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Lift accelerating upward with passenger on weighing scale

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Atwood Machine, two masses + two pulleys (w/ mass)

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Work by Gravity and Tension forces on an Incline

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A cube of some substance floats

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Capacitor charging with unknown resistor

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Minimum force to restrain a granite cube on a 60° slope

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Which disks are in equilibrium?

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Specific heat in izobaric process

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Meteorite strikes Earth; Change in rotational frequency

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Speed of 1.00-kg ball after head-on collision with 0.50-kg ball

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Determine the NEW force of attraction between two masses

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Static friction in Rotational Motion

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Calculate Nitrogen Gas Density at 1.7 Atm, 332K

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Falling Meteorite - Gravitation PE + KE

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What time and at what distance do two objects meet?

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How Does Phase Angle Affect Current in an Undriven RLC Circuit?

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Impulse of a Ball - Greatest Change in Momentum

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Electromagnetism and Light Questions

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How Do You Calculate Work from a Force Applied at an Angle?

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Roller coaster loop searching for Height

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Aparant size of an object based on distance from it.

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Maximum velocity for a piston in simple harmonic motion.

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Calculating the Angle of Deviation at a Glass-Air Interface

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Conservation of momentum and a uniform rod

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Momentum Question: Calculating Velocity on a Rolling Platform

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Momentum update with air resistance

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Why can't force normal produce a torque?

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Can we model fictitious forces using vectors?

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What is the electric field above an infinite plate with a given charge?

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Can a Widget Withstand Large Accelerations and Decelerations?

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Speed of Sound Lab (using slope to find speed of sound)

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Single Slit Diffraction and Monochromatic light

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If the sled pulls back on the man equally, how do they move?

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How Does the Radius Affect the Magnetic Field Inside a Solenoid?

  • Chip90
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Understand Power Loss in a Wire Through V, I and R

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Magnetic field at the center of a cube of wires

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Physics underpinning Impedance Plethysmography

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Prove a lens must always be converging if

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Spring force and projectile motion in rotating system

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Rigid equilibrium question involving a ladder

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Two Identical Car Accidents: Which is More Dangerous?

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Pendulum tension in rotating reference frame

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Moment of Inertia of a thin uniform wire

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Block against a wall (friction problem)

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Maximum reflections in 1.0 m optical fibre with 20 μm diameter

  • physicoo
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Angular Momentum conceptual question

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What is the moment of inertia of the pendulum

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A sliding puck analyzed from an inertial reference frame

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Pressure, constant volume gas thermometer, and thermodynamics

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Light bulbs in parallel and series

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Finding Applied force given Mass and Kinetic and Static coefficients.

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What Color Will a 320nm Soap Film Appear in Reflected Light?

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What is the acceleration and g-force of a space cannon on the moon?

  • midgetwars
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Moment of inertia of four point masses about x, y, and z axes

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Net torque on person about points A, B, and C

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Two skaters pushing on frictionless ice

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Symbolic Centripetal Force Problem on WebAssign

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Can Gauss' Law be applied to point charges on non-spherical surfaces?

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Velocity of water in a water tank

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Elastic collision between 5.0 kg and 2.0 kg balls on a track

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Angular Momentum of man holding a weight

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Dont understand physics work question?

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Static Friction of a Braking Truck

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Special Relativity-particle physics

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Cross Product of i x -i: Answer?

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Moment of intertia of thin disc

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Calculating Momentum of a Puck with Given Velocity and Mass

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What is the Net Force Acting on an Object on an Inclined Plane?

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Newtons Second Law For A System Of Particles

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Volume of styrofoam needed to float platinum just below water surface

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Calculating Spontaneous Fission Rate of 238U and Its Half-Life

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How Far Will a Uniformly Accelerating Train Travel Before Stopping?

  • Phyzics J
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Distance a rotating turnable moves

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Was Either Car Speeding at the Time of the Accident?

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What is the acceleration of the upper block after the string breaks?

  • eprparadox
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Two blocks connected by string over pulley with friction

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Constant horizontal pull on a sled

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Conservartion of Energy - spring problem

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Hot air balloon - Ideal gas law

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How to find power dissipation in combination circuit?

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How is the wavelength of monochromatic light measured

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Cylinder with hanging mass: torque and translational motion

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Horizontal distance between two hot air balloons given angle of elevation

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Resultant force on aircraft door

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Momentum problem with varying mass

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How Is the Lowest Center of Mass Calculated for a Draining Soda Can?

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Astronomy-particle density/interior temp of sun check

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Calculating Gas Pressure in a Piston System with Added Weight

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Truss member forces: why are BD and BA giving non-zero results?

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Angular momentum of rotating disk through center vs edge

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Angular velocity of rigid body

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How Can We Calculate Rollercoaster Loop Dynamics With Friction?

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Cannon fired at 50° over 10 m tower, lands 300 m away

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Block through friction, loop-the-loop, and vertical arc launcher

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