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Calculate Fraction to Change Length of Pendulum for True Run

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What's the Tension When One String Breaks? 0.25-2mg

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Atwood's Machine with 3 pulleys

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Negative sign in coulomb's law/centripetal motion question

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Determining Electric Field Inside a Hollow Conducting Sphere with Gauss Law

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Solving Tension in Massless, Frictionless Pulley System

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How Do You Solve Vector Equations with Given Values and Unknowns?

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General question about torque of sphere

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Calculate Chameleon's Tongue Distance in 1/20 sec

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Solve Basic Vector Problem: Hawk Speed & Shadow Speed in m/s

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Need some clarification on conducting spheres

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Projectile Motion: Finding the correct angle for a launch

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Is this all you have to do for this problem

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Tension in rope between blocks on an incline

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Finding distance in a race based on speed

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What incident energy is required to ionize a helium atom?

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How to Calculate Humidity in an Airtight Vessel?

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Find the force-couple system check my answer please

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What is the Time and Velocity for Projectile Motion with a Hose?

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How Do You Calculate Magnetic Flux Through a Cube's Face?

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Speed and acceleration - running for the bus

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What should be the formula to solve this?

  • rexkhyz29
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Easy Conceptual Kinematics Problem

  • waters
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Current Electricity - current flowing through hand

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Solve 1D Kinematics Homework: Collision of 2 Rubber Balls

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Adding scientific notation question =)

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What is the reason for the e field being 0 inside of a hollow conductor?

  • charlies1902
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Question on special relativity

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How Does the Center of Mass Move in a Block and Wedge System?

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Total Displacement Vectors Help

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Oscillating mass in a liquid, SHO

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Question about 2 ships - vectors?

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Industrial electronics. Question with coils and diode.

  • Femme_physics
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Can someone explain to me the signs on this vector problem

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Electrostatic Force between the sodium ion and the chloride ion.

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First-order differential equation

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Finding the force on a spring (Fs)?

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What Values of b Minimize or Maximize the X-Component of Force on q?

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Calculating Distance Between Two Vectors in a Camping Scenario

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Vector magnitude and direction question

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Physics-distance using vectors.

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Human Falling Determine Force on Achilles

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Finding the initial and final charge of two spheres

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Conservation of energy of a pendulum

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Looking for Kinematic practice problems with solutions

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Acceleration of a cart being pulled by falling weights

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Electric Force acting on an electron

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Solving the Physics Behind a Reddit Comic: Can the Raptor Catch Up?

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Proton-proton collisions in an accelerator

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Why Is My Calculation of the Wheel's Moment of Inertia Incorrect?

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Solve Your Speeding Dilemma: Calculating Braking Time and Distance

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration and Time in Kinematics?

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Can the Human Body Withstand Acceleration to 10% of Light Speed?

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Rate of heat generation in an electric circuit

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Continuous absorption spectrum - why this happens?

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Small Cannon Displacement Problem

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Emf / coil induction from a spark

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How to find coefficient of Friction? - Please help, due tomorrow.

  • rum2563
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Solving for Height in Horizontal Projectile Motion: 41 m/s, 23 m, g = -9.8m/s

  • NemoMnemosyne
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Understanding Polarities in Inductors and Capacitors in KVL

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Two blocks with spring (no friction), force applied: displacement?

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E Field of Sphere: Find Magnitude at Distance .05m

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Charged particle suspended from elastic cord

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Point Charge and Charged Sphere

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Confusion regarding fundamental classical mechanics question

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Finding Lever Lengths With Overall Mechanical Advantage

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Is the book wrong again for this e field problem?

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How Much Ice to Cool Boiling Tea to 65C?

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What is the speed of the satellite?

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How Do I Calculate Pressure Loss in Hydraulics with Two Pipes?

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Can someone answer a quick question for me about e field by spheres.

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Solving Vector A: What am I Doing Wrong?

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Phyiscs, finding components with per. line

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How to Calculate the Volume Charge Density of Earth's Atmosphere?

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Finding the resultant graphically

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The electric field at the center of a square

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Missle Defense System (Projectile Motion)

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Finding pressure with given radius

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How Are Resultant Vectors Calculated in Croquet Ball Displacements?

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Will the Magnet Stick to the Car or Fall to the Ground?

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Intensity of a Loudspeaker, What's wrong with calculation?

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2 identical charges @ x=a & x=-awhere does E field vanish?

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Centripetal and Tangential Acceleration (Change in Speed over time)

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Find the magnitude and direction of the net displacement of the player

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Kinematics problem that i cant seem to resolve

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Equilibrium of Four Point Charges in a Square: Calculating Charge Q

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Calculating Electric Fields of 3 Charges on a Line

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Question involving the mathematics of physics and trigonometry

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Solving Fluid Static Problem with Parallelepipeds

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Point charges acting on a point

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What is the Magnitude of the Electric Field Between Parallel Plates?

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Finding the Special Initial Velocity in a kx Force System

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Finding postion, velocity and accelration as functions of time (SHM)

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Piston Pressure: Forces, Physics & Thermodynamics

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