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Centripetal force in London Eye

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Finding the magnitude of the eletric field of a uniformly charged rod.

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Relationship between coefficients of linear and volume expansion

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The maximum deceleration of a car

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Projectile motion- Deriving the right formular

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Magnitude of an Electric field on a point by 2 charged spheres

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How High is the Cliff Based on Projectile Motion?

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Net Electric Field due to 2 different charges

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Units of constants a, b, c in the parabola equation y=ax²+bx+c

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Coulomb's Law and net electric field

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Coulomb's Law and the net electric field

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Calculating Speed and Acceleration of Second Hand on Town Clock

  • Muneerah
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What is the wave speed in a brass wire

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Nonuniformly charged semicircle

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Electric current in ionized gas with ions and electrons

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Understanding Centrifuge Acceleration on Mercury

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Calculating Electric Field at Midpoint Between Two Charged Disks

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Kinematics and Newtons 2nd law

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How Do You Calculate the Friction Needed to Stop a Sliding Box?

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Calculating Coefficient of Thermal Expansion for a Rod

  • Indy2424
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Wave equation under a Galilean transform.

  • Johnny Blade
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Center of mass of a bent wire with L = 0.740 cm

  • squintyeyes
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What Is the Correct Calculation for Angular Speed in a Centrifuge Problem?

  • Muneerah
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Solve Lost Equations: Bus + Student Acceleration

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Finding expression for mass with tension, gravity and point charges

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Finding motor power lifting 400 kg at constant speed

  • majormuss
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Gravitational lines of force for two equal point masses?

  • ILoveCollege
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Satellite orbital speed and period at 11000 km altitude

  • Muneerah
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Power and Energy of a motor problem

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Uniform Circular Motion of a tire

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Net electric field-whats wromg with this?

  • nothingatall
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How Can a Train Travel 1km Optimally by Accelerating and Braking?

  • philok
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Speed of masses connected by pulley before heavier mass hits ground

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Calculating Impact Speed After Distracted Driving

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Brownian motion rms speed and random walk distance for particles

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The point where the electric field between two charged spheres is zero

  • bandit101
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Rocket Acceleration: Calculating Speed and Altitude

  • mullets1200
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Projectile motion, deriving equation

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Sin i / sin r graph from ray through glass block

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Limitations of Photoemission in Electroscope Charging

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Force of Friction: 0.45N, Coefficient: 0.0382

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Questions from our Physics Periodical Exam

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Transverse wave through a medium

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Dynamics with Polar coordinates

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Vector Addition: Calculating Bird's Speed in Southerly Direction

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Sound waves and the doppler effect

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Slope of an Energy with Friction Graph?

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What Are the Tension Forces in Suspended Structures?

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Finding The Volume of An Air Bubble Just Before It Breaks Surface

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How Do Sound Waves Behave in a Closed vs. Open Tube?

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How Far and Fast Does Tina Drive to Pass David?

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Trying to figure out how to solve a formula for the energy of light

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Pressure/temperature energy question

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Law of Gravitation: Calculate Astronaut Weight 6.37 × 106 m Above Earth

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Energy of light with frequency 4.3×10^14 Hz using E=hf

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Total internal reflection in a glass prism submerged in water

  • Glen Maverick
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Why Is the Binding Energy of a Satellite Equal to Its Total Energy?

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How Do Current Sources Affect Thevenin and Norton Equivalents?

  • mathman44
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Crater Depth and Height Relationship

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Electric field on the axis of a uniformly charged ring at 1.15 cm

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What is the force applied by the e-brake to stop the car in 3 seconds?

  • Shaley
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Dynamics Question Grade 11 Level

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How Does Newton's Second Law Apply to Tug of War on Ice?

  • Shaley
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Where does the 0.5 come from in kinematic equations

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No, E can be constant regardless of the distance between two charges.

  • aloshi
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Collision problem /what internal forces?

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Solving Momentum Question: Tennis Ball vs Putty Ball

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What is the dimension of c3 in s=cs cos(c4t)

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Electric field inside a cavity within a uniformly charged sphere

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Tetherball velocity and period with 20.9° rope angle

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Maximum person weight to walk 20 m beam on two walls

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Calculating C for a Freely Falling Satellite

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Capicatance of spherical capacitor

  • songoku
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What is the resultant amplitude at X?

  • songoku
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Equilibrium from the ceiling. Solve using cosines

  • tigerwoods99
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Calculating Precession Rates in 4C and 4D

  • Cosmossos
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Conservation question really quick

  • squintyeyes
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Determining initial velocity and instant velocity

  • Norfonz
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Calculating Distance from Constant Force: A Kinematics Problem

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Trigger system for rubber band powered helicopter

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Passenger train braking to avoid freight train collision

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How Does Relativity Affect the Perception of Time Between Supernovae?

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Electric Forces: Find Separation Force

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Help check over my answers to these simple questions

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What Forces Act on a Car Turning on a Circular Track?

  • squintyeyes
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What materials do I need for an electromagnet science fair project?

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Thermodynamcics quesstion (Diagrams)

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Percent change in tension to achieve specified change in frequency

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Transverse wave on string with given period and initial conditions

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What is the cause of the pull on the charged metal plate?

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Superpositions of electrostatic forces

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Calorimetry Problem: Cooling 90.0 g of Iron in 85.0 g of Water

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Bouncing ball and angular velocity

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