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How Far Does a Ball Fall Vertically in Projectile Motion?

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Question: Conservation of Momentum

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Do Weight Differences Affect Speed on a Frictionless Hill?

  • JG89
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4-9 Force/mass - Newton's Second Law question

  • Ant29
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Rocket Height-Kinematic Question

  • Chandasouk
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Velocity and position of electron

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How Does the Driven Oscillator ODE Describe Long-Term Motion?

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Two in-phase loudspeakers on a coordinate plane

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Coulomb's Law: Calculating Force on Charged Particles

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Rewriting Planck's law with dimensionless variable x

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Sol'n: Law of Cosines - Find Direction to Return After Walking 220m, 50m

  • panthergk
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How Do Electric Balls Approach Each Other as They Lose Charge?

  • TheLegace
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Kirchoff's laws, emf and internal resistance

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Why does the momentum of an object affect the force of impact?

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Longitudinal waves in a clamped metal rod

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How Much Power Does a 30m Diameter Windmill Generate?

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Biomechanics Static Forces on handle of locked door

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How Do I Find the Electric Field for the Whole Plane Using My Lab Data?

  • Josh930
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Winch puller tension for 960 N·m moment at point D

  • talaroue
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Free Fall Question [ Need Assistance]

  • pharmguy
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Equipotential Lines and Electric Fields Labratory Experiment

  • llauren84
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How does F = -KX become A = -KX

  • student321
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Gravity Question: Levitate Objects on Small Planets

  • PacersRule07
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Car coasting up a 30 degree grade with initial speed 25 m/s

  • avaholic
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Equivalent Capacitors and their charges:

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Max speed and acceleration of pistons in a 4-cylinder engine using SHM

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Calculating Contact Forces for Pushing Boxes

  • dorian_stokes
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Why does θ have time dependence in y = a(1 + cos θ)?

  • jimz
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Confirm my answers for some simple geodesy questions

  • inspire2009
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Magnitude and Direction of Electric Field

  • bwilhelm
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Finding the value of the element dq

  • warrior_1
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Finding quadriceps force for torque equilibrium with angles

  • ally1h
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Projectile Motion: Solving for Horizontal Displacement from a 200m Cliff

  • jlm342000
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Calculating Sound Levels in dB: How to Convert Intensity to Decibels

  • RedPhoenix
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Vector addition: why do I get 7.9 km instead of 7.8 km?

  • elpermic
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I have been spending 2 hrs on this vector problems i don't get it?

  • elpermic
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A force perpendicular to velocity does not change speed?

  • mackygood
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Electric field inside a uniformly charged insulator

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How Do You Calculate the Potential Difference in a Charged Spherical Insulator?

  • deerhunt713
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Does a bouncing ball violate conservation of momentum?

  • chelseaalyssa
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Vector clock and vector dog displacement problems

  • M1ZeN
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Calculating the work against gravity?

  • mscott
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How many acre feet of water fell on the town during the thunderstorm?

  • elpermic
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Solve PV=nRT for V on Venus at STP

  • amiv4
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Speed of a partical as it approaches stagnation point

  • Wildcat04
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Car collision-speed passenger crashes into dashboard

  • physicsquest
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Calculating Airplane Speed Using Time Dilation

  • davesface
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Motorcycle Catches a Car-Kinematics Question

  • Chandasouk
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Electric field from a 25 cm rod at 69 cm perpendicular distance

  • Liketothink
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Finding the distance between a point and a level curve

  • yeahhyeahyeah
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Precision during free-fall experiments.

  • Rumor
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Centripetal Acceleration check my reasoning

  • pointintime
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Finding Acceleration in a Shopping Cart Rolling Downhill

  • Mirole
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Capacitance of a spherical cell

  • fatsack
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Mass on spring: finding displacement, period, and max velocity

  • ibysaiyan
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What Went Wrong in Solving the Ball Projection Problem?

  • Sealy
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How does tripling launch speed affect projectile range?

  • tomhall
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Vertical displacement basketball problem

  • dude24
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Understanding t_max in the Drag Racer Problem

  • jcsp101
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How High Will the Rocket Be When the Fuel Canister Hits the Launch Pad?

  • cwalden91
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Determining Force applied so mass will stay at rest

  • uazaga
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Total resistance of resistors in series

  • TonyThaGreat
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Solving the Wave Equation with D=A sin kx cos \omegat

  • physicsnewb7
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How can the amount of work required to move two charges be calculated?

  • tooold
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Acceleration of a solid cylinder on an incline

  • chelseaalyssa
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Combustion of ethanol in O2 at constant T, fixed V, and constant P

  • ipitydatfu
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Relative error and measurement accuracy problem

  • usamahashimi
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Pulleys, tension, and blocks oh my

  • grepory
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Time-dependent force applied to object: when does it reach 15 m/s?

  • MechaMZ
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Effect of dropping putty on a block doing SHM

  • issacnewton
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What Is the Result of -4.00 C·(4.00 A×B) in Vector Calculations?

  • Gattz
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What is the Divergence Form of Gauss's Law?

  • warrior_1
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Problems with negatives: Can magnification be negative?

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Easy Electric Potentional Problem

  • exitwound
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Which Ball Wins the Race According to Bernoulli's Principle?

  • sa_ta
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Does air temperature affect air resistance?

  • sa_ta
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Solve for Initial Speed: Dropping Chestnuts from a Tree

  • unigal13
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Cart motion problem with velocity-time graph

  • joemama69
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Charged ball attached to a charged sheet

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What Is the Time Needed to Take Off?

  • c0ld
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Proton is shot away from inf. charged plane

  • megr_ftw
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Initial Velocity without acceleration given.

  • c0ld
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Doppler Effect radio broadcasting

  • atarr3
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Rocket with constant acceleration for 16s reaching 5100m at 20s

  • Slacker142
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How Much Force Before Ethan Slips on an OSHA Compliant Floor?

  • Ion1776
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Vector displacement problem trouble

  • M1ZeN
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Average acceleration of particle

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Find distance traveled using acceleration graph

  • denxnis
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How Do Forces Affect the Motion of a Doughnut?

  • Kurogashi
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Calculating Time for Falling Crate in Projectile Motion

  • bringme2life
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How Much Ice Does Antarctica Really Hold?

  • elpermic
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How Do You Calculate the Charge of He2+?

  • soupastupid
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If she hits the brakes, how far will she travel before stopping?

  • rakesh44
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Position, velocity, and acceleration

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