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Speed before impact of an object falling down a slope.

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What Is the Speed of a Cannonball at Its Maximum Height?

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What Is the Radius of Gyration of a Rectangular Frame About Its Center?

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How Do Angles Affect Tension and Equilibrium in a Strut System?

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Solving Mechanics Problem: Forces, Eqns of Motion, Reactions

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Angular momentum problem - what am I doing wrong?

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What Determines the Coefficient of Static Friction in Oscillating Blocks?

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Why is horizontal escape velocity less ?

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What Is the Mass of a Planet Given Its Moon's Orbital Period and Radius?

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Equilibrium Problem - Forces acting on beam supports

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Finding Initial Velocity from Launcher Trajectory

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Why do the propellers pull an aircraft, but push a ship?

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The diffrent frictions and how they apply in life.

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Integrating dv/v to find velocity as a function of time

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Calculating Power Absorbed by a Heater

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Determine from the graph the speed of the car

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Force on a block resting on a 15-degree incline

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Which Point Has the Lowest Pressure in a Fluid System?

  • MechaMZ
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How Does a Ship's Angle and Friction Affect Its Acceleration Down a Ramp?

  • HaZzArD 09
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Work done by a non-constant force

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Speed of clay lump before hitting target with friction coefficient 0.35

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Rolling motion of an unbalanced disk

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Solving Monkey Swing Physics Problem

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Finding the possible frequencies of a tuning fork

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Conservation of momentum and relative velocity

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Volumetric Expansion: Temperature, Heat & 3 Alpha=Beta

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Train whistle frequency as it approaches and recedes

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Simple Gas Ionization Detector Problem

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Calculate Mass of Unknown Planet with Physics B Ques.

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What is the sweet spot for rotational kinematics?

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Painter on board balanced with paint cans on one support

  • Bryon
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Two hockey players colliding at 130° angle

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How to find initial velocity in projectile motion problem?

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Accelerating blocks connected by a spring

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What Are the Limitations of the Law of Universal Gravitation?

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How Does Physics Explain Everyday Phenomena?

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Conservation of Energy + circular motion

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Acceleration of a rod when one end is released

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Finding velocity from photogate data in simple pendulum lab

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Astronaut pushing satellite in space shuttle problem

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Inverse Square Law concerning Light

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Calculation of Oscillation Period- Short Problem

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Coefficient of kinetic friction of car collision

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How do momentum and friction affect Indy car crashes?

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Calculating Magnetic Energy in Our Classroom

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Pliers dropped 80 meters in the Amazon tree canopy

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Cross hanging from rearview mirror

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What is the linear acceleration of the bucket?

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Newton's Law of Gravity question

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Solution needed : Kinematics problem

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Calculating Velocity of a Cannonball After Varying Force

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Static equilibrium (conceptual)

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How High Do Colliding Masses Reach in a Frictionless Bowl?

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Girl on rope swing: potential energy gain at 35° angle

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How Does a Hockey Stick Affect Puck Velocity and Direction?

  • joemama69
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Rotational Kinematics - The differential gear of a car axle

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Finding tension in the coupling between engine and train

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Dropping meat on weighing scale

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Energy Conservation: Velocity of Marbles 1, 2 and 3

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Resonance and natural frequency

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Finding theta 3 in a refraction problem

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Calculate Moment of Inertia of Disc w/ Added Mass: 40 to 30 revs/min

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Violin string frequency when tension increases 15%

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Forces acting on object hanging from rearview mirror

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Finding two locations where power out is collision problem

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Calculating Force P to Lift 200kg Crate: A Challenge!

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Accelerating rocket w/ changing mass *need to finish tonight*

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How Far Is the Dog from the Shore After Walking on the Boat?

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Force on rope and acceleration

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Zero accerlation for spacewalking astronaut and sattelite?

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Plant doubling in height each week reaches building at day 25

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Finding the Displacement of a piston in circular motion

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Archimedes' Principle Buoyancy?

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Tension in coupling between engine and train at constant power

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Finding the mass of our Galaxy and the number of stars in it.

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Disconnected and Reconnected Capacitors

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Calculate the velocity of the particle at t=4.0 s.

  • student000
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Calculating Velocity of Bullet After Impact

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How Do You Determine Fx and Fy in a Rigid-Body Equilibrium Problem?

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Find the x and y components of the following displacement.

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Determine the sign of angular momentum

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Net displacement for a point on a circular saw

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Finding the slope and intercept of a graph

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Calculating Frictional Force on a Ladder Against a Wall

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Are Body Muscle Forces Conservative?

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Solving Car Accident Problem: Jeep Speeding?

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How Do I Set Up Statics Forces and Moments Problems?

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Why does a ball dropped from a moving ship's mast land at the base?

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Equalizing pressure between two vessels

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Danger of Driving Too Fast on Icy Highway Curve: Newton's 1st Law

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Law of Conservation of Energy with a Spring

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Predict the equation for the period of a pendulum

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Car coasting down 150 m hill with friction to find final speed

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Specific heat problem finding final temp with calorimeter system

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Question on standing/stationary waves

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How far up an 8 m ladder can an 800 N person climb before it slips?

  • Dark Visitor
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Maximum Force for Block on Bracket Friction?

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