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Calculating the Spring Constant for a 9.10 kg Mass on a Vertical Spring

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Solving a Lab w/ Friction: Need Help!

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Solving a Two-Puck Collision on an Air Hockey Table

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Solving for v(t) & x(t) in a Region of Resistive Force

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Physics Lab Question - Where To Begin

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Analyzing Acceleration of Wedge and Block System

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Solve Circular Motion Homework: Find Tension 1 & 2

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Electric field sphere with inner cavity

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Calculating Acceleration of Connected Blocks on a Wedge

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Inelastic collision between 2 objects

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Calculating Maximum Height and Horizontal Range of 0.25kg Skeet

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Force per unit length on the wire in the bottom left hand corner.

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Maximum resolution by quantum mechanics

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How Much Thrust Does a 1W Flashlight Emit?

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Work done by gravity on block sliding down incline

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How Much Power Does an 8.00A, 115V Circuit Generate?

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Basketball game problem- projectile motion

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How Does Tension Affect Motion in Atwood's Machine?

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Which reacted faster, foot or hand?

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How Much Acceleration Can a Man Generate While Towing an Airplane?

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Static Electricity on metal sphere

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Spin and gravity of earth, no math

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Analysis of an L-R-C Series Circuit

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Centripetal acceleration problem (very easy)

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Which of these possibilities will produce emf

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Conservation of Energy fusion reaction

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A block sliding up a ramp, solve for acceleration

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Finding capacitance per unit length

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How to Calculate the Length of a Copper Wire Based on Resistance?

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Find the height from which the ball was thrown

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Simple harmonic motion with an amplitude

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Kinematics Final Velocity Question

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Drawing a free body diagram problem

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Work Done on 10kg Cart on Frictionless Surface: 11m

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Determine the depth of a swimming pool filled with water

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How Much Power Does a Cheetah Generate During Acceleration?

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What Are the Frictional Forces in a Modified Atwood's Machine Experiment?

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Motion of two trains physics problem

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Movement of particles in Magnetic Field

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Conservation of Energy Possibly

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How Is Momentum Conserved in a One-Dimensional Collision?

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Dot product and cross product problem

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Why Are My Elevator Tension Calculations Incorrect?

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Finding Speed on an incline when Power is known.

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Inclined plane w/ friction problem

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How Can Engineers Design a Temperature-Independent Resistor?

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What is the change in kinetic energy of block A as it moves up the incline?

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Projectile Motion: Calculate the speed of the plane

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AP Physics C: Solving Energy Homework Equation

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What Speed Does the Athlete Land in Long Jump?

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Minimum Wavelength of Electron Accelerated in TV at 30,000 V

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Acceleration plus velocity question? ?

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Calculating Average Acceleration in an Acceleration Test

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Acceleration of a Block on pulley

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Quantum energy level, calcualting total energy

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How Do Forces Affect Motion in Different Scenarios?

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Applied force on two blocks on a horizontal frictional plane

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Can somebody check my work see if I did the steps right?

  • Jac8897
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Acceleration of two masses and tension.

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How the coefficient of static friction works

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Solve Stationary Radar Homework: Find Ship's Velocity

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How Is the Shortest Stopping Distance Calculated for a Wet Road?

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Determining Yellow Light Timing for Intersection Safety

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Roller coaster minimum speed around loop and effective weight

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Force acting on a block against a wall

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Determining the density of Silicon

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Exciting an electron in a hydrogen atom.

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Maximizing Turntable Angular Velocity with Friction Coefficients

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Circular motion problem no idea what's going wrong ><

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Can Standing Up Change How We Measure Earth's Size?

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Simple Spring Question (Hooke's Law)

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Solving Online Motion Problems: Understanding Velocity and Slope

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Biot Savart, Intersecting Currents, and Calculating Magnetic Fields

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Velocity of a satellite in an elliptical orbit

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Calculating Negative Electric Charge of Oxygen Gas at STP

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How Do Two Blocks Collide Again After an Elastic Collision?

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How Do You Calculate the Slope Angle of a Road When a Car Ascends?

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Calculating Angle of Elevation & Initial Speed of Projectile from a Gun Fire

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Question involving Newton's Laws and Friction

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How Old is the Glacier Mummy Based on Carbon-14 Analysis?

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How Do You Calculate the Takeoff Speed in a Long Jump Problem?

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Calculate Energy during Nuclear Fission

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Conservation of Linear Momentum and spring compression

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What is the Velocity and Distance of an Automobile with a Changing Force?

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Δp/Δt = −ΔEP/Δs why a negative?

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Kinematics Physics equation, simple explanation.

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Interactive Physics program broken?

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How Much Power Is Lost Due to Resistive Heating in a High-Voltage Line?

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Finding acceleration of an object on a horizontal surface

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How to find the Dielectric Strength

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Plane waves, phase difference question

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Solving Ge-Si Alloy & Doping P in Si - Question 6

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Finding Linear Acceleration of a Yo-Yo

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