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How Do Pulley Systems Affect Block Speeds with Friction and Spring Forces?

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How Do Cosmic Rays Travel Through Earth's Atmosphere?

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10 moles of an ideal gas has a gauge pressure of 2 atm what is new T? no clue

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Diamond Ring in Front of a Convex Lens?

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Finding the instantaneous axis of rotation

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Fundamental Frequency, Shortening the length of the spring

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Find the equivalent resistance in a circuit

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How much energy is released in the fusion of 4 protons?

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Find acceleleration of object with angle only.

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Cable car and counterweight forces problem. (Tension)

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CONCEPTUAL: isothermic expansion

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How Does Angling the Force Affect Kinetic Energy Increase in a Sled?

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Elastic collision between particles p and N with 90° deflection

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Oscillations of Covalent Molecules

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Finding dimensions of a rectangle with area 90 cm²

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Time to reach terminal velocity

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Conservation of momentum velocity problem

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Does wavelength change with the Doppler effect?

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I couldn't find the total distance

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Finding mass of nitrogen gas from pressure, volume and temperature

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Constraint equation for two blocks connected by a cord

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Why is angular velocity Vb/0.6 in rotating bar problem?

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Finding Potential Difference between two points homework

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Forces and Equilibrium : Find the force b/w the blocks?

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How do you calculate the work done against gravity?

  • Ahmadabdallah
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Car overtaking accelerating truck problem

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When Should 'g' Be Negative in Physics Equations?

  • jteh
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Optics question - Image formation

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Geometrical solution to static problem without friction

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How do I calculate the trajectory of a thrown ball onto a roof?

  • wolves5
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How Does Projectile Motion Work When a Ball is Thrown from a Cliff?

  • wolves5
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Swimmer and Two Dimensional Equations

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How Do You Write a Superposition Wavefunction for an Electron in a 1D Box?

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Electricity and magnetism point charges problem

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How Does Engine Efficiency Affect Cooling System Temperature?

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What was the x component of the initial velocity of the ball?

  • wolves5
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How Do You Calculate the Upward Force on a Uniform Rope Being Lifted?

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Electron-proton relative speed at 0.9c each direction

  • najisalem2009
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Question on uniform circular motion

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97.9747 = sinh (6.2737x10^9) How did they solve this?

  • j2dabizo
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Question regarding elastic potential energy and work

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Equations relating to a loudspeaker?

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How Can a Marble Roller Coaster Achieve Multiple Loops Within Strict Dimensions?

  • Quantum_Prodegy
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Force in Head-on Collisions: Equal Risk or More?

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Radius of curvature of a bimetallic strip

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Can't Figure out what I am doing wrong F=MA (easy problem)

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What is the direction of impulse delivered to the ball?

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How Do You Calculate the Third Force in a Three-Force System?

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Magnetic Fields proton beam accelerated

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What Frequency Does a Worker Hear at Rest?

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Recoil velocity of rifle firing a paintball

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How far away is the rock face? (Wavelengths)

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Work/ energy on a rigid body (mechanics)

  • smruthi92
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How Did Ampere and Kirchhoff Shape Modern Electromagnetism?

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Calculate the electric field strength inside and outside a wire

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How Does the Archerfish Use Projectile Motion to Hunt?

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Projectile Motion Calculations at t = 10 s

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Grade 12 Physics Lab (Material = Box of Matches)

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Calculating Average Binding Energy per Nucleon in Deuterium

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What Is the Velocity of Cyclist B and C Relative to the Road?

  • Peter G.
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Shear Modulus of jiggling jello

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Stefan-Boltzmann law question (astronomy)

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How Do You Calculate the Electrical Charge of a Particle?

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Calculating the Mass of an Electron

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Effects of Doubling Frequency on Sound Properties

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Guitar String's 2nd Overtone Frequency

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John Travoltage (Electo and magnatesim concept questions)

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Project: Launching from liquid

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How Do You Calculate Wavelength in a Standing Wave Scenario?

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Approximation of Volume using Differential

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Work Done by Gas in Carnot Cycle

  • Peter G.
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Young's Double-slit Equation Question

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How do I find pulley tension without knowing acceleration?

  • smruthi92
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Free fall and pressure when landing in snow

  • Order
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Properties of electric charges - insulators and conductors

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Cylinder rolling up inclined plane - Rolling without slipping

  • Oshada
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Proving Negative G-Forces with an Example

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Bernoulli's Principle and water tank

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Solving an Electric Circuit with Kirchhoff's Voltage Law

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MCAT contradiction? - Gauge Pressure

  • berkeley12
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What is the surface area of the filament? heat expansion and transfer

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Finding the point where the net electric field is 0

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Period of a simple harmonic oscillator

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Circular/rotational motion problem - Waterwheel with bucket

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Dot product and cross product of vectors in Cartesian form

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Rotational kinematics of a ball

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System of forces and torque on an object

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What is the mass of water used to cool the iron car engine?

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Path Difference: Why a Cold Spot Forms at S

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Question on Thermodynamics Problem

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Color of oil slick with 250 nm thickness and refractive index 1.4

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Why Does P * V Not Always Equal 1 in Gas Laws?

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