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Dipole moment of sphere with uniform volume charge Q

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Solve Hard Vector Problem: Location of City C

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Calc # of Persons Carried by Hydrogen Balloon

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What is the acceleration of the speaker cone with these specifications?

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Electric field outside of conducting sphere.

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Sign convention in gravitational force toward Earth's center

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Calculating Energy Requirements for Phase Changes in Water

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How fast would a 163 Hz wave travel

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Question on car speed and distance.

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Finding acceleration of two blocks with pulleys

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Object pulled up an incline with friction

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Solving Friction Problems: 500N Box on a Non-Frictionless Floor

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With respect to what does a spinning object maintain its orientation?

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Why Can Mechanical Waves Propagate Through a Medium?

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Calculating Impulse of a Ball Dropped from Rest

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Calculating Momentum Change in Elastic Collisions

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How Far Will the Spring Be Compressed?

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Magnetism Q: Speed of Loop in Magnetic Field

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Circuit with 2 resistors, inductor, and capacitor

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Finding Final Velocity in a Spring Loaded Collision

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Angular acceleration of a bar on a hinge

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Projectile motion bomb drop from airplane at 98m height

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Rotational kinematics: moment of inertia, angular momentum and gyroscope

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Intial speed of projectile motion from height

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Instananeous accerlerations on a velocity vs time graph

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Projectile Motion Firing Question

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Projectile Motion Angles Question

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Pivoting Stick (Rotational Dynamics)

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Work Done by Braking Force to Stop a 1240 kg Car at 86.0 km/hr

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Equilateral triangle coulombs law problem

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Electrostatic physics: can someone check my answers?

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Beta -decay converting u to MeV

  • MrsChaos
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Maxwell and his equations essay - should i include aether theory heavily?

  • roberto85
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How do I find fundamental cutsets?

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Cart-Cart Collision, Conservation of Momentum

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Work done on capacitors and more

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Projectile launched at 45° up a 20° incline

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Finding Electron Speed and Wavelength

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What is the Acceleration of an Object Pushed by Hand Pressure?

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1-D coulomb repelling of 3 charges

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Calculating Velocity of Ball at Impact with Ground

  • Trandall
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Energy problem with inelastic collision

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Work done dragging a 50kg crate 8m at 20 degrees above horizontal

  • lynchdemartin
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What is the orbital speed of a satellite in geostationary orbit?

  • Oliviam12
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Query regarding electrostatics

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Embarassing question- Displacement equation

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Units for wave vector and other?

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Can I Convert PSI to kPa Using Dimensional Analysis?

  • JoeMaxwell92
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Why is ΔP zero in an isobaric process?

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Converting 6.21×10³ kg/m³ to slugs/gal

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How Does Charge -Q Exhibit Simple Harmonic Motion?

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Conducting rod through a magnetic field

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Projectile motion without time and initial velocity

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Ohm's Law and the Principles of DC Circuits

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Wind load - is it a FORCE or PRESSURE?

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One Dimension Kinematics Question

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Verifying Torque and Motion Problem Solution

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What is the Average Force Exerted by the Wall on a Bouncing Ball?

  • roam
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The Collision of Two Differently-Massed Balls

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Weight of man in a lift when lift is ascending/descending.

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of which i thought was an ellastic collision problem

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Spring constant of series springs in seismograph system

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RLC AC circuit can't get right answer

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How Can You Predict Sound Amplification in a Conical Volume?

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DC Electromagnetic Motor-small question

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Bouncing Ball Problem, velocity vs. time

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Tow-bar force on trailer during braking on inclined road

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Ballistics pendulum - sort of - COM

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Need to calculate work from mass and two velocities

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Ramp angle and landing velocity

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How Does Adding Weight Affect the Oscillation of a Board on Rollers?

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Balancing a mass using a balance beam

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Leaping Off the 400-Year-Old Bridge in Bosnia

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Block on spring and hanging mass returning to equilibrium

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What are examples of physics in Apollo 13 and October Sky?

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Where to place q3 so net force is zero

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Rpm related to velocity and diameter

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Charge Distribution on Metallic Plates

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Calculating a Ball's Height on Its Way to 1st Base

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Sum of moments about point P in rigid triangular frame

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Atwood machine bounce, how high?

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Is the 10N Force on the Bike Wheel Causing It to Move Backwards?

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Find the buoyant force on the iceberg

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Speed of Raindrops Relative to Ground: 31.93 m/s

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Sound wave no idea how to do it

  • pat666
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Average Velocity on a Position vs Time Graph

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Recoiling Cannon Projectile Velocity

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Capacitor,dielectric and force on plates

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Electric Potential Difference Between Two Charges

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Exam based on Mastering Physics anyone?

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How Does Releasing Coal Affect the Speed and Dynamics of a Railroad Car?

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1300 kg car moving east collides with 2600 kg SUV moving north at 28 m/s

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