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Calculating Electric Flux Through a Rectangle

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What Is the Force of Tension Between Mass A and B?

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Hohmann Orbit, PLanet Transfer (Energy)

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Finding Work from the Derivative of Power

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Kinetic friction coefficient for hay sliding on road

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Maximum Current in AC Circuit Problem

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Dogs pulling on a post vector probelm

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Tied mass with angular velocity

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The angle that A makes with the positive x axis

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What Are Emission and Absorption in Physics?

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Instantaneous current through an area

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Maximum Rotational Speed for Bar with Masses on Ends

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Standing waves and variable frequency

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Initial velocity and maximum height from projectile range and time

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Magnitude of normal force question

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Thermodynamics Question. Determine Quality of Two Phase Ammonia.

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Train and car kinematics with relative motion over 28 seconds

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Problems with velocity/acceleration involving clock arm

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Force on the blocks and its acceleration

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Is the axis of rotation a line or a point?

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Calculating Minimum Horizontal Force for Two Interacting Blocks

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Calculating Velocity of a Ball Projected Upwards

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Why does mixing yellow and blue pigment give green?

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Carnival ride, Friction and Normal Forces

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Force from power dissipated in road and wind resistance at 75 km/hr

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Calc Angle of Rope Swing for 82kg Man, 1450kg Car

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Central force motion and particles

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Maximum power when torque is 0 and angular velocity is 0

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Projectile Motion Problem: Finding Velocity Direction at Impact

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C.O.P/Refrigerator (Finding Temp)

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How to find energy if mass and height is given?

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Work done by Tension Ques: Friction 0.5n

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[Very Easy] Factors, Divisors and Mechanical Advantage

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Conservation of Energy in Gravity

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Using Triple integrals to solve torque around a point.

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Finding electric field via a given potential

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Solving for Flux. Basic Calculus question.

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Period of a conical pendulum with 16 kg mass

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How to choose and use the three kinematic equations

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Motion in accel. frames - water in turntable

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Maximum tension before block slides on cart moving up ramp

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Why is (B.y) for the y-component negative for sin30?

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Work density / heat density question

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Newton's Laws with a Pulley, with tension, Force

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What is the Charge Enclosed in a Sphere with Proportional Charge Density?

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What Is the Net Force on an Atwood's Machine Under Various Conditions?

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Air friction modeled as a differential equation

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Newtons Laws - Coefficient of Friction problem

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Principles of Potential Energy in a Multiparticle System

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Force needed to keep John and Brian from sliding on a massless cube

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How Does Relativistic Speed Affect Photon Wavelength Measurement?

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Finding the angle of a car moving on a circular track

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Electric potential across a cross sectional cylinder

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Walking speed and moving sidewalk at airport

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Potential Difference in a van der graaff generator

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Find Frictional force on a block

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Potential difference inside a spherical shell

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Kinetic frictions, pulleys, and Newton's third law

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How Does Entropy Change in a Reversible Cooling Process?

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Finding minimum distance to stop using friction and velocity

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Projectile motion of a Missile relative to ground

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Work done by friction on block in vertical circle

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Why does a bar magnet always have both poles when cut?

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Transformer, AC Source, and a Battery

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Force and motion in Newton's laws

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Calculate Time Difference: Tim vs. Rick Running and Walking

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Measurements - relation between mass and size

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Elliptical orbit, velocity at aphelion

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How fast would Earth need to spin before we fall off at latitude 53?

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Tension problem - bead sliding on a string attached to a pole

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Solving Heat Transfer Problems with Boundary Conditions

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Newton's laws,solving for tension (smthn wrong with my work)?

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High jumper's height in Mexico City vs Tokyo with lower gravity

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Tension and friction on an angle

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Initial Velocity and Inclined Plane

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Finding an expression for the maximum tension?

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Two pulleys and same masses - velocity?

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How to Derive an Error Equation for Angle to Radian Conversion?

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Calculating air density from a barometer?

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Rectilinear motion of a particle

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Truck/Box - Accel, distance, time

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Uniform Circular motion problem,

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Compare final T of reversible/irreversible equations

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Mechanical Advantage of a Lever

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Rutherford and nuclear transmutation

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Integrating velocity equation to find position?

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Create an expression for a rotating plate

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Calculating Distance, Speed, and Displacement in a Skidding Car

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How Can You Tell Which Gas Cylinder is Full in Space?

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What is the runner's average velocity on a circular track?

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Projectile motion with aerodynamic drag force

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Energy Sharing in Elastic Collisions

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Finding Tension of String Connecting Two Blocks on a Flat Surface

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Block pushed against wall with 12N force: will it move?

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