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Projectile Motion Homework: Finding Time, Distance, and Speed

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Calculating Distance to Screen in Double Slit Diffraction Experiment

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Charged coaxial cable - Charge distribution?

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What is the relationship between time and height in object free fall?

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Answer: Alice & Bill Do Same Work Climbing Mountain

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Where is the center of mass located for an irregular object?

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Simple question on Ratio of Kinetic to rest energy

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Universal Gravitation Practice

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How Does Velocity Change with Position in a Force Field?

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Verify the relation F = m(v^2/r)

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Using Hooke's Law and Elastic Potential Energy equations

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Power of a driven oscillating spring

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Solving a Crate Motion Problem: Find Time for 4m Movement

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Finding initial velocity from 290m skid marks with μ=0.6

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What is the speed of a block pulled by a spring with friction?

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Finding angular acceleration from torque

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Momentum vectors (add and subtract)

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Off the cliff with velocity and gravity

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Uniform Circular Motion Space Station question

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Calculating PV Panel Area and Installed Power for 3000 kWh/year Production

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Calculating Drag Force on Boat: Speed as Function of Time

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Universal Gravity & Force Problem (should be easy)

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Gravitational Forces between planets/objects

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How Long Until You Reach the Curve at 180.7 km/hr?

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Is the Slope of the Wheelchair Ramp Too Steep for Young Children?

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What is the Total Mass of Earth's Atmosphere?

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Power Needed to Pull Skier Up Slope

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How Does the Monkey's Grip Affect the Movement of the Bananas?

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Finding the phase constant for simple harmonic motion

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How Do Observers in Different Frames of Reference Perceive Time Dilation?

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Volume question related to piston movement in a hydraulic system

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Parabolic shot with air resistance question

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Why Don't Electrons Leave Metal When Connected to Positive Terminal?

  • Peter4444
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Elastic collision, 2 objects collide.

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Center of mass: 2 objects in triangle system

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Cannon at rest shot on frozen pond. what is cannon balls v after cannon recoil?

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A Projectile motion problem, I .

  • a.ratnaparkhi
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2D Kinematics Problem (Projectile Motion)

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Specific heat and possibly latent heat too..

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Circular motion and speed of rotation

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How Do You Calculate the Weight of a Pumpkin Suspended by Two Scales?

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Calculating displacement from velocity-time graph

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Cooling steel with water that boils: incorporating latent heat

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Solving Physical Pendulum Homework Equation

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How Do You Calculate Uncertainty in Physics Measurements?

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How Much Sweat Evaporates to Cool a 80kg Man by 1°C?

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Solving Rotation & Inertia Homework Problem

  • Julie323
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Calculating acceleration due to gravity question

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I please Angular deceleration

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Physics problem : dynamics with friction

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Min Steel Wire Diam for 390N: 0.296mm

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Energy of a Pendulum: Friction vs. No Friction

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Projectiles Launched At An Angle

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Tension Direction in FBDs & Tension HW

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How Much Work is Required to Stretch a Series of Strings?

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Toy Car Projectile Motion problem

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Simple forces problem no incline

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How Do Large Water Reservoirs Effect The Length of the Day

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What Happens to Energy When Ionization Matches the Workfunction?

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Air Track Glider and Hanging Block Dynamics

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HELP: Normal Force/Tension/Work Problem

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Simple Harmonic Motion Lab: Mass and Period Relationship Analysis

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How Much Work Does It Take to Fire a 2kg Projectile at 50m/s?

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Max speed of roller coaster at bottom of drop

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Man in a Balloon Homework: Velocity & Movement

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Kinetic Friction of block on table

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Calculating Displacement of a Point on a Spring with a Transverse Wave

  • ghostbuster25
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Calculating Wave Amplitude: A Simple Guide for Frequency and Wavelength

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Simple electronic energy level question

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How Is Chemical Potential Energy Converted in a Skateboarding Stunt?

  • flyingpig
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How to find the angle between r and the x axis?

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Decrease in Pressure Above a Lake

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Vector Problem: Magnitude of A+B

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Coulombs Law & Electric Charges

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Why does a re-formed copper rod have a resistance of 4R instead of 2R?

  • juggalomike
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Rotation conservation of energy

  • Julie323
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Combining Resistors for 5W Dissipation in 10 Ohms

  • miew
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Solving a Spinning Bike Wheel Homework Problem

  • bmoore509
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Inelastic collision, two cars approach each other at intersection.

  • IDKPhysics101
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Frequency and angular frequency of sinusoidal vibrations in s.h.m.

  • Bugsy23
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How do I calculate the ratio of charges for metal sphere?

  • eureka_beyond
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Avg force on projectile shot from cannon?

  • IDKPhysics101
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Do the Bananas Move When the Monkey Climbs?

  • moondawg
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I think this is a special relativity question

  • psych2012
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How Does a Charged Speck of Dust Behave in Electric and Gravitational Fields?

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Gravitational Field Problem - Integrate?

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SHM in atoms question I think my textbook is wrong :0 yet again.

  • The CdePster
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Which has a greater impact of force?

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Maximum speed of sinusoidal vibration in s.h.m.

  • Bugsy23
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Solving Q=Q0(e^(-t/RC)): Need Help for Part C

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Center of mass: mass's on a right triangle system

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