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A rebound and kinetic energy problem with a little specific heat

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Boat crossing river with 4 m/s current to reach dock directly across

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Car horn Doppler effect with beats from wall reflection

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Calculating Power Output of Tension T on Mass M at Incline θ

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Calculating Tension Force for Different Masses

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Calculate the Speed of a Baseball with Mass 145g and Kinetic Energy 122 J

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A sphere with a given mass floating in water.

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Calculating Net Gravitational Force Between Multiple Objects

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Satellite moving in a stable circular orbit

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When and how do I use sin and cos regarding 2-D collisions?

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Maximum height Superman can jump at 86.9 degrees with 181 m/s initial velocity

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Wave problem It's been driving my crazy for last hour

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Elastic Collision: Kinetic Energy and Spring Compression

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Plank tipping point with painter on overhang

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How Do You Calculate the Capacitance of a Multi-Layer Spherical Capacitor?

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How Do Hearing Aids Amplify and Filter Sound?

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What is the Velocity of the Combined Freight Cars in a Collision?

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Upward Acceleration of an Object

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Can radar show twice the car's speed due to relative velocity?

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Calculating the Force on a 65kg Barrel Rolling Down a 1.2m Ramp

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Torque of a particle at position (i+4j)m with force (6i+3j)N

  • qwerty11
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Bad Movie Physics : How do I prove this wrong?

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Fractional Reduction of Earth's Gravity at Halfway to Center

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Projectile Motion - Niagra Falls

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Magnetic field at a point and differential i

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Understanding Particle Motion and Stable Equilibrium in a Potential Energy Graph

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How long does a ball stay in the air when hit at 18 m/s?

  • ash312
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Calculate Speed on a Circular Track with Radius 135m

  • Brittykitty
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Momentum. I did all of them, can u check if i got them right? thank you

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How Does a Pulley System Affect Force and Energy Transfer?

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Speed of a Bullet Using Mass and Height?

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Why Is the Bond Order of B2 2- Calculated as 1.5?

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Solving a Physics Problem: Finding Pole Mass, Forces & Distance

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How Can You Verify and Complete Parametric Equations for Projectile Motion?

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Finding the phase angle of a pendulum swinging.

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Calculating Angular Speed of a Merry-Go-Round After Adding a Child

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Water flow speed from piston moving in connected tubes

  • PhilCam
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Net force on roof from wind? Using Bernoulli's eq?

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Elevator free fall with shock absorbers and spring constant

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Bead sliding down a frictionless wire: speed at points B, D, E

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What particle mass escapes a planet with escape velocity and thermal motion?

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Yes, that is correct. Good job!

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How Much Force Does Water Apply to a Sandbag Dropped from a Hot-Air Balloon?

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Calculating Moment of Inertia of Grinding Wheel - 45 N Brake Applied

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Refrigerator and its light bulb

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About VT(threshold voltage) of MOS

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What happens to the lost energy in these situations?

  • Kaxa2000
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What Is the Initial Speed of a Block Given Friction and Distance?

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Water flowing in and out of a bucket

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Determination of the spring constant of a jumping spring

  • Tony Whelan
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Finding unknown frequency from beats?

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Sound and hearing - conceptual question?

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What happends when we oscillate three pendulums next to each other?

  • Idrees
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Ferris wheel problem - vertical circles and centripetal acceleration

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Airplane Vector: Solving for Direction of Flight

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Sattelite orbiting mars, work done to change distance.

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Find the maximum velocity of the block

  • PhilCam
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Constructive Interference of Sound

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Kinetic Energy, Work Done, and Inclines

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Is work done by gravity positive or negative when walking down stairs?

  • rent981
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Angular Momentum, Torque, and Acceleration for a Moving Body

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Lattice Energy - Hard question - I keep getting wrong answer

  • stacker
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Electromagnetic problems 4 and 7 from EM4WS5

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Work Done by Tension of Mass on a string

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Finding the force of water in a pool on a vertical wall

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What is the lattice energy of LiI? Given the information below.

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Derive velocity function for pendulum

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Calculating Velocity & Displacement of a Dropped Object

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Projectile Motion of Car Problem

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Finding Net Force with the Coefficient of Friction

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Loop-the-loop Conservation of energy

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Conical pendulum speed at 25.5 degrees with 14.6 kg mass

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How Long Will It Take to Stop a Sled?

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Buyoancy Question the day before the final

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Finding phase constant for a spring oscillator at t = 0.69 s

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Calculating Average Speed of Ball in First 5 Seconds

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What Are the Velocities of Hockey Pucks After a Collision?

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What Height Will the Projectile Strike the Barrier?

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How Do You Calculate Rocket Motion Parameters Over Time?

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Finding magnitude of the tension of a cord

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Is the Combined Force Exerted by Student and Fish 80N?

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What is the force exerted on a car and driver during acceleration?

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Radiocarbon Dating: % of C-14 Remaining in 41,000 Yr Sample

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How Do You Calculate the Velocity of a Corner of a Falling Tilted Plate?

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What Would We See if the Sun Suddenly Darkened?

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Calculate the magnetic field at 2 points (checking my result)

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Projectile Motion Problem with stunt driver

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Calculating the forces in a dropped object's impact

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Finding velocity from force and distance for a 2.59 kg object

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Tricky Collision Problem: Solving for Block Masses and Heights

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Air Navigation and Course Correction. Semester exam in 45 minutes.

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Which ball will hit the ground first?

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Angular velocity of a Rod after a Ball hits it.

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Force acted on a falling object.

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Calculating Velocity for Horizontal Motion in a Uniform Magnetic Field

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How Does Friction Affect Torque in an Atwood Machine?

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How Can Thin Film Interference Cause Complete Destructive Interference?

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