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Calculating the Mass of a Steel Wrench in Water: A Density Dilemma

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Peak voltage output of a generator

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Help_How to use graph to find focal length?

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Kinematics: Spring Homework Solution

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Calculating Resultant Force: Understanding the Error

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How Does Resistivity Affect Current Flow in Unconventional Conductors?

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Calculate Height of Basketball Player's Jump

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What Is John's Resultant Displacement on the Highway?

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What happens to a lamp in series if lamp in parallel is broken?

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How Much Water Does a 115578 Ton Cargoship Displace?

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Relativistic Antiproton Protion

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Circuit problem- resistance, power, voltage

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2D Motion - Firecracker bursting

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Solving the Rod's Angular Acceleration Problem: Why and How?

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How does a swimmer's jump affect the water level and raft in a pool?

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How can F = mg sin. θ be proven on a smooth plane?

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How Many Sprints to Burn 500 Calories at 4.5 m/s?

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Help with equations for Momentum Question

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Explain Why we get hut by kicking a brick

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The Net Force on a Test Charge at Equilibrium Due to Two Point Charges

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Solve Wave Motion Question HRW 8 Ch 16 Q19

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How Do Electron Transitions in Hydrogen Atoms Produce Photons?

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Solve 11.28 & 11.25 LOST Homework: dV/dx & Distance in Picture

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How Do Forces Affect Motion in Different Scenarios?

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Vectors & Physics: Questions Answered

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Momentum and Impulse. find final velocity

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Calculating centripetal force when radius is unknown

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Does placing something in water affect the water's weight?

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Determining the Speed of two cars before their collision

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Thermal concepts questions (chem related)

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Conservation of linear momentum

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Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution function and equipartition theorem

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Given acceleration relation, find variables

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Induced emf in a wire hard mathematically

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Rotational momentum (conservation problems)

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Calculating angle for trajectory with exit position not at 0,0

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What is the Angular Acceleration of a Pivoting Stick?

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Thermodynamics Volume Expansion

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Thermodynamics Ideal Gas Law problem (pressure problem)

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Trouble calculating the electric field at a point

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Radial acceleration and gravity

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Calculating the currecnt of a circuit

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Uniform Circular Motion and the Force of a Car on a Bumpy Road

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Flow Development: Is psi = 4y - (y^3)/3 Fully Developed?

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Calculating Water Speed Through a Hose

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Thermodynamics: RMS Speed of Molecules

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Calculating Force and Torque for Moving Mass on Wheels

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Thermodynamics Linear Expansion Problem

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Find the min. velocity for which a particle will remain on the loop

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Addition of AC current and compound angle theory

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Quantum: Photon strikes Electron.

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What is the displacement of the blue piston?

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How much force does the train exert on Superman?

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Atmosphere of earth - why it isnt static?

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Lens equation: pretty simple probably

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Tension Vector Explanation: Solving Homework Questions with Pictures

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How Do You Calculate Energy and Maximum Power in Electrical Circuits?

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Dynamics: planar kinetics of a rigid body (impulse and momentum)

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Having trouble with Einstein's Derivation of E=mc^2

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Can Static Vectors Be Managed Without Uploading Large Files?

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Parallel Plates and Electric Fields

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Calculating Voltage from Electric Field between Parallel Plates

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Establish formula f in terms of l, T and m

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Dampened harmonic motion question

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What is the potential energy of the spring?

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Finding the Correct Position of a Converging Lens for a Sharp Image

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What Angle Causes a Mass to Leave a Frictionless Sphere?

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Mirror Optics- Measuring Virtual Image

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How Do You Calculate the Centripetal Force for a Swinging Mass?

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Calculating Electrical Force Between Two Objects Using Coulomb's Law

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Help on properties of solids such as ductility and malleability

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Kinematics & Gravitation Constant: +9.8 or -9.8?

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Calculating the Mass of a Gas Molecule Using Kinetic Theory

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Need Past AP Physics C Mechanics Exams

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What is the Direction of Acceleration During a Bungee Jump?

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Acceleration, velcocity, and position

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Find Amplitude of Motion: v=-6.54sin(20.1t) (mks units)

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Prove: Rotation of Flows Satisfies Equation of Continuity

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Calculating Time of Contact for Hammer and Nail

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Solving Alternate Current Homework on R, Impedance, Phase Difference

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How to tell how far bullet went using sound

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Calculating Force Needed to Pull Nail Out at 60 Degrees Angle

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Cause & Effect: Ammeter Resistance & Circuit Current

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Work done on a block by net force

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Applying Kirchhoff's Laws to Solve Circuit Problems

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How to find which polarization ?

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Archimedes Principle and Specific Gravity Determination

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How Do I Solve for Final Pressure in an Ideal Gas Problem?

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Angular Momentum: Homework Question on 4-Mass Rotating Cross

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