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Work done by friction when pushing a crate up an inclined plane

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Solve for Average Speed: Jogging and Driving Distance Calculation

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Finding uncertainty in angle from measured sides using differentiation

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How Do Mass and Force Affect Acceleration in a Frictionless System?

  • jen@skywi.com
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Runner accelerating at 1.7 m/s² for 4.8 seconds then coasting

  • jwang023
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Calculating Rolling Friction for Toy Car on 12° Ramp

  • lovemake1
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Average speed needed to reach church on time after construction delay

  • jwang023
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Time in Air for Ball Rolling Down a Ramp

  • bwagner
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How can I use calculus to analyze errors in angle measurements?

  • lovemake1
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Forces surrounding Car on a Bridge

  • Oktane
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Magnitude and Direction Force Problem

  • Dr Meow
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Biot-Savart Law for a Point Charge

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Calculate the total work done on the sled.

  • noman.21
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Motions in the planes need equation

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Sled placed at an inclined plane ( Newtons law)

  • lovemake1
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Find Final Speed of 5MeV Protons in m/s

  • DR13
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Extensive vs intensive properties and equilibrium states

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Max Tension in Rope Supporting Bungie Jumper

  • lovemake1
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Just an easy problem of physics

  • NeoPhoenix
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3 part hypothetical battery question

  • almedmat
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Electric field from two point charges on the x-axis

  • BATBLady
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Calculating Work Done in Baffling Thermodynamics Graph

  • jacksonpeeble
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How Do You Calculate the Acceleration of a Box on a Smooth Floor?

  • black_hole
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How Does Angle Affect Speed and Distance of a Toy Car on a Ramp?

  • lovemake1
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How Do You Solve Homemade Capacitor Problems?

  • almedmat
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How to assign current directions in unlabeled electrical networks

  • EV33
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Having trouble finding the center of mass for multiple objects

  • kavamo
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Electrical networks(linear algebra)

  • EV33
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Maximum force that we can exert without breaking the rope?

  • NeoPhoenix
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What displaces more water- Mass or Volume?

  • Realityguy
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Three cylinders connected by string: finding velocity when one falls 4.7 m

  • nahanksh
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What does mass, volume and density of displaced water mean?

  • cy19861126
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How Does Coulomb's Law Explain Force Between Three Charges?

  • Deicider
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Finding energy to evaporate 1.2×10¹² m³ of water per day

  • Boogeyman
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Solving Freefall Problem With Special Attention to Units

  • bujorn
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To which of the two cubes has a larger moment of inertia?

  • Cosmossos
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Calculating the speed of electrons?

  • bobo343
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What Is the Final Velocity After Two Freight Cars Collide and Interlock?

  • zelda1850
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Calculating Time in Dynamics Problem

  • Theorγ
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Absolute Potential: What is Meant?

  • Jimmy25
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Calculating the energy stored in a spring

  • lukenichols
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Force on square with opposite charges Q and two charges q

  • viciado123
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Calculating the electrostatic force

  • Hockey07
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What is the frequency of a SHM with a given time period?

  • Boden1563
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Force between particles in nucleus

  • tomwilliam
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Why Are My Particle Physics Calculations Incorrect?

  • bobo343
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Electrostatic force question with coulombs law

  • bofford4
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Obstacle course acceleration problem

  • Helpme7534
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Sun’s contribution to total orbital angular momentum of Sun-Jupiter orbit

  • mendojazzhead
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Impulse Applied to a Mass of 5kg on a Smooth Surface

  • lemon
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Finding friction force on a 20 kg wooden crate dragged at constant speed

  • Helpme7534
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Max Tension in Rope Supporting Bungie Jumper (75kg)

  • lovemake1
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How Does Fred the Monkey's Descent Affect the Cylinder's Rotation?

  • Dr Meow
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Initial speed and distance from initial height problem

  • magnifik
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Calculating Friction Coefficient of a Compressed Spring

  • HumorMe81
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Total Binding Energy: Determining Electron Count

  • jools111
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How to Calculate Kinetic Energy Loss in a Collision

  • richardnumber
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Angle between 1N and 2N forces in equilibrium with √3N force

  • pha27531
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Electric Field and Flux: Calculations and Explanations

  • harmonicmotion
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Diodes Current–voltage characteristic

  • du.art
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Is Acceleration Directly Proportional to the Square of Time in Kinematics?

  • General_Sax
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Elastic Collisions: What Went Wrong in My Calculation?

  • fuzzish
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How Are Specific Heat of Fe and Molar Mass of Sn Calculated?

  • dilasluis
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How Do You Calculate the Moment of Inertia for a System of Particles?

  • richardnumber
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Acceleration of box pulled at 23.9° above horizontal

  • black_hole
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Understanding Phase Diagrams: Impact of Pressure Changes on a System

  • maccha
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Interference at a single wavelength

  • physical101
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Angular momentum after projectile sticks to pivoted rod

  • jdboucher
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Block on compressed spring sliding on rough surface

  • nahanksh
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Model rocket and space probe force and acceleration problems

  • SkiingAlta
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Conservation of angular momentum of a falling particle

  • Rudipoo
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Magnetic field between two parallel wires

  • fishingspree2
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Translational Equillibrium, how do i show my work?

  • Senjai
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AM radio station frequency for 75m tower as quarter-wavelength antenna

  • SAT2400
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Electric Field at a Distant Point

  • davezhan
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Static Equilibrium. Man on Ladder

  • jdboucher
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Calculating Net Force and Direction on Bolt A

  • Dr Meow
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How Do Momentum and Impulse Relate in a Collision?

  • Air_force_two
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Force the ceiling applies to a pulley lifting a crate

  • pewpew23
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Finding the Stopping Point of a Falling Mass on a Spring

  • zachmgilbert
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Torque and center of gravity problem

  • Ben C.
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What is the role of the normal force in the work done on a sliding block?

  • lilwigz
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What is the relationship between motion and speed in juggling?

  • lilwigz
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Rotational Kinematics (Ball hits stick)

  • amnestic
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Runner sliding into base loses 560 J—how far does he slide?

  • lilwigz
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Chemical Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy

  • pewpew23
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What are the force and kinematics problems I need help with?

  • SkiingAlta
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Finding vector C perpendicular to A with dot product constraint

  • cdlegendary
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Tension in wire when magpie lands on clothesline

  • amnestic
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Box sliding down frictionless incline

  • pewpew23
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Static Equilibrium of door and hinge

  • Wellesley
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Write an equation for the gravitational force between two objects

  • stargirl17
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Proving Kepler's 2nd Law: Pluto's Area Sweep

  • Trizz
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Buoyant force on submerged block between two scales

  • victorlee2
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