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Hitting a rocket with a projectile

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How to find Tb and Moments 3D equilibrium of rigid bodies

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Beam with a rope - type of problem (Statics)

  • goodOrBad
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What Should Manufacturers Specify: Peak Power or Average Power in Audio Systems?

  • Physicslearner500039
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Why did solving ionization energy with potential energy give the wrong n?

  • jjson775
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Mutual inductance when coil axes are perpendicular

  • Physicslearner500039
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Find the altitude and the speed of two jets with Doppler Effect

  • Edel Crine
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Electric Field of a Finite Cylinder

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Stunt driver car jump: projectile motion velocity components

  • nicky670
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Tension and reaction force in circular motion

  • Like Tony Stark
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A mistake in the derivation of escape velocity

  • Leo Liu
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Finding the center of mass of a solid hemisphere

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Two rods, each with a free and a fixed ball and a spring

  • Like Tony Stark
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Why Is My Calculation Result for Acceleration Incorrect?

  • nicky670
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How Do You Calculate the Buoyant Force for a Stratospheric Balloon?

  • nicky670
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Why will acceleration be -9.8 if it is moving upward direction?

  • nicky670
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Kinematics, Conservation of energy, momentum

  • wcjy
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A pyramid of three cylinders (statics problem)

  • lloydthebartender
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Calculating the Force Required for a Moving Wedge and Block System

  • tryingtolearn1
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Solving Special Relativity Problem with Train Walking

  • Amrator
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Finding the angle of a fragment in an explosion using momentum vectors

  • AN630078
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Why does water have the same density at 1°C and 8°C?

  • nicky670
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Momentum and Conservation of energy

  • wcjy
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Integration ##\ddot\phi = -\omega^2\phi##

  • happyparticle
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What is the formula for calculating electrical potential?

  • jjson775
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Applying kinematic equations without velocity information

  • takelight2
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Is the Calculation of Linear Density k for a Uniformly Charged Bar Correct?

  • ToucanFodder
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Voltage using different references

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Hollow and solid spheres floating in liquid

  • brotherbobby
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Calculating Time with Forces Acting on a Block

  • tryingtolearn1
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Trouble Understanding Phasor to Time Domain Conversion Math

  • Mark Zhu
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Mechanics: Motion of Two Connected Vehicles

  • AN630078
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Specific work done by an adiabatic & reversible compressor on air

  • Master1022
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How to draw the transfer behavior of a fuzzy controller

  • Elias_HH
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Which symbol for refractive index, μ or n?

  • anyonebutangel
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Calculator Question (Casio) -- How to disable "Shift 9 = AC"

  • chriscarson
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Finding net charge on a sphere's surface

  • archaic
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Why is jumping onto a moving train harder than it seems?

  • john007
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Force on a charge at the tip of a hollow, charged cone

  • cwill53
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Conservation of Energy Along an Incline with Friction

  • ag3
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Proving that the total mechanical energy is conserved with time

  • Hamiltonian
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Zero Force from 3 charges placed at the vertices of a Triangle

  • cwill53
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Standing waves on a string -- Find the difference of phases

  • LCSphysicist
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Change the wavelength in a driven rope?

  • Edel Crine
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Energy Conservation between mechanical and electrical

  • Physicslearner500039
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How Is the Electric Field Difference Across a Charged Surface Determined?

  • madafo3435
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Uncertainty in the measurement of the focal length in this experiment

  • songoku
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Using Gauss' Law to find the field at a point

  • rtareen
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Significant Figures with Experimental Values

  • i_love_science
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Does a π phase shift from reflection advance or lag the wave?

  • LCSphysicist
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Normal force and cable tension for accelerating elevator

  • AN630078
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Elastic Collision of Hydrogen and Carbon Atoms

  • AN630078
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Why Does a Moving Rod Appear Inclined in Different Reference Frames?

  • Data Base Erased
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How do you calculate the acceleration of a block sliding down a plane?

  • tryingtolearn1
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Circular Motion of a Cyclist and a Car going around a bend in the road

  • AN630078
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Deriving d/dt[a · (v × r)] with the product rule

  • happyparticle
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Find the potential using a line integral (Electromagnetism)

  • Vitani1
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Write the equations of a mass and spring in different accelerated systems

  • Like Tony Stark
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Finding the potential difference of a diode

  • Ben1238
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Difference between curvilinear and rotational motion

  • Like Tony Stark
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Final Image position for a setup with two lenses

  • nish95
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Real and Complex representations of an oscillation equation

  • e_mts
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Calculating the distance between fringes in an alternate universe

  • Vitani1
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Work done by a conservative force using change in potential energy

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Duct pressure unit conversions not checking out

  • cwill53
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Interpreting line EB on spacetime diagram from Schutz Fig. 1.14

  • Vitani1
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Finding angular Momentum from a force

  • fer Mnaj
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Why is thin film interference maximum 2d = (m + 1/2)λ not 2d = mλ?

  • songoku
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Polish Physics Olympics problem with unknown circuit dependencies

  • Frouel
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Bicycle wheel forced to roll around a vertical axle

  • Nexus99
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A traveling wave on an infinite string, find the intensity

  • LCSphysicist
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The leaning ladder problem using Newtonian mechanics

  • Hamiltonian
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Equivalent resistance of a section of a graphite ring

  • A13235378
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How to Determine Reaction Forces on a Gyroscope at Points A and O?

  • Like Tony Stark
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Calculating Wave Amplitude and Frequency

  • Edel Crine
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Is the Lorentz transform just switching between reference frames?

  • billllib
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A rotating rod acted upon by a perpendicular force

  • Hamiltonian
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How come 7,271,000 mm^3 is equivalent to 7,271 cm^3 ?

  • chriscarson
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Electromagnetism: Force between two charged plates

  • oondi
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Why is capacitor voltage −20V at t=0− in RLC parallel circuit?

  • jisbon
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Solving a Pendulum Problem with Exponential Solution

  • archaic
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Three charges attached to the vertices of a triangle

  • LCSphysicist
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Calculating Earth's Effective Spring Constant for its Orbit Around the Sun

  • Edel Crine
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Second order differential equation solution

  • Ron Burgundypants
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Lagrange Multipliers and Energy Loss Question

  • cwill53
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Two block problems with friction

  • Hamiltonian
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Relationship between Cp, Cv and R

  • PSN03
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Nonlinear Hooke's law: cubic term vs Taylor expansion

  • patric44
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What Experiments Can I Conduct to Investigate Light Sensitive Devices?

  • Taksehasam
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What causes an object to rotate?

  • Like Tony Stark
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Magnetic field from moving charge cross product

  • Physicslearner500039
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What happens when an uncharged object is brought into an electric field?

  • aspodkfpo
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Can Angles Be Assigned Dimension in Scientific Calculations?

  • HappyFeynman
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Equation Alternatives for Young's Modulus

  • LCSphysicist
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A simple pendulum is suspended from the ceiling of an accelerating car

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