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Determine the power of the jet engine of an airplane

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Prism Question: need this by tonight

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Solving Static Friction Coefficient for Wooden Block on Table

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Rotational Inertia of Square Homework

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Why Do Lower Frequency Sounds Travel Easily Through Walls?

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How to Convert .15Mo/pc^3 to g/cm^3?

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Calculation of center of mass difficult

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Age of Seashell: Calculating 14-C Half Life

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Electric Fields - Net Charge on Point Charges

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Triple jump - Impulse & Momentum

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Estimate Electric Potential of Soap Bubble Drop

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Solving Friction Question: Child on Stair Rail w/ 40 Degree Angle

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Aerodynamic force of bird problem

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Does the Ball Do Work on the Kid? Newton's Third Law Explained

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Understanding Rotational Dynamics to Solving Tricky Problems

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Help with a Gravitational Attraction problem

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How to Combine Resistors in a Triangular/Diamond Formation?

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Show that the Internal Energy of an Ideal gas is a Function of T only

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Ideal gas law problem in outer space

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Maximum Efficiency of a Solar-energy Panel

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Calculating Friction Force on Falling Object: Ann T Matter (Weight 600N)

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Answer: Kinematics Free Fall Homework Solution

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Rotational Inertia with varying axis of rotation?

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How Does Temperature Affect the Buoyancy of an Iron Cube in Mercury?

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Biot–Savart law and Ampere's law

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Friction on a banked road and max velocity

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How Fast Will the Car Hit the Garage Door at the Bottom of the Incline?

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Acceleration, velocity and displacement

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Pilots and the Benefits of Yellow-Light Glasses

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Question about elastic/inelastic collision

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Water flowing from an open tank

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Medium level calculation of center of mass

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How Much Work Is Done on a Mass by a Time-Varying Force?

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Calculating Bullet Speed for Pendulum Swing?

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Exploding Projectiles: What Happens to the Other Piece?

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How can energy conservation be applied to a spring connecting two masses?

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Rotational Collision of Sliding Boys: Velocity and Kinetic Energy Analysis

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Finding Times of Particle Intersections with Equated Vectors

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Electric field inside a conductor not zero

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Projectile motion cannon shell problem

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What are the units for the equation E=gamma*m?

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Two blocks sliding past each other

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Weighing Something in an Elevator

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Calculating Friction & Coefficient: 0.50 kg Block on 30° Ramp

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Physics - Determine Pith Ball Charges

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Projectile Motion- Need help with equations to use for a falling object

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To determine Series Vs Parallel Circuits

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How Do You Calculate Time Constant and Capacitance in an RC Circuit?

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In reaching her destination, a backpacker walks with an average velocity of 1.21

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Forces on an Incline: Solving & Sliding

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Is there any easier way to attack this problem?(perfectly elastic collision)

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How much work is done by the lifting force?

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Two bulbs, power, voltage, seres connection

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Finding the Center of Mass of a Meter Stick with Variable Mass Density

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Solving Ice's Acceleration Down a Sloped Roof

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Net work problem with F cos theta

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Ion Thruster Question from Year 12

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What Is the Average Vertical Velocity Halfway Through a Circular Path?

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Finding the angle of the projectile

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Does the Doppler Effect Apply to Sound, Light, and Water Waves?

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RL Circuit Differential equation

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Conservation of Energy: Bungie Jumping

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Open air columns/ resonant length help

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Power and Rotational motion problems

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Calculating Maximum Torque of Copper Wire Loop

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Pulling a Sled: Solve the Homework Problem

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Work Done on a system by an external force

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What is the Magnetic Field at Point P in Figure (e)?

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Wavelengths of a laser pulse and inductance in tuning of an FM radio

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Finding work done by force of friction

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How to Calculate Space Shuttle Orbital Parameters?

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What Is the Mechanical Energy of a Spring-Mass System?

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Parallel and perpendicular components of acceleration

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What is the Time to Slide 10m After Falling from a Truck?

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Ball released from rest at the top of slope

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Thermodynamics problem - adiabatic process

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Gravitational Potential Energy of a vehicle

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How Do Flywheels Store and Deliver Energy Efficiently?

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Calculating Torque for a Particle in an xy Plane

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Two Asteroids Colliding- Find the Initial Velocities

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Summing Maclaurin Series for x^2

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Solve Moment Problem: Weight of Bar = 350 N

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Maximizing Distance in Projectile Motion on an Inclined Plane

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How Do You Calculate the Power Supplied to a Vibrating String?

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How to solve cross products in physics problems?

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Where did this formula come from?

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Balistic Pendulum Velocity Approximation Formula Explanation and Solution

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What is the minimum height for a mirror to see full image?

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Why do different formulae give me different answers for mass of galaxy?

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Moment of Inertia of a grinding wheel

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How do I find force given mass and constant velocity

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Kinetic Energy, Conservation of Energy, Potential Energy, etc

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Postion v time, Velocity v T and Acceleration v T Math Model Variable Help

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Two Horizontal Forces Working On an Object

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How Does Collision Affect Angular Speed in Rotational Motion?

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Convex lens questionCant find the equation i need. Please help

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Acceleration of masses connected with string, non massless pulley

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Newton's second and third law problem

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