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Double-slit: what causes the altering problem

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Calculating Force and Direction of Cable AB

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Transformer output power and secondary coil turns

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What is the amplitude of vibration for a fish on a spring scale?

  • tjohn101
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Moment of inertia of four masses at rectangle corners

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Why does fusion end with iron as binding energy per nucleon decreases?

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What Is the Woman's Velocity Relative to Water?

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Question involving L and ω where L does not equal Iω

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Finding initial speed of 20g ball hitting hanging 100g ball elastically

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Mechanical Energy and Trajectory

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Finding horizontal range from projectile.

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Sharp Cut off in bremsstralungh

  • warrior_1
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Momentum, elastically collisino, velocity

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Satellite velocity and momentum

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Work Question involving Cheese, an elevator, and a cable

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Finding frictional force on egg-car with spring scale measurement

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Calculating Helium Mass with Work and Ideal Gas Law

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Tension of Two Ropes on an Object

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Torque second condition of equilibrium problem

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Force on spaceship between two asteroids using Newton's law

  • drkidd22
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What is the Minimum Height for a Sphere to Stay on a Loop-the-Loop Track?

  • ducnguyen2000
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Average Angular Velocity of the Earth?

  • IAmSparticus
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Rocks thrown out of a window problem.

  • physicsguy112
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Momentum and Elastic Collisions

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What Determines the Direction of Centripetal Force and Acceleration?

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Angle of sunlight entering water with n=1.33

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Tension and Work Calculations for Lifting a 285kg Load 22m Vertically

  • fraxinus
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How can I solve for the Thevenin resistance in this circuit?

  • Novark
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Crossing a flowing river problem

  • shizupple
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Hooke's Law applied to a bungee cord

  • sollinton
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Can someone explain a simple physics question for me?

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Horizontal Circular Motion Problem

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Question on Calculating Power and Force of Water Ejected from a Pipe

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Tension of rope by hanging mass

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3 point charges on the vertices of an equilateral triangle

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Can Earth's Geology Link Climate Change and Earthquake Prediction?

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Magnetic field in the open loop

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Contact lenses, focal length and uncorrected far point distance

  • danok
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Max angular displacement from max angular velocity

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Loop gravitational roller caoster- height, velocity, breaking force?

  • mmoadi
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Current Proportionality and Thevenin Equivalence

  • Novark
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Calculating Air Temperature from Frequency of Sound

  • Physics8944
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Which Cart Sinks Less in Rainy Weather: Wide or Thin Wheels?

  • andyboy179
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Potential Energy: Why Don't We Use Product Rule?

  • matt_crouch
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How long can an observer see an object's reflection in a mirror?

  • Paulo Serrano
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Normal force and tension in a pulley system

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Applying force vs applying weight to an atwood machine

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Highest point on trajectory of tennis ball

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Does Moving a Conductor in a Uniform Magnetic Field Induce EMF?

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How to Calculate Normal Force in a Physics Problem

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Pulley, blocks, moment of inertia :S

  • leanne1987
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Angular velocity of Earth's rotation and orbit: where's my error?

  • IAmSparticus
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Biot-Savart Law: Find formula for B at general pt (x, y, z)

  • plexus0208
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Skidding and rolling without slipping of a bowling ball

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Does Potential Energy Equal Kinetic Energy at the Bottom of a Hill?

  • Chuck Norris
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Solve 2 Capacitor Problems: Heat Dissipation

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When do simultaneous explosions reach an observer at different distances?

  • offbeatjumi
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Rigid body kinetics equations not giving correct answer

  • aolse9
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Finding Velocity of a bullet using springs and hanging masses

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Angular Momentum difficult problem

  • Arshad_Physic
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Equilibrium problem help

  • psycho15
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Projectile motion, with no Initial Velocity

  • RIPCLB
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How Do You Calculate the Resultant Force in This Vector Problem?

  • Dellis
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How Do Forces Maintain Equilibrium in a Beam Supported by a Brace?

  • 464thomas
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Block Tension and Friction Question

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How to Calculate Magnetic Field on an Axis Through a Square Wire Loop?

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What is the ratio of the free-fall acceleration at these two locations?

  • leighzer
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How to find net force using mass, distance, and time?

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Rotational and collision problem

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When do you use the curly d instead of the regular d in derivatives?

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Two Objects, Acceleration is Given, Find Tension of rope on frictionless pulley

  • spacewrangler
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How Do You Calculate the Central Pressure of a Star?

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How Precisely Can the Position of a Flying Mosquito Be Known?

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Calculating Speed for Banked Racing Track

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Calculating Stress/Strain from Extension/Tension

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How Do You Calculate the Angle of Incline with Friction Involved?

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How would I calculate the escape velocity from the earth?

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Spherical Mirror and Object Distance

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Calculating Tension in Horizontal Wire due to Magnetic Field

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Finding the magnitude of a net force

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Would one weigh more on the equator or on the North Pole?

  • einsteinette
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What is the tension on the elevator cable?

  • kyletheskater
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Man jumping from window ledge onto concrete patio

  • holezch
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Air resistance on a falling object given acceleration

  • holezch
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How can net force point in the direction of *negative* work?

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Finding Cable Tension in Elevator w/ Initial Velocity

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Plotting F=kx Graph for Lab Report

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Energy and rate of energy transmitted by a given wave function

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Rubber bullet / metal bullet hitting wooden block

  • Kaxa2000
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Alternating current+Oscillation

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