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Diameter of the football players' piston?

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Instructor's Algebra Paradox? : How far does a projectile go up a ramp?

  • RoganSarine
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Trajectory of a squirt of water to hit a fly

  • RoganSarine
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Horizontal veolocity given vertical velocity and angle

  • IAmSparticus
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Horizontal and vertical velocity components

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How Do You Calculate the Angle in a Spinning Mass Problem?

  • Zhalfirin88
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Calculating Marble's Initial Height Using Projectile Motion Equations

  • IAmSparticus
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Rolling ball down a slope, how to find final velocity?

  • woodie37
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Calculating Energy Stored in a Two-Spring System

  • Skuzzy
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What is the Average Angular Acceleration of a Fan?

  • Ion1776
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Dimensional analysis, I'm kinda lost

  • coasterguy
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Couple of relative velocity problems.

  • Raheelp
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Force on passenger from airbag during car collision

  • tjbateh
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Solving for Tension in Elevator Cable: 2300 kg, 50 m, 12 m/s

  • tjbateh
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What Is The Complete Formula Of A Lever?

  • EnquiringMind
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Solve 2D Motion Homework: Throw Football 196.6m at 25°

  • IAmSparticus
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How Fast Must a Volcanic Bomb Travel to Reach a Certain Point?

  • kara
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Applications of the Equations of Kinematics for Constant Acceleration

  • jacksonpeeble
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When and how do you integrate electric field and flux equations?

  • Josh930
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How do I locate the centroid and the center of gravity of a square pyramid?

  • physicshelp75
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Deceleration due to Frictional Force

  • Esran
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Again an electric potential question ?

  • Fazza3_uae
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How to find current of resistor in complex circuit?

  • Schoomy
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Two-loop circuit using Kirchoff's Laws

  • HEYJOHN
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Solving the Truck Stopping Distance Problem

  • quietrain
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What Is the Minimum Speed Required for a Car to Jump Over Eight Cars?

  • fattydq
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A Different kind of kinematics problem

  • numberjuan412
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Vector components with unknowns, ultimately adding to zero.

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Car Runs Out of Gas on 9.0 Slope - What Happens Next?

  • grizzly44
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Force on a Frictionless Surface

  • tjbateh
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How Does Projectile Motion Determine Final Velocity?

  • k2var2002
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Trajectory of a Baseball: Will it Clear the Fence?

  • RoganSarine
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Solving Pulley & Block Problems: Acceleration of A

  • chenying
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Calculating Tension in Cable Winch BD - Drawing Included

  • pigmy02
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Find electric field of a spherical shell

  • unteng10
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Particle around pivot in uniform E

  • TwoTruths
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What are the forces acting on the crate on a frictionless ramp?

  • tjbateh
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What causes a change in wind direction when it hits a sail?

  • WishFish
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Why lift curves go through origin for some airfoils

  • heinekenisnic
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How Do You Calculate the Tension in a Chandelier's Cable?

  • gb14
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How Do I Solve This Complex Square Root Equation?

  • snoothie
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Net Charge of Spherical Shell +Q at Center

  • tag16
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Finding min/max force (net force sliding friction problem)

  • ultimateman
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Motorist reaction time to avoid deer 48 m ahead at 14 m/s

  • malta
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Basic Motion Graphs (velocity-time)

  • PolyFX
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How to measure circular displacement?

  • TwoTruths
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What causes a 'simple pendulum' to stop?

  • student321
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Initial upward acceleration in a pulley problem

  • NinjaPenguin
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How Can Angular Momentum Principles Solve Disk Rotation Problems?

  • tanglx61
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What is the role of A+B+C in finding vector components?

  • White_Noise
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My first week in hs physics and my teacher hasn't taught a thing

  • natabong
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Calculating Drop Timing for Airdrop Supplies in Wilderness

  • physicsquest
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Ranking the force of point charges problem

  • macaco
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Projectile Motion marble Problem

  • LoveandHate
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The Energy Contained in a FunyunI must be mistaken?

  • Rhine720
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How Do You Derive the Equations of Motion in Physics?

  • kevinli
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What is the magnitude of the electric field between the two plates?

  • tag16
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Finding Speed and Angle of Projectile Trajectory

  • darklich21
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How Can You Calculate the Total Equivalent Resistance in a Circuit?

  • HEYJOHN
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The Heating of Nichrome Wire in a toaster

  • gc33550
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Force exerted on passenger by airbag in collision

  • tjbateh
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Intitial velocity from given angle and distance

  • morganm725
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Apparent weight/elevator problem

  • stressedout09
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Finding angular velocity of a massive bar in coupled spring-mass system

  • JohnSimpson
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Physics Lab question velocity/Δt simple

  • munchy35
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Rocket Velocity Calculation for Different Time Intervals

  • elpermic
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Angular Acceleration - What am I doing wrong?

  • ctamasi
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Why do larger raindrops reach higher terminal velocity?

  • tommyjohn
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What is the magnitude of the body's acceleration?

  • sponsoredwalk
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Distance from points to plane using normal vector

  • Damascus Road
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How Far North Does Carlos Travel in 10 Minutes?

  • gbedenba
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Equilibrium temperature for brass shot dropped in water with aluminum cup

  • Damien20
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Finding mass in a quanity of heat problem

  • Damien20
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Distance covered by a moving object versus friction in an inclined plane

  • ffrancis
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Calculate the polarizability a(lpha) of atomic hydrogen in terms of R

  • cfung
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Two force and motion practice test questions

  • flav12
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Brick Falling Off a Rising Pallet

  • alandry06
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Simple Harmonic Motion: Finding Frequency and Potential Energy Function

  • briteliner
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Finding the Position of a Sample Using Microscope Magnification

  • estanton
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Kinematics - Constant Acceleration

  • JG89
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How Is Collision Speed Calculated in a Supermarket Parking Lot Incident?

  • melmel7880
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I really can't understand uncertainty

  • Shing
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How to define electric charge in one sentence for a quiz

  • Surreal Ike
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Confusing projectile motion problem?

  • bronxbomber91
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Calculating Horizontal Speed of a Stealth Bomber

  • jamesc3
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What is the height of the smaller model in this statue scaling problem?

  • Payne0511
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Kinematics- Child running down a hill

  • panozg
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Coulomb's Law lab , , it do tommorrow

  • Suy
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Finding maximum height of a ball thrown with initial velocity <5,8,0> m/s

  • Lemniscate
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Laws of Motion w/ Friction - Two Forces on Two Boxes

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Solving for x-Displacement of a Rolling Ball on an Inclined Track

  • goodz
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Formula for a two-part constant-acceleration problem

  • neutron star
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Define Newton's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd laws

  • Tale
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Finding time in air and range for a 30.3 m/s golf shot

  • Sesner09
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Force acting on object of given coordinates

  • Simply Is
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Lowest frequency that produces an interference maximum

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