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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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A simple question about the concept please come and help

  • devin125
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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?

  • mmoadi
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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?

  • mmoadi
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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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Find Accel. of Cart from Mass m & Theta

  • greenskyy
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Dimensional alalysis to show functional dependence

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Why aren't forces N and G equal?

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

  • SELFMADE
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Calculating Capacitance and Charge in Connected Capacitors

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Kinematics: Solving Questions on Speed, Distance, Time & Acceleration

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Leaving speed and distance after impact

  • MechaMZ
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Understanding Potential Energy Function through Graph Analysis

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Finding the net work done on an object

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

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Elastic Collision: Max Potential Energy Stored

  • karis
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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?

  • sArGe99
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Elastic Collisions (Kinetic energy)

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Find the Force Needed: Wood Box Sliding Down a Wall

  • gbedenba
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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?

  • LifesHard
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Basketball player shoots a ball, find angle, parametrics

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Help with My Physics Test: Find Velocity, Distance & Acceleration

  • Obelix
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Solve Easy Center of Mass Homework for Club-Axe

  • Zhalfirin88
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Block on a Pulley: Determine Speed 2s Later

  • KillerZ
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Effective resistance between two points

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

  • Suy
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Competitive exam Question: Work done to shorten string

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Calculating Acceleration of Mass in Atwood Machine

  • jti3066
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Ball Suspended from Ceiling (Uniform Circular Motion)

  • Gotejjeken
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Studying half life and radioactive deca

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Mass spectrometer conceptual question

  • clairez93
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Gravitation: Calculating Accel. Due to Gravity at 1.43x10^8 m

  • gjax21
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What Was the Take Off Speed of the Bike Rider?

  • Paul_H
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Calculating Change in Velocity of Ball from E to S

  • DrDanger
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W=Fd, Work & Newton's Second Law problem

  • Senjai
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Loss of rotational energy to thermal energy

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How do you measure acceleration in a car?

  • fattydq
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A trig problem? Need help with bearings and shotty wording.

  • roger911
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What is the work done by kinetic friction on a block sliding down a ramp?

  • pdrjuarez
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Energy loss fraction when a hockey puck hits another at rest

  • CaptFormal
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What is causing the tension to decrease?

  • greenskyy
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Discharging Capacitor answer check

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Solving Tension in Wires at 50.0o & 45.0o

  • oceanflavored
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Calculating Angular Momentum and Torque of a Mass in Freefall

  • briteliner
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Calculating Drunk Driver's Speed in a Collision

  • CaptFormal
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Tension in cables pulling a box

  • oceanflavored
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Goldfish bowl index of refraction

  • tiger1
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Weight of 80.6kg Astronaut on Mars: 294N (3 sig figs)

  • fattydq
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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.

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

  • Osbourne_Cox
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Variation of gravity with height

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What Went Wrong in My Free-Body Diagram?

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

  • buttermellow
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Finding Acceleration in Two-Dimensional Kinematics

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Kinematics: Velocity and Distance of a Tennis Ball

  • Fedor
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Projectile Que HELP- Finding Launch Angles

  • lavenderbaby
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Two dimensional kinematics (component velocity)

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Two trains and straight line movement

  • mmoadi
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Calculating Acceleration of Disks Welded Together

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Tension at the middle of a string of known mass

  • natnat_nuts
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Find Charge in Sphere: Integrate \rho(r)

  • YoGabbaGabba
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How Many Photons Does the Sun Emit Daily?

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

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Circuit analysis - finding resistance

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Work done by a constant force question

  • farleyknight
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Find Velocity with only range given.

  • Jimkatz809
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Find initial Velocity with only distance, angle, and acceleration.

  • Jimkatz809
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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?

  • sArGe99
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Grade 11 Physics Homework Help :]

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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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Calculating the Distance of a Ball Kicked Off a Cliff

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Spring and block of mass problem

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