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Optics - Focal length question

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Solving Freight Car's Initial Speed: Hooke's Law & Friction

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Calculating the number of atoms in X Kilograms of iron

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What Happens to Billiards Balls in an Elastic Collision at Right Angles?

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Find the gravitational force of the sun on Mercury

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Conservation of Energy + Hooke's Law

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Using conservation of energy to find spring constant but off number

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Help needed working out a zener diode circuit's total Voltage

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In this vector problem, what would theta equal?

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The maximum speed you can walk on the Mars

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Potential energy particle problem

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Working out the impedance of a network query

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How to Calculate g with Known Pendulum Length and Negligible Amplitude?

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Angular momentum and change in velocity

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Determing components of a projectile from ferquency

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Bungee Jump Physics: Solving for Maximum Fall Length and Spring Constant

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Calculating Electric Field Zero Point for Negative Point Charges

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How to Find Angular Momentum from Time-Dependent Torque?

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Calculating Voltage Across a Capacitor

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Buoyant force same for all object of same volume?

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Does Resultant Force Directly Influence Direction in Linear Motion?

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Acceleration of Slab and Block: 58N Force

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Rotating Polarizer 90 Degrees With Only 10 Percent Loss

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What is RMS Power? Understanding Its Meaning and Importance in AC Circuits

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Conservation of momentum after a collision

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Specific heat and heat of fusion lab questions

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Help understanding centrefugal force

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Newton's Three Law's on Cars, Bicycles, Objects

  • Becca93
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Problem involving hookes law and friction

  • guitarist2400
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Why Is the 0.7 Volts Diode Drop Used in Calculating R2 Current?

  • Eisen
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Help : Perpendicular distance of the plane

  • ahgang
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Calculating Work and Distance for a Braking Automobile

  • grade 11 kid
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Circular Motion - Spacecraft in Orbit

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Non-Uniform Circular Motion: Locomotive Rounding a Curve

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Designing a Box to Catch an Unadulterated Egg at 18ft

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Relative length and velocities using Lorentz transformations

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Tension in an Accelerated System

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Calculating Force Needed to Lift Lid in Denver

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How Do You Normalize the Wavefunction ψ=Ae^(-λχ)e^(-iδt)?

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Finding Speed of a Mass in a Frictionless System at a Specific Time

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Bicyclist coasting down hill (Newton's Laws)

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How Does f-Number Influence Depth of Field in Photography?

  • JSGandora
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This is more a of a theory question of the atwood and energy

  • flyingpig
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P-n junction & transistors: depletion zone

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Kinetic Energy and Work energy theorem

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Calculating the Change in Mechanical Energy of a Car-Truck Collision

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Difference between mass and volume

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Why is There Acceleration Despite Newton's Third Law of Motion?

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Finding Tension in a Pulley System

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Conservation of Momentum in an Inelastic Collision

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Electric field, solid sphere inside hollow sphere

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Angular change in velocity (momentum)

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Can angles be negative in coordinate geometry?

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Calculating Mass from Centripetal Force Slope

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Why Are High Energies Needed to Break Particles and Observe Fine Structure?

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Calculating Velocity and Distance for a Coupled Spring-Mass System

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Conservation of Angular Momentum of Cart Problem

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Two blocks, a pulley, and an inclined plane.

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How Does Phasor Addition Simplify Trigonometric Expressions?

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Radiation heat exchange between two surfaces.

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Accelerating Blocks: Calculating Frictional Force

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Calculating Water Flow Duration in Cylinder Reservoir

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How Do Kirchhoff's Rules Determine Currents in a Dual Battery Circuit?

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The Inequality for e in Newton's Law of Restitution Collision?

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How Do You Calculate the Correct Spring Constant for Stopping a Car?

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Acceleration of a Rolling Cylinder

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Trouble understanding Symmetries

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Energy Cost of Stair Climbing for Average-Sized Individuals

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Can a Pedestrian Running at 6 m/s Catch a Bus Accelerating from a Stop?

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A circulating charged particle under a magnetic field

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How Long Does It Take for an Electron to Travel Through a Silicon Block?

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Car travelling around a banked corner with friction

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A mass hung from two attached springs

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Calculate Change in Velocity of Flatcar When Man Runs Opposite Direction

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Can you guys help check my answers? - balanced force

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Phase difference between the two waves

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Using Optics To Make An Aircraft Invisible

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Problem concerning Pilot find true weights

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What is the angle between these two vectors?

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Traversing a Circular Arc: Solving for Time with Maximum Acceleration

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P-State Lightwave: Angular Frequency & Amplitude

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What Are Three Cable-Free Long Range Communication Methods?

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Angle for a banked curve (friction-less surface)

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Principle of triangle of forces

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Question about momentum depending if the collision is elastic or not?

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Simple gravitational attraction forces problem

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What is the required deceleration to stop a car in a given distance and time?

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1) A rope 5m is fastened to two hooks 4m apart on a horizontal

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Calculate J Notation Impedance of Network w/ Capacitor & Inductor

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Help with Homework Statement 1b: Elasticity & Pressure

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How to Find g from the Gradient of a Distance-Time Graph?

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Calculating Magnetic Field at a Point Using Biot-Savart Law

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Centripetal Force with angle problem

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Slightly confused regarding centripetal force, radius and frequency

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