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Damped Oscillations. Mass Hanging from a spring

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Thermodynamics, melting, phase change

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E=mc2 involve mass and energy as relative values?

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Block on Plane with Friction in strange coordinate system

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Finding a relationship using 1st Law of Thermodynamics

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I've done this problem at least 85 times what am I doing wrong?

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Find distance of Champagne cork

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Circular Motion - Triangular Frame

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Help Me Find the Capacitance: A Stumped Student's Story

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How long does it take to slow this boat down?

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Calculating Freefall Acceleration on the Moon

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Vector Problem: Finding the X-Component with Magnitude and Angle

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Calculating Moment of Inertia for an 80kg Plank on Two Workers' Shoulders

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Find Mass of Object in Kings Dominion's Drop Zone Ride | Formula & Solution

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Finding the Total Electric Field at X=0 on the X-Axis

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Ideas for undergraduate presentation

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Problem with vectors and unit vectors

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How to Calculate a Unit Vector Perpendicular to a Plane?

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Using Gauss's Law to determine an electric field

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Tapping a cup to produce sound above and below water

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Calculating Time Interval of Two Earth Satellites in Circular Orbits

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Glass Transparency: Visible Light vs. IR/UV

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How Can You Solve Coulomb's Law Problems with Electric Charges and Forces?

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Simple pendulum in an electric field

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Momentum and Collisions: Solving for Post-Collision Velocities

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How Do I Convert Amps to Coulombs?

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A steel washer suspended from the top of a crate sliding down a ramp.

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Totally internally reflected ray

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Projectile Motion Bomb Question

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Vibration Problem with Fixed End Beam and Unbalanced Motor | Homework Help

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Superposition of electric forces question

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Electrostatic repulsion problem

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How Does Blade Number and Wind Speed Affect Wind Turbine Efficiency?

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Simple harmonic motion problem, finding velocity as a function of position

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Distance Formula: Calculate w/ Acceleration & Time

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Two Hanging Spheres: Calculating Electrical Force

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Elastic Cart Collision of a stationary and a moving cart

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How many joules are in a Mega Watt?

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Understanding Ticker Tape: Solving for Period and Frequency

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Weight of a Box between two fluids of different densities

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How to find max velocity in curve

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How Do You Calculate the Net Force on a Charge in an Electric Field?

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How Far is the Satellite from Earth's Surface?

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Physics A123 Acceleration problem

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Time it takes for light to travel 54 cm

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Lab Question for Advance Refraction/Reflection

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Calculating Wave Speed in a Stretched Brass Wire

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Wave Speed in Water: Find Wave Speed Given Tub Width & Frequency

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Electric Field & Point Charge Potential Energy

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Equilibrium? What does this mean?

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Final temperature of the liquid water?

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Calculating Latent Heat of Ice: A Physics Practical Guide

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Synthesizing a Triangular Wave Using Microsoft© Excel

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How Is the Mass of Neptune Calculated Using Triton's Orbital Data?

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Calculating Time and Energy Loss for a Bouncing Rubber Ball

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Help Block Diagram of viscometer?

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Is the Solution for the Block's Acceleration on an Accelerating Wedge Correct?

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What is the Difference Between \oint and \int in Electric Flux Integrals?

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Discover the Length of a Box Containing 1 Mole of Sugar Cubes

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Acceleration of pulley system physics problem

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How Do You Solve a Kinetic Friction Problem Involving Two Blocks?

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Density Error Propagation/Significant Figures Based on Extreme Values

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Energy question, involving work, there is a missing variable?

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Does this velocity sound reasonable?

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Finding coefficient of kinetic friction on a track with a spring.

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Help Calculating Thevenin Resistance

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Geosynchronous Orbit Satellite Altitude Calculated from Moon

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Moment of Inertia on Semi-Hollow Cylinder

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Energy to heat water in a stem engine

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What Happens to a Spacecraft's Synodic Period as Its Orbit Approaches 1 AU?

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Static Equilibrium don't understand something

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What's the air temperature when Δd=250m

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Calculating Total Time and Height of a Free-Falling Object

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Position of an object after a certain amount of time?

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Number of oxygen molecules in our lecture theatre

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Flux of electric field through the square

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What is the correct density of the cork based on its buoyancy and weight?

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Finding Number of Moles with Ideal Gas Equation

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Calculating Pressure & Force in a Swimming Pool

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Calculating Vector Projections for Force Components

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A van is travelling north - Vector question.

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Calculating Oxygen Mass in a Portable Cylinder | Physics Homework Help

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One dimensional motion problems.

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Calculate the total energy of the mass spring system

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Momemuntum of bodies at right angles

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Rocket launching - Newton's Second Law

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Rotational Freq of Wheel for "Artificial Gravity" of 9.3 m/s^2

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Basic Dimensional Analysis Question

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Charge Density and Diract Delta Functions

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EMF of an AC carrying electromagnet.

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Carnot refrigerator cost problem

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Solve Friktion & Effect Question: Alex on Motorcycle

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Fringe pattern of a vapour lamp

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Vertebrate and Number of Breaths - Ideal Gases

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Will the cylinder slide or topple on an inclined plane?

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