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Electric potential energy graph

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Elastic collision with relative velocity equation

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Solving for Car's Acceleration, Time, and Average Speed

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How far does the student run before catching the bus?

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How Does a Rope with Mass Affect the Forces on a Block?

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Finding wavelength and frequency from speed and period

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Relative motion problem (with picture)

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How Is Energy Dissipated When Braking a Car?

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Vector addition and Relative motion

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Deriving power from the relativistic energy equation

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Two masses on a pulley with one starting 4 m above the other

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A coyote chases a rabbit basic vector problem

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When to round significant figures in unit conversions?

  • physicsteach
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What is the Force Exerted by a Spring in a Moving Elevator?

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What equation could I use for this?

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Minimum speed to reach the moon from Earth's surface

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Horizontal acceleration of 5.00-kg block with two force vectors

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Torque on a current carrying wire

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How Far Will a Bundle Slide Up an Incline with Friction?

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Potato Launcher with Constant Velocity

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Why is there a spectrum on the back of a CD or DVD?

  • logearav
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Battery - diagrammatic representation

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Horizontal and vertical oscillations of a loaded spring

  • logearav
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What does "behind the cathode" mean in canal rays experiments?

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How far does the car travel? Uniform acceleration.

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Centripetal Acceleration with infinite Radius?

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Vector resultant of 60N and 85N at different angles

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Car Speed for 1kW Home Power Usage

  • Physics211
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I deriving equtions for projectile motion.

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Direction of tension force 5 on free body diagram

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How to solve for average velocity on a distance time graph?

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How Strong Does a Fishing Line Need to Be to Stop a Drifting Salmon?

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Displacement of watch minute hand tip from 8:00 to 8:20 and 8:00 to 9:00

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Lenz' Law, induced current in a ring falling

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Tension in rope pulling up a bucket. Thanks

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Blocks connected by rope on slope

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What is the max E that teh electron can obtain?

  • thatoneguy123
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What Is the Maximum Angle Before Crutches Slip on the Floor?

  • jehan4141
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Solving Physics Vectors: Car Velocity and Ball Velocity Relative to Kids/Road

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How Do You Calculate the Minimum Radius of Curvature for a Banked Roadway?

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How to find energy stored in a wire

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How Does an Electric Force Alter the Energy of a Boron Nucleus?

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Determine if radio waves are constructive or destructive

  • PCSL
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Projectile motion question-nothing special.

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A batter hits a baseball motion and velocity problem

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Calculating Friction Force on Blocks A and B

  • apprentice213
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Kinetic energy of 30000kg asteroid falling from space

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Finding total resistance in a parallel and series circuit

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Probabilities and binomial theorem

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Calculating Initial Velocity for Symmetric Projectile Motion

  • doc2142
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Vector Components for Destination Distance

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Absolute Uncertainty - Enough Information?

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AP Physics B: Centripetal Force and Gravity

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Integration limits for Gaussian surface

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Will a metal rod keep moving if given a slight nudge in a magnetic field?

  • serverxeon
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This juggler problem drining me crazy

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Coefficient of friction for a car sliding down an icy hill

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Smallest perpendicular velocity to orbit

  • unscientific
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Struggling with Torque Problems in Static Equilibrium?

  • stonecoldgen
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Time it takes for stacked boxes to cover distance

  • Jonathan1515
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Net Flux through a cube with a varying electric field only along the Y-axis.

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Very quick Velocity/acceleration conceptual question

  • inkandgold
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Plane and helicopter relative velocity

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Calculating Total Distance Traveled with Constant Acceleration

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Spring in a motionless elevator

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Tension of a rope between two trees

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How High is the Cliff If a Ball Takes 3.2 Seconds to Hit the Water?

  • SpecialKM
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Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration

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How long does it take the particle to hit the y-axis?

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Sum and difference of two vectors with given magnitudes

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How do I convert gauss to Newtons per meter for magnetic calculations?

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Finding the instantaneous velocity on a position time graph

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Solving Newton's Problem: 2 Masses Stacked on Each Other

  • Myronnie
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Two trucks colliding head-on: impulse sign convention

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Mechanics - two boxes down a hill

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Projectile Motion given a vertical distance and angle at that point

  • whoareyou
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Maximum force on stacked boxes, when we don't want the boxes to slip.

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Formula deduction V2 = V02 + 2g(y - y0)

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Finding Work given mass and distance

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Touching Conducting Spheres of Different Size

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How Many Steel Strands Are Needed to Safely Lower a Lift into a Mine?

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Acceleration on incline (w. Friction)

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Galileo's Inclined Plane: Maximum Acceleration of a Rolling Ball

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What is the Centrifugal Force in a Circular Roadway?

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Pulleys and weights - finding acceleration and tension

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What average force is exerted on the ball during the contact time?

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Estimate the energy stored in a match

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Resultant Force Components and Magnitude Calculation

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Free falling object with gravity

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Uncertainty with a simple pendulum

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Calculating Friction Forces in a System of Blocks Connected by Cords

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Conceptual elevator and atwood pulley problem

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Finding angle between equal magnitude vectors given resultant ratio

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Calculating uncertainty using the least squares method.

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Dividing a number w/uncert by a number w/o uncert

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