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How Can I Calculate the Magnitude of Momentum in a Game of Pool?

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Find the Rotational Inertia of a Square Rigid Body

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Power lost in cables with 100kW supply and 5Ω resistance

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Newton's 2nd Law - Rotation, Torque, Disk

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How to use the work integral ∫F·dl in problems

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Charge needed to make net force point vertically at corner A

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Translational Kinetic energy, am i squaring vectors correctly?

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Coulomb's law force calculation with 0.83N answer

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Apparent weight at bottom of vertical loop radius 5.40 m

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Acceleration of Cylinder's Center of Mass (Due 9AM)

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Find magnitude of the force of tension?

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Converting angual velocity to linear velocity

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Mutual inductance of a coil and straight wire

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Calculating Forces on a Crate Moving up a Ramp

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Finding the displacement of a non right triangle?

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Calculating Braking Force for a Moving Car

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Hanging Mass Connected to Mass on Smooth Table.

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How Does a Bullet Impact Affect the Angular Speed of a Pivoted Stick?

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Is acceleration positive where x/t graph is concave up?

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Finding the Center of Mass in Equilibrium

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Distance between copper atoms in cubic crystal lattice

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Why does energy method give twice the spring extension?

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Finding tension in a cable of a accelerating lift

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Lifting an Elephant with Hydraulics: A Physics Puzzle

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Missing something (Newtons law)

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Minimum Initial Speed for Complete Circular Loop in Inelastic Collision

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Space shuttle acceleration and time to rise through its own height

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Electric Charge and Electric Field Problem

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Acceleration using kinetic friction

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Find Point P2 in Space Given Data on P1 and P2

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Which copper ring glides farther on ice, hollow or solid?

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Kinematics - Can the car avoid the moose

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Two slit interference question dont know how to begin

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Solving for time when delta x=0?

  • atypical
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How Do Circuit Currents Distribute in Complex Networks?

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How long to reach the speed of light?

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Coefficient of static friction?

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Calculating Focal Length of a Drop of Water

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Simple wuestion about the sign(+/-) in a momentum conservation problem

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Understanding Relative Acceleration in Inertial Frames

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Work done by horizontal force on a block pushed up an incline

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What is the relationship between potential and kinetic energy?

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Max Expansion of Block on Spring Connected to Electric Field

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Carnot Refrigerator Homework: Coeff of Performance, Work & Heat

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Magnetic fields, lorentz force

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Projectile Launching Problem. Solve with kinematics

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Box slides down incline, air resistance does work. Find Velocity.

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Finding the Ɛ and r of a cell from a graph

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What is Energy? - Unpacking Hard Definitions

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Capacitor in parallel with resistor

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Calcuate Elastic Modulus of metal cable

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Proof: x is irrational => sqrt(x) is irrational

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Strange Result of Error Calculation

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Why do current direction arrows matter in circuit analysis?

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Equation or semi-axes of the ellipse

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How does ice melting at the poles affect day length?

  • Jonathan Teas
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How can we calculate the power output of a hummingbird's flight?

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Why does a spinning bike wheel precess horizontally?

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Heat Transfer - Conduction and Radiation

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Conservation of Energy, Work done on a System by an External Force

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What Is the % Error in the Density of a Metal Bar?

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Understanding Friction: Solving for Forces on Boxes A and B

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Equation for Satellite in geosynchronous oribt

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Moment of Inertia (not through symmetry axis)

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What is the power output of the heat engine?

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Classical Mechanics collission particles

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Solving SAT Physics: Momentum of Block Starting from Rest at 5s

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How can the tension in a wire change on either side of a pulley?

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What are the equations for static and kinetic friction?

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Black holes/gravitational attraction

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Vertical distance of mass shot from a compressed spring.

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Thermodynamics: Cyclic Processes

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How Do You Calculate the Kinetic Energy of a Roller Coaster?

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Circular Motion of ball tension

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Momentum and energy two sled questions for physics

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Rotational Dynamics of a plank of mass

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Finding relative speed of space shuttle

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Does Point A Oscillate in Simple Harmonic Motion with a Wave?

  • smithj1990
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Non Uniform Circular Motion Problem

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Concepts of work and kinetic energy

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Laws of conservation of mass (roller coaster) work and mechanical energy

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Finding amplitude of SHM with a theta vs time graph

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Resistance of a capacitor and inductor in a dc circuit

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How Do You Calculate Net Force from Multiple Vector Forces?

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Why is there a 1/2 coefficient in h=1/2gt²?

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How to Calculate Rotational Kinematics for a Moving Bicycle?

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Student on rotating stool pulls objects inward

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Rotational motion of a high speed flywheel.

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Magnitude of the torque about the rotation axis at an instant

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Gr. 12 Energy Problem - Pulling a Wagon

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Gamma radiation sorce sheilding

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What is the Angular Momentum of the System After a Collision?

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Work and force problems without enough given variables

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Charge through lightbulb(just needs checked)

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How Does a Climbing Man Affect a Balloon?

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