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Motion Along a Line: Find Force & Acceleration

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Electric Field: Find Electric Field from 2 Infinite Planes

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Object against wall with horizontal force acting on wall

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Projectile Motion: Hitting a box with a softball

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Newton's Third Law-two masses on a wedge

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Newtonian - Force, Gravity, and Bungee Jumping

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Time required to charge a capacitor

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How Far Must the 30 kg Child Sit for Seesaw Equilibrium?

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Pulley Based Problem Homework: Find Force, Acceleration & Tension

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Calculate Speed & Induced EMF of Spacecraft

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Calculating Vector Components for an Airplane's Trajectory

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What is the angle [theta] for the tug B in the given diagram?

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Kinematics: Throwing ball up the building with unknown initial velocity

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Solving for initial velocity in an inelastic equation

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Energy and Rotational Inertia Question

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Principle Quantum Number Question

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Pythagorean triplet and vectors

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How does adding a block to a spring affect its stiffness?

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Solve Force of 4.7 N on 17 kg Body Work Problem

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Physics Kinimatics/Energy Question

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How Do You Calculate the Frequency of Oscillation for a Resonating Air Column?

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Finding friction - block attached to ball

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How can I rearrange the equation to solve for time?

  • einsteinette
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How Do Velocity and Acceleration Change When a Ball Falls?

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Finding Kinetic Energy From A Graph

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Find Power Absorbed by Element X in Figure

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Launching object into space (simple)

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Finding final speed with two unknowns (Vf1 & Vf2)

  • tjohn101
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Solved: Gauss's Law Question on Charged Conductor

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Calculating Velocity of a Projectile 0.1s Before Hitting Ground

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Circular Wire Loop - Please help

  • Skye77
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Bullet passing through one block and embedding in another

  • Zhalfirin88
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Question on Fluid Pressure in Pipes

  • !Live_4Ever!
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How Does Grounding Affect Charge Distribution on a Metal Sphere?

  • songoku
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Coefficient of friction of a ramp

  • maladroit
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How Do You Calculate Work and Power for a Moving Object?

  • danest
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Minimum wavelength when electrons strike phospor

  • songoku
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Elastic Collision Of Uneqal Masses

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What is the Average Induced EMF in a Rotating Coil?

  • jemerlia
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Redraw Circuit: Consolidate Nodes for Min #

  • KillerZ
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Curvilinear Motion Homework: Normal & Tangential Accel. & Radius

  • KillerZ
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Electrostatics: work moving point dipole

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Solving for Angles of Tension Homework

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Question: Determining absolute zero with a piston

  • PrinceOfDeaf
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Determine the translational and rotational motion

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What Is the Mass and Initial Velocity of Car 1 After Collision?

  • CandyApples
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Projectile Motion - Particle Acceleration

  • Osbourne_Cox
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Some Basic Conceptual/Philosophical Questions on Special Relativity

  • Sam_Goldberg
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Work & Power Due to Force of 7.2 N on 24 kg Body

  • danest
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Circular Motion: On a Ferris Wheel

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Bullet and a mass on a string. conservation problem.

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Solving the Black Box Circuit: Determining Impedance & Resistance

  • prescott2006
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Straight wires carrying current

  • Neophyte7
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Finding the Equilibrium of a Spring in Water with a Connected Block

  • songoku
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Projectile Motion, Finding the Angle

  • needlottahelp
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Help with Basic Circuits: i1, i2, i, V1, R, Power

  • Imposta
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Solving Velocity Problem: Initial Force 500N & Mass 1.5g Over 20m

  • meadman
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How Tall Was the Initial Fall in a Physics Problem?

  • ryno2107
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How Do You Calculate Power and Resistance in Electrical Circuits?

  • Imposta
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Force and coefficient of friction problem

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Find minimum initial velocity of object

  • rajesan
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How Does Electric Field Behave Inside a Uniformly Charged Sphere?

  • theowne
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Car Passes Bus: Velocity Ques. Answered in 5 Secs

  • 1irishman
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Solving Friction/Energy Homework Problem

  • ZaneW
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Bernoulli's Equation and fire hose

  • ChemIsHard
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How Do You Calculate the Initial Velocity of an Arrow?

  • meadman
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What is the magnitude of the net force acting on the kayak?

  • Marcelgluch
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Multiparticle system, KE and PE, distances before/during/after fission

  • karobins
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Solar Luminosity: Calculating Sphere of Light Illuminating Earth's Orbit

  • newsflash
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How to Solve a Friction and Tension Problem in Physics

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Force/Projectile Motion Problem

  • JoshMP
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Flux - simple integral computation

  • quantum13
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Calculating Passing Time of Accelerating Car and Bus

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Tension, 2 masses, 2 cords hanging vertical

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Find the frequency and wavelength of a 100 MeV gamma ray photon

  • BeckyG
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Easy Circular Motion Problem that I can't get right

  • intriqet
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Balancing Charges on Identical Spheres

  • Tridius
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Calculating Tension of a Cord w/ Watermelon & Pumpkin

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How Does Flux Distribute in a Gaussian Cube with a Corner Charge?

  • quantum13
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How Long Does It Take for a Released Mailbag to Hit the Ground?

  • ryno2107
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Calculating Potential Difference on A Capacitor, RC Circuits

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Horizontal and vertical component of acceleration

  • lolzwhut?
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How Tall Is The Building? - Projectile Motion

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Can you detect motion inside a spinning box?

  • lytien
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Relative Acceleration: Calculating Heather's Acceleration Relative to Jill

  • student 1
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Finding length of skid marks using f k

  • physjeff12
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Discover the Solution to a Challenging Basketball Physics Problem

  • intriqet
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Simple Spring Problem with something that I'm sure im not seeing

  • wildcatdude90
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Kinetic Energy and Work: Ramp With Friction

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Does Dropping Help the Monkey Escape the Bullet?

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Current Through a Beam of Protons

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Projectile motion rifle question

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Maximum Force for Block Stability with Kinetic Friction

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Pressure Underwater Homework: Calculate Force for Submarine Porthole

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