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Skateboarder Needs Speed for 3m Quarter Pipe

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Time when two cars have equal speeds

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How Do You Calculate Tension and Friction in Physics Problems?

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Velocity of bowling ball after the collision

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Potential/Kinetic Energy Problem

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Two masses connected by pulley: 2kg mass drops 25cm

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Deriving an Expression for g in Terms of M, m, D, H, and t

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Work by an ideal gas, thermodynamics

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Structure and applications of NMOS and PMOS transistors

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Finding three loop currents with Kirchhoff's rules

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Sphere with initial spin transitioning to pure rolling

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Shadow of a dropped basketball: how fast along the ground?

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Electric potential of a dipole using superposition and integration

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Finding rod pendulum length from period of 2.24 s

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Rotational Kinetic Energy of a sphere

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Calculating Speed of Dropped Baseball Using Conservation of Energy Method

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20 g block on U-tube with two fluids of different densities

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What Is the Acceleration of a Falling Rod at 55 Degrees?

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How to Calculate Travel Time of an Airplane with Tailwind

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Why Does Steepness in a Potential Energy Graph Indicate Greater Force?

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Aceleration force mass question

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Cross skier displacement with three legs using vector components

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Rotational Kinematics - A gymnast is performing a

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Finding average resistance force for a 49 kg diver dropping 12 m

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Heat loss through wall with brick and R-19 insulation

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Calculating Mass from Applied Force and Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

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Escape Speed from Earth for 7500kg Spacecraft

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Not a clue Number of oscillators.

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Dynamics question- finding m in terms of rho, r and v

  • Boogeyman
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Gravitational potential question, nasty

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What is the Current through R2 in a 150V Circuit with 10 ohm Resistors?

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Simple Harmonic Motion of mass is suspended by a spring

  • Magma828
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Need verification on a spring force problem regarding a bungee cord.

  • Hunter Arcanu
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Simple Pendulum amplitude problem

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Conservation/Conversion of energy

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What Is the Thickness of a One-Molecule-Thick Oil Layer on Water?

  • BogMonkey
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Power Expenditure for Treading Water with Average Body Density

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Calculating the Magnitude of Torque to Stop a Spinning Rod

  • yomama
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A Car moving in circular motion

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How Small Can Accelerators Detect Particles?

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Finding torque to life object at a certain acceleration

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Change in internal engergy of a monatomic ideal gas

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Pressure 150m Below Sea Surface: Calculate Now!

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Calculating the minimum speed to produce a certain downforce

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Circular Motion and block track

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For which angle is the speed of a basketball more important to score?

  • imatreyu
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Rotational Inertia Seesaw Picot

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2 questions on Wave Phase Differences [Diagram Included]

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Average distance between molecules in ice at 0°C

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Is momentum or kinetic energy conserved in an inelastic collision?

  • xshezsciencex
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Is mixing 0.8 kg of water at 100°C with 0.8 kg at 0°C reversible?

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Describing the motion of a bubble through water

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What Forces Prevent a Refrigerator from Tipping on a Moving Truck?

  • Trentonx
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How Can I Form a Differential Equation for a Sphere's Flow Rate?

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Calculating Normal Force on a Hill for a Bike and Rider - Quick HW Answers

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Why Does a Ball Stay Stationary in a High-Speed Air Stream?

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How to Solve a Problem Involving a Collision with Right Angles

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Work and Energy of weightlifter

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How many jumps needed to burn 500 food calories?

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Finding magnitude of gravitational force?

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Finding moon B's orbital period from moon A using Kepler's third law

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What is the domain of the A(x) function?

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Energy-related problem involving skiing up a hill

  • Emethyst
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Solved: Pulse Wave Problem - Speed of the Crest in m/s

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Finding the Coefficiant of friction

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What is the Work Done by a Baseball on a Catcher's Glove?

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Electrostatics problem (Spherical surface)

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Max Power Dissipated in RLC circuit

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Finding Center of Mass and Velocity of Three Moving Balls

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Calculating Potential Energy of a Spring: A Case Study in Newtonian Dynamics

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How Do You Calculate the Final Speed of a Comet in Orbit?

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Banked Curve Algebra With Static Friction

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How Does Particle Displacement Affect Momentum in a Magnetic Field?

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Tension of Rope, Friction, And Work Done

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Can a mass-spring system oscillate in zero gravity?

  • DanicaK
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Gravitional potential energy problem

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How Does Kick Dynamics Affect Soccer Ball Impulse and Force?

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Find the magnitude of the gravitational field

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What is the minimum potential difference?

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Elastic collision of blocks A and B with known landing distances

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Momentum attained by a laser beam

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How do forensic physicists apply physics to ballistics and blood spatter?

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What Is the Moment of Inertia of a Sphere About an Axis on Its Edge?

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Top and bottom of a swinging object

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Electric Field Strength of a Wire w/ Linear Charge Density

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How do you find answer in Newton?(read)

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Heat transfer equation (temperature difference)

  • MechaMZ
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How do you calculate the electric field and voltage for a charged sphere?

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Work Problem (Block with spring)

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Pumping seawater up a 12 m cliff with 150 kPa pressure

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Ppl i am just 14 and am tryin to make a car and i am having problems

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Why is the Electron's Momentum Higher in Special Relativity?

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Understanding Electric Field Changes Passing Through a Waveplate

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Children pulling toward center on rotating board

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Students to classrom heat transfer

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