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Energy Needed Per Second to Sustain a Velocity through a Liquid

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Equilibrium of Two People Holding Uniform Beam

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Percentage Change in Sound Intensity - Help

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What is the magnitude of upthrust force on a metal ball immersed in water?

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Fill factor of a photovoltaic cell

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Finding Tension in a Simple Crane System

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Solve for Bullet Speed Before Hitting Block: A 47.00g Bullet

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What is the final velocity of the car in an elastic collision?

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A problem involing an LC circuit

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How Long Does It Take a Package to Travel Through a Planet in a Gravity Tunnel?

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Pulley problem with moment of inertia

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How Does Optical Activity Help Measure Sugar Concentration?

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Rotational Frequency [figure skater]

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Solving a Collision Problem: 10,000 kg Locomotive & 620 kg Automobile

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Solving Wheel and Forces Homework: Show Weight of Wheel is 180N

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Pendulum problem only the rope breaks

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How Does Entropy Change in an Isothermal Process for an Ideal Gas?

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Does Increasing Hole Density in an NPN Transistor Base Decrease Beta?

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How do you find final velocity with initial velocity and energy gained?

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Solve Brightness of Bulbs | 100W & 50W, 120V Battery

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Calculate Coefficient of Friction for Frozen Turkey on Snow

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5 Slit Experimen: Probability Distribution Function

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How Do Two People Balance a Uniform Beam at Different Distances?

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What is the Change in Internal Energy for a Cyclic Process on a PV Diagram?

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Solving Friction & Force Problems with Physics Formulas

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Rotational Motion on an Inclined Plane

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What is the Moment of Inertia for a Solid Door?

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Angular momentum of disk & clay?

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Adiabatic/Isentropic Compression and Pressure

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Solve Cable Torque Problem: Find Hcomponent Force on 23.8 kg Beam

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Solving Dynamics Homework: Man on Elevator, 60 kg Mass

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Why is the 1/2 important in the equation Ek = 1/2mv^2?

  • FakeGeek
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Free-Fall Acceleration and the Gravitational Force

  • hold AP 2010
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Short homework check (average speed)

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Solving Hard Quantum Q Homework - Get Tips & Solutions

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Archimedes' Principle-Gold Crown problem

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Rotational Motion & Rotational Kinetic Energy

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Conceptual Photoelectric Effect Question

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Quantum Question (dirac notation)

  • bon
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Calculating the Mass of a Binary Star System

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Is There Average Power Transfer on Standing Waves?

  • aim1732
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Calculating Speed to Reach 1.11 fm from Oxygen Nucleus

  • Tina20
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Find Mass of Passenger Train in Wagon Collision

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Calculate Energy of Neutron Wavelength 0.1nm

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Uniform electric field. Find the potential difference

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Conservation of energy of a bike uphill

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Where to Place a Negative Charge for Zero Electric Field at the Origin?

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Stepped Pulley: Angular and Linear Acceleration

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What is the tension force in each block on an incline?

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Seemingly simple projectile motion problem.

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How Is Volume Affected by Pressure in an Ideal Gas?

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Calculating Normal Force Exerted by Floor on Feet/Hands

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Adiabatic process thermodynamics help

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Analyzing Falling Rod Motion: Angular Velocity and Tip Speed

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Magnitude of the greater of 2 resistors?

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Finding a good explination of the physics of rollercoasters

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Escaping the solar system from Earth's orbit

  • irishbob
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Question about the starter of a fluorescent lamp.

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Sound Intensity Problem of 3 Machines

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Constant-volume gas thermometer

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Sum of the friction and normal forces mechanics problem

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Understanding Degenerate Eigenvalues and Vectors in Math Operations

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Skiing Up a Hill: Work Done by Friction

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How Is Central Acceleration Calculated for Uniform Circular Motion?

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What Would Happen If Earth's Attraction Suddenly Stopped?

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Will the frame be inertial if no forces act on it?

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Solve Bead Problem: Find Height & Angle for 4.5m/s Velocity

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Van De Graff Generator: Explanations to why object repel generator

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Center of mass problem with rotation

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How Does Temperature Affect the Expansion of a Rectangular Plate?

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Ice/water thermodyamics confusion

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Unit Conversion: Solving for Speed of Water Flow

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Basic Kinematics: Analyzing Distance v Time and Distance v t^2 Graphs

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Finding the Time to Cross a River: Solving Vector Problems in Motion

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Kepler's Laws and the Motion of Planets

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Solving for the Amount of Heat in Calories

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Newton's Second Law: (Major Flaw in Lab)

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Help for Physics lab practical?

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Way to find acceleration if I know the kinetic energy

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Rotation of a Rigid Object about a fixed axis

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Finding the Specific Heat Capacity

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How long does it take to move a box of books across the floor?

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Max Horiz Force Applied to 11kg Block: Friction on 5.13kg Block

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Special relativity, time dilation and rockets

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Projectile Motion - rocket launched, engine, fail

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How Do You Calculate Net Force on a Block on a Ramp?

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Solving Circular Motion Problems: Work and Tension in Springs

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2 balls and the height of a building

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Generating Power from a Small Hydro Plant on a 10m High Waterfall

  • TN17
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Hockey Puck With only one speed

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Find speed with friction force and no mass?

  • NewDaddyJones
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How Do You Calculate the Resultant Force Between Two Vectors?

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Calculate Friction & Coefficient: Force w/Angle & Mass 5kg at Rest

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of a Star in Orbit?

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