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What is the Speed of Sound in Air?

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Acceleration and Force question - Thanks

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Frictional force on 9 kg block on 30° incline

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Acceleration due to gravity question

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Find the force exerted on a bullet as it travels through the barrel

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Got a doosie here, Angular acceleration, time and radius.

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Two blocks tied with massless rope sliding down an incline

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Calculate the pull on the high bar of a gymnast

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Calculating Coefficient of Friction in a Hockey Puck Sliding Problem

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Friction on inclined plane with force along unconventional x-axis

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Finding total time of a running rabbit

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Impulse and Momentum, 2 dimension

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What is the Initial Speed of a Baseball Thrown at a 45° Angle?

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Kinetic Energy of Two Atoms System: r=r1

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How Do You Calculate Radius in Uniform Circular Motion?

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Finding the angle of the traveling direction of a sailboat

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Finding the direction of the resultant

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Trip to Moon: Escape Earth's Gravity!

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Solving a Particle's Motion with Acceleration a(t) = 3at + 2b

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What equations would I use to solve for work and power delivered?

  • george256
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Finding Maximum Height of Two Simultaneously Launched Balls

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Relating position and force to speed

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Find the acceleration of an elevator

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2 charges located in the x-y plane

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Egg drop from 25 meters with latex glove, newspaper, and toothpicks

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Time it takes to lift a sofa with power

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Propagation of errors addition numbers without uncertainty

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Newtons Law Problem involving kinematic equation

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What is the Electric Field of a Charged Cylinder with Varying Density?

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Remove a force, what would be the resultant

  • ammoun
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Power involved in running upstairs

  • Capncanada
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How Far Can a Person Sit on a Table Without Tipping It Over?

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Projectile Motion Launched at an Angle

  • phizics09
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Friction coefficient is greater than 1 explanation

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Eliminating x in Lorentz Transformation

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Projectile launched from 65 m building at 32°

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Gauss's Law and charged conductors

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Finding electric field via potential

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Is log4(18) an Irrational Number?

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Potential difference between 2 points on dipole axis

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Calculating work when 2 forces are present

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Solve for Escape Velocity on Mars: Differential Equation Method

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Can any one explain me about Integrals and derivatives in breif

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Problems with frictionless wedges

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Forces: Wedge and Block Problem + Pulley System Problem

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An erect pencil on a frictionless plane

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Is the Tension in the String Equal for Both Blocks?

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Photoelectric effect calculations

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Force exerted on motorcycle and rider

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Finding resources on stiffness matrix calculations

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Bomb launched from aircraft at 55 degrees: projectile motion

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Integral Formulas for Center of Mass of Uniform Density

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Atwood Machine on a Frictionless Inclined Plane: Components Resolution

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2d Motion, calculating time when v=0 from position vector

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Initial Velocity of a Projectile

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Finding initial velocity given displacement, time, and final velocity

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Finding the magnitude of acceleration

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How to find the wavelength of a sound wave?

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Kirchoff's Laws Problem - Power

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Does field strength propagate or emerge from local interactions?

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Resistance of a truncated cone with varying cross section

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Atwood machine with leaking container changing acceleration

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Head-on elastic collision of alpha particle with gold nucleus

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5 Parallel Large Flat Electrodes (Potential/E-Field)

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Center of Mass Diagram Don't quite understand

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How Do You Calculate the Combined Phase Angle Shift of Multiple Waves?

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Which Object Has the Greater Instantaneous Velocity?

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How to solve how much work is done:

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Problems Involving Two Interacting Bodies and Friction

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Mass attached to a spring rotating in a circle

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Pendulum Motion Equation and Period Calculation

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What Is a Matter Wave?

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Load Distribution/Rigid Body Equilibirum Problems

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Forces on a pail being lowered/pulled up, with/without water

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How much force is needed to move the crate?

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Solving for Force & Fly-Off Time on Rotating Mass in Cup

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How do I solve for 't' in the platinum wire resistance problem?

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Forces and state of equilibrium

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Calculating emf from angular velocity

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Cannonball fired at 30° from 40 m height striking ground at 1.2v₀

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Bead sliding on a rotating straight rigid wire.

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How Does Time Dilation Affect Clocks on the Concorde?

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Center of mass question (man on a boat)

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Calculate the uncertainty on the values of m

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Finding acceleration of 7 kg block hanging from 11 kg block on table

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Thermodynamics - Entropy and Temperature

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