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What is the meaning of the equation Vgrav = constant - 1/2 v2?

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How to Solve Ampere's Circuital Law Problem with Two Currents?

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What Causes Deviation in Acceleration Due to Gravity in a Vacuum?

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The shape of an object affects it's free-fall density

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Acceleration of a Hot Air Balloon

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Calculating Tension in Atwood Machine

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What is the Sum of Torques on a Nut Placed in a Nutcracker with One Lever?

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Bullet fired into a block attached to a spring

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Hydrostatic pressure forces and torque

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Relativity effects on physical quantities and speed limits

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How Does a Boat's Velocity Change When Pointing Upstream?

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How is momentum lost in real life?

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Calculating Upward Forces on a Rigid Beam Supported by Two Points

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How Do Mechanical Advantages Affect Accelerations in a Pulley System?

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Find Thevenin Equivalent at A-B in Circuit

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How Does Relativity Affect Everyday Scenarios?

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Field lines for a proton surrounded by an electron cloud

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Units of spring constant from Hooke's law and period equation

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Calculating Time of Flight for a Golf Ball

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A space craft's speed due to gravitaitonal force

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Power from force on particle: P = dW/dt vs P = Fv

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[Check for errors]- FREE BODY DIAGRAM for 2 Cylinders.

  • Dellis
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Kinetic Energy of an arrow problem

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How Do You Calculate the X and Y Components of a Force?

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Finding the mass of an object with max stress

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Total resistance of 25k, 15k, 50k, 40k, 20k ohm resistors

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What Is the Maximum Angular Displacement of a Bob on a Frictionless Rail?

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Force on car with rope pulled perpendicular to a tree 12.2 m away

  • Chuck 86
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How Does a Bug Affect the Spin of a CD?

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Calculate The Moments about the Point A, [Guidance needed]

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Calculating Tension and Acceleration in a Pulley System

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Tension in a wire with a 10kg mass hung from its midpoint

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Man standing on scales in a lift at different accelerations

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What is the mistake in my car's acceleration calculation?

  • davedays
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Does friction affect the applied force in motion on an incline?

  • waldvocm
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Which cart has greater momentum when equal forces push different masses 1 m?

  • einsteinette
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What Is the Correct Power Calculation for a High-Torque DC Motor at 8V?

  • chunkytuna21
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Expansion of a Circular Loop with Perpendicular Forces

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Finding the resultant of a distributed force system

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Why doesn't centripetal force pull particles toward the center?

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Dynamics Question/Circular Motion

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Solve Spring & Projectile Homework: Find d

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Find the acceleration in terms of velocity and displacement

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Work and Potentential Energy of a Spring

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Find the distance the spring compresses

  • joemama69
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How Does Spring Displacement Affect Block Motion in a Loop-the-Loop?

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Tension Circular Motion Physics Problem?

  • Penguin10
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Circular Motion -> amusement park ride

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A Nonlinear Second Order Differential Equation Problem

  • overmage
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Center of mass for a cylinder with water

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How Do You Calculate the Energy Stored in a Nonlinear Spring?

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Work Done in Two-Dimensional Ramp Push

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Calculating Lens Position for Photographing Objects at Different Distances

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Angular and linear acceleration of a falling bucket on a pulley

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Photoelectric Effect and circuits

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Rotational Kinematics of a disc

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Relationship of Power and cross sectional area to electric field

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Science: Work, Energy, and Power Calculations

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Finding net force and net acceleration

  • jack612blue
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Find Wavelengh - Young't Double Slit

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What is the phase constant in simple harmonic motion?

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Net charge and Electric field of a shell

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Rotational kinetic energy of a flywheel storing 1.1 × 10⁹ J

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Calculating Torque for a LP Turntable

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Rotational / Linear kinematic problem

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Calculating Max Compression of Massless Hookslaw Spring

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Firework Explosion Homework: Determine Unknown Quantity

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What is the Cross Product and How Can I Understand It?

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Finding the applied force with theta, A, M, and Mu as givens?

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Work Done on Femur: Calculating Force Applied on 435mm Femur

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Torque of suspended meter stick

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Bridge circuit - 5 eqns with 5 unknowns

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Safe Speed of Frictionless Banked Turn

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Difference between kinetic energy and momentum

  • Jeff5738
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How to determine the static frictional force?

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How Much Force is Needed to Balance a Wheelbarrow Load?

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Velocity of a liquid leaving a tank with an angle

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Car braking force and stopping distance from 80 km/h

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Direction and magnitude of the current

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How far does a rolling hoop travel up an incline with known variables?

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Electron moving through various fields

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Finding the displacement of a braking car, with limited variables.

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Force using relativistic momentum

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Finding Tension and Forces in a Cable-Supported Sign System

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Initial momentum calculation for a thrown ball and units

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Difference between focal length and the distance from the lens

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Flywheel with weight - Rotational Inertia

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Work, Energy and power questions

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Force of a Roller Coaster in a Vertical Loop

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Work-Energy Theorem / Finding The Mass

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Momentum and Impulse Cannonball

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