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Atwood machine acceleration problem

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Help Me Understand: Magnetic Flux Problem Solution

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Mechanical Vibrations Differential Equation

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Need help understanding algebra involved with nodal and antinodal lines

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Find Time for TBI Injury Risk: Hardwood vs Carpeted Floors

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Why Does a Capacitor Discharge?

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Work Done on a Suitcase by Various Forces

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What is the Angle of Swing for a Block in a Van on an Unbanked Curve?

  • physics_
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2d static body; three unknown forces

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What is the solution to the Moving Blocks Problem?

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Calculating Centripetal Force in The Roundup Amusement Ride

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Can You Charge Something Negatively Through Induction?

  • Darth Frodo
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Spring Mass System | Calculate Mass m

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RC Time Constant Question (Easy)

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A banked roadway with static friction

  • shawli
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Better intuition of what it is I am finding.

  • Sefrez
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Solving a Magnetic Field Homework Problem: Finding Mistakes

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Find the angle of acceleration in circular motion

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Cutting a hollow sphere into 2 piece but not in half

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Displacement of wood block originally attached to spring

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FORMULA CALCULATION PROBLEM about FORCE

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TENSION PROBLEM on traction system

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How to Calculate Distance Using the Doppler Effect

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How Is the Impulsive Force Calculated During a Mobile Phone's Impact?

  • depre87
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Calculate Min Force to Get Block Moving: FORCE PROBLEM

  • gianne671
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What should be the free body diagram?

  • AlchemistK
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Force on pedals; cyclist up incline

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Kinemetics Question - theoretical subsitution

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Asteroid falling to earth, what will be minimum speed and KE on planet?

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Two-electrode spherical system (Potential)

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Question a/b pressure variation equation

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What Is the Ball's Velocity Before and After Collision?

  • bman123
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Wondering why my method of finding charge doesn't work?

  • pradeepk
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How Do You Calculate Deceleration and Time to Stop for a Car?

  • powerof
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Conservation of Momentum 2D - 2 marbles collide - find final velocities

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No slip wheel, distance covered, find revolutions

  • jehan4141
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How Do You Calculate Accurate Muzzle Velocity in an Air Cannon Project?

  • bulldogbaseba
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Find minimum energy to escape an orbit

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What Range of Speeds Can an Object Have Before a String Breaks?

  • shawli
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How Does Friction Affect the Energy of a Rolling Ball on Inclined Planes?

  • PhysicStuden7
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Rainfall driven micro hydro system

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How Do You Calculate Wire Tension in the Hanging Bowling Balls Problem?

  • kirby27
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Static Equilibrium-Balancing Forces and Torque

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What is this constant in the gravitational acceleration formula?

  • Kyle91
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Solving PV/nRT for T: Temp Needed to Reduce Gas Volume to 2.50L

  • fromthepast
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Solve Transmission Losses: 50kW @ 230V, PF 0.6 Lagging

  • SGL18
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Thermo: Newtons law of cooling for radiation

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Finding specific heat of an object graphically

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Trajectory and conservation of linear momentum

  • bakin
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What Is the Maximum Force on the Man from the Woman?

  • McAfee
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Calculating Current Through a Battery in a Series Circuit

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Prove the operator d/dx is hermitian

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Why do my energy calculations not equal each other in this Work-Energy lab?

  • anonymous12
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Calculating Energy Stored in a Capacitor with Varying Gap

  • sabak22
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How Does Kinetic Energy Relate to Forces in Shot Put?

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Kinematics 2 dimensions problem, golf ball being hit

  • jehan4141
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Conservation of Momentum question

  • JANF0R
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What am I doing wrong in this problem dealing with Angular Speed

  • ixerr
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Calculating Energy Loss with Ballistic Pendulum

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Finding the coefficient of kinetic friction of 3 blocks

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Banked Curve perfectly banked

  • starji
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Sound Intensity and Sound Level

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Theory for acceleration of a cart: lab experiment

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Calculating Angular Acceleration of Horizontal Rod

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Simple Incline Problem: Acceleration of a Block on a Wedge - Solution Attempt

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Non-uniform circular motion, [stunt Car inside a ring]

  • Krishan93
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Block Moving Down A Moving Wedge

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How Is Normal Force Calculated on an Inclined Plane?

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Calculating Coefficients of Friction for a Sliding Book

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How to Solve for J and m in the Impulse-Momentum Theorem?

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Measuring the Resistance of a Wire

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Particle Shot Tangentially to Surface

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Exam: Measuring the Coefficient of Friction

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What is the relationship between area on a velocity / time graph?

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A monatomic gas in a 2d Universe - multiplicity

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Relationship between temperature and resistance

  • Sir Pwn4lot
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How and why does a prism split white light into the colour spectrum

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Vectors - Components / A question about the angle?

  • Physics697
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Finding velocity given radius and coefficient of friction

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Calculating Power from Torque and Rotor Speed

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How Many Wavelengths Between a Node and an Antinode in a Standing Wave?

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3 particles A,B,C of masses m,2m,3m lie at rest in that order on

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Finding displacement amplitude given frequency and pressure

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What is the Speed and Time for a Stone Thrown Downward?

  • jojo711
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Finding the Net Torque of a Circular Object

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How far along the incline is the highest point from the release point?

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Why is this a two-force member?

  • eurekameh
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What I consider to be a very hard spring-potential energy problem

  • Patdon10
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Semantics regarding Work problems

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Elementary Physics - Energy Related Problem

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Calculate Electric Field at Point P: L, λ, & Q Given

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What is the Relationship Between Mass of Earth and Velocity of Orbit?

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