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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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Two boxes connected by rope over pulley with friction

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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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What Angle Minimizes Force to Make a Block Slip?

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Boltzman Constant, Emissivity and Surface Area of a filament

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Why is F(tang) equal to -dU/ds?

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Angular acceleration of a motor

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Can a position vs time graph be perfectly horizontal or vertical?

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How long ago did the wooly mammoth disappear from North America?

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How Do You Prove These Trigonometric Identities?

  • Cutie123
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How Deep Will a Less Dense Ball Sink in Water?

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General Thermal/Energy Physics Problem

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Point charges and potential electric energy

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Calculating Speed of a Point on a Rolling Wheel

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How Do You Calculate the Parallel and Perpendicular Components of a Vector?

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What is the magnitude of the charge on each particles

  • shimizua
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Find the temperature of air given frequency and wavelength?

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What is the initial projection angle of the projectile?

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TA 2019 Physics 1 Question 5: Geosynchronous Orbit

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Cannon Angle for Avalanche Initiation?

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How Is Force Calculated on a Plate Stopping Water in a Pipe?

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Force on electron near charged person using Coulomb's law

  • shimizua
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Bernoulli's Equation for Pressure Drop in a Constricted Venturi Tube

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What is the the electric field at a point midway between

  • shimizua
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Projectile motion football kick problem

  • Cherrybawls
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What is the radius of Mercury's core?

  • Katte
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How Does a Capacitor Behave in a Simple Circuit?

  • Timiop2008
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What is the frequency of a tuning fork oscillating at 2770 rad/s?

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Why does the dot product use cosine?

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How Fast Must the Car Travel in the Second Half to Average 51 km/h?

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What is the magnitude of the electric field

  • shimizua
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What Mass Should Be Used in Joule's Experiment to Deliver 1.00 kcal?

  • kavamo
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Time Period: Limits of Integration?

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Creating a Function with Oscillating Discontinuity

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Average velocity (should be easy )

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10 kg block sliding on floor with friction: find KE, PE and speed after 2 m

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Provincial Exam: Simple momentum explosion question

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What is the mass of the Earth's atmosphere?

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What Are Some Tips for Preparing for a Science Fair Project in One Week?

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What do the axes represent on a time dilation graph?

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Ladder leaning against the wall, that we dont want to fall down

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What Happens to a Ball Dropped Through the Center of the Earth?

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Solve the Circuit For Electromagnetism Unit

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Confusing Old time Measurements =(

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Solving Acceleration and Velocity Problems in the xy Plane

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Impossible tHERMODYNAMICS Problem

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Eddy Currents in Magnetic Fields: Copper/Aluminum vs Iron

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Velocity of the Moon (magnitude and direction)

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What is the relationship between sound intensity level and power?

  • LeakyFrog
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Kinematics Plane and Rocket Problem

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What angle should the curve be banked at?

  • TheConfewsd
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Find components of vector C from vectors A and B

  • casemeister06
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Atmospheric density calculation (of mars)

  • blackdog666
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Beat FrequencyWhat is the new tension in the string that slipped?

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Tracking an Electron Through an Electric Field

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2008 AP Physics B Free Response MISTAKE?

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An Object is in Uniform Circular Motion

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Cost of running an 1800 W oven for 7 hours

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Person B on elevator vs person A walking 50 m

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Can someone help with these problems?

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Box sliding on incline with friction

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Average speed for round trip up and down a hill

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Rotational Kinematics - Angular velocity

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Finding the angle of vector sum V1 + V2

  • matt72lsu
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What are the forces acting on point B in the crane diagram?

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Thermal Expansion of a hemisphere

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How Do You Calculate Collision Rates and Emission Wavelengths in Physics?

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How Do You Calculate Sound Speed and Tune a Guitar with a Tuning Fork?

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Net Force on Center Charge of Four Point Charges

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Electric force magnitude of NH3

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Coulomb's Law/Electric field questions

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How Does the Angle of a Simple Pendulum Affect Its Torque?

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Vectors (incl. axial/psuedovectors)/Scalars

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Calculate the Force of a Certain Push

  • Darkstr958
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Car braking distance with constant deceleration

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Calculate the mass of particle 2

  • shimizua
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Newton’s law of universal gravitation

  • Ahmad786
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Conservation of momentum - Brakes

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Model rocket with constant acceleration and lighthouse distance problem

  • jwang023
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What does magnitude and direction of vectors mean?

  • Player7900
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How Much Force Is Needed to Move a 1960 N Block of Dry Ice?

  • Ahmad786
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Collisions in an Elastic System: Solving for Motion and Energy Loss

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Applying Newtons Second Law to Vertical Motion

  • Ahmad786
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Weight of 10 kg Mass on Moon: 60N

  • Ahmad786
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What is Newton's First Law of Motion?

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Calculating Work Against Gravity for Orbital Launch

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Paraxial approximation on concave mirror

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Determining the Internal Resistance of Battery X

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What exactly is current, and how come it is constant in a circuit?

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How far from camera person should stand?

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