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Calculating SHM Parameters: Speed and Acceleration at Different Points

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What is the Elastic Potential Energy Stored in a Compressed Spring?

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With what velocity does the diver hit the water

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Change in gravitational potential energy on an inclined ramp

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Tension, Torque, and Angular Acceleration Calculation

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How much work is done on the ball during the acceleration?

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How do you calculate tension forces using trigonometry?

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Need formula height of diver off springboard

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How do i calculate this dot product

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Error Analysis: Check doop=1.021+-1.3e-3

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Conservative Forces for Constant C

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Simple acceleration question, I think.

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Conservation of Energy and ball problem

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Wheatstone bridge, prove converse.

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How to solve the ball-tipping plank problem

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What is the total energy of the body at x=4 meters?

  • sciencegeek26
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Average force on a 100g ball bouncing elastically off a wall

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How Do You Calculate Radioactive Dating Errors?

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Speed of sound with temperature gradient

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Time to learn and understand my mistakes.

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Conservation of Momentum of a can

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How Does Diffraction in Water Affect Light Angles Compared to Air?

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Single slit diffraction with two wavelengths finding slit width

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Projectile Motion Simulation: Max Height, Velocities, Range & Time

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Projectiles launched from an angle

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Calculating Apparent Weight Difference Between Equator and South Pole

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What's the Drift Velocity in a Copper Wire Carrying 0.50A?

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Find final angular velocity of swinging meter stick

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Calculating Rotational Speed for 2g Experience in a Rotating Machine

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Calculating the Force of the Deltoid Muscle to Raise an Arm

  • Eggphys
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Carnot efficiency with temperature ratio and work output

  • Falinox
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Uniform Circular Motion Tension

  • Kyleman
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Circular motion, oscillatory motion, SHM in springs

  • kingkong69
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Solving a Delta Connected Induction Machine Homework Problem

  • VinnyCee
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How to Determine Equivalent Capacitance in a Complex Circuit?

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The Perodic Motion Spring Problem

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What Are the Effects of Light Wavelength on Photoelectron Production?

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Statis frictional force problem.

  • neoncrazy101
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Converting mks energy density to cgs

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Sources of Error in Conservation of Energy Lab

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What Speeds Are Required for a Satellite's Circular Orbit?

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Angular velocity of a disk from tangential velocity

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Projecting a slide onto a screen 8 m away

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Ratio magnetic induction between 2 solenoids

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Force Constant of Surgical Tubing

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Spherical capacitor problem help

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Finding current in a dual battery, triple resistor circuit.

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Prove Subgroup Exists in Abelian Group of Order m, n Divides m

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Quantum Mech.: Photons and Tanning Bed Safety

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What strategies can be used to solve complex scientific problems?

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Expression for orbital eccentricity

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Angular motions and Dynamics - centripetal acceleration

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Photoelectric Effect Homework: Calc Max KE & Stopping Potential

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Statics - I get a different angle than the solution manual who's wrong?

  • Femme_physics
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How High Will the Helium Balloon Lift the String?

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Interaction of Discrete Charged Objects

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Equilibrium and impulsive forces (crane and demolition ball problem)

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Uneven Seesaw -> angular acceleration of motion

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Collision of a free electron and a hydrogen atom - energies

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Finding canister velocity from film canister propulsion lab data

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Determining Velocity of Water From a Pipe

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Log Fume Acceleration, Velocity, and change in mass

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Statistical weight (thermodynamics)

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Maximizing Flywheel Energy and Power for Passenger Bus Design

  • Mitchlan
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Finding mass and spring constant from spring stretching and maximum force

  • laxbrah44
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Calculate Work Done by Ideal Gas

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Solving a Complex Circuit Problem with Kirchhoff's Laws

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Force of a car crash basic physics.

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Inertia Tensor of a Hollow Sphere and of a Slender Rod

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How Many Half-Lives Are Needed for Specific Decay Percentages?

  • Sarah88
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Work and heat in water vaporization at atmospheric pressure

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Spontaneous fission rate to half-life equivalence

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How Do Decibel Levels Combine in Different Scenarios?

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How Does Rotating Forces Through Equal Angles Affect Their Resultant?

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What is the Resultant of Four Proportional Forces on a Quadrilateral?

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Electric Potential from a uniformly charged sphere

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Rotational Inertia: Solve for Acceleration of Suspended Masses

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Spring Extension and Force Distribution in Ideal Mass-Spring Systems

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Simple Damped Harmonic Oscillator with friction

  • khfrekek92
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Finding distance Ax to C in a hinged beam system

  • Femme_physics
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Equal Inclination of Radial Forces from Point P

  • batballbat
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Newton's Third Law and Tractor Movement

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Projectile Motion in 3rd, finding out where 2 paths cross

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Angular acceleration of a cylinder?

  • khfrekek92
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Trebuchet arm angular acceleration discrepancy

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Calculate Horizontal Distance of Particle at Linear Speed Rolling

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How Do You Calculate Angular Momentum in a Ball and Bat Collision?

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Prove System of Forces Equivalent for Triangle Vectors

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What is the formula for error analysis in multiplication and division?

  • zak8000
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Volume and density change of seawater at Challenger Deep

  • javacola
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Angular acceleration of a cylinder rolling up an inclined plane?

  • khfrekek92
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Total Electric Potential, when is it zero?

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Calculating the Mass Defect of 40Ca

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