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How Do You Calculate Uncertainties in Velocity Measurements?

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Pitcher Throwing A Ball In Protest

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How Do You Calculate the Average Speed for a Round Trip?

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Calculating Time and Distance in a Constant Velocity Sprinting Problem

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What Is the Separation Between Two Cars After Distracted Driving?

  • demonelite123
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How Do I Solve This Equilibrium Moment/Torque Problem?

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A ball is thrown and I'm trying to understand why

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Find average velocity of Vector A and B

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Calculating Initial Velocity for Accurate Basketball Shot

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One-Dimensional Motion With Constant Acceleration

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How many drops in all the oceans?

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Find the direction of the resulatnt vector

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Difficult Projectile Motion Arrow Problem

  • JoshMP
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Finding average velocity from a velocity-time graph

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Calculating velocities with only acceleration and time

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Adding Horizontal Vectors Graphically

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Cross a River: Time Needed for 1.5km Distance at 6.6km/h Speed

  • megamax48
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Components and Vectors and Lengths, Oh My

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Solving Electric Field & Potential for Charged Cylinders

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Calculate Acceleration of Thrown Baseball: 5.98s, 1.2m from Rest

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Finding the Shortest Path in a Vector Space

  • Neophyte
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Why doesn't this solution work?

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How Do You Calculate Half-Life from an Exponential Decay Equation?

  • fuzzybear
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Astronomy Logic and Accuracy: Check Your Homework with RQs and P3

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Predicting time for water to drain from cup

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Understanding Simple Kinematics: Solving for Velocity in Resisted Motion

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Relate simple harmonic motion to circular motion

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Incline plane, two masses, a pulley

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Heat and work in adiabatic container

  • kiwikahuna
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Solving Physics Puzzles in Space: A 500cm^3 Challenge

  • jcz2
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Heat Transfer of nail into a board

  • amiv4
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Projectile Motion of a Pebble on the Sloping Faces of Pyramid Cheops

  • joemama69
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Dimensional Analysis of Free-Fall Time of Astrophysical Gas Ball

  • CaptainEvil
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Vectors and motion in 2D (physics problem)

  • natty210
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Calculating Time and Final Velocity of a Ball Thrown into the Air

  • Amel
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Motion with constant acceleration

  • Quantum_Grid
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What Is the Final Temperature in the Copper Calorimeter Experiment?

  • amiv4
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Addition of vectors and direction

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Need help finding Kinematic formula for Initial V

  • Krasz
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Force of Link 3 on Link 2: 2.964 N

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Finding Final Velocity [Need Assistance]

  • pharmguy
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Thermal Expansion of a copper cylinder

  • amiv4
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Net torque and net force in equilibrium Help

  • renaldocoetz
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Simple,quick relative velocity question?

  • sameeralord
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Find its position at the instants when velocity is zero

  • AlexGM07
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Solve Physics Homework Problem: Car at Traffic Light

  • jcz2
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How Long Will it Take Me to Catch The Bus?

  • bleedblue1234
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Study guides for Serway college physics

  • swiftjab
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Easy velocity/acceleration problem, could use some help please

  • buyerat
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Another Two Dimensional motion question

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Help with Graphs Homework: Find Velocity at t=7.0s

  • Mirole
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Negative time and positive time

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Rectilinear Motion with Constant Acceleration

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How Long Does a Bolt Fall the Last 28% of 85 Meters?

  • Gattz
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Connected Capacitor: Potential & Charge

  • songoku
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Solving the Toaster Friction Problem

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I have a question about Calculating Avreage Speed

  • _wantana
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Calculating Initial Velocity and Acceleration of Passing Cars

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Magnitude of average acceleration

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Angular relationship question.

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Power Dissipation in Driven Oscillator: Calculate Average

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Finding Velocity and Position of a Moving Particle: A Function of Time

  • Loppyfoot
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Stable equilibrium and net force

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Object drops vertically with a horizontal force acting on it

  • MechaMZ
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Basic Kinematics HW questions for AP Physics

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Force Needed to Propel Object to 100m on Moon

  • codeman9
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Finding the magnitude of velocity given vx and vy

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Electric field of an infinite charged rod

  • fluidistic
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Stuntman jumping 2D kinematics.

  • CandyApples
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What Does the Slope of a Force vs. Acceleration Graph Indicate?

  • psychosushi
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What Does Zero Net Force Mean For An Object's Movement?

  • DUCEDAWG
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A difficult 1D kinematics problem dealing with displacement and velocity

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Calculating Maximum Height and Flight Time of a Model Rocket Launch

  • gadawg90
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How to figure out a equation given the variables

  • Kennyh
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If you are told an object is accelerating what should you conclude?

  • DUCEDAWG
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Verifying the Limits of Newton's Second Law with Blocks

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Physics. Linear Mechanics question

  • vegetto34
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Holding a Cone Up: Minimum Force & θ Explained

  • physicsguy10
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Damped harmonic oscillator and displacement

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Stuntman jumping 2D kinematics.

  • CandyApples
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Distance travelled with constant velocity or constant acceleration

  • Physics1854
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Capacitance potential difference Problem

  • mustang1988
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Potential difference(capacitor)

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Finding Radius of Circular Movement w/ Angle & Angular Velocity

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Calculating Initial Velocity in Vertical Projectile Motion

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How does charge behavior affect a conducting rod's ends?

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