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How Long Does It Take an Electron to Accelerate to a Specific Speed?

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What were Jack and Jill's velocities on the hill?

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How Do Magnets Propel the Superman Ride at Magic Mountain?

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1 Dimensional Motion with Pulley

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Calculating Force to Move Piano Down Ramp

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3-dimensional charge density for a finite thin wire

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Find Components of Velocity U to Collide Particles & Minimize U

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Gas cylinder-volume of air, how long it will last

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Two-Dimensional Kinematics: Weightless

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Vector Problem: Avg Acc Components

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Where should the proton be placed to balance F?

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Projectile Motion - Initial velocity

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Proving Constant Velocity: Graphing and Analyzing Data

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What Is the Maximum Acceleration That Keeps Both Suitcases Moving Together?

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How Does Latitude Affect the Motion of a Person Standing on Earth?

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Power in Circuit: 75W Bulb at 120V Delivers 9kW

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Light is NOT constant relative to the source.

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How Do You Calculate Average Speed Over Different Speeds?

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Okay, so this is probably very easy, just checking the solution

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What is the missing factor in this basic linear motion problem?

  • Alboin
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What Are the Forces and Energy Involved in a Block Sliding Down a Ramp?

  • CaptainEvil
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Am i right on this? Newtons secocd law hw problem

  • mr.coon
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Calculating Electrostatic Potential for a Uniformly Charged Sphere

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Max Weight for Helium Balloon: Simple Buoyancy Problem Solution

  • ChemIsHard
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How Is Average Speed Calculated for a Round Trip with a Lunch Break?

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Frame Dependence: Electric and Magnetic Fields Across Inertial Frames

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What are are the magnitude and direction

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Magnitude and direction of ship relative to ground

  • physicsquest
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Which is warmer-dark sunglasses or reading glasses

  • NDbogan
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Determine Dimensions of Physical Quantities: F, p

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How to Solve an Indeterminate Cable System with Multiple Unknowns?

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Simplified Notation: 2.45/2.5x10^17m^-2 - How to Express Correctly

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Projectile motion skateboarder problem

  • Chiborino
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Use Newton's second law to find the net force acting on both blocks

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How Do You Calculate the Charge on Beads in a Hemispherical Bowl?

  • Hov
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Magnitude of displacement vector

  • physicsquest
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How many grams of cold water necessary to lower temperature in container

  • Paulo Serrano
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How Is Tension Calculated in an Atwood's Machine?

  • martyk
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Why do cosine and secant have the same sign in all quadrants?

  • HussanAli
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Truck deceleration to prevent box from sliding

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Capacitor and Time Varying Potential

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Phy121 are these answers correct?

  • PhysicsMark
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Finding length of airport runway

  • NDbogan
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What must the third displacement be?

  • Rker
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Phase difference in standing waves

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Calculating Average Speed & Time for a Dot on a Spinning Motor

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How High Does the Ball Hit the Cliff?

  • Bryon
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Another electrostatics question.

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Calculating Total Energy from Combined Rotational Motion of Two Spheres

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Finding initial speed given two angles and a distance

  • heyhowsitgoin
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Do You Need the Dielectric Constant of Copper to Find Capacitance?

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What is the frequency range of ultraviolet radiation?

  • wilson_chem90
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Calculating Frictional Force in a Sliding Box Experiment

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Solving Ball Throw Problem: Velocity & Distance for Boy & Dog

  • k2var2002
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Finding g,time,&height with magnitude of velocity

  • k2var2002
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Kinematics Problem but not enough information?

  • intriqet
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Determining Net Force Based on Motion Diagram

  • Anirak
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Time-Dependent Force: Solving for Speed & Displacement

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NASA Free-Fall Research: Solving Problems with Kinematic Equations

  • intriqet
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Discover the Most Likely Room Temperature for Jack's Heat Experiment

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Charge inside and outside coaxial cable

  • bitrex
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How Many Electrons Cause a Spark in a Parallel-Plate Capacitor?

  • KillerZ
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What is the concept of average force and how is it calculated?

  • jeansbeans
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Friction Experiment: Understanding Necessity & Sources of Error

  • chrisfnet
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Calculating the Velocity of a Rock Thrown from a Building Roof

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Rock's Max Horizontal Distance from Volcano: 500m

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Circuit Switch Disconnecting Battery

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HELP -How many meters does it take for a car to stop?

  • merceb49
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How Do You Verify Calculations in a Parallel Circuit Problem?

  • Tedh
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Derive the expression for isothermal change in Constant Volume Heat Capacity

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What is the Angle and Normal Force in a Towing Scenario?

  • bolivartech
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Helicopter and Kinematics Problem

  • intriqet
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How do i find the mass of a mysteryious object?

  • elpermic
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Analyzing motion diagrams (easy)

  • samxel
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Calculate Vertical Displacement in Stunt Jump | 2D Motion Physics Problem

  • wwommack
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Projectile Motion Ball Problem help

  • Nanofan01
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Friction problem with hardly any variables given

  • mooney82
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Electromagnetic Waves (concept)

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Potentials of Hollow and Solid Spheres

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Find the acceleration of the smaller mass. Pulley physics

  • kashiark
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How Far Will a Skier Land After a Flying Ski Jump?

  • physicsquest
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Frictional Forces and Coefficients of Friction [Need help]

  • tutojean
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Calculating Charge & Radius of a Van der Graaff Generator Dome

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Calculating Impulse and Mass of a Basketball

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Fluid Mechanics: Differential Hg Manometer

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Inelastic Collisions: Calculating Momentum

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Golf Ball Flight: Solving for Initial Speed & Max Height

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Jumping Flea - Simple Kinematics

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Physics; two forces on an object

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Variably Solving for Minimum Tangential Speed

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Lab Experiment - Uniformly Accelerated Linear Motion

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Magnitude in force of two blocks connected by rope.

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Would a digital multimeter contain an A/D system?

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Finding Range of Possible Pitching Speeds

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Suspended object, two rope system

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Analyzing Forces on a Block: A Scientific Approach

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