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How Far Can a Car Travel on 1 kg of Hydrogen at 60 mph?

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How Do You Calculate Angular Distance and Displacement in Biomechanics?

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Melting Lead in a Kiln: How Long Will it Take?

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Box floating in a liquid and undergoing simple harmonic motion

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What is the change in work and heat in this thermodynamic process?

  • casebj11
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What is the solution to a block sliding on an incline connected to a spring?

  • matt62010
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How Is Angular Frequency Calculated for a Plank Supported by a Spring?

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A bullet and a block (Momentum)

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Beaker of water and bouyancy in a sink

  • Physics197
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Why does the charge uniformly distributed on the surface of the sphere only?

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What is the Total Energy of a Rolling Sphere on a Sloped Floor?

  • Extremist223
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Find acceleration of a Block within a simply pulley system.

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What is the Minimum Tangential Velocity to Land on $1.00 on Wheel of Fortune?

  • Extremist223
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Calculate Torque to Accelerate .22kg Disk to 1500rpm in 5s

  • guru
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Colliding Electrons & Protons: Neutrons/Atoms Form?

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Asteroid impact effect on Earth's rotation and day length

  • scoldham
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Derived equation initial speed

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Solve Capacitor Circuit: Is My Method Correct?

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Acceleration of electron in between charged plates

  • jawad khan
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Calculating Mass of Meteors After Impact

  • DerekP
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How Do Capacitors Behave and Function in Electrical Circuits?

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Tangential and angular velocity and acceleration

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Calculating Trebuchet Velocity: A Homework Help Guide

  • steve092
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Angular velocity vs normal velocity

  • DominicF
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What the heck is the heat equation?

  • exparrot
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Why Do Waves Affect Objects Like Floating Bottles?

  • ap_cycles
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Finding angular velocity based on x vs t graph

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Solving Vector Problems: Finding an Airplane's Ground Speed and Direction

  • O0ZeRo00
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Do cylinders with equal rotational energy have the same tangential velocity?

  • hatephysics
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Method of undetermined coefficients for 2x" + 36x = sin(wt)

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Basic Momentum and Energy and time

  • Ronaldo21
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Question about the Conservation of Energy

  • nicholz
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Moving a 250kg Elephant with 425N Force

  • physicshard22
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Solving for Normal Force in a 1k kg Car on a Dip

  • briiannnaa04
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How Far Does the Block Move on an Inclined Plane?

  • joemama69
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Solving for Total Work: A Monatomic Gas at 27degrees C

  • ManuelGR
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Calculate Distance from Earth's Center: 11% Force

  • physicshard22
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Need help with latent heat involving ice and steam

  • lilmul123
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How Do You Calculate the Final Speed of a Block on an Inclined Plane?

  • metrocard
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Net torque Need help with angular acceleration.

  • zelli
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Explain why speed of sound changes in different media.

  • chown
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[Linear momentum] When to use which equation.

  • hiuting
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Is Heat Flowing Into or Out of the System?

  • Mr. Goosemahn
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Find Coefficient of Friction for Firefighter on Ladder

  • boomclapslap
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Pressure/Temp/Volume question

  • itr
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Why Is My Damped Oscillator Experiment So Challenging?

  • Darkplayer01
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Question involving spring constant

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Calculating Force F3: Magnitude & Direction

  • teh81
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Find Quartz Oscillator Disk Thickness for 88.0 MHz Frequency

  • ohaithar
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Can Potential Energy Have Zero Value?

  • phykeep
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Find New Density of Heated Cube

  • robertsa
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Calculating the Initial Vertical Acceleration of a Saturn V Rocket

  • PearlyD
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Mechanical advantage, acceleration, work, power

  • DerekP
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Why Is IMA Lower Than AMA in Lever Systems?

  • SHHSPhysics
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Alpha, Beta, Gamma , neutron ray, which one is harmful?

  • Nope
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Electric Field due to Continuous Line Charge

  • darkpsi
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How Do You Calculate Work and Angle in Vector Problems?

  • od943
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Calculating Magnetic Field Strength from Electron Path Curvature

  • Mspike6
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Diode characteristics/dealing with infinity

  • DanDavies
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Calculating the Angle of a Suspended Mass

  • HardestPart
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Magnetic Field and Poynting Flux in a Charging Capacitor

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How Do You Derive the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation?

  • jenettezone
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Need Help Understanding Terminal Velocity in Physics Experiment - Urgent!

  • thyqwerty
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Calculating Work and Input Force for a Hydraulic Lift

  • jaco9115
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Ball hitting block, elastic collision

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Trasverse wave wavelenght and velocity problem

  • mmoadi
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Fluids - Pascal's Principle / Negative vs Positive

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Seeking Physics Vector Exercises - Need Help!

  • carrera901
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Calculating Density and Viscosity of Oil Using Ball Drop Experiment

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Interference of rock music at a concert

  • Bryon
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Is Mechanical Energy Conserved During Swinging at a Lake Hangout?"

  • geauxKTM
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Newton's Cradle, Simple Harmonic Motion

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Thermodynamics concept question

  • itr
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Centripetal acceleration question confirmation please

  • pinnacleprouk
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Rotational Motion - I have the answer but I don't know how to get there

  • jbcaviness
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Calculate DeltaR RMS for Air Molecule After 5s

  • fball558
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Calculating Support Forces on a Rigid Beam with Distributed Loads

  • ice2morrow
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Calculate the electric field at a given point

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Solving 10 -2x = 90 - x: Find x Value

  • Gringo123
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Rotating object angular velocity question

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Gravity earth's radius question

  • physicshard22
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Can Relative Velocity Determine Bat's Speed Without Doppler Effect?

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Mass of stars companion from radial velocity

  • ChrisBaker8
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Projectiles and conservation of energy (water slide problem)

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Conserved Energy vs. Used Energy

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Force between two current-carrying wires in a circuit

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Calculating work to overcome drag?

  • sirfinklstin
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Calculating Momentum and Velocity in a Head-On Car Collision

  • Jimbo113453
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Just got owned on this exam question

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The relationship between Vav and Height of a ball rolling down a slope

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Basic momentum and magnitude questions

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Solving Density ρ Question: Δρ = -87x10-6ρ at 25ºC to -40ºC

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