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Simple Harmonic Motion - Finding the Phase

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Determine Mass of Pulley in Atwood's Machine

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Why Does Stress Decrease in the Necking Region of Copper Wire?

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How to Calculate Time with Varying Acceleration Toward the Moon?

  • simjor50
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How Do You Calculate Rocket Acceleration and Altitude After Launch?

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Calculating Torque: Which Equation Should I Use?

  • doc.madani
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What happens to energy in a spring when it oscillates?

  • tcharger130
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Bruce Willis vs. helicopter bad guy

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How Do Harmonic Waves Create Standing Waves and Affect String Vibrations?

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Fundamental frequency and temperature

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What mass of the ethanol is she freezing?

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Finding the power and work needed

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How do you find the approximate uncertainty of a circle of radius 3.8x10^4?

  • steve snash
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2 mass and veloc type physx problems

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Cat and Mouse First Meeting Distance: Solving a Physics Problem

  • stripes
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Sound Level at 4km from Explosion: Calculate & Subtract dB

  • semc
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Simple Harmonic Motion - Two springs attached

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Current in a hollow tube problem

  • milkman9000
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Find Rope Tension for Mountain Climber 695N

  • ny_aish
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Charge that a battery transfers between two plates

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Solving Tension in Two Wires Attached to 200 g Sphere

  • juggalomike
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Total Electric flux on two charges

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Surface charge density problem

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Calculating the Average Net Force of a 22g Bullet Fired from a Rifle

  • ny_aish
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Solve Kinematics Homework: Wind Gust Displacement of Sailboard

  • devilsangels287
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Is There an Equation for Velocity?

  • GlobalDuty
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Calculating Work done by a Spring on a Ladle

  • mybrohshi5
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Calculating Horse Power Output for a Sled on an Inclined Hill

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Give the magnitude of the magnetic field that will.

  • warfreak131
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Magnet in copper tube lab calculations (Lenz's Law)

  • Dr. Science
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How Do You Calculate the Momentum of an Alpha Particle?

  • flyboy9
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Gravitational Potential Energy Loss

  • tquiva
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Understanding Current and its Properties: A Comprehensive Guide

  • milkman9000
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Moving a bar magnet through a coil

  • Jimmy25
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Finding the acceleration when initial velocity is not known.

  • tcw46
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Battery that expires in a circuit

  • vipboon
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Neutron collides elastically with a helium nucleus

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Kirchoff's current law for an opamp

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Conservation of Momentum and linear momentum

  • x0ji11y
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Measuring Young's Modulus of Copper Wire: Accurate Method & Critical Analysis

  • greener1993
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Surface Tension (Conceptual Question)

  • SpringPhysics
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"Impulse & Force in Pitcher-Catcher Fastball

  • stargirl17
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Position vector of a moving particle (calc based intro)

  • MurdocJensen
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Entropy change for isobaric heating

  • Alvine
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Circuit/electric potential question

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Resistance of a piece of metal

  • 05holtel
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Calculating Velocity in Inelastic Collisions

  • stargirl17
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Electromagnetism Current Curcuits

  • JJBrian
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Solving Spherical Conductor Homework: E, q, r2, C, ε₀

  • jayz618
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Pulley Problems with Rotation

  • A2Fire
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Collision Velocity Calculation for Box Cars

  • stargirl17
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Calculating Bearing Friction Torque in Winding Drum System

  • Simon.T
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How Does Water Depth Influence Wave Speed in Shallow Water?

  • cyspope
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Calculating Recoil Velocity from Alpha Decay

  • duke414
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How do you isolate this equation ?

  • calcium12
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Is 570 Meters a Correct Estimate for the Balloon's Height?

  • Daniiel
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Galactic Rotation and Gas Clouds

  • JazzCarrot
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What is the momentum of an object on an incline?

  • stargirl17
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Understanding Harmonics and Overtones in Closed and Open Pipe Organ Designs

  • SeanGillespie
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What is the average mechanical power output of the engine?

  • huybinhs
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Find the ratio of maximum height to radius of planet

  • Elm956
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Calculating Magnetic Force on a Moving Particle

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Car A & B Velocity: Solving Mechanics Problem

  • luysion
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Maximum angle before rope breaks

  • man_in_motion
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What is the Formula for Calculating Gauge Pressure of Tires?

  • furiousd
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Solving the Inclined Plane Homework Problem

  • rechitzy
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How Much Can a 6ft Man See of His Image in a Mirror?

  • SAWiz
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What Is the Maximum Work a Heat Engine Can Perform in a Cycle?

  • GreenPrint
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Physics Help: Wood Burning, Boiling Eggs, Flooding

  • SAWiz
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LAB: What factors affect a battery's performance?

  • wheelybob
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A Work and Projectile Question

  • GreenPrint
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Physics Help: Calculating Electric Shock Voltage/Current

  • Palmtree Panic
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How much current does the motor draw?

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Change in internal energy of an inelastic collision.

  • flyboy9
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Calculating Net Torque of Uniform Disk

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Conservation of energy - find speed of block

  • man_in_motion
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Rotation of a planet, kinetic energy

  • Dotty21690
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Calculating Magnetic Flux Change for Rotating Wire in Magnetic Field

  • tomwilliam
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Question on electricity. AWESOME

  • henglin
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Current through a circuit with switches

  • Physics197
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Questions about circuits and Resistors

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Calculating the Efficiency of a Transformer for a Small Appliance

  • bleedblue1234
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How to Calculate the Amplitude of a Resultant Electromagnetic Wave?

  • thereddevils
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Estimating Quality Factor Q of a Tuning Fork | Homework Help

  • bon
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Find Time: Constant Acceleration

  • attriola
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Calculate the tension of the blocks

  • allora_97
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Acceleration of gravity problem

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