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Cylindrical capacitor with a dielectric

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How to locate Two spots where electric potential is zero

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How Much Tension Holds a Snowboarder Airlifted by a Helicopter?

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Boxes hanging attached to box on shelf

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Momentum Conservation of Turntable and Beetle System

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What Is the Critical Angle to Keep a Box Moving with Kinetic Friction?

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Finding tension and reaction forces in a static equilibrium problem

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Why Is My Calculation of Slit Width Using Light Diffraction Incorrect?

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Biting Force Distribution in Herbivorous and Carnivorous Jaws

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What Is the Resultant Magnetic Force on a Wire in a Magnetic Field?

  • strick
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Determining the magnitude of unknown charges

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Find the speed of flow in the second pipe of an ideal fluid

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What is the Maximum Height a Rolling Marble Reaches on a Rough Hill?

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Block slides down a slope question (force and time)

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How Much Extra Work Is Needed to Stretch a Spring Further?

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How many times as high to achieve twice speed

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Potential energy incline problem

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Block falling on spring/max compression

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Solve for Person's Final Height After Jumping Off Bridge

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Force Needed to Slide Trunk Down Inclined Plane with Constant Velocity

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Concave Mirror Experiment Question

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Which Energy does E signify in E=hf.

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Atwood machine with masses 1.8 kg and 1.2 kg

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Calculate the angular momentum of a solid uniform sphere

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Ratio of masses of merry-go-round and the boy

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"Collision Homework: Find Mass of Cart & Impact Force

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Find the angle and the velocity of two cars after collision

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Can a 1000 kg car safely navigate a 150 m curve at 90 km/h?

  • Macroer
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Explain the following action in terms of impulses

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Archimedes force due to air on a person

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How to Rank Radial Acceleration Magnitudes from Angular Velocity Graph?

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Spring and block on incline with friction

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Finding theoretical output of my hydro generaator thanks.

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What is the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 1.2 meters?

  • Samad
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Equlibrium and Gravitational Force

  • amie
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What is the Maximum Frictional Force for a Block Against a Vertical Wall?

  • DavidAlan
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Ball, gravity, velocity problem

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How to find acceleration. With only Force of friction?

  • 7randomapples
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Is Water or Air More Viscous at High Reynolds Numbers?

  • UFeng
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Two questions on fluid mechanics and pressure

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Showing Instaneous Rest of System When m2 Falls

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Calculating Relative Speed of Body Parts After Internal Explosion

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What is the Potential Power Output of a Waterfall?

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Calculating Time for a 90 Degree Turn in Circular Motion

  • billu77
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Picket Fence Lab: Measuring Gravity Acceleration vs Time

  • Want to learn
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What is the Velocity and Energy of a Child on a Swing?

  • physicsquest
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How Fast Can a Spider Lower Itself Without Breaking Its Web?

  • bobsagget
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Gr11 Percentage of Kinetic Energy

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Finding Mass of Block from Friction Coefficient

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What is the direction of impulse delivered to a bouncing ball?

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Acceleration of block A with hanging weight vs constant tension

  • merzperson
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Rubber ball Rotational Motion Question

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Question on finding the volume of vapor and the volume of liquid

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Finding the ideal velocity on a banked circular track

  • mont
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How Do Gravity and Motion Affect Galaxies Andromeda and the Milky Way?

  • Wellesley
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Impulse problem (intro mechanics)

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Maximum compression of spring after two freight cars couple together

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How Does the Moon's Position Affect Its Gravitational Pull on You?

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How exactly does friction/external forces affect the momentum?

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Angular Acceleration with a Change in Rotational Axis

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Skydiving Analysis Homework: Position, Velocity & Acceleration Graphs

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Electron in circular motion in B field problem check

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Rocket with 9.8 m/s² acceleration reaching 0.1c

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Calculating Angular Momentum for a Rolling Sphere

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U-238 decay into alpha particle and Th-234 using conservation of momentum

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Why Am I Struggling with Newton's Laws Problems?

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Acceleration and free fall problem

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Conservation of energy problem on an igloo

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Maximum altitude of rocket with powered ascent and coasting phase

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Centripetal generated by rotation of the Earth

  • dan667
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Finding spring constant from massless spring release time

  • Physics197
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Uniform roating disk - find inertia

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Lawn mower force question, and acceleration.

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Dropping a Ball on a Frictionless Plane

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Find angle to the rods vertical

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What is the Friction Force on a Spinning Disk?

  • holtvg
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Points of constructive and destructive interference

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How Long Did the Power Delivery to the Ball Last?

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Skateboarder's tang. and radial acceleration

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Merry-go-round + sphere tied to rod

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Calculating charge, EMF and potential difference in a torch battery circuit

  • Xazdrubal
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Ladder Problem: Solving for the Minimum Angle

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Work required to accelerate a horizontal wheel

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Conservation of Momentum of a spring

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Calculating mass from angles and all sides of vector triangle

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How to calculate friction of wheels of car?

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Initial velocity of a Ball thrown up

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How Does an Elevator's Movement Affect a Block on an Incline?

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Solid rigid equilibrium problem

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Maximum incidence angle for total internal reflection in glass rod

  • Jstew
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Why is a positive charge stable in this bead equilibrium but not negative?

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