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I hope that helps. How far will Lisa compress the spring?

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Why Does Rotating Around the Y-Axis Require Less Work Than the Z-Axis?

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Solve Vector Plane Problem: Airplane to Lake 250 km Away

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Understanding Electric Field and Potential in Capacitors

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Range of wavelength from white light through a diffraction grating

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Rotation problem solved with conservation of energy.

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Magnitude/direction of the ball's acceleration

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Calculating Height of Stone Dropped from Rising Hot Air Balloon

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Calculating Work, Thermal Energy, and Heat Transfer for Hydrogen Gas

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Why Newton's third law forces don't cancel out

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Calculating Potential Energy Changes in a Roller Coaster System

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Finding how long a cyclist takes to stop after braking

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What is the temperature at the end of the process ?

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Capacitors: charge, potential difference and stored energy

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Elaborating physics concepts for oral exam: 10 statements

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Conservation of Momentum and Kinetic Energy in 2D Collisions

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Rotational Motion and the Law of Gravity

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Calculating the Pulling Force of a 2t Car Over 100m in 10s

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Is zero acceleration constant when there's no net force?

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Definition of magnetic flux through a surface at an angle

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Bullet embedded in rod pivoted at one end

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Finding kilowatt hours from parallel capacitors

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Need a Physics Investigatory topic

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Magnitude of flux through wedding ring

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Electric field, charged balls, conservation of energy, velocity

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Angular speed of merry-go-round

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Emission in hydrogen atom - difference between electrons and photons

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Finding the direction of a dipole moment

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Speed of a Bullet Fired into a Block?

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Conservation of energy of a baseball problem

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Calculating force to accelerate object

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How Do Radio Frequency Sources Create Interference Patterns?

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Relationship between uncertainties

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Uncertainty with a log function

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Calculating Needed Thrust for a Moon Landing

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What Determines the Loss of Contact in a Mass-Spring System?

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How to Calculate Force and Tension in a System of Blocks?

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Determining the magnetic torque on a loop

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How Do You Calculate Initial Velocity with Angled Projectile Motion?

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How Does Eccentricity Influence Orbital Speed Ratios in Planetary Motion?

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Mass of Star Using Celestial Mechanics

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Distance and gravitation problem.

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Calculating Skydiver's Landing Speed with Constant Retarding Forces

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Question involving rotational motion

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What is the Phase Difference Between Waves at Point R?

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What is the beat frequency of two strings with different tensions?

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Calculating Rate of Vaporisation: 240 W Body Heat Loss

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Calculating Potential Difference and Work in a Parallel Plate Capacitor

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Where to find 2004 AP Physics C mechanics answers

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Why do the upper and lower potions cancel the magnetic field?

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Discharged electrodes and charges: electric slingshot

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How do you calculate Center of mass

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Calculate Equivalent Resistance in an Equilateral Triangle Electric Circuit

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Determining light intensity with a mirror

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Rock Group Performs in Bar: How Far Can You Hear?

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The Roundup Ride: Experience the Thrill of 14.56m/s^2!

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Units and origin of velocity² vs. centripetal force plot

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Force of Gravity on a Man on a Ferris Wheel

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Hockey puck collision energy loss with unknown final velocity

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Calculating Mass for Centripetal Force at 100 km/h Speed with 350 m Radius Curve

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Deriving the displacement equation for a sinusoidal wave

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Solve Two Connected Masses for Acceleration

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Gravitational Potential Energy of the earth

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Calculating Charge and Current

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Calculating velocity of a block on a slope using work theorem

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Copper wire resistance problem

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Using Gauss's law to determine elctric fields (Calculus based problem)

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Finding acceleration of a block being pushed up a ramp by a horizontal force

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Car turning on a bank (circular motion problem)

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Work Done by Force F: bx^3 over \Deltax=2.6m

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Speed of an Electron in an Electric Field

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Proving the Cartesian oval equation with Snell's law

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How many moles of gas are in the balloon?

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Angular Momentum of a turntable with frictionless bearings

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Toroid, cyclotron, nested solenoids, and current loop problems

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Force on an electron in magnetic field:

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Elastic Collision of a ball and wire

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How Do You Calculate the Angle in a 2D Elastic Collision?

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Quantum Number of a Harmonic Oscillator State

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Wavelength of the wave which is produced at the wire

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How Much Work Does Gravity Do on an Ice Flake in a Bowl?

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Solve Kinetics, Springs: Find Collar Velocity at s=1 ft

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Designing basic circuits to power devices

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Finding focal length given magnification and object distance?

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How Is Current Induced in a Multi-Turn Coil with Changing Magnetic Field?

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Could Mass and Radius Changes Have Caused a Shift in Earth's Gravity?

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Capacitors, energy storage and energy release

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Calculating Water Wave Speed and Period in a 4.4m Lake

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Conservation of Momentum, again :/

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Conservation of Momentum of roller-skates

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Magnetic Fields and Proton Beam therapy

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Relativistic momentum and energies

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