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A rock rolling down an incline-velocity and force

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Why does a car pushing a truck exert equal force back?

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Kinematics - finding time given height and acceleration

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Which equation is correct for wavelength from energy

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Initial velocity when deacelerating at a constant rate

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What was the car's velocity at t=0?

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Uniform electric field and a proton

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Car approaching intersection at yellow light

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Physics highest point reached by skateboarder

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How Much Work Does Friction Do on a Crate Sliding Down a Ramp?

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Work done by frition on a crate

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Golf ball dropped from tall building: velocity after 3.99 s and impact speed

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How Does Air Resistance Impact Projectile Motion in Sports?

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What is the Maximum Height a Basketball Reaches When Thrown Upward?

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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 sailboat velocity after wind gust

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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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Electric field from potential V = 1920x² between parallel plates

  • peaceinmideas
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Police car catching a stolen truck at constant speeds

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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)

  • Luongo
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Finding the Location of a Projectile After 3 Seconds

  • Want to learn
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Answers to physics homework questions 3 and 4b

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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

  • Rubix
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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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Angle between two equal magnitude vectors that sum to 6.37j

  • Rail24
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Find the normal force and magnitude of acceleration.

  • sonutulsiani
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Finding this displacement on a v/t graph

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Tension in strings supporting a 100-N weight

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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

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Change in gravitational potential energy for lowering a textbook

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Relativistic Mechanics (momentum)

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Differential equations particle motion

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Jump serve minimum and maximum speed to clear net and land in court

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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?

  • TheJoe
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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

  • ShamTheCandle
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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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Force on a water tank hatch 1.15m tall with 1.87m water depth

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Finding the units of the gravitational constant G

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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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Arrow trajectory and swing forces using vector components

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Two blocks sliding on top of each other

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Work and potential energy calculations: stroller, picture frame, textbook

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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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Acceleration during collision with garbage can from 44.6 m fall

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Coulombs Law of two metal balls

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