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Why Does a Thrown Stone Have Constant Acceleration?

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Calculating Heights of Swinging Balls Colliding

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Calculate Height of a Ball Bouncing Off a Hard Floor

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Work done on a box lowered at constant velocity

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How Do Newton's Laws Apply to Multiple Objects in Motion?

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Proxima Centauri: 4.2 Light Yrs from Sun

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How Does Momentum Affect the Wavelength of a Particle?

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Standing waves and microwave ovens

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Centripetal force experiment lab

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What speed do the electrons have when they strike the screen?

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Finding bullet speed from spring compression after embedding in block

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Conservation of Angular Momentum in Skater's Spin Rate Change

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Two Questions on Archimedes's Principle

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What is the Angular Momentum of a Rotating Disk?

  • Dark Visitor
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Tension in ropes supporting a window washer on a scaffold

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Kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy questions

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Does friction affect maximum velocity in circular motion?

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How can I find the center of mass of a system of point masses and rods?

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Calculating Bird's Speed After Swallowing an Insect

  • Dark Visitor
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How Much 235U is Used in a 2700MW Fission Reactor? Answer in kg/day

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Two men carrying a 200 lb beam with unequal weight distribution

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How to Calculate the Area of a Thin Silver Sheet Using Density and Mass

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A ball kicked from the ground (Projectile Motion)

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A tennis ball dropped vertically (Newton's Forces)

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Special Relativity: Time Dilation and the Twin Paradox

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How do I calculate percent kinetic energy loss?

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Where Does Lost Energy from Golf Ball Go on Carpet?

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How Far Does a 3.5 Mg Engine Hoist in 4 Seconds?

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Tensions in strings supporting a 5m bar with equal tensions and hanging mass

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Acceleration and displacement question?

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Calculate a diver's turns in air

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What is the pressure of the fluid at a constriction in a vertical pipe?

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What Happens to the Box's Velocity on a Rough Surface?

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When and where do two objects meet?

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Energy lost from a Flywheel to the Environment

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B field due to a wire with an alternating current

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Solving Expanding Problem with Iron and Aluminium Cylinders

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Change in Pressure: Find Gas P (Pa) Experiment

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How Can I Solve for F and X Using Trigonometric Identities?

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How Does Water Pressure Change with Depth and Altitude?

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Capacitors, how to find their cargo

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Effect of m, A, k, & Phase Lag on w in Spring Mass System

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What Is the Final Temperature When Mixing Ice and Steam?

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Charge distribution and linear quadrupole

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How Does Gauss's Law Relate R and b When Flux Through a Disk is One Fourth?

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Angular velocity and angular momentum of rod

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Mechanics what force causes a ball rotate up an incline

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Block carrying a charge on a frictionless horizontal track

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Mass Determination Using Torque and Equilibrium: A Meter Stick Experiment

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Calculating Electric Flux and Charge: A Problem-Solving Approach

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Why is work done by conservative force U(initial) - U(final)?

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A Superball Colliding Inelastically with a Table

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What factors affect the impact force of a car crashing into a wall?

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Angular position vs. time graph

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Average Acceleration - Calculate Magnitude & Direction

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Calculating Time for Bus to Catch Anna - Motion Problem

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What is the Direction of the Electric Field Along CA?

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Calculating Hydrostatic Blood Pressure in Different Body Positions

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Why doesn't differentiating v=2πr/T give centripetal acceleration?

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What differences are there in speeds of electromagnetic waves?

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What is the tension in a rope accelerating a 1000 kg car upward at 0.80 m/s²?

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Are stages 2-3 and 1-4 adiabatic in the OTTO cycle?

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How Is the Total Energy of Photons Calculated in Electron-Positron Collisions?

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Finding Viscous Damping Constamt

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Reviewing for my exam (Newton question)

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A football being kicked through air

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How Does Conservation of Energy Apply to Motion Down a Hill?

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Determining distance of travel with friction acting on a car.

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Electromagnetic induction - which graph is correct?

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Calculating Potential Energy of a Chain

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How Is Instantaneous Power Calculated in Physics Problems?

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RLC Circuits - Resonant Frequency, Power

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How Much Energy Must a Satellite Release to Enter Jupiter's Orbit?

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Find angular velocity from constant linear velocity

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Two objects launched into the air by identical springs

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Natural angular frequency of a bridge

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How Is Fluid Pressure Calculated in a U-Tube Experiment?

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What is the graph of power generator output voltage?

  • joeykeys
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Total Angular Momentum of the Earth

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Elastic Collision of Two Particles: Solving for Final Velocity

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Relating pressure and height in a container

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Mechanics Newton's 2nd law question

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What is the Kinetic Energy of Bullets Fired at Different Speeds?

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Atomic Physics - rest mass of Deuterium

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Acceleration as a function of distance to Velocity?

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Work Done by Worker: Calculating Force of a Pushed Cart

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How Do You Calculate Buoyancy and Density for Different Blocks?

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Finding height and range of a projectile

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Question that has me stumped. Need an answer to make an A

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Question Regarding Bubble in Kerosene Tank

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Why Is My Approach to Calculating Moment of Inertia Change Incorrect?

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