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How to add 3 vectors of different directions together?

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Effect of Doping Levels on Width of Depletion Region

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Square toriods vs. circula toroids

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Calculating Engine Power Output for 4000kg Car

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Capacitors - what does same potential mean?

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What Is Interface Temperature in Thermodynamics?

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How Long Does It Take for Two Cars to Meet in a Kinematic Problem?

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Easy angular velocity question

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Kinetic Energy Poll Ball Question

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Find the power required to pull loop through constant magnetic field

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Age of spaceship passenger traveling to Altair at 0.95c

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Energy in spring (slingshot problems)

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Newton second law involving a gallon of water

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I don't understand Archimedes principle

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Aether wind vs Einsteins 2nd postulate

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How Fast Must a Baseball Travel to Clear a 29m Obstacle?

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How Do You Calculate Initial Velocity in Projectile Motion?

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Water, Ice, Steam Mixture - Final Temperature

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What is the Conservation of Energy Principle in Bungee Jumping?

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Spring on incline with static equlibrium, disposition unkown. .

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Why is Hubble's Constant Measurement Different Today?

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Find the potential gravitational and kinetic energy of a ball after 0.4 seconds

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Fluids, pressure on a wall to determine max depth

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Car curves at a radius of 50m while travelling at 100km/hr

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Gravitational Force between two equal masses

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Determining latent heat of fusion of ice

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Calculating the fundamental frequency of a travelling wave

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Gyroscopes and the torque required for precession

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Rotational Mechanics Problem (Rotating solid wooden disk)

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A pig hanging from a string going in a circle.

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Special relativity homework question time dilation

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Finding Torque on current loop.

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Conservation of Momentum, dropped vase

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Three part weightlifter question

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Real Life Problem I Need Help With

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How Does Friction Affect Work Done on a Crate and Train?

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Optics: images of object in half a spherical mirror

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Expansion of a gas in Airbag System.

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Find the magnitude of the magnetic field 10 cm from the wire

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Finding Tension is three cables attached to a particular mass?

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A conceptual question regarding collision/conservation of energy.

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Mechanics of Materials basic exercise

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Friction compared to applied force

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Atomic Physics - Radioactive Decay and Stability

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Buoyant Pressure problem number 7

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Vertical Component of this Picture?

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Did I Solve the Inelastic Collision Pendulum Problem Correctly?

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What is the G Force on an Astronaut in a Rocket Accelerating at 26.95m/s/s?

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What is the acceleration and average speed of a car in circular motion?

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How much energy is required to move this satellite to a circular orbit

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What Is the Magnitude of the Particle's Angular Momentum?

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Polar Integration Domain part 3

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2 cylinders, pushing gas from one to another

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How Much Force to Keep Foam Underwater?

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Conservation of Momentum in Collision of Balls: Solving for Unknowns

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Pressure and Buoyant Force problem

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Help with Next Exam: Forces, Kinetic Energy & More

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Carnot Cycle: Reversibility Under Constant External Pressure

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Torque direction for any system of particles

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Electronics true or false questions

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2 Dimensional Collision Problem

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Force Exerted by a Wedge Supporting a Sphere

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Pressure, Buoyant Force problem

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Maximum force to not rotate a cylinder

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What is the point of having different engine cycles?

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Finding the Cross Product for Angular Momentum

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W 30° N: Interpreting the Directional Coordinate

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Translational kinetic energy vs. rotational kinetic energy

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Torque on a suspended uniform bar

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Manometer U Tube Homework: Solving Pressure in B

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Calculating Gravity: Determine G from Acceleration

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Solve Linear Momentum Homework on Pendulum & Incline

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Collision/conservation of linear momentum

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Equilibrium of a Rigid Body, a boom of a crane

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How Is Angular Speed Calculated After Clay Impacts a Wheel?

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How Does Changing Earth's Mass and Size Affect Its Rotation Period?

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Elastic Potential Energy Problem

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Understand some quantum numbers in a problem

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Pressure, Buoyant Force problem 8

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Variable Resistance across a Bulb

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Tricky density and bouyancy question

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Gravitational force general question

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What is the Resistance of a 1 km Composite Copper-Steel Wire?

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Calculate Current Through Resistor - Kirchhoff's Rules

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Help with buoyancy question thanks

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Momentum/Collision Special Relativity Problem

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Pivot point of a beam and torque

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Calculating the Impulse (Magnitude and direction) question - Thanks

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Finding normal force acting on an object (Fn)?

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Rigid Body Reel and hanging mass.

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Displacement of zigzaging dust particle

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How Is the Coefficient of Friction Calculated for an Amusement Park Ride?

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Understanding the Total Energy After Particle Collision

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How Do You Calculate Tension in Different Configurations of Supporting Strings?

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Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

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Two Skaters Collide (inelastic collision)

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Unravelling Kepler's Law: How F = m/r^2 is Reached

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