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How to Prove Vector Identity k = (a+b)(c+d)?

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Apollo spacecraft Homework Help

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Applying an impulse on a dumbbell from one end

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Powering the Human Brain: How Long Can One Snickers Bar Last?

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Two boxes; one pushing the other

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Tug-of-War Forces: Solving the Rope Problem

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How Do You Calculate Reactions at Supports in Equilibrium Problems?

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Stunt Driver's Car Jump: Minimum Speed Calculation and Angle Adjustment

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A ball launched on a imclined plane

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Spring problem - conservation of energy?

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Calculating Speed in Elastic collision

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Two Boxes on an incline, tied together by a rope, calculuate tension.

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How Does Friction Affect a Car's Maximum Acceleration?

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Velocity vs. Time Graphical Interpretation

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Angular Motion and Young's Modulus

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Solve 2 Problems: Help with 500 N Force & Elongation of Aluminum Wire

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Calculate Kinetic Friction from Time, Displacement, Height & Length

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Can a Skydiver Survive a Free Fall Without a Parachute?

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How Does Current Direction Affect Force in a Rectangular Loop?

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How Far Will a Sliding Box Travel After Leaving a Ramp?

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What is her velocity relative to the surface of the ice?

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Effect of Mass and Force on Acceleration and Distance Traveled in Kinematics

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Find the acceleration of an object that is attracted to a magnetic field

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Conservative Forces Homework Statement

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Change in atmopheric pressure with height (Thermodynamics)

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What is the Work Done by Force F on a Moving Object?

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Electric Field Integration Outside a Cylinder

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Finding temperature through a manometer

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Relative Velocity of Two Ships: When Is Their Separation Least?

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Finding Maximum Weight on a Ramp with Coefficients of Friction

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Volume of Air in Cylinder at 20°C - Calculating with Ideal Gas Law

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Converting vector in cartesian to cylindrical coordinates

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Significant Figures and speed of a runner

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Finding the Density of a Planet using Time

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Using Derivatives and Integrals to Find Velocity: Am I doing this right?

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Pressures at the water levels in the two open tanks?

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Forces, involving tension and a pendulum

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What is the Force Exerted on a Bathroom Scale in an Elevator on Earth?

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Simple harmonic motion [ I have an exam tomorrow morning]

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Solving Friction Problem: Minimum Force Needed

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Help, static equilibrium solving for maximum angle of incline

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Optimizing Pulling Force: Solving for Theta and F in Newton's Laws

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Force on an Incline Plane Problem HELP

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Forces btwn Boxes: Find Acc & Magnitude of Contact Forces

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of a Blue Whale Using Momentum?

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Electric field inside a conducting cylinder with wire

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Can Savannah Catch the Accelerating School Bus?

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Table cloth pulled from underneath a block?

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Accleration problem - car strikes a tree

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Calculating Friction Force of a 4000 kg Truck on a 15° Slope

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How Do You Correctly Add and Subtract Multiple Vectors?

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How to calculate torque with cross product?

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Spring Potential energy, should be easy?

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Conservation of Momentum with Friction

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Passive forces and Newton's laws

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Determining the speed of a rocket car

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Catching the Speeder: Police Car Velocity & Distance Traveled

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How Is Work and Heat Transfer Calculated in a Polytropic Process for Helium Gas?

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Physics- center of mass problem ?

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Kinetic Fricion Acceleration Problem

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Calculating x and y Components of Equilibrium Forces

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How do I find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a given matrix?

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Trivial question about friction

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How Far Down the Slope Does the Arrow Land?

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Finding Initial velocity given certain variables

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Final velocity of spring down incline with fricition

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Calculating Energy for Orbital Deployment

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Calculating momentum when you know mass and KE

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Acceleration is (-2.0i + 4.0j), velocity is 12 m/s

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Frictional force acting on mass

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Simple recoil velocity question

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Bernoulli's Equation and a water pipe

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Calculating Work with Kinetic Energy in Orbit

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Cost of setting up a sattelite?

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Schrodinger ground state wave function

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2 boxes stacked, force applied to bottom box

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Current density, resistance and resistivity problem

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Centripetal Force Loop-the-loop

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Length along ramp from end of spring, picture included

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Theoretical Acceleration of an Atwood machine

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Applying a force perpendicular to an object moving in the x direction.

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Calculating Tension in a Falling 5kg Brick on a Rope | Homework Problem

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Find Angle Between Vectors C & D Using Alpha, Beta & Theta

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Getting an average figure with ±

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Projectile Motion football pass

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Sketching An Acceleration-Time Graph From A Velocity-Time Graph

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ThermodynamicsL Heat, Energy and Work Problem

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Turning effect of force (Moments)

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Hang-glider and water balloon problem

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Finding angle of change in momentum vector

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How Do You Calculate Torque When Force is Applied at an Angle?

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A 2D Kinematics Question and Relative Velocity Question

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Electric Current Power Plant problem

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