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What is the Maximum Velocity of Two Blocks on a Spring?

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Momentum and velocity at certain distance?

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How do you find the initial speed?

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Solving Friction Problem: Acceleration of Lower Block

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What Is the Extra Force on Each Train Due to Coal Transfer?

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Projectile Motion without Initial velocity

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What is the Acceleration of an Elevator with Friction?

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Hydrogen -Energy State Transitions

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Help, with finding electron radius for a given condition

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Gravitational Potential Energy of a rocket fired straight up

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Work Problem: Climbing 3000m Mountain with 50kg Woman

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Change in internal energy in air

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Calculate Change in Momentum of Billiard Ball | CaptFormal

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How to Calculate Gravitational Potential Energy for a Swinging Toy?

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Find the electrical field of a Spherical Shell

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Biot Savart, Electrons, and Cirucular Currents

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Calculating Force: Homework Solving

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Solving Cable Tension and Moment Magnitude Problem

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Total kinetic energy of two protons

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Acceleration of Forces at Angles

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How Does a Dual Ring Charge Configuration Affect Electric Potential?

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Help Needed for Two-Body Inclined Plane and Pulley Problem please

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Gravitational and elastic energy

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Free body diagram Incline Problem

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How Fast Was the Bullet Before Hitting the Block?

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Solve Increase in Entropy: 2.1x107kg Ice & Snow Avalanche

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Magnitude of the maximum torque on a current loop.

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How Do You Calculate the Combined Momentum of Two Joggers?

  • CaptFormal
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How Do You Calculate Work Required to Move a Charge Near a Charged Ring?

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Find Magnitude & Direction of A+B - Unit Vector Help

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Moment of inertia and torque for a grinding wheel

  • tjohn101
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Coils of wire with current in a magnetic field

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Calculating Magnetic Force on a Wire in a Uniform Magnetic Field

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Fraction Simplification of Impedances and Resistances

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Emission Spectra: which electrons?

  • Elly
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Calculating Total Electric Charge in a 50kg Sample of Water

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How Far Should a Pilot Release a Bomb to Hit a Target?

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How Do You Find the Initial Speed of a Baseball in Projectile Motion?

  • Dirac1239
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Mag and Direction of 3d Vectors

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How Do You Calculate Charge in a Polarized Molecule?

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How to Calculate the Ball's Trajectory to Land in the Can?

  • 2011vlu
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Circular Motion and Radius of Curvature

  • ThatMathGuy
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Calculate the gravitational potential energy of the child-Earth system

  • Chuck 86
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Tough Energy problem Law of conservation of energy

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Equilibrium applications of Newton's law of motion II

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Changing radius and centripetal force

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Find the spring constant and speed?

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Nonequilibrium applications of Newton's laws of motion

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Calculate Flux in a closed Triangle

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Two Spheres connected by a wire.

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How Do You Calculate the Average Error in Measurements?

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Equilibrium applications of Newton's laws of motion III

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Calculating Taylor Series for $\frac{1}{|R-r|}$ with R>>r

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Newton's second law and direction of force

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Angular Acceleration Problem Why am I not right?

  • tjohn101
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Equilibrium applications of Newton's law of motion

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Finding Acceleration in Circular Kinematics without Degrees or Radians

  • rottweiler
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Statuc and kinetic frictional forces

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Calculate the Force between Charges

  • wizard.ubit
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Why Can't Ohm's Law Be Applied Here?

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What Happens When a Bug Collides with a Big Rig Windshield?

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What Force is Needed for 1.5 m/s² Acceleration in the +y Direction?

  • DaOneEnOnly
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Quick thing How did they get this?

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Electric forces, net force = zero

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Crossing a River: Find Speed Needed to Swim from A to B

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Projectile Motion: Firing to Reach Target at Diff. Height

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Two blocks held against each other

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Water jet from fire hose reaching window 20 m high and 60 m away

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Block held in equilibrium on incline by Force F, Find magnitidue of Force F?

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Work-Energy Theorem: Effect of increasing speed vs stopping distance.

  • Senjai
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How Do You Calculate the Coefficient of Friction on a Sloped Surface?

  • PhysicsIsRuff
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Finding intial velocity given vertical and horizontal displacement

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Elliptical Orbits velocity and distance

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Two Blocks Sliding: Find Accel & Tension

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Finding distance using vector components

  • LadyTwi
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Conservation of momentum problem and kinematics ?

  • mychellbella
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Banked curve min/max velocities

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What is the Centripetal Acceleration of a Disc After Spinning Up?

  • dsimpson
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Thermal Expansion of two Metals

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Calculating Tension in a Frictionless Slope Problem

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Basic Acceleration and Distance Problem

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How is dθ/dt related to v/r in circular motion?

  • emyt
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How to Determine Vector C Using Vectors A and B?

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What Are the Solar Panel Requirements for Meeting the US' Electrical Needs?

  • sonutulsiani
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Force & Mass: Calculating Acceleration

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Horizontal spring problem with friction?

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What is the Y-Component of a Baseball's Acceleration at Half Its Terminal Speed?

  • pedro_infante
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Calc Tension of 2 Angles: 590-N Ball Suspended from Cords

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Find the acceleration at 4000rpm

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Solving for Height of Falling Flowerpot

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Kinetics question in 2 dimensions

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A hydrogen atom in uniform electric field

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Newton's Second Law and Friction

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What is the minimum depth of snow needed to stop a paratrooper safely?

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Mechanical Energy loss due to NC Forces: two railroad cars collide.

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