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Find the Net Force and Acceleration Question

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What is the resonant frequency of a plucked wire in a closed brass tube?

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What is the boiling temperature of the liquid?

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Block sliding along a looped track

  • LarryWineland
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Interference - Frequency Interference -- Frequency

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Energy and Capacitors of metal spheres

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Do all objects fall at the same rate when dropped from a height?

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Does a Positively Charged Ball Attract a Neutral Metal Ball?

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How Long Does It Take for a Particle on a String to Move Through 1.0 km?

  • hartfan
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What is the Acceleration of the System?

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Creating Weightlessness in an Airplane: Calculating Flight Path Radius

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Two stones thrown from 50-m cliff 1 second apart

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How Does Hooke's Law Determine Spring Constant and Extension?

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Understanding Forces in an Anchor System

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Understanding Momentum Conservation in Particle Collisions

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Work done by friction with applied force at 32° angle

  • mandy9008
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Find distance before rest given length and angle of incline

  • mandy9008
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Determining altitude given velocities and mass

  • mandy9008
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Writing a project report with no experimental data

  • hasan_researc
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Sled pulled up 18 m hill with force at 45° angle

  • Legal
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Elastic collisions in COM frame

  • joriarty
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Determining spring's max compression on frictionless track

  • mandy9008
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Finding spring constant from equilibrium stretch of 35 cm

  • mickellowery
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Doubling voltage and power in a light bulb

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Physics circular motion, orbits, and gravity

  • thesandalman
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Hooke's Law and the force constant

  • mandy9008
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Velocity and Sound to determine distance

  • mikeR3975
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Finding height given velocities

  • mandy9008
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What is the Electric Potential at Points on the Y-Axis with Zero Potential?

  • Mitchtwitchita
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Pressure as a function of time.

  • wwshr87
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What are the resonant wavelengths?

  • physics(L)10
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What is the final temperature after mixing ice and steam?

  • kenny1999
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How is Work and Net Work Calculated in a Supermarket Shopping Scenario?

  • mandy9008
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2-D car collision, finding speed and angle

  • clockworks204
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Dimensions in logarithms after integration

  • quantum13
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What is the Angular Speed of a Falling Rod?

  • j2013
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When Does Runner B Pass Runner A?

  • xcompulsion
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Simple pendulum vertical acceleration at lowest point with 19 kg mass

  • SuperCass
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An AM station is broadcasting a radio wave whose frequency is 1400 kHz.

  • jandominic145
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Angle of refraction of light in water

  • Kaldanis
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Block sliding down wedge (w/ friction), wedge on frictionless floor

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Gravitational Potential Energy of an object

  • mickellowery
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Kinetic energy and momentum of a photon at 660 nm wavelength

  • ibysaiyan
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Finding masses of two objects from gravitational force and total mass

  • mickellowery
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Frictionless ramp question. Find angle.

  • oldschooleuro
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Elevator Question (Rotation of rigid body and Energy)

  • zewei1988
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What are the key principles of special relativity?

  • Ki-nana18
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What Is the Van's Velocity After Collision in a Momentum Conservation Problem?

  • kompheak vic
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Damped oscillations: block on spring in water

  • SuperCass
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Friction, object pulled at an angle, given only (mue) and max tension hmmm

  • Beamsbox
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Importance of de Broglie wavelength of matter

  • CharlieC89
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Radioactive decay question Ra to Rn

  • rshalloo
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Physics problem involving gravity?

  • bkell27
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How Does Entropy Change When Tea Cools?

  • rizardon
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What is the significance of a massive relativistic particle?

  • hasan_researc
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Physics problem involving two snowballs?

  • bkell27
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Maximum amplitude formula for driven oscillations

  • SuperCass
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Wave optics and diffraction gratings

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How many appliances will melt aluminum wire?

  • dpbrown
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Torsion Pendulum Oscillation (SHM)

  • SuperCass
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How do you find the volume of three dimensions.

  • randomss444
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Simple parallel plate speed of charge question

  • seto6
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Deriving mean free path of ideal gas

  • hasan_researc
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Carrier transport in semiconductor

  • RajChakrabrty
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Truck tire pressure / load on road

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The Velocity of Block B Relative to A

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Number of sf to be carried forward

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Why do point particles never collide according to Young and Freedman?

  • hasan_researc
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Dicontinuity of electric displacement normal to a boundary

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Linear acceleration in a uniform magnetic field due to torque

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Thermodynamics - heat transfer

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With what velocity did the mug leave the counter?

  • the_storm
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Finding x-position for maximum force on a charge between two fixed charges

  • Ceenaya19
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Gravitation and potential energy

  • cuman12
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Angle of total acceleration with radius for car on circular track

  • the_storm
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[Multiple Choice] wavelength of an object. de Broglie wavelength

  • daNAV1GATOR
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Sliding egg I think the books wrong, could someone please verify?

  • Beamsbox
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Determine the weight by using force

  • mandy9008
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Thrust on tilted cube tank face with water and oil layers

  • Maybe_Memorie
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Ski Jump Problem: Verify if Tangent is <20º

  • GriffinHeart
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Solve % Error in Specific Heat Capacity: Eh = mcΔT

  • spoony33
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How Does a Bowling Ball Accelerate Up a Ramp?

  • cuman12
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Colliding Particles using energy

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Bullet fired at a block of wood

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What Happens to Angular Speed When Moment of Inertia Increases?

  • ghostbuster25
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Moment of inertia with triple integrals

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Calculating percentage error in specific heat capacity from uncertainties

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Calculating Angular Acceleration of a Rotating Rod

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Finding the unknown magnitude of force

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Magnetic field from conducting pipe

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Displacement current and conduction current

  • RajChakrabrty
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What are the forces acting on the 2 kg mass?

  • mandy9008
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Make sure electro does not fall

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Rod supported by cable with hanging mass and friction at wall

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