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Hooke's law and kinetic energy?

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Liquids; volume and mass flow rates

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Calculating Work and E-field from and equipotential contour graph

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Which Statements About Electric Field Lines Are True?

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How Do You Convert km/h to m/s² for Calculating Acceleration?

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Maximum Velocity in projectiles

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Finding the E-field between two infinite plane charged sheets

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What is the required force to push a box upwards on an angled surface?

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Solve Refraction Problem 4: Find Angle of Refraction from Air to Glass

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Force - boxes connected by strings

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Calculating wavelength of a standing wave on a guitar string

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Electrostatics home work question

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Finding Charges in Battery for 5 Seconds

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Parallel voltage sources circuit

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Measure the length of a material with Michelson interferometer

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Freeboard of a Soup Can in a Pool

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Projectile Motion Help: Proving Equations for Velocity and Time

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Question on a waves/sound problem

  • Kalix
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How can we use calculus to find volumes of revolution?

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What is the relation between a shell and a solid sphere?

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Motion on an incline plane (detailed)

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Roller Coaster and Centripetal Acceleration

  • hrithikguy
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I with this Uniform circular motion problem

  • Jimmy84
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Gravitational Force Between; Sun and Earth, Moon and Earth

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Jet Engine Question Homework: Find Thrust w/ 100% Efficiency

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Throwing an object over the fence

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Calculating the Ratio of Planet Masses Using Newton's Law of Gravitation

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Finding distance between two points A, B moving in a plane

  • Richlair
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Explain, briefly, what a hysteresis cycle is

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Calculating Time to Discharge Capacitor to 3V

  • Rupturez
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3D statics - looks impossible to solve

  • Femme_physics
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Charge on Capacitor Homework: Q10 & Q11

  • Leeoku
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Electricity: Basic circuit question with a switch

  • Femme_physics
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Angle at which canon can be fired

  • gwizz
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Find V(f) for two particles resting (and compressing) against a spring.

  • Covenant32
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How Is Average Acceleration Calculated for an Arrow on a Bow?

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How Do You Calculate Cos 125 Degrees in Engineering Mechanics?

  • w4taup
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Question on a doppler effect problem and equation

  • Kalix
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Relative energies inside a rectangular box

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Current: Average vs. Instantaneous.

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Impulse imparted by the ground on the ball?

  • jevillan
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Astronomy - Distance with different scale factors

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Need Help Solving Physics Practice Problems

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How Do We Calculate the Weight of Block C in a Frictional Force Problem?

  • Redcutter
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Work results in a change in energy?

  • Dee08
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Capacitors in Series and in Parallel

  • sweetreason
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Find the acceleration of the blocks

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Calculating Resistance of a Light Bulb

  • Kryttle
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Gravity and acceleration simple calculation

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How is the junction area of each diode calculated in this circuit?

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Electric potential and distribution of charge

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Electric field in a spherical shell

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Help with this problem velocity

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A spring loaded gun question from my test.

  • Krislynn
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Finding Magnitude and Direction of Vector Addition and Subtraction

  • luckylayla
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Solve U1=U*R2/(R1+R2): Current Circuit Theory

  • Lindsayyyy
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Maximum kinetic energy of a rocket in free space.

  • Pianodan
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Why Is Heat Energy Considered Unusable?

  • Qube
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Current of Electricity: electrons

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EMF in loop, given magnetic field

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Electric potential, conceptual problem

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Please help me. topic: ( motion with constant acceleration : free fall )

  • donniemsb_12
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Calculating gravity from height and time of a jump

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Calculating Electric Field & Proton Acceleration

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Electric Field Strength on Cube Faces

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Acceleration - a constant or increasing?

  • dano thompson
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Help verify this question about average acceleration?

  • iamjohnny56
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Determine distance with constant acceleration

  • brunettegurl
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Understanding Chassis Ground in Car Electrical Systems

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How Does Light Behave When It Travels Between Different Mediums?

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Motion of object in 2 dimensions

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Finding Time T with Given Velocity and Acceleration

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Compute the terminal speed of a car as it coasts down the incline

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Infinite Mass and Finite Tension over a pulley

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Optimizing MCAT Physics: Understanding Oscillation with Two Springs

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Uniform Acceleration Motion (UAM)

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Calculating Work Done by Gravity on a Falling Skydiver

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How to Find Vector Components Along Given Directions?

  • harshakantha
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Proof that d/dx is anti-hermitian by integration by parts

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Hanging accordian balanced by opposing moments

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Relating portions of Poiseille's Law to concepts of pressure/radius

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Two people of differing masses on a sheet of ice

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A seemingly simple yet paradoxical question? (springs & collision)

  • lillybeans
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Finding the E-field of a mass hanging from a string

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What are the conditions for different types of damping in oscillations?

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How Does a Cuckoo Clock Calculate Its Quality Factor and Battery Life?

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Resultant Force: Something I am messing up on in calculation - ?

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No, that is not correct. The correct answer is F_t(y) = [m(gL - gy)]/L.

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HELP Finding Initial Separation

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Vector XY: Possible Coordinates for X & Y

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Finding angle to reduce friction

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What is the difference between induction and polarization?

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Induced current in expanding metal ring

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