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

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Rocket Height-Kinematic Question

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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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Introductory Astronomy Question - function help

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

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

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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?

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Solving Winch Puller Statics Homework: Find Tension at D

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Free Fall Question [ Need Assistance]

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Equipotential Lines and Electric Fields Labratory Experiment

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How does F = -KX become A = -KX

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Gravity Question: Levitate Objects on Small Planets

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Question about Newton's laws, solving for distance given slope and speed.

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Equivalent Capacitors and their charges:

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Calculating Max Speed & Acceleration of Pistons in 4-Cylinder Engine

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Calculating Contact Forces for Pushing Boxes

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Help understanding derivatives of time; chain rule.

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Confirm my answers for some simple geodesy questions

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Magnitude and Direction of Electric Field

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Finding the value of the element dq

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Calculating Quadriceps Force | Basic Torque Question Solution

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

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

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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?

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Conservation of momentum & inelastic collisions

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Vector clock and vector dog displacement problems

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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

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Speed of a partical as it approaches stagnation point

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Car collision-speed passenger crashes into dashboard

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Calculating Airplane Speed Using Time Dilation

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Motorcycle Catches a Car-Kinematics Question

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

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Finding the distance between a point and a level curve

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Precision during free-fall experiments.

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Centripetal Acceleration check my reasoning

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Finding Acceleration in a Shopping Cart Rolling Downhill

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Capacitance of a spherical cell

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Calculating Simple Harmonic Motion for a Mass on a Spring - Homework Example

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What Went Wrong in Solving the Ball Projection Problem?

  • Sealy
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Solve Projectile Motion Problems with Tripled Speed | Physics Help"

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Vertical displacement basketball problem

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Understanding t_max in the Drag Racer Problem

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

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Determining Force applied so mass will stay at rest

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Help with Physics: Calculating Resistor Values

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

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

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Acceleration of a solid cylinder on an incline

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Help solving this thermo problem.

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Calculating the Relative Error & Improving Accuracy of Measurements

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Pulleys, tension, and blocks oh my

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Velocity and Forces: Find Time for 15 m/s Speed

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Effect of dropping putty on a block doing SHM

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

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What is the Divergence Form of Gauss's Law?

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Problems with negatives: Can magnification be negative?

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Easy Electric Potentional Problem

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

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Does air temperature affect air resistance?

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Solve for Initial Speed: Dropping Chestnuts from a Tree

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Solving a Cart Motion Problem: Understanding the Graphs

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Charged ball attached to a charged sheet

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What Is the Time Needed to Take Off?

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Proton is shot away from inf. charged plane

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Initial Velocity without acceleration given.

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Doppler Effect radio broadcasting

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Solving for Acceleration and Speed of a Rocket in Motion | Kinematics Problem

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

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Vector displacement problem trouble

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Average acceleration of particle

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Find distance traveled using acceleration graph

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How Do Forces Affect the Motion of a Doughnut?

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Calculating Time for Falling Crate in Projectile Motion

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How Much Ice Does Antarctica Really Hold?

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How Do You Calculate the Charge of He2+?

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

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Position, velocity, and acceleration

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Finding an initial speed (projectile motion)

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Parallel plate capacitor electric field problem

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Understanding the Sign Flipping Rule for Cross Multiplication of Vectors

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