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Centripetal Force with angle problem

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How do radius and centripetal force change when rotation frequency increases?

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How to Calculate Speed in Circular Motion on a Hemisphere Surface?

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Find the time of a certain velocity

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Activity of 1 mg of plutonium-239 produced per week

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Bowling ball rolling off 18.4° roof 12m high

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How Much Work Is Needed to Alter a Crate's Velocity?

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Total energy of an airplane, work done against air resistance

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Weight of an astronaut at the midpoint between two equal mass stars

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Quantum mechanics, harmonic oscillator

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Pilot's apparent weight at top and bottom of vertical loop

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Did a Comet Slam Into Earth and Combine with It After Collision?

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Finding Δx of a box sliding down an inclined plane using Work theory.

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Equilibrium cylinder and plank on incline

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How Long Should Pilots Fire Engines for Safe Re-entry?

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Calculating final velocity of an object on an inclined plane

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Calculating impedance, real and imag part

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Just finished my first Physics exam, Bus braking Problem

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Newton's law of cooling to find time of death

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Why does a glass topple when the cloth is pulled from under it

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A 9.0 killogram mass and a 3.0 kg mass are at rest on a frictionless

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How to Determine Force Magnitude in a Static Friction Problem?

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Finding equivalent resistance with a dependent source in a circuit

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Find The Max Velocity (using coefficient of friction)

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Horse Trailer and Center of Mass

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Solve Open Circuit Problem 3: Two Batteries and 3 Bulbs

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What was the initial velocity of a curling stone released at the hog line?

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RL circuit with three resistors

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Ratio of mass for equal length and resistance in Al vs Cu

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Circular motion with friction and banking - resultant forces

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Three capacitors RC circuit questions

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How Does Energy Increase in an RL Circuit with Time-Varying Current?

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Time constant for the current through the inductor

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Plots of B•dl as a function of position along the closed path

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Galilean transformation / calculating frequency problem

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Dropping a newspaper from a moving car with friction on the ground

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What Determines the Direction of Rotation in a Current Loop?

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What Is the Magnetic Field at the Axis of a Circular Loop?

  • syhpui2
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Confusion regarding resolution of forces

  • Quantum Mind
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Answer My Questions on Calculating Angles from a Picture

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Parallel RC circuit with realistic battery

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Someone me with this cylinder floating upside down in water

  • gharrington44
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Question on banked curve, Application of Newtons Laws

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Deriving acceleration and velocity for a model car

  • JamesCreswell
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Hubble Constant and Age of the Universe

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Static friction of ration of wheel

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Simple block tension Newton gravity problem

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Newton's 3rd Law - action/reaction pairs

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Amount of time for a half period to occur

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Conservation of energy with a mass and pulley system.

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Rotational Dynamics Equilibrium - Torque With PICS

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Weight of water displaced by a boat in salt water

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Solving for Compression of Unstretched Spring

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Understanding gravitational attraction

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Why is friction going this way?

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Loss of mechanical energy due to friction - ?

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Current after (1) time constant in RC circuits

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Velocity squared veurses distance

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Proton in magnetic and electric field

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Plane immersed in the earth's vertically downward-pointing magnetic field

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Coordinate axis (which one is correct)?

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A block on a frictionless slope slides down and compresses a spring

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Why is there no current between AF and DG in a left-right symmetric circuit?

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Momentum of Astronaut and Satellite

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Acceleration of block/pulley system

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Use the impulse-momentum theorem to find how long the sled takes to travel

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Momentum of a Bullet Contacting a Block

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Why does the graph of g(x) = arcsin(sin(x)) look like a sawtooth?

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So, V_F= 11m/sWhat is the speed of the potted plant after falling 6m?

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Solving for force with sliding friction

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Forming a matrix using Euler's method and ODE

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Why does work equals kinetic energy of friction?

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Relationship between Electric Fields and Distance from point charge?

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Angular Acceleration of A Rigid Rod

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Center of Mass Identical Size Object Connected by Spring

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Will the acceleration of two particles be different with a rough surface?

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Why Is Thermal Expansion the Same for Solid and Hollow Spheres?

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Choose the best answer on Magnetic Fields and Moving charges

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Optics question regarding rays.

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Final current through resistors

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Circular motion of 4 kg object with angular displacement

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How Do You Calculate the Force in a Parallel Plate Capacitor?

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Optics: when are images virtual and when are they real?

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Block sliding down an incline plane with a cord connected to a cylinder.

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Harmonic motion of a bungee jumper

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Why Do Substances Undergo Radical Changes During Phase Transitions?

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How Do You Calculate the Volume of a Cylinder Using Triple Integrals?

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Calrification on the physics of a car crumple zone.

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Finding Displacement with angles and directions

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Capacitor dimensions to melt ice block with 50 V battery

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Behaviour of a RC circuit charging

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Ammeter and Voltmeter question?

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How much does a string stretch when under load?

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Newton's Laws: Impact of Force and Mass on Object Travel with Equations

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Torque and Forces Question (With a Diagram)

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What is the Velocity of Point P in a Multiple Pulleys System?

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What Are the Best Methods for Building a Horizontal Projectile Launcher?

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