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Rigid Body Motion: Sphere on Inclined Plane

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How Do You Calculate Time-Dependent Current in an RL Circuit?

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Egg Launch and Recover-I need NASA level help

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What is the radius of a heliosynchronous orbit

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Why does the man on a horse get thrown forward when the horse stops?

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Electric flux through cube with nonuniform electric field

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Solve Equatorial Orbit: 12 Hours, Radius & Speed

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Need Answers for AP Physics B 2004 Exam To check work.

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Qn on Rotational Kinetic Energy

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What is the Angular Velocity of a Falling Physical Pendulum?

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What is the Average Friction Force Experienced by a Bullet Piercing a Sandbag?

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Normal Modes and Frequencies of Coupled Oscillators?

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How Much Work Does a Tow Truck Perform When Pulling a Car?

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Tension in Rope A vs. Rope B: Which is More?

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What Determines the Outcome in These Momentum and Collision Scenarios?

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Elastic collision of hockey puck

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Faraday's Law: Conducting rod moving across a magnetic field

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Calculating Final Velocities in an Elastic Collision on an Air Track

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Bullet-Block Collision Kinetics

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Alternating current LR current

  • FARADAY JR
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Waves travelling through mediums, destructive interference.

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Why is the current the same in resistors connected in series?

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Determining Steady-State Current and Voltages in Inductive-Resistive Circuit

  • ghostbuster25
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Projectile Motion Help: Finding Maximum Height and Components

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Calculate Initial Velocity of Object Thrown Vertically

  • Brittykitty
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Max Voltage: 3 100ohm Resistor Circuit | Homework Solution

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Centripetal force problem ( not enough givens?)

  • saikisen
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Calculating Lens Power for New Eyeglasses

  • matt72lsu
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2 swinging balls (pendulum) problem

  • awiest82
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Real Object, Images formed by a single converging or diverging lens

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Working out distance for a package traveling space

  • ghostbuster25
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Point charge above xy plane, find surface charge density

  • satchmo05
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Angle of Incidence with partial reflection and partial refraction

  • skibum143
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Conservation of mechanical energy of pendulum

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Centrifugal and circular motion

  • clavin
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Waves question, finding new frequency,

  • Ush
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Problem with power and potential energy

  • costas
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Friction Problem: Hill Incline Angle Calculation | Car Engine and Speed

  • theskyiscrape
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How Do You Calculate the Acceleration of a Board on Rolling Tubes?

  • costas
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Age of the Universe: Solve for t_0

  • NeedPhysHelp8
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What happens to Earth's charge when you remove a volume of soil?

  • satchmo05
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Rotational Energy, finding speed of rotation. Simple Problem.

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Tuning Forks and Frequency: Finding Length

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Electric Field strength of sphere

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What causes a car to skid outwards on a circular turn?

  • clavin
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Finding Electric Potential at P, Q and R in a Earthed Circuit

  • thereddevils
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What is the tension in the cable?

  • huybinhs
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Calculating Proton Displacement, Force & Current in a Magnetic Field

  • thisisfreaky
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How to Calculate Capacitance for Two Slanted Conducting Plates?

  • blackblanx
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What Is the Correct Resistance for Optimal LED Operation?

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Calculating height (projectile motion)

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Magnetostatics - force on wire

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How Do You Calculate Ib, Ic, and Rb in a Transistor Amplifier Circuit?

  • TyErd
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Time Dilation and Frame of Reference

  • Kawakaze
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Tension in a pendulum (probably just me being stupid)

  • downwithsocks
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How Do You Calculate the Density of Oil in a Multi-Tube Setup?

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How Many Kilocalories are Produced When a Truck Decelerates?

  • kee23
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Understanding Force and Friction: Solving a Connected Box Problem

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Football kicked 52 yards horizontally to a goal 10 ft high

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Calculating Distance for Plastic Leprechaun Launch

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Force to hold nozzle with given flow rate and velocity

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Can a Skier Experience Weightlessness on a Parabolic Ski Slope?

  • TyErd
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Determine the magnitude of the tension in the clotheline

  • stateofdogma
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Finding EMF Required for a 22A, 5 Ohm Heater Coil

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Calculating Spring Constant from Conservation of Energy Equation

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Water Waves - Universal Wave Equation

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Force applied on a falling mass

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Charging Time for RC Circuit with Capacitor and Resistor

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Coefficient of friction - bullet traveling through a block

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Coupled oscillation: time interval between maxima

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How to Calculate Time Required for 11 Light Years @ 0.9c

  • doc.madani
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What is the resistance of a 20-mile aluminum wire transmission line?

  • kriegera
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Find wavelength in double slit experiment

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Help with finding Moment of Inertia

  • yang09
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Friction Ramp Problem (I'm challenging a score received on a test)

  • shankman
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Finding total resistance in parallel circuit

  • kriegera
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Photon Starship, energy momentum

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How Do You Convert GW/bcf to J/m^3 for Energy Storage?

  • HelpMeh
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Calculating expended energy in a battery

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What happens when two charged spheres are brought into contact?

  • Gyoza06
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Work on a proton/Electic Potential

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Electric Field of Non-Conducting Cylinder

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Solving the Problem: A 150g Ball Thrown Vertically

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How Accurate Can an Atwood Machine Measure Gravity?

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Ballistic Cylinder: Angular Velocity After Bullet Impact

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Mechanics with vectors question

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A question about constant velocity/constant acceleration graphs?

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Bicycle Wheel Radius Calculation

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Why Does Calculating Bullet Transit Time Yield Different Results?

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Proving turns per length on a solenoid

  • anonymousphys
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How Far Does the Earth Move When I Jump Off a Table?

  • Paymemoney
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What is the magnitude and direction of the applied force?

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Lorentz transformation using to find for vx of a missile

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Average velocity from a position-time graph?

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