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How Do You Calculate the Third Force in Static Equilibrium?

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How Far Behind a Mirror Is an Image Created by a Flat Mirror?

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Force to move two stacked boxes at constant speed with pulley

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Displacement given coefficient of friction and velocity

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Pendulum in accelerating traincar

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How far from the eyepiece is the image formed by the objective?

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What is the angular velocity of the merry-go-round now?

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Find speed of rollercoaster on point on loop

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Calculate Mass Velocity with Energy Methods

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Varignons theorem fail question

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Circular Motion Forces Exerted On Ferris Wheel

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How can the force NOT be zero here?

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Moment of Inertia problem from MCAT practice book.

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Normalizing ψ(x) = A(1 - e^(ikx)) for 0 < x < 2π/k

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Understanding Torque Balance and Center of Gravity in a See-Saw

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Can you work out power without knowing displacement?

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What is the final speed of the truck and car after an elastic collision?

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Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire

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How Do Different Types of Tires Affect Car Dynamics?

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Coulomb's law, R is the inverse to F?

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Why is the mean x-velocity zero in Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution?

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Determine the magnetic field vector

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Finding currents in a three-battery circuit using Kirchhoff's laws

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Deriving the Fourth Mass in a Hanging Masses Problem

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Find Work Done on 230 kg Crate in 12 m Displacement

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Wheel rotating at 115 rpm with angular acceleration of 18 rad/s²

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A conducting rod slides down between two frictionless vertical copper tracks

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Concepts : Destructive waves vs. equilibrium

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What's another way I could find the spring constant experimentally?

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Magnetic Field, Proton, Dynamics

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Understanding Virtual Objects and Negative Do Values in Lenses

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Relativistic energy and momentum

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Circular Motion and maximum speed Problem

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How Fast Must a Soccer Player Run to Catch a Ball?

  • Stochastic13
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The solutions and question make NO SENSE AT ALL

  • flyingpig
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More tension in a wire attached to a rod

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Torque from beam and worker on cantilever beam

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Prism Optics Range of Refraction Angles

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Moment of inertia from a cylinder.

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LC oscillation theory resources

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Electromagnetic wave, intensity, electric field problem

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Solving an Accelerating Car's Revolutions

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Calculating Force on Rectangular Loop from Straight Wire

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Physics friction incline question

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Moment of Inertia (no calculus) - What am I missing?

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How do I solve static equilibrium problems using components of forces?

  • Peter G.
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Orbital speed of Mars in mph

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Calculating Capacitance to Limit Voltage in Solenoid

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How Does Material Thickness Affect Magnetic Force and Field Strength?

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What is the Exitant Radiance from a Lambertian Plate on a Cloudy Day?

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Solving Oscillations in an Electrical Circuit

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Calculating Tangential and Angular Velocity?

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Calculate the electric potential

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Derive a formula for equivalent resistance

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Rotational Motion and Conservation of Energy

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Calculating Magnetic Moment of Rotating Charge

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Deriving Biot-Savart's Law, kinda a math problem not really physics

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Radio Wave Question: Reception Better for Low or High Frequencies?

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Calculating Work Done by a Force on a Coin

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How to Determine Temperature of Heat and Cold Reservoirs in a Carnot Cycle?

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Taylor Approximation (I think) on Transmission Coefficient

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Why use x for the B-field distance in MIT 8.02 problem 31-9

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Conservation of Momentum in a Fishy Encounter

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Finding force components from 97g at 338 degrees

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Pendulum Collision Homework: Mass, Speed Calculation

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Can Static Friction Do Positive Work? A Pen and Paper Experiment

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Person hanging over a ledge counterbalanced by a chair

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Acceleration on inclined plane without knowing mass

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Consider a fermion gas of N electrons in volume V

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Accelerometer - Movement pattern recognition (iphone)

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How Does Placement of Lead Affect the Buoyancy of a Wood Block?

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Calculate Distance Buoy Sinks w/ Man on Top

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Moment of Inertia perpendicular to lamina

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How is the Energy Increasing in a Venturi Experiment?

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Finding v_peak in Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution derivative

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What is the Colatitude Angle in Gravitation?

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Electric potential of the arc of a circle

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Electric potential of point charge

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Gravitation - Satellite with same w as earth

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Motion with constatnt acceleration problem

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Ranking capacitors by the potential difference across them.

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Bridge truss Static Equilibrium

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Motion in B Field: Solve for Focussing Distance

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How Does Tension Affect the Mass and Velocity of a Guitar String?

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Acceleration on a ramp with coefficient of friction

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Calculating Terminal Voltage of Batteries with Opposing Currents

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Finding charge in a box with Gauss's law when field angles vary

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Magnetic flux through tilted loop inside solenoid at t=3s

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Friction Lab Investigation: Changing the mass

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Math wrong with physics springs problem

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