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Working out the frequency/wavelength of a photon.

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How Do You Calculate the Diameter of a Pipe Constriction in Fluid Dynamics?

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Work-mechanical energy: box sliding

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Solving a Steam Engine Flywheel Angular Displacement Problem

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How Do Tension Forces Affect Equilibrium on a Frictionless Surface?

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Launched Rocket (Energy problem)

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How far into the water a ship sits (buoyancy, draft)

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Difficult Planetary motion problem

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Find total resistance in mixed circuit

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Sound Intensity of a microphone

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Which angle goes with which refractive index in Snell's law?

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Find eccentricity of orbit of comet

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Potential Energy of Comet-Sun System: Calculate the Answer

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Did I Solve the RL Circuit Problem Correctly?

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Can You Determine the Mass of the ISS with Incomplete Data?

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Finding refractive index of juice from glass-juice critical angle

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Drawbacks to use the period of a pendulum as a time standard?

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Calculate the Density of the planet

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3 Questions about Force Table - Need someone to check my answers

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Calculating Loss of Energy: Ramp Experiment with Ball Mass 0.0083 kg

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Answering Buoyancy Questions: Are My Answers Correct?

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What is the speed of the block sliding down an inclined plane?

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Push Me Pull You centre of mass motion

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Solving Oscillation Problem: Frequency, Amplitude, Phase

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Physical Pendulum and moment of inertia

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Forces acting on rocket at exact moment of liftoff

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Inelastic collision problems from homework

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Newton's law of gravity problem

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Relative motion,work and energy

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Changing Rotation Speed of an Acrobat Not on the Ground

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Tarzan swings across a river (centripical force)

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Thin film oil drop interference

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What is a reasonable loss of energy?

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Force Acceleration of Two Identical Blocks

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Angular Speed of a star collapse

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Calculate Angular Displacement: 2.1rad/s to 0rad/s in 4.7s

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Calculating Frictional Work on a Child Sliding Down a Playground Slide

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Find Coeff. of Static Friction of Car on Track

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How High Will the Bullet-Carrying Cart Climb the Ramp?

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How Can I Calculate Kinetic Energy in an Explosion?

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Solve Science Fair Experiment: Calculating G-Forces

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Finding the width of a diffraction slit

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Can you find the Force without acceleration?

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How Much Work Is Done Pushing an 80 kg Box Up a Frictionless Incline?

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Calculating Drag (having circular reference problems)

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E field induced by changing B field

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Pendulum bob speed and tension at lowest point

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Musical Instruments and overtones

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How to find work done by friction?

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Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation on the moon

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Child bouncing on pogo stick-harmonic motion

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Cooking time for cattle falling through Earth's center

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Can energy of an object be kinetic AND potential?

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Gravatational Potential Energy Question

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How to use parallel axis theorem?

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Skeet Collision: Height & Distance Calculations | Momentum Question

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Friction on a box in an accelerating truck

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Writing Force and Tension Equations

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How Does Earth's Shape Affect Gravity at Different Locations?

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Torque when there is variable force

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Astronomical telescope refraction problem, an easy one

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Where is the final image in a 2 lens optics problem?

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Center mass of uniform sheet of steel

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Power and force for 11.3 keV proton accelerator

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Conservation of Energy within a pulley system

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How Do I Calculate the Net Force on Corner A in an Equilateral Triangle?

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Does Pascal's Law Apply to the Ocean?

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2 hard angular momentum problems

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Bullet Hitting Wood the Spring, check of solution

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Why is dV = 2πrh dr for cylinder moment of inertia?

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Is r in the Moment of Inertia Formula Always the Shortest Distance?

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When will block leave surface ?

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Special relativity and lost mass

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Moment of Inertia of a rigid rotating object.

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Why does the Golf Ball Heat Up After Coming to Rest?

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Impulse imparted by the bat to the ball?

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What is the Time Required for a Diver's Signal to Reach the Surface?

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Cool Coffee with Melting Ice Cube: Solve for T

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Dilatant Fluids: Deriving Formulas for Experiments

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Moment of Inertia of a rod at an angle

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Problems with an Orbit: Eccentricity, Inclination, and Other Peculiarities

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Deriving a vs F and a vs M equations from lab data

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Calculating Spring Constant and Properties of Simple Harmonic Motion

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Two Biomedical physics questions involving equilibrium.

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Why does a tall tree hit the ground first when both trees tip over?

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Determining Smallest Value of n for Air Wedge Light Fringes

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Ideal Gas and finding final pressure

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Optics - working with multiple lenses.

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Particle moving in a circle (angular momentum)

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Calculating Specific Mechanical Energy in a spacecraft

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Isentropic two-stage compression work minimization

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Solving Energy of a Spring: Find Velocity at 2/3 E

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Solving Power Output for 3400 KG Truck on 8° Incline

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Finding The Volume Of Solid Using Triple Integrals II

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Induced emf in a square loop at rest

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Angular Momentum Horizontal Metallic Bob

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