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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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Calculating Work for Stacking Books on a Table

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Calculating the Flowerpot's Fall Height

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Maximum acceleration with friction equal to 90% of weight

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Calculating Forces and Angles in a Conveyor Belt System

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Car merging to main road: can it really be so simple?

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Drag force (air resistance) and acceleration

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Ball thrown vertically in air question?

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Calculating Work Using W=f*d*Cos(theta)

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Horizontal coefficient of restitution

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Non uniform circular motion of a disc

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How many rotations of peddels per second?

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Maxim velocity at the top of the loop (rollercoaster pb)

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Electric field and potential of a sphere

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Potential energy of an object with initial velocity.

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Acceleration of clay on a potter's wheel

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What is the Minimum Force Needed to Move a Box Up a Frictionless Ramp?

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Acceleration of cart with hanging mass at angle theta

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Dimensional alalysis to show functional dependence

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Why aren't forces N and G equal?

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Why is the collision angle 90 degrees in a 2d collision?

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Calculating Capacitance and Charge in Connected Capacitors

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Stone thrown from cliff and car acceleration problems

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Leaving speed and distance after impact

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Understanding Potential Energy Function through Graph Analysis

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Finding the net work done on an object

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What Is the Child's Acceleration Relative to the Ice?

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Elastic Collision: Max Potential Energy Stored

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Comparing Current in two different wires

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How Does Friction Affect Velocity on an Inclined Plane?

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Inclined Plane Force w/ Friction

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Heat Dissipation in Resistors: Does Direction Matter?

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Elastic Collisions (Kinetic energy)

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Force to push a 2.7 kg wood box down a wall at 35°

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Vectors Word Search: Understanding 23° True

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How Long Does a Spin Take at 33 1/3 RPM?

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Basketball player shoots a ball, find angle, parametrics

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Kinematics homework: velocity, acceleration, and distance formulas

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Center of mass of club-axe with stone and stick

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Block on a Pulley: Determine Speed 2s Later

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Effective resistance between two points

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What is out of the page and into the page mean in magentic field?

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Work done shortening a rotating particle's string from Ro to R

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Calculating Acceleration of Mass in Atwood Machine

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Ball Suspended from Ceiling (Uniform Circular Motion)

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Studying half life and radioactive deca

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Mass spectrometer conceptual question

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Gravitation: Calculating Accel. Due to Gravity at 1.43x10^8 m

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What Was the Take Off Speed of the Bike Rider?

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Calculating Change in Velocity of Ball from E to S

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Work done by force accelerating helicopter upward at 0.10g

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Loss of rotational energy to thermal energy

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How do you measure acceleration in a car?

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Average acceleration from velocities in bearing notation

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What is the work done by kinetic friction on a block sliding down a ramp?

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Energy loss fraction when a hockey puck hits another at rest

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What is causing the tension to decrease?

  • greenskyy
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Discharging Capacitor answer check

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Tension in two wires at 50° and 45° supporting a picture

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Calculating Angular Momentum and Torque of a Mass in Freefall

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Calculating Drunk Driver's Speed in a Collision

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Tension in cables pulling a box

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Goldfish bowl index of refraction

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Weight of an 80.6 kg astronaut on Mars

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Photoelectric effect wavelength

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How many watts/how much intensity needed to power an elevator?

  • Paulo Serrano
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An approximation for exponential.

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How Do I Correctly Solve the Linear Equation tan 58 = (vi - ayt) / (axt)?

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Variation of gravity with height

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Two stones dropped from a bridge with different start times

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What Went Wrong in My Free-Body Diagram?

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Find mass of mars given period of moon orbit and radius of orbit

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Finding Acceleration in Two-Dimensional Kinematics

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Kinematics: Velocity and Distance of a Tennis Ball

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Finding launch angles for water to reach a window 20 m high and 60 m away

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Two dimensional kinematics (component velocity)

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Two trains and straight line movement

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Calculating Acceleration of Disks Welded Together

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Tension at the middle of a string of known mass

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Find Charge in Sphere: Integrate \rho(r)

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How Many Photons Does the Sun Emit Daily?

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Solving Lens Makers Formula: Image Location @ 500cm o, f=50cm

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Why does a floating body displace water equal to its weight?

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Circuit analysis - finding resistance

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Work done by a constant force question

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Find Velocity with only range given.

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Find initial Velocity with only distance, angle, and acceleration.

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Calculate Velocity of Particle at t=0.657s

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Does the emf of a battery remain its specified value for a long time?

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Free fall and one other question

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What Is the Drag Force on a Sky Diver at Different Speeds?

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