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I have no intuition. Momentum problem

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Help! Find the Magnitude of a Displacement Vector

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Calculating Velocity Components and Angle between Cars at an Intersection

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Calculating Hurricane Distance with Vectors

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Projectile with different landing height

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Damped harmonic oscillator of spring

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Calculating Average Speed and Velocity for a Honeybee's Round Trip

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Force to hold together a split charged hollow sphere

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What is the Takeoff Angle for a Long Jumper?

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Kinetic energy of daughter nucleus and alpha particle from alpha decay

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Determine electronic transitions by the emitted wavelength?

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Total time In air for a projectile

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Conceptual Projectile Motion with Wind Resistance

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Centre of mass and moment of mass

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Checking my bending moment and second moment of area calculations

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Find displacement from a record of travel

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Projectile Height Calculation: Baseball Thrown at 30 Degrees

  • bionut
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How High Does a Jumper Raise Their Center of Gravity?

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Rev/sec necessary to reach 20-g

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Why is frequency 16/4 when a pulse is half a wave?

  • Misr
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Misinterpretation of Newton's Third Law

  • Kyoma
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How Do You Calculate the Orbital Period of a Satellite?

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What Affects the Fundamental Frequency of a String?

  • Misr
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Wavefronts and Longitudinal Waves Displacement-Time Graph

  • Peter G.
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Displacement around a 400m track

  • bionut
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Finding magnitude and direction of vectors

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When Does the Particle Reach Its Maximum Positive X Position?

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What Distance from Charge \( q_1 \) Results in Zero Electric Field?

  • craigl34
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On Electric and Gravitational Potential Energy

  • Kyoma
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Pressure depth problem in English units instead of metric

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How Do You Calculate Displacement from a Vector Diagram?

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Photoelectric mass attenuation coefficient data

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Car acceleration and velocity on straight road then curved section

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Motion in two or three dimensions

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Motion Diagram: Swimmer at a Swim Meet?

  • andyman21
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What is the initial charge on each object?

  • Kyoma
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How Do You Calculate Instantaneous Power in Electric Circuits?

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Unbalanced Wheatstone Bridge voltage across resisitors

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Dual Nature of Light: Waves and Particles

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AS Physics Basic Kinematics Question

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Do Firecrackers Explode Simultaneously on a Moving Train?

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Finding angular velocity of bike wheel from linear speed

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Quick yes or no charged disc e field equation question

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Poloygon of forces to demonstrate that the crate is in equilibrium

  • joe465
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Need Physics Help: Acceleration of a Cart w/ Working Out

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How Does the Electric Field Approximation Change When x is Much Smaller Than a?

  • charlies1902
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Graphing e field for ring charge

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Total mass of a cord, uniform density

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How to Calculate Dot Product of Two Vectors?

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Police car catching a speeder at 30 m/s with 2.60 m/s² acceleration

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Acceleration of Head When Heading a Soccer Ball

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How Fast Must a Meter Stick Move to Appear Half Its Length?

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Tension in string, vertical plane

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Lift Problem involving forces, acceleration and speed

  • Pho3nix
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How Do You Calculate Resistance in Complex Circuits?

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Should the Bus Driver Brake or Accelerate at the Orange Light?

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Gravitational Force computing for components

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Finding Distance Given Velocity and Time

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Converting Polar to Rectangular

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How Is Tension Calculated in the Middle of a Catenary Rope?

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Finding gravitational force between two masses

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Two masses sliding down slope with friction between them

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Find resultant of multiple torques on a single rigid body

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Proving that line segments from a parallelogram vertex trisect the diagonal

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What is the Maximum Acceleration a Man Can Achieve Pushing a Fully Loaded Cart?

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Calculate the time of a swimmer

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Calculating Force on Albert in Lightweight Swing

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Index of Refraction: Solving a Problem

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Speed, change in velocity, and average acceleration

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How do I calculate diffraction intensity for a 2D lattice?

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Radius of gyration/power/rev per minute

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Motion of two balls which collide

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Focus of Lens Submerged In Water

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Why Does Freefall Acceleration Sign Differ Between Similar Problems?

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Finding Vo in a two-loop circuit using KVL and KCL

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Calculate the period and frequency of rotation

  • joe465
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Finding the components of a Cartesian vector

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Chair-lift at constant speed: confusion over passengers per minute, power, etc.

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Finding the Angle of a Bowling Ball Ramp Problem

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Projectile Motion and Integration

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What is the technique shown in the green step?

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Electric field of single photon in a cavity

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Interval notation and specifying units (v vs. t graph)

  • Genecks
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Finding Dimensional Homogeneity

  • Physics_Grunt
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Avg Acceleration problem + question on Speed vs Velocity

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Solving an Electric Field Problem in Equilateral Triangle Geometry

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Displacement vector on a watch?

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Finding q' to make E field zero at triangle center

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Oscillating String - Transverse Speed, what am I doing wrong?

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How Do You Add Vectors Using Unit Vector Notation?

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Calculating the energy loss due to sound emission on collision

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