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How far must he now travel to reach base camp?

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Calculating Impedance and Voltage Drop in an RLC Circuit

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Magnetic flux through a square loop at 30° to a 2.6T field

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Three vector problems with solutions

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Calculating Halley's Comet Period and Next Approx. Viewing Date

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What Is the Force Constant of a Spring and Does It Change with Mass?

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Solving for t and h when both are unknown.

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Rail gun with non-constant acceleration energy problem

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Finding Instantaneous acceleration from a velocity-time graph

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Radius of 2nd Sphere: Find Mass 5x Greater than 1st

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Calculating Distance and Speed of a Falling Hammer

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Magnitude of the charge on each plate

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Electric field direction and hovering charged object

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What is the Tension of a Tie Rope?

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What are the Components of a Vector Given its Magnitude and Direction?

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What does T represent in this energy conservation equation?

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Diffraction grating wavelengths question

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Deriving acceleration from velocity

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Latent heat and phase change question

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Calculating Coefficient of Friction for Moving a Piano

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Golf ball bouncing: average acceleration during floor contact

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Tension with two strings and angles

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How Do You Solve for 'v' in the Equation F = qE + qvB?

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When should i apply energy conservation?

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Potential Energy of a bottle w/ pressure

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Solve for Frequency and Velocity in a Uniform Tube with Open Ends

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How does inertia affect the behavior of a motor?

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How to Express the Electric Field of a Dipole Along the Perpendicular Axis?

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Radial and Tangential Acceleration Question

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Finding Distance and Velocity of a Loose Bolt from Moving Elevator

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How Do You Convert Centimeters to Kilometers?

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Magnitude and Direction of a charge interaction

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Calculate pressure of Atmosphere

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Finding average power when only time and final velocity are given

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Deriving v and a from a x(t)-function

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Why use sin ≈ tan in the linear wave equation derivation

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What is the power output of a car engine?

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Polar moment of inertia for a shaft with slot

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Solve Crane Tension: 2 Cable Equations & Triangle Angles

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Change of vector in different frames

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Harmonic Oscillator: When Will Body Return to Initial Place?

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Maximum altitude of a rocket engine

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What is the Average Velocity of a Motorist with Multiple Legs of Travel?

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Maximum altitude of a rocket launch

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Intensive Variables: Equal Value for Equilibrium?

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How High Does a Rocket Rise After Fuel Depletion?

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Calculating Effective Spring Constant for CO Molecule

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What are these velocity formulas used for?

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Vector Question of two workers

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The wave form of a sinusoidal current passing through a circuit?

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Deriving acceleration from a position function

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Force P to cause impending motion of block A with friction

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Adding Vectors with parallelogram/triangular rule.

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Air resistance on a table tennis ball experiment design

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Calculating Talk Time for a 1050mAh Mobile Phone Battery Pack

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Velocity of a ball thrown straight up at its highest point

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Charge Sharing between two metal spheres

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Relative velocity and distance between particles

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Angular velocity of one particle relative to another in concentric circles

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Momentum and Angular Velocity Question

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Which Reactions Violate Conservation of Charge?

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Simple Harmonic Oscillator: Calculating Particle Position as a Function of Time

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Transformer concepts (magnetic induction)

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Speed of falling object via derivation/integration

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Distance Needed for Electrostatic Force Between 2 Protons

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Finding the Net Force on q0 from +5q and –3q Charges

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Why Is the Relative Velocity Between Two Opposing Balls Added?

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Building a Stair Climbing Robot on a Budget

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Dimensional analysis of this equation

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Baseball Acceleration: 0-46 m/s in 0.143 s

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Calculate Acceleration for Race Car Driving

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Solving {|g-g^exp|}/g*100 with g=980

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Calculating Electron Velocity with 3eV Energy

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Surface area to volume ratio problem

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Relativity and Simultaneity in Laser Beam Strikes

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Percent change in mass when gaining charge.

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A simple electric field question

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Embarrassing Significant Figures question

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Vector sum of forces A + B + C from a grid diagram

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Is a Node Where There is Little Displacement in a Vibrating Wave?

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What is the voltage across vc(0)?

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Where is the Center of Mass of Stacked Pizza Boxes?

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How much force does the water exert on a boat docked on a pier?

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Mechanics Vibrations Homework: Piston Displacement & Time Calculation

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Finding Launch Speed and Maximum Height of a Toy Rocket

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Free Body Diagrams on friction less surface

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Average speed for different time vs distance splits between two speeds

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What is the equation for the pressure of a coalesced soap bubble?

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Car accelerating from rest overtaking truck at constant speed

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Simple kinematics question i think i am right just need to confirm

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