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How Much Does a Basketball Player Displace the Rim When Dunking?

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Great, thank you for the feedback!

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Finding Velocity at impact of a projectile motion with an angle

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What is the minimum speed needed for a cannonball to orbit the Earth?

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Apparent forces in circular motion

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Who wins the relativistic space race?

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How to make a water rocket fly high?

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Electric Potential Homework: Find V at P & R, What if x,y>>a?

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Study of the spring lunching system of pinball

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How Do You Calculate the Speed of Repelling Charged Objects?

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Question dealing with the conservation of mechanical energy.

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Where Is the Center of Mass in a Club Axe?

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Emission Spectral Lines & the Rydberg Formula

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What is the final speed of the bicyclist rolling downhill?

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Index of Refraction, Snell's Law, and Brewster's Angle

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How Does Young's Modulus Affect the Elongation of Composite Rods?

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Kinetic Energy Plot: Find Speed & Turning Point

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Friend pulls the spring without you looking

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Making Amplitude of Oscillation the Same

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Solving quadratic equations using formula

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Lorentz transformation, special relativity problem

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Calculate Mass Flow Rate of Blood in Aorta

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Free Electron passing over Potential Well

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What Is the Age of Rock Using Potassium-Argon Dating?

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Outward force of molasses on a cylinder

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Energy calculation with no time given

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Help Solving Rotational Motion Homework Questions

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Faraday disc, rate of change of the kinetic energy.

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Solve Ohm's Law Problem: Homework Equations & Solutions

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Calculating Forces and Power on a Block on an Inclined Plane

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Dynamics and thermodynamic problem

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Calculating the Centroid Position of a Symmetrical T-Section

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Angular dependence (atomic and molecular physics)

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An Ant standing peacefully on a String

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Question about charge density in a solid sphere

  • LostInToronto
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Can someone explain this fluids formula to me?

  • fernancb
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What Does Fd Represent in Net Force Calculations?

  • reganw
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Finding Surface Area for a 1 Farad Parallel Plate Capacitor

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Determining Coefficient of Friction for a Sliding Toboggan on a Slope

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How Does an Electron Impact the Walls of an Infinite Potential Well?

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Box Acceleration with Given Force and Coefficient of Friction

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Kepler's Laws: Escape Velocity and Rotational Period of Asteroid

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Solving Infinite Square Well: Find Probability of Electron in 0.15nm

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Why do we use negative signs for clockwise moments in torque calculations?

  • mechanicstudy
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What's the Net Charge on the Outer Sphere?

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Why Is Capacitor Reactance 1/LC Instead of 1/sqrt(LC)?

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Calculating Friction Force on a Resting Ladder: A Physics Problem

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How to use a spring balance in space?

  • reganw
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Magnetic Field, Parallel wires carrying current

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Determining the Phase Constant in Simple Harmonic Motion

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Newton's laws, finding acceleration and force

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Magnetic force between two parallel hanging wires

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Increase Entropy: Solve 0.15kg Ball Dropped from 24m Tower

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Need formula to relate distance to arcsec in the sky

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Capacitance Problem: Getting Charge on Each Capacitor

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Direction of flow of the electrons

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How Does the Weight at Point E Change When Rod AB Moves Horizontally?

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Calculating Uncertainty in Averages for Scientists

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Mass of an atomic layer of a baloon

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What's an inertial frame of reference?

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Relativistic energy and momentum 2

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Maxwell Distribution: Deriving Mean and Max Speed

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Why would the car move forward after being hit

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Calculating Angular Momentum for a Moving Object with a Given Force

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Inductor (and Capacitor) Discharge

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Resistance against temperature graph

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Dielectric constant in the energy density function

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Angular Momentum: Spin 1/2 Quantum Number Clarification

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Conservation of Linear Momentum problem help

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A block on a wedge which itself sliding

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Problem with reflection and refraction.

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Linear Momentum Homework: 6kg Ball Hits Wall at 4.96 m/s

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Relating Voltage to Magnetic Field

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How Does the Track's Force Affect a Moving Car's Dynamics?

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Calculate Total Angle Through Rotation of Steam Engine Flywheel

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Magnetic field inside coaxial conductor

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Question about this problem and Walter Lewin's video

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Calculating Resistance (, I don't know any physics at all)

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Weight on a pulley, torque, mechanical energy

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Voltage amplitudes across inductor and resistor

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Does Wrapping a Whip More Times Increase Its Ability to Support Weight?

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Induced Voltage as a function of time.

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Finding Acceleration in a Constant Angular Acceleration System

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What Is the Total Energy in an Oscillating LC Circuit?

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Force Problem Regarding Resultants.

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Resultant Force of Two Horses Pulling Barge: 1.25 x 103N

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Find the magnetic field at the center of a rectangle

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