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What is Bob's recoil speed on frictionless ice?

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Inductive time constant, value of resistance

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Golf ball hit by club (conservation problem)

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What Is the Minimum Frequency for a Mass in Vertical Circular Motion?

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Force*Time graph with respect to momentum

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What is the impulse of friction?

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When and where is the signal received according to different reference frames?

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Moment and forces for a person standing on tiptoe

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Magnetic Force on A Curved Current Carrying Wire

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Kinetic energy transfer problem

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Calculating the de Broglie Wavelength

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Electric field between two plates

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Calculating Heat of Fusion of Ice from Data

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An object travelling away from earth

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Electric field inside a charged cylinder

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English expression - not stacionary heat flux

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Why is the human ear sensitive to 3500Hz sounds?

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Calculating Torque of charges at an angle

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How Does Potential Energy Change During a Free Fall Without Air Resistance?

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How Does Pressure Affect Water Density in the Mariana Trench?

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Electron and Uniformly Charged Disk

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Rotational Kinematics? Revolutions of a propeller?

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Deriving net force from mass, velocity, and time

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What Happens to Velocity and Momentum of a Water-Filled Bucket on Ice?

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Finding time for rock thrown upward from 50m building

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Magnitude of the field used for electron

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Calculating Buoyancy in a Disaster Survivor Scenario

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Distance travel given constant a

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Newton's Law of Cooling and ambient temperature

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Circular Motion on a Clock Question

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A typical 12v batter can deliver about 7.5 x 10^5 C

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Integration of Planck's law to find photon density in space

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What is the purpose of the fourth satellite in GPS navigation?

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A glass of water on an inclined plane

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Solving Energy Dissipation in Lightbulbs Connected to a Power Line

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Why doesn't Newton's third law make the net force zero?

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Cart Acceleration and Tension in a Multi-Cart System

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Tension in ropes with mass connecting two blocks

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Tension in chains supporting a suspended sign with vector addition

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How high can Jill reach on the swing after Jack jumps off?

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Racecar travelling a banked curve

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Calculating Angular Speed After Spoke Shortening in Rotating System

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Projectile motion, vector components

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Calculating Relative Velocities in Rivers

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Does the torque increase or decrease as the angle increase?

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Woman walking on beam supported by two pivots when does it tip

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What is the Summation of Torques Equation for Figure P8.4?

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Finding tension and reaction force for a boom

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Finding center of gravity with a cut out

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Acceleration of a car moving at constant velocity

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Calculating Forces in Equilibrium for Suspended Sign

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Finding particle speed at x=2.5cm with piecewise acceleration

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Finding Coefficient of Restitution for 2D Collision

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Calculate Work Done by Field to Remove 5µC Charge from Equilateral Triangle

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Finding focal length for a slide projector with magnification

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Two objects on a vertical spring with different masses

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Acceleration of a Pulley System?

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Magnitude and direction of charge

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Thin-film interference question

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Solving for Time: Police Car Catches Speeder

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Solve Thin-Film Equations: Red Light on Oil in Water

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Car pushing truck with 4500 N force

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The Physics Behind Gaussian Guns

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Vector components - displacement

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Calculating Sound Power from Intensity and Distance

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Verifying Solidity/Hollowness of a Copper Object

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High School Physics: Doppler Effect

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How Is Frictional Force Calculated When Resultant Force Is Zero?

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Find the ratio of the electrostatic force

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How Do Rotation and Translation Affect a Pool Ball's Movement?

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Force of a magnetic field on a current

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Calculating Kinetic Energy of Rotating Bar

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Transmission Lines and Electrical Fields

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Gravity and Weight: How Do They Compare on Different Planets?

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Physics 12: Acceleration and Distance Problem Solution

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Relationship between Newton's laws and distance

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Can Horizontal Force Lolcats Enhance Your Workout?

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Calculating the diameter of a polonium atom

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Springs, kinetic energy and work

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Solving Two Lens System: O1, F1, F2, i2, M

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Terminal speed of a 75 kg man falling feet first

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Calc Equilibrium Forces in Rigid Bodies

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Force on charged plate between two conductors

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Circuit with capacitors in series and parallel

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Can you add flux contributions?

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What is the normal force on a child going down an inclined slide?

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How is the Universe Constantly Increasing in Entropy?

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Understanding ∫B.dl: What Does It Mean/Represent?

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Energy Bound Orbit: Minimal Radius Calculation

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Electric field and electron acceleration

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What is the Apparent Weight of a Passenger in Free Fall?

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What is the Velocity of a Wave Pulse Described by y(x,t)=De^-(Bx-Ct)^2?

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How fast was he moving when he hit the parked car?

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