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Leakage Conductance of Cylindrical Coax Cable

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Solving a Displacement Problem with a Spring Force of 50 N/m

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Gauss' Law - Infinite Sheet of Charge

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Person in bucket pulling on rope

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How Does Rocket Thrust Affect Velocity in Space?

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How to I find what needs to be the mass of an object in a friction problem?

  • Mustachio
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Should be simple acceleration problem

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Friction between two blocks on a table

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How Does Table Height Affect Initial Velocity Calculation in Physics?

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Use Force, Mass and Acceleration to find velocity

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What is the braking force required to stop an egg from falling?

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Deriving the speed of a falling ball

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Net Force Problem: Stopping an Auto in 1.8 cm

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Unifom accelaration question about racing

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Block and wedge system all details

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Magnetic Fields In Semi-Infinite Solenoid's

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Calculating the Radius & Energy of Bohr's Hydrogen Atom

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Uniform Circular Motion/Newton's 2nd Law?

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Forces Problem Involving A Tree Branch acting as a monkey's pulley

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Proving an equation is an eigenstate of the momentum operator.

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What is the skier's initial velocity?

  • Virtuozzo
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Static friction on a car on a circle

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Relationship between frequency and tension on a string

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How Does Doubling Mass and Force Affect Acceleration?

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Calculating the Angle Between a Force and Displacement

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Calculating Tension for 2000kg Elevator at Rest

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Is this correct without a direction in metres?

  • barthayn
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Solve for torque? Torque = Moment of Inertia * Angular Acceleration?

  • soundengineer
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Find the surface charge density that will stop a proton

  • Patdon10
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Calculating acceleration - Quick question

  • nukeman
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Time dilation and length contraction with flashbulb at 0.6c

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Uniform Acceleration-Algebraically

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Glider pulled by suspended mass

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Lorentz transforming electromagnetic potentials at 4c/5

  • physguy420
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Calculate Velocity of Gravity: Ball Tossed Up 15 m/s from 12m

  • BuhRock
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Friction acting on box not slipping in truck

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Energy Conservation/Potential Energy - block on a hill

  • lakersoftball
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Find the direction of acceleration

  • Mustachio
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How Do You Calculate Final Velocity with Uniform Acceleration?

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Simple harmonic oscillators and a pendulum clock.

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Time dilation difference of astronaut problem

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Particle moving in polar coordinates

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Solving for Acceleration in a Simple Kinematics Problem

  • princesssuckz
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Finding final image through a lens

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A very difficult question about a pulley system with friction

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What is the equation for calculating tension in an elevator rope?

  • B-80
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Calculating Linear Momentum of Golf Club on Impact

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Projectile Motion cannonball fired on top of a wall.

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Minimizing Pulling Force for Crate on Rough Floor

  • ethex
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Proving the Possibility of a Collision (Legal Puzzle)

  • GoldenGod
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Solving for force in vectors of Electric Field

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Electric Force and Electric Field problem

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Uniformly Charged Ring Acting on a Particle

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Help: with two distancehow do you find velocity?

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How do I calculate acceleration and magnitude in physics?

  • LanaStClair
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Finding the speed of a block moving on an incline

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Having trouble finding the tension of this Newton law problem

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Acceleration in Uniform Circular Motion

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Electric Potential Energy of a Cube of 8 protons

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Air resistance - find Vx(t) and Vy(t)

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F=ma, kinematics in vector notation

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Solving a Projectile Motion Problem

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Electromagnetic Fields and Effects of Oscillation

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Two objects on an incline with friction, calculate acceleration? B

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Magnitude of kinetic friction and static friction

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Kinematics in two dimensions lab question

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Strength of Electric Field with a point charge

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Mechanics: Manual Drill Eccentricity

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How Does Holding an Air Rifle Affect Recoil Speed?

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Is My Coulomb's Law Calculation Correct?

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Help with force question? i dont know how to get the right answer?

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How Do You Calculate the Forces Exerted by Each Lifeguard on a Raft?

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Weight lifter - Acceleration of the barbell ?

  • nukeman
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Apply Nodal Analysis to the Circuit

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Finding total force - Is this correct?

  • nukeman
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Maximum electric force felt by the raindrop

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How Long Does It Take for a T-Rex Torso to Come to Rest After Falling?

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How Do I Solve This Projectile Motion Equation?

  • chevymechanic
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How would opposite Earth rotation affect weight at the equator and poles?

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Weber's law of just noticeable difference

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Does the Object on the Table Have Wheels?

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Design a circuit to recharge a battery

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Are these two equations for adiabatic processes the same

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Potential Energy Curve for Proving Expressions for c and w

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Maximum height of projectile motion

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Derive equation for truck slides before stopping

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Newton's law, normal force, acceleration

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Color of Sky Without Atmosphere or 50 Times Densers

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Calculating Electric Force on q3 in Meters: A Superposition Approach

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Pulley Questions: 15kg, 12kg, Fnet, ma, Fg, mg

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Equation for Projectile Motion of Flare Fired from Accelerating Helicopter

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