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Baseball: Rising and Falling speed

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How much work is required to stop a moving block?

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Finding Current in a Long Solenoid

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How Do Weight Distribution and Torque Affect Scale Readings?

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Car rolling off cliff and falling package kinematics

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Particle Motion with Constant Acceleration

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Circular Motion Conceptual Physics - Space Station

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How do you calculate circular acceleration and force for a racing car?

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Finding resultant magnitude and location of a distributed load system

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Rocket equation: what fraction remains after reaching 1100 m/s exhaust speed?

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Heat needed to double gas volume at constant pressure

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Drag Racing Cars: Physics Project Ideas

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How far does Sam land from the base of the cliff?

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Center of mass of two metal solids.

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

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Finding coefficient of friction for mass on incline pulled by hanging mass

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Solving a Two-Puck Collision on an Air Hockey Table

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Finding v(t) and x(t) for motion with quadratic drag force

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Physics Lab Question - Where To Begin

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Wedge and block system with friction

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Find tensions in two strings supporting a rotating mass

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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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Ball thrown from window at 9 m/s, 16° below horizontal, lands after 5 s

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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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Tension in rope supporting a climbing gymnast

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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?

  • ur5pointos2sl
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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?

  • madcat1090
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Projectile Motion: Calculate the speed of the plane

  • ntox101
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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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Work done by forces pulling a sled at constant speed

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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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Ship moving at constant velocity between two radar positions

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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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Maximum angular velocity of coin on turntable before sliding

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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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