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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?

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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

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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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Solving Charge Accumulated from Scuffing Feet: Magnitude of Force

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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

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What is the radius of Mercury's core?

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How Does a Capacitor Behave in a Simple Circuit?

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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

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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?

  • particlemania
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Creating a Function with Oscillating Discontinuity

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Average velocity (should be easy )

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Calculating KE, PE & Total Energies: A 10kg Block & Friction

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Provincial Exam: Simple momentum explosion question

  • Senjai
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What is the mass of the Earth's atmosphere?

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

  • Alieneater
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Time Dilation Graph: Variables & Lorentz Contraction

  • nicekarmajobs
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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?

  • fondah
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Efficiently Solve Motion Problems Using Energy Conservation

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Solve the Circuit For Electromagnetism Unit

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Confusing Old time Measurements =(

  • Teenytiny1991
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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?

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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

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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

  • lampshader
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Electric Circuits Homework Help

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Solve Simple Kinematics Homework: A vs B Walk/Elevator Speed 50 m

  • songoku
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Can someone help with these problems?

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Box sliding on incline with friction

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Calculating Average Speed: A Stupid Speed Question Homework Solution

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Rotational Kinematics - Angular velocity

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Calculating Vector Magnitude and Components | Vectors V1 & V2 Homework Help

  • 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

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Newton's Laws: Simple Constant Force Problem

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Calculate the mass of particle 2

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Newton’s law of universal gravitation

  • Ahmad786
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Conservation of momentum - Brakes

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Solve Rocket & Lighthouse Problems: Height, Speed, Distance | HW Help"

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Meaning of: Indicate magnitude & direction of all vectors

  • 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

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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?

  • agentas
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Calculating Mass from Weight and Distance

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Calculate radius of earth using a pole

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Solving Frictional Force on Ladder

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Calculate the number of moles in a real gas

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Magnetic Forces acting upon a slider on rails

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What is the direction of forces exerted on a plank by a wall in statics?

  • nahanksh
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Finding Speed Needed to Keep Particle on Rippled Surface

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Leakage Resistance of 100pF Capacitor with Mica Dielectric

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