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Questions on dynamics - Newton's laws of motion

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Motion/Acceleration: free-fall gravity vs. ball being push downward

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SHM - Equation for Displacement

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Which Car Was Going Faster Before the Collision?

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Projectile Motion with Basketball

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How Do Climbers Use Physics to Rappel Down Cliffs?

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Superposition of Pulses Behavior

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What is the resultant speed and resultant angle of the boat?

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Some Simple Cosmology Questions

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Special relativity multiple choice questions

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How do you find angular velocity experimentally?

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Ideal gas in connected vessels with heating to 2T

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Compton Wavelength, h and h bar

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RMS velocity of sodium atoms at 300 K

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Doing Work When You Carry Something Up Stairs

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What is the inverse of 466ft^2/gal?

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Energy/rotational mechanics question

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How Does Strong Axis Bending Affect Stress in Composite Beams?

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Thermodynamics of an elastic band

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Thermal Expansion, Young's Modulus

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Finite Well Potential - Unbound eigenfunction

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Special Relativity Length Expansion?

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Mass pushed upward a hill, calculate the coefficient of friction.

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Physics:series of 3 lenses calculate mag

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How Does Mass Affect Friction in a Pulley System?

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Thermal physics; specific heat capacity

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Equilibrium temperature of copper and water mixture

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Body Heat and Energy Conversion During Running: Fact or Fiction?

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Static determinacy in structures: the rule r = 3n and support types

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In order to float, how much water must ship displace?

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Are the Peaks and Troughs of a Wave Always the Same Size?

  • Bashyboy
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Pressure=force/area - cannot arrive at correct answer?

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Do not know how to projectile velocity at given time.

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Cardboard boomerang experiments and calculations

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Is my relative motion analysis correct for this engineering problem?

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The velocity and acceleration of particle give position vector

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6 part 2 loop RLC circuit complex impedance

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Conversion of hydrogen atom wave function that I don't understand

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Kinetic Energy of 840 Kg Roller Coaster Trolley

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Confusion about frequency and resonance of tuning forks?

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Original activity from total counts, short decay

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Two-mass pulley system with friction on incline

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Calculate Plane Velocity Relative to Ground in Different Directions

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Displacement Meter- Simple Harmonic Motion

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Dynamics - determining an angle

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Finding the equation for Velocity with Drag

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Solve Lens Equations: Object 8cm @ 80cm, Focal Length 25cm

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Merry-go-round at rest, inertia, kid running on it problem.

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How Many Bright Fringes Appear on the Screen in a Diffraction Experiment?

  • bigsaucy
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Dynamics circular and linear motion

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Projectile Motion-acceleration/velocity

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Work/energy/kinematics rocket ship problem

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Position vs time graph that relates to a constant non-zero acceleration?

  • gibson101
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Sample Calculation on Milikan's Data Analysis

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Can metal be placed in Microwave? Why or why not?

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How to calculate angle given coefficent of friction

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Calculating the Height of Keystone's Ski Lift

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Projectile Motion fired at an angle

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Angle of Electron Velocity Change: 8 Degrees

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Thermal expansion across a copper rod

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How Does a Dielectric Wedge Affect Capacitor Performance?

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Proving Direct Proportion of \frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{y} with \frac{1}{x}

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Radioactive decay and half life?

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Maximum speed and stopping distance with applied force and friction

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Current flow through no resistance conductor

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Can I use a regular magnet for a homopolar motor?

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The Zeeman Effect: Determining Atomic Level Quantum Numbers

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What is the Impedance of a Plane Wave Passing Through a Metal?

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Showing that S^2 and Sz Commute with the System Hamiltonian

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Resultant Intensity of Water-waves

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Calculating Force Needed to Lift a Rock with a Crowbar

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Distance travelled during acceleration

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What Is the Minimum Speed Needed for a Whirling Ball to Taut a String?

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Physics question on dynamics (Newton's law of motion)

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Gravitational potential, highest point, and final velocity

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How to find displacement of 400m track

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Why is internal energy of water determined by temperature alone false?

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Oil and liquid films with changing surface tension

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Ball in the air conceptual question.

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Measuring acceleration of gravity

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Final vertical velocity? (kinematic formulas)

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Inelastic Collision Using Distance to Figure Velocity

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Kinematics equation problem. (two stones dropped from different heights)

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Mass of a particle in magnetic field

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An Electrostatics Problem - Eletric Field

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Angular Velocity of a wind turbine

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Why Is a Turbine More Efficient in Winter?

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Calculating Uncertainty in Angular Resolution for Scientists

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Calculating Magnetic Flux Density for Zeeman Splitting 0.05 /cm

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Proton accelerated thru potential difference - find final speed

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Solving Bacterial Motor Angular Speed and Time for One Revolution

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How do I find reaction forces at B and D on a loaded beam?

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Calculating Energy Received by Ear

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The rays of my ray diagram are not lining up

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