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Vertical Displacement of an arrow?

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Model Airplane: Tension/Circular Motion/Lift

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Does friction equal applied force at constant velocity?

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Reading a scale as a function of time (need formula)

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Electric field of point charges

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How Much Force Did the Second Person Apply to the Soccer Ball?

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Determine the power of the jet engine of an airplane

  • Fisicks
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Prism Question: need this by tonight

  • jeslyn
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Solving Static Friction Coefficient for Wooden Block on Table

  • runningirl
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Rotational inertia of four particles at square vertices

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Why Do Lower Frequency Sounds Travel Easily Through Walls?

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

  • leonne
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Calculation of center of mass difficult

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Age of Seashell: Calculating 14-C Half Life

  • matt222
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Electric Fields - Net Charge on Point Charges

  • dh743
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Vertical impulse force in triple jump takeoff

  • JJBladester
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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

  • runningirl
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Aerodynamic force of bird problem

  • harp AP 2010
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Does a ball do work on a kid if the kid doesn't move?

  • harp AP 2010
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Understanding Rotational Dynamics to Solving Tricky Problems

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Two asteroids falling toward each other gravitationally

  • jessicak
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How to Combine Resistors in a Triangular/Diamond Formation?

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

  • knowlewj01
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Ideal gas law problem in outer space

  • Freye
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Maximum Efficiency of a Solar-energy Panel

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

  • HarbingerGunn
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Rotational Inertia with varying axis of rotation?

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

  • Freye
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Biot–Savart law and Ampere's law

  • minifhncc
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Friction on a banked road and max velocity

  • spark706
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How Fast Will the Car Hit the Garage Door at the Bottom of the Incline?

  • Renee8
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Acceleration, velocity and displacement

  • jono90one
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Why do yellow-light glasses help pilots see more clearly?

  • Pranav Jha
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Question about elastic/inelastic collision

  • ryan9907
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Water flowing from an open tank

  • cdotter
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Medium level calculation of center of mass

  • eileen6a
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How Much Work Is Done on a Mass by a Time-Varying Force?

  • XwakeriderX
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Calculating Bullet Speed for Pendulum Swing?

  • miss_story
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Exploding Projectiles: What Happens to the Other Piece?

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

  • kikifast4u
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Rotational Collision of Sliding Boys: Velocity and Kinetic Energy Analysis

  • avn4ever
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Finding Times of Particle Intersections with Equated Vectors

  • jono90one
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Electric field inside a conductor not zero

  • prismaticcore
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Projectile motion cannon shell problem

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

  • lavenderblue
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Two blocks sliding past each other

  • chiddler
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Weighing Something in an Elevator

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

  • runningirl
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Physics - Determine Pith Ball Charges

  • babelii
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Trebuchet projectile falling from 5.40m height

  • Cav101
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To determine Series Vs Parallel Circuits

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

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

  • mytalkingbird
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Block sliding down an incline with friction

  • MitsuShai
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Elastic collision between pendulum bobs with different masses

  • XwakeriderX
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How much work is done by the lifting force?

  • tica86
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Two bulbs, power, voltage, seres connection

  • math_maj0r
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Finding the Center of Mass of a Meter Stick with Variable Mass Density

  • XwakeriderX
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Solving Ice's Acceleration Down a Sloped Roof

  • runningirl
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Net work problem with F cos theta

  • loganblacke
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Ion Thruster Question from Year 12

  • physicist101
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What Is the Average Vertical Velocity Halfway Through a Circular Path?

  • ortegavs
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Finding the angle of the projectile

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

  • golriz
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RL Circuit Differential equation

  • IBY
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Conservation of Energy: Bungie Jumping

  • Seda
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Resonant frequency of open tube chime at third harmonic

  • Pruzhinkin
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Power and Rotational motion problems

  • Fisicks
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Calculating Maximum Torque of Copper Wire Loop

  • J89
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Girl pulling a 6.5 kg sled at 35 degrees with friction

  • runningirl
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Work Done on a system by an external force

  • harpua09
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What is the Magnetic Field at Point P in Figure (e)?

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

  • ljmcdonald
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Finding work done by force of friction

  • Zipzap
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How to Calculate Space Shuttle Orbital Parameters?

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

  • loganblacke
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Parallel and perpendicular components of acceleration

  • madah12
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What is the Time to Slide 10m After Falling from a Truck?

  • angel1410
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Ball released from rest at the top of slope

  • electrofanner
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Thermodynamics problem - adiabatic process

  • Twoism
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Gravitational Potential Energy of a vehicle

  • Winegar12
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Industrial flywheel energy storage and power delivery

  • kikko
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Calculating Torque for a Particle in an xy Plane

  • pippi1500
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Two Asteroids Colliding- Find the Initial Velocities

  • jessicak
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Summing Maclaurin Series for x^2

  • JakeD
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Finding the weight of a balanced bar on a pivot

  • urbanupstart
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Projectile motion on an inclined plane

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

  • industry86
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How to solve cross products in physics problems?

  • uchicago2012
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Where did this formula come from?

  • XwakeriderX
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Balistic Pendulum Velocity Approximation Formula Explanation and Solution

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

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

  • anyaxo
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Moment of Inertia of a grinding wheel

  • tak08810
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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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