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Current in a Battery: Solving w/ Kirchoff's Law

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Electric field accelerated proton

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Calculating Acceleration and Time in a 100 m Sprint Race

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Calculating Centripetal Acceleration of Space Telescope in Orbit

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Kinematic problem: VERY complicated

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration in Asafa Powell's Record-Breaking Dash?

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Force Exerted by Blocks on a Frictionless Surface

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Robert leaps a meter into the air, how long before he lands?

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Finding wind velocity from airplane heading and travel time

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Thermo: Change in temp effect on volume of a steel container

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What Forces Act on a Car Pushing a Block in Physics?

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What is the Correct Calculation for Force in a Three-Mass System?

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Principle of Energy Conservation for Two Protons?

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Magnitude of Friction Force Problem

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Deriviate proof d/dt[r (v a)]= r(v a)

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Electric Field between two large oppositely charged metal plates

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Force and acceleration with different masses (F=ma)

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Transformer notation confusion?

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Finding kicking angles to clear a 3.44m goalpost from 50m away

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Two dimentional motion question

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Solving Relative Velocity Problems: 346 vs 350

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What is the force on the rider from the motorcycle?

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Relating final speed of electron to its charge mass and voltage difference

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Why does a series resistor protect an LED if it comes after it?

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Kinematic Equations for a Police Car Giving Chase in 12 Seconds

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Find the equivalence capacitance of the below circuit

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RC circuit with AC - finding current

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What Determines the Acceleration of a 25 kg Block in a Pulley System?

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What is the total time in the air for the parachutist's jump?

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Energy released per mole in deuterium-tritium fusion reaction

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What does this dot product problem want?

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How Fast Must the Rock Be Thrown to Reach the Naturalist?

  • kalupahana
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What's the start speed and acceleration of the ball?

  • Ockonal
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Simple projectile motion - problem with units

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Finding g from Atwood's Machine

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How to Calculate Distance and Speed with Constant Acceleration

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Problem with relative motion in two dimensions

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Displacement and vector problems

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Two balls colliding at highest points at angle x

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How long until the mailbag reaches the ground?

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Instantaneous rate of change (two capacitors)

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Coulomb's law for Be2+ with S2- and O2- ions

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Force pushes three blocks, find mag of force exerted on last two blocks

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Two masses connected by a pulley with a frictionless table

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Force pushes and pulls two blocks at an angle

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Three masses suspended on pulley

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How are kinematic equations related and what do their slopes mean?

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Charge and surface charge density of a conducting sphere at 290 V

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Velocity time graph find position, acce?

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How Much Force Is Required to Pull a Platform at an Angle?

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How Does Friction Affect the Timing in an Atwood Machine?

  • vandersmissen
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Kinematics 2D Projectile Launched at an Angle PROBLEM

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Three blocks, two pulleys, on a incline

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Finding coefficient of static friction in question 5a

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Student catching decelerating frisbee at 4 m/s

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Can a Bomb Hit the Plane Below?

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Range Equation: Launching a 78g Basketball at 8.4 m/s

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Do I need to convert grams to kilograms for a mass vs. period experiment?

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Calculating Particle's Position at t=13.7s

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How Do You Calculate Tension in a Dual Hanging Bucket System?

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Electric Field and a Charged Cork Ball on a Massless String

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The Change in velocity and direction.

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Single slit diffraction distance

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How Do Nodes Form on a Vibrating String for the nth Harmonic?

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Find angular acceleration of a yoyo

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What Are Common Misconceptions in Understanding Circular Motion and Orbits?

  • lazybum122
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Solve Constant Velocity: Dogs Collision in 85m

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Finding friction force for a 20 kg crate dragged at constant speed

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Atwood's machine with 3 masses

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Circular Motion of earth's orbit Problem

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Vector Addition of Forces: Finding the Resultant Force

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Questions about Significant Figures

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I'm pretty sure I'm doing this right. .

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Kinematics Free falling acceleration Physics question

  • Brownk
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A ball is shot from the ground into the air and horizontal distance

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Change in Magnitude of Accleration due to gravity

  • mandi182
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Finding distance traveled up a ramp given m, angle, and velocity

  • emilea
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Give magnitude and direction of current flow

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Drop Height in a Free Fall Problem?

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How Long Does It Take for a Released Mailbag to Hit the Ground?

  • Saterial
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Finding initial projectile velocity with angle and a point in the path?

  • ICanHasHelp
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Area of parallel plat capacitor

  • juggalomike
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Force Problem with tension, 2 blocks, and a rope that has mass.

  • 09jml90
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How Can I Tackle Challenging Grade 11 Kinematics Word Problems?

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What Is the Tension in the Top Cables of the Sculpture?

  • mandi182
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What is the mass of the ball and the tension in the string?

  • 09jml90
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Estimate the radius of the largest asteroid you could escape by jumping

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Relative motion with cart and ball

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CAPA problem - Kinematics in 1 Dimension

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How can I solve a three-box system force problem?

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Resultant Force Acting on T6 Vertebrae

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Tension/pulley problem, Newtons second law

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Bullet Projectile motion Problem

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What is the tension in the rope

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