required to Accelerate a Mass

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Hollow Rolling Sphere up incline

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Finding the Velocity of a Swinging Ball Around a Post

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Minimum angular separation for viewing stars

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Normal force on a mass sliding inside a hoop at 27 degrees

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Tension Force Calculation for George of the Jungle

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Magnetic Field Outside Infinite Solenoid

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How Do You Calculate the Center of Mass for an Isosceles Triangle?

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Block Collides With Horizontal Spring

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How far does the dart travel horizontally?

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Volumetric expansion Kelvin required?

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What is the Pressure on Snow from a Person Standing on Snowshoes?

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Velocity of Roller Coaster at Top of Loop - Find the Answer!

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F = m * (0.85 Hz)^2 * 2πm = F / (0.85 Hz)^2 * 2π Calculate Mass of Skaters

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Unsolvable Angular Momentum Equation for Two Objects?

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Spring Propels Two Blocks Up Two Ramps

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Inclined plane/Static Friction Problem

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Proving the Work-Energy Theorem A lot of calculus, anyone?

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Ant Motion on an Expanding Balloon: A Paradox?

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How Far Will the 3 kg Block Travel Up the Incline?

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Basic Electronics True or False Questions

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Why is the electric field uniform between parallel plates?

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Mass on an inclined plane with friction

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How Can a Clinometer Help Determine the Max Height of a Rocket?

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Calculating Spring Stretch in Aircraft Carrier Landing

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Thermodynamics: Efficiency for Stirling engine

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Length contraction problem in special relativity

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Thermodynamics: Isobaric process finding volume of steam.

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Can an Astronaut Escape an Asteroid with a 1 Meter Jump?

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Finding spaceship velocity from length contraction of cylinder

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Static/Kinetic Friction, Probelm solving question Purely algebraic

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Rotational dynamics (rolling friction)

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