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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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Understanding the Parabola's Constants: a, b, 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

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What is the wave speed in a brass wire

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Nonuniformly charged semicircle

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Calculating Electric Current from Homework Equations

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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

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Wave equation under a Galilean transform.

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Solving for Center of Mass in a Bent Wire: xcm and ycm Values Explained

  • 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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Power of Motor Lifting 400kg Mass in 8s: Answers & Equation

  • 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?

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

  • philok
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Help ly need someone to help me check pulley problem

  • squintyeyes
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Calculating Impact Speed After Distracted Driving

  • IronBrain
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Using Brownian Motion to solve for 4 things HELP

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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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Easy Physics P=mv momentum (please answer)

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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

  • majormuss
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Need help with this homework problem, shouldn't be too hard

  • TheChaplain
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Can Total Internal Reflection Occur in a Prism Immersed 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 of a Uniformly Charged Ring

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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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Understanding the .5 in Kinematic Equations

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

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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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Centripetal Motion: Tetherball

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Equilibrium on a Beam: Determining Forces at Different Points

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Calculating C for a Freely Falling Satellite

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Capicatance of spherical capacitor

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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

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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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Physics project help - trigger system

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Solving Train Collision: Min Rate, Collision Speed & Distance Traveled

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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

  • SoulInNeed
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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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Traveling Waves Homework: Transverse Sinusoidal Wave

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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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Solve Simple Physics Homework: Find Box Acceleration

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Pain Threshold - Reducing Intensity

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How to simplify a fraction with a square root in the numerator?

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