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Kinetic Friction with Blocks Need Help.

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A man of mass 70kg rides a bicycle of mass 15kg at a steady speed of 4

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Finding Force Given Angle: A Last-Minute Attempt

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Inelastic Collision in Two Dimensions

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What Are the Top Unresolved Questions in Theoretical Physics Today?

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Expressing a complex number as an Exponent

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Newton's laws and pulley mass system

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Solving for Tension with a massless cord

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Magnitude of Magnetic force on Wire

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Your opinion on how to interpret a problem

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How Does Air Resistance Affect Spring Compression?

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Lorentz force and Newton's law

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Isobaric evaporation, why the temperature must be constant?

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Linear Accelerator Basics: Understanding Drift Tubes and Forces

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Cable breaking under its own weight?

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Equilibrium Question With Ropes and Weight

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Time to traverse a circular arc?

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How to graph potential energy for 2 atoms in diatomic molecule w/ 3 unknowns

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Ion Drift Speed Help Much Needed!

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Distance of a satellite from the earths surface.

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Energy Loss in .444kg Block Sliding Down .888m Ramp

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Fiding resultant moment about a given point?

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Where Will a Proton Stop Before Turning Around in a Collision?

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Direction of electron flow in solenoid

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Calculating Axial Stress for a 16mm Steel Bar Under 25kN Load

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Automotive Engineering, Stopping Distance Calculations Help?

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Calculating Power for a Vibrating String

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Solve Nichrome Wire Resistivity Problem

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Verifying the Velocity of a Roller Coaster Train

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Calculating current to produce magnetic field of Earth

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Current, I'm not sure about my solution

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What force is Block A exerting on Block B?

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Circular motion and banked curve problem

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Loop-the-loop find height object falls out of the loop

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What is the correct equation for finding path difference in CD diffraction?

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Voltmeter Placement in Combined Circuit Problem

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Gauss' Law - difficulty understanding this example

  • NewtonianAlch
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Two conducting spheres connected by conducting wire.

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Rainfall Driven Micro Hydro-Generating System

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Center Mass Acceleration of 2 bodies on different inclines.

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Work and Kinetic Energy Problem involving friction hw problem, DUE SOON

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How Do You Calculate Forces and Time for a Falling Object?

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What is the initial velocity of a car after its brakes are applied?

  • lockmantican
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I am having a hard time defining theta in Torque=rFsin(theta)

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Laws of motion question with constraint relations

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Condition of rotational equilibrium in circular motion

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Velocity of a Piston Homework: Find Velocity at t=1/1200min

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How Long Does It Take to Brake a Train from 28.6 m/s to 11.4 m/s?

  • lockmantican
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How Do Dot Product and Cross Product Differ in Vector Multiplication?

  • Physics697
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Centripetal and Tangencial Accelaration

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An airtight box, having a lid of area 80 cm2, is partially evacuated.

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What is the Dot Product of a Cutting Tool Under Microprocessor Control?

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Am I taking the right approach? (Finding final velocity)

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Two masses attached by inextensible string?

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Why is the error value higher in the average calculation?

  • davidp92
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2 Questions about EM wave propagation

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Inelastic collision and velocity of car

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Calculating Pendulum Drop Distance for 45 Degree Angle - Homework Help

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When does the collision occur and at what height?

  • hannam
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Current density and drift velocity

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What is the angle at which the vine breaks in Tarzan's swinging problem?

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Angular displacement in radians

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What does quantizing a force field mean?

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Circuits / Switches / Currents -TRUE FALSE QUESTIONS (Pic included)

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Calculating Capacitance for Pulsed Nitrogen Laser Design: Tips and Tricks

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Mode of a probability distribution

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Calculating Vertical Forces in a Cantilever Beam Setup

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Horizontal / Vertical Motion, Parabolic Motion

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What Electric Field Magnitude Is Needed to Reverse an Oil Drop's Motion?

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How Does the Hall Effect Experiment Work with Semiconductors and Magnets?

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Conservation of energy of a downhill skier

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Does a Free Particle Have Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy?

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Pressure and density in swimming.

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Simplest Atwood machine question.

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Problem with half power frequencies ?

  • the_kool_guy
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Question re: difference between Δx and dx

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How Does Increasing Engine Power Affect a Funny Car's Track Time?

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Baseball Throws: Energy Conservation & Solutions

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Momemnt of inertia, momentum problem

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Quantum mechanics, potential barrier

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Spherical coordinates vector question

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Solid sphere inside a hollow sphere.

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Negative value when calculating the distance

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Conservation of Momentum involving a space ship blowing up into three pieces

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Attraction of metal plates and ball

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Ice skator throwing gloves to mvoe

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What happen when a plate of charged capacitor is earthed?

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How is the Force related to Energy

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Compute lorentz force from charge

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Calculating Voltage at Points A, B & C

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Forces on a rolling body with sliding bodies on it.

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Circular Motion with static friction of race car

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Calculating Error In Wavelength

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Work Energy Problem Package released to Spring

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Submarine sonar doppler problem

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How Can I Determine the Mass of a Rubber Stopper in a Circular Motion Lab?

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