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Characteristics of traveling waves

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A woman has a large stone in her yard. She lives at the equator and

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Momentum, conservation of linear momentum problem

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Finding net force on a car in mud without knowing its mass

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Find mass given acceleration and upward force

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Inelastic Collisions and ratio of their masses

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What Is the Electric Field Strength in a Glass Sphere with a Point Charge?

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Acceleration of the center of mass

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Spring length hanging down and horizontal

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Is Energy Lost When a Liquid Vaporizes and Gained When a Gas Condenses?

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How Do You Calculate Tension and Work for a Sledge Pulled at an Angle?

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Perpendicular force required to stop an object, with respect to friction

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Fastest velocity possible for a 90 degree turn

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How Do Forces on a Balance Change When a Man Throws a Ball?

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Finding displacement with coefficient of friction, mass and velocity

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How Do You Determine the Location and Resistance of a Twig on a Telephone Line?

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How Does Mass Affect Static Friction on Different Sized Balls on a Ramp?

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Roational Mechanics of Helicopter Blades

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What is the Explanation for Inelastic Collisions in Physics?

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String tension and buoyancy on a submerged object

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Effective Resistance of a circuit

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Are the Radii R1 and R2 of a Lens Always the Same?

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Rocket reaching 330 m/s with hanging instrument wire constraint

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Why does a CD player operate at 24V not 240V

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Calculating Momentum Impulse During Thunderstorm

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Checking force diagrams for object swung in vertical circle

  • Miike012
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Energy and gravitation problem

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Find the power of a boat that accelerated

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How can I solve for the mass and radius in this uniform circular motion problem?

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Boat crossing a river with current flowing east to west

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Solving for net flux, given x- and y- components of electric field, E

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Why use cos for tangential and sin for radial acceleration components

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Work, power, acceleration problem

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Linear differential equations: source term constant

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Mass sliding down a ramp - acceleration from Newton's 2nd law

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Finding theta(t) for balanced system with water pouring into lower mass

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Package drop from plane at angle: how to set up the problem?

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Fun Physics/Calculus Problem

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Magnetic force on current-carrying wire with 36V, 0.8m, 0.7T

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Average Power of a Car: How to Calculate and Understand It

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Calculating Kinetic Energy with Rotational Motion

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Determing Resistance of metal with temperature coefficient of resistance

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Energy stored in electric field between charged concentric spheres

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What is the significance of torque angle in screw applications?

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Force done by the spring if a weight is attached

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Acceleration of 3kg mass suspended by two ropes at 45°

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Motional EMF (direction of moving bar)

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Solving an Electric Field Due to an Infinite Cylinder

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I dont understand how to find the work done

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Angle of Deflection of an electron in an magnetic field

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How Do You Correctly Calculate the Electric Field Under a Thundercloud?

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How Do You Calculate the New Angular Speed of Coupled Wheels?

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Displacement of spring of a block going down an incline

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How Do You Calculate Electric Fields and Forces Between Charged Rods?

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Test whether constant incline is constant acceleration

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Pumpkin in Cannon Acceleration Problem

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Big anaconda orbiting the planet

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Moment of inertia of a semicircle

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Confusion about the potential reference point

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Finding perpendicular force on incline plane.

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Finding the Coefficient of friction on an incline plane

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Conservation of energy/inclined plane w/ spring

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Statics of body in two dimensions

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Find the Maximum Mass for Riding a Swing

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Calculating unknown forces using the principle of moments.

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Is a spring longer hanging or flat on a table?

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Eigenfunctions and hermitian operators

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Speed needed for ball2 to collide with ball1 in flight

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Two-dimensional kinematics: Projectile Motion

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How can you stop it from descending without friction?

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What is work done by gravity when lifting an object?

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Center of mass of a semicircular plate using integration

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Physics banking problems w\ friction.

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Rolling Solid Disk: Angular Speed, Energy Loss, & Distance

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Block Pushed Up a Vertical Wall

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SHM period of two opposite charges on springs toward each other

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How Accurate Is the Calculation of Potential Energy Change at High Altitudes?

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Launching of a Potato (Involve kinetic and potential energy and an angle )

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Photoelectric effect and determining the planckconstant

  • Nikitin
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Struggling with Kinetics and Projectile Motion?

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Kinetic energy and potential energy concept question

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Final Velocity of Hockey Puck: 40.0 m/s to ?

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DC Circuit and an Inductor - Q on potentials

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Change in potential energy of water falling 50m over Niagara Falls

  • warrior2014
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Rocket accelaation at the start of fuel burn

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Block on 30° incline with friction: did I get 0.302 m?

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Circular Motion and Gravitation of asteroid

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Why Do Long Steam Pipes Often Have a U-Shaped Section?

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Projectile Motion (Find T with ΔDx, ΔDy, θ, and A?)

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Gravitational forces and multiple bodies problem

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How Does Atwood's Machine Demonstrate Conservation of Energy?

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Stones thrown from different heights

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Kirchhoff's current law and nodal analysis

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Force on suspended crate from position function at t=3.60 s

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Best way to graphically draw vectors for lab report?

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What is the role of motional emf in opposing motion?

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