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Ranking the force of point charges

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What is the capacitance of the system?

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Tension from Incline Plane: Only Measured in Horizontal Direction?

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Magnitude and Direction of Charged Particles

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Finding Spring Constants After Cutting a Spring

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Minimum distance to avoid a collision

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How Fast Are Proton and Antiproton Moving Towards Each Other?

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Direction of a vector (help with part c)

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What is the missing formula for projectiles launched at an angle?

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Solve Newton's Second Law: Find Angle of Elevation w/ 1.86cm Blocks

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Why Is My Vector Calculation Incorrect?

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Calculating Total Time for an Inclined Plane Motion Problem

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Question about the magnitude and direction of an electric field.

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Trouble Solving: Police Car & Stolen Truck

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When is cosα a x component or y component in a problem?

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How to Solve Physics Free Fall Problems

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Thermal Stress (Thermodynamics)

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Finding the Location of a Projectile After 3 Seconds

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Electric Potential and Potential Difference

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I with this physics question help please and fast? ?

  • Leo34005
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Projectile Motion: Given Horizontal Distance Travelled and Time Taken

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Calculating Time and Velocity in a Projectile Motion Problem

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Force Vector Directed Along A Line

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Spacetime Invariance and Lorentz Equations

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Deriving the 4th equation of motion

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Finding the Angle Between Vectors A & B

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Find the normal force and magnitude of acceleration.

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Finding this displacement on a v/t graph

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Struggling with Kinematics Homework?

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Solving Tension in 2 Strings - T2 & T3

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Throwing a ball upward on top of a building, find height of building

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How do I set up these problems?

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How Do You Calculate the Second Vector in a Vector Displacement Problem?

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Acceleration When Pulled By Elastic Cord

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Why Does Running in the Rain Get You More Wet?

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How do negative charges accelerate in an electric field?

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Harmonic Motion with Electricity

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What is the solution to the tricky pendulum question on page 6?

  • Chewy0087
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What is the Resistive Force of Air on a Baseball Pitch?

  • MechaMZ
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Superposition of electric fields from uniform charge density

  • jamdr
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Please need someone to check this soon

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Relativistic Mechanics (momentum)

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Differential equations particle motion

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Women's Volleyball: Net Height & Court Limits

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Secrets of the Microwave Oven: Grid Dimensions & Polar Molecules

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Force on projected object at its highest point. What is the net force?

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Determining the Minimum Force to Push a Crate

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Is negative acceleration always related to a decrease in speed?

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Friction problem with banked curve given static friction coefficient

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IB Extended Essay in Physics, focusing on Fibre optics, any pointers?

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Why is the scale reading 397 N when the elevator is slowing down?

  • MechaMZ
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Finding Range of Object Shot at 40° Angle

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A box sliding down a incline plane

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Calculating Time for an Object to Fall in One Dimension

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Object sliding up/down with a angular speed

  • MechaMZ
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Finding the Magnitude of Vector Sum from Components

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Can You Derive F = gamma^3*ma from Newton's Second Law?

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Calculating Passenger Speed Relative to Shore: A Multi-Step Problem

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Electric Field due to two points

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Newton's Laws with Friction: Two Blocks

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What are the two angles of a successful field goal kick?

  • StephanieF19
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Acceleration of a horizontal system with friction

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Help solving Fluid Force problem

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Help w/ simple dimensional analysis

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What is the Magnitude of the Electric Field to Just Miss the Upper Plate?

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How Far Will a Race Car Travel After Running Out of Gas?

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Reference Frame Question: How come wind relative to boat doesn't matter?

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Electric field 0.1mm above charged plate.

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Calculating Angular Speed for Proposed Space Station

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Mass of silver to cover a 2.0 x10^2 cm2 object with .20mm thick layer

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Motion: Solving problems using equations

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How Do You Calculate Net Resistance in a Circuit?

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Help With Vector Problems: Find Horizontal Velocity & Forces

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Two blocks sliding on top of each other

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Physics Help, Could someone check my work test coming up soon

  • Ion1776
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How Do You Convert dB to W/m^2 for a Test?

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What is the absolute uncertainty in your estimate of the total mass?

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Solving the Mystery of the Pigeon-Seeking Fall: Acceleration Calculations

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Coulombs Law of two metal balls

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Which Variables Are Intensive and Which Are Extensive?

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Nonuniform Circular Motion-Find time given r, a-sub-t, V-sub-0

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Simple Earth Circumference Question

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Find Meters to Fill Copper Cylinder with 8.60lbs of Covelite

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Finding the force of a person given mass.

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Finding the Initial Pressure of A Balloon

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Displacement under varying acceleration

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Sum of Forces in x- and y-directions

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Motion in one dimension problem

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Is It Possible to Solve This Vector Problem with Given Information?

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Kinematics in 1D: Determining Velocity After 0.5s

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Motion in one dimension physics problem

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What Height of Water in a Long Arm Risks Popping the Seal?

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