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Work or Net Work when calculating Power?

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Meteorology Physics: Apparent wind problem

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Projectile returns to initial speed after 2 seconds

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To find the amplitude of a mass on an elastic string

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How to Solve Hinge Force Problems?

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Solving 2 Blocks on a Spring: Ma = Kx

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Maximum compression of a spring?

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A cart with two cylindrical wheels connected by a rod

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Motion of 2 masses connected by a rod to a pendulum

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Special relativity problems — More details below

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Self-propelled car by launching projectile backward

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Determining the factors impacting the amount of Work done

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What Forces Act on a Block in a Rotating Cylinder?

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Energy Conservation of a Vertical Spring

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Why Does My Calculation of Maxwellian Gas Velocity Yield an Incorrect Result?

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Finding the angle between a wall and a broken rope

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Is 2D Conservation of Momentum Possible? A Visual Analysis

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Temperature change in a gas expansion

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Equation of motion of a simple pendulum

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Has this particle exceeded 30 km/h on a velocity vs. time graph?

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Instantaneous acceleration of blocks

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RMS velocity of molecules in a mixture

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Mechanics problem — One body thrown vertically and one thrown horizontally

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Finding internal energy change, work and heat with ideal gas law

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Change in the time period of a pendulum

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Work done by applied force vs net force on a moving box

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Force needed to push water with connected pistons of different areas

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Converting 180 lb force to mass in English units

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Determine tensor of inertia of a rod

  • Like Tony Stark
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Classical Mechanics: Linear movement against a constant force

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Is My Solution for Centripetal Force in a Spiral Orbit Correct?

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Conservation of momentum when a ball hits a wall

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How Is Impulse Calculated in Volleyball?

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Moving an adiabatic partition in an adiabatic container

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A spool that rotates and slides freely while pulling a mass

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How do I predict rogue waves using simple probability models ?

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Gauss-Theorem on a solid dielectric sphere

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Keep working on the liquid pressure problem

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Collisions in special relativity

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Finding u and v for a moving rocket with Lorentz transformations

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Heat loss from a hot water tank

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Two different answers for work done during compression

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When to use Hooke's law vs energy conservation for springs?

  • NickStar
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How Does Gravity Influence Spring Potential Energy in Physics?

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Why Can't Forces Replace Energy Conservation for Spring Stretch?

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How Do You Calculate the Acceleration of a Box on Banked Wheels?

  • tamim94
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What is Kepler's Second Law and How Does it Relate to a Planet's Time Period?

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Platinum resistance thermometer and Kirchoff's Laws

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Question on four momentum squared

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Perpendicular forces acting in x and y directions

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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Question

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Find the electric field on the surface of a sphere using Coulomb's law

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Time taken for sound to travel between two moving observers

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How Does Tension Contribute to Climbing Power?

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Recoil-powered car launching projectile after 5s delay

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Angular momentum of two particles connected by a rigid bar

  • Jenny Physics
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How do I start out this project? (rogue waves)

  • fRod57
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How do physicists/mathematicians verbalize these symbols?

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[Mechanics] Calculate the braking torque

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What is usually the time-derivative of i-hat?

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Ball launching off of a tray connected to a spring

  • Elias Waranoi
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Linear Thermal Expansion with respect to time

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Interpreting velocity vectors in fluid mechanics diagrams

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Instantaneous moment of inertia of an object

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Surface Charges on a Coaxial Cable

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Why Does Pulling a Cord Cause a Spool to Move Right?

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Did I solve part e) correctly using energy and Newton's laws?

  • Bolter
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Accounting for Liquid Water Density in Ideal Gas Pressure Calculations

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Confusing Derivation of torque acting on disk question

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Understanding Axial Loading On a Member

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A harmonic wave with a frequency and an amplitude

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Spring constant from mass vs period vs frequency vs mass plots

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Density of air at one atmosphere pressure

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Electric field inside a polarized dielectric sphere

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How Long Does it Take for a Motorcycle to Overtake a Car?

  • rtareen
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Estimating oil molecule diameter

  • Bolter
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Block dropped on vertical spring: maximum energy and compression

  • Ammar2211
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What is the significance of In in the context of Thevenin equivalents?

  • S R Wilder
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Mass of Gas Ejected: 1.25kg - Is it Reasonable?

  • Bolter
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How Do You Find Extragalactic Cepheid Variable Databases?

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Constant of thermal conductivity and heat flow in a given time

  • Bolter
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Bernoulli equation in a closed loop system

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Rotating flywheel problem

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Calculate the margin of error in this physics lab

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Is the Loss of Kinetic Energy Related to the Volume of a Copper Atom?

  • Bolter
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The Mystery of Purple Objects: Understanding Electromagnetic Force

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Deriving the pressure energy equation from first principles

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Does pushing a box 63 m with 10 N require 630 J of energy?

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Does Polarity and Current Direction Affect Energy Flow in AC Circuits?

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Rotational motion and finding the moment of inertia

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Metal bar moving in a magnetic field

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Finding centripetal force with friction on a horizontal surface

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How do you calculate binding energy for part c)ii?

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