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Positive vs. negative work in an elevator?

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What is the Rate of Work Done by a Spring on a Sliding Object?

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Can the Total Energy in a Spring Be Rearranged?

  • JustinLiang
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Bernoulli's Equation: Finding the net force of wind blowing over a house

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Binary Star System: Kinetic Energy of an approaching Comet

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Bumper car elastic collision and center of mass frame

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Calculating Work Done by Spring at Various Positions

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Conservation Laws - Finding angle ?

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How Long Should a Gravel Ramp Be to Stop a Runaway Truck?

  • LinearBeat
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How Long for One Revolution on a Ferris Wheel?

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Water falling out of an upturned bottle.

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Three polarizers are arranged as shown in the figure

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Ideal gas expansion/compression

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Is this nuclear reaction exothermic or endothermic?

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Nuclear Physics Find molar binding energy

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Caculate the force between to anti-parallel wires

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How Thick Should Spiderman's Silk Be to Support His Weight?

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What is the solution to this transformer problem?

  • VitaX
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How to Calculate Distance on an Inclined Plane Using Work and Energy?

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Centrifugal acceleration - radians^2?

  • EinsteinKillr
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Diffraction grating spectrometer

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2D - Momentum Question, Grade 12 Canadian Physics

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Double-slit diffraction with thin film interference

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Box on a string, find displacement when first at rest

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Laser action and stimulated emission

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Calculate Unbalanced Force to Stop a Car in 3 Seconds

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Counterbalance weight for a dumbbell support apparatus

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Force due to a submersible water pump to move an underwater vehicle

  • DrewMan776
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Maximum mass supported by spider silk using toughness

  • mattyc33
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Solving for normalised current when given only normalised resistance?

  • davidc95
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Accceleration due to gravity of a Black Hole

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Box pulled by angled rope: equilibrium, friction, and acceleration

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Negative/positive magnetic field?

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Are You an Inertial Observer on a Constantly Moving Turntable?

  • Jadenag
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Mass of cylinder with falling stone wrapped around rim

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How Thick Should Spider Silk Be to Hold Spiderman?

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Speed of Objects Rolling and Sliding Down a Hill

  • valeriex0x
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Rocket launches up starting from zero, conservation momentum

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Deriving the Minimum Tension for a Particle on an Inclined Plane

  • Jadenag
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Root-mean-square speed of an O2 gas

  • format1998
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What Is the Centripetal Acceleration and Tension in a Swinging Bucket?

  • roarono
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How Is the Refractive Index of Liquid A Determined?

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Two rotating disks, angular speed and kinetic energy question.

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Racecar Statics and Mechanics of Solids problem

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How Much Gas Leaked from the Tank?

  • format1998
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What Is the Final Vertical Velocity Component of the Ball?

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How to Determine the Magnetic Field in a Hanging Rod Problem

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Electric field between electrodes of half-filled spherical capacitor

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Block Tipping Over [Torque and Forces]

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We did a lab in class to compare W and KE

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What is the acceleration of the garden roller given certain parameters?

  • PhDorBust
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Finding crystal plane spacing with Bragg's law

  • roam
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* *Damped Harmonic Motion (Differential Equations)

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Deriving an equation through a free body diagram

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How Old is the Rock with a 3:1 Ratio of 207Pb to 235U?

  • roam
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Force on a roof from tornado wind using Bernoulli's equation

  • adlibitum
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Kinematics questions: Understanding Time and Displacement Relationships

  • Vhsmith37
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Find initial velocity using rate of climb

  • Rebecca_M
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Simple Harmonic Motion of spring

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Angular momentum problem (ball sticking to one end of a see saw)

  • Storm Butler
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Electric field at midpoint between electron and proton

  • Keegs32
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Understanding Direction Vectors in Vector Geometry

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What Is the Acceleration of a Mass in Simple Harmonic Motion?

  • physgrl
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Kinematics problems with constant acceleration

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Maximum height of baseball, given total flight time.

  • JP123
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4 home work problems over projectile motion

  • man on fire
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Damping constant and angular frequency

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Cannon Recoil and Initial Velocity

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Velocity and Speed: Diagrams for Rowing Downstream and Southeastward

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What is the missing angle using Law of Cosines?

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Rotational Kinematics Time Problem

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How Can I Design a Vehicle to Win a King of the Hill Engineering Challenge?

  • JJBladester
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Falling particle with quadratic air resistance

  • Vandella
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Conservation of energy and string pulley problem

  • gunster
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Conceptual question on Simple Harmonic Motion.

  • JustinLiang
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Designing a TM for a Language: ai bj ck

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Not calc based tangential and angular acceleration

  • darlagatsch
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Coeficient of Kinectic friction question

  • Shanetm
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Electrical Power - Equation Questions:

  • I-need-help
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Calculate Pressure Ratio of Helium and Argon with Equal Mass at Same Temperature

  • Termodinamica
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Elastic Collision: Find the Centre of Mass

  • Quantumcom
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Finding Vottage and Current Values in a Circuit

  • ana111790
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Calculating Maximum Work from Cooling Liquid Reversibly

  • phizzle86
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Calculating Magnetic Field from Two Perpendicular Currents

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Angular velocity from diving board

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Momentum/Conservation of Energy problem.

  • Sefrez
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Angular acceleration and force with constant angular velocity?

  • cloudboy
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Projectile Motion Problem - Solving for Alpha and Maximum Distance

  • PhDorBust
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What force acted on the bullet while it was moving down the barrel?

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