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Simple vector problems (but causing me a headache)

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Finding half-life from Y=Ae^(-t/lambda)

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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?

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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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Finding initial speed and acceleration of a truck slowing down

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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

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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

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Components and Vectors and Lengths, Oh My

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Electric field from two concentric 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

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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?

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Checking astronomy answers on apparent magnitude and circumpolar constellations

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Predicting time for water to drain from cup

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Flywheel energy storage for a 330 km car trip

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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

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

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Heat Transfer of nail into a board

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

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Dimensional Analysis of Free-Fall Time of Astrophysical Gas Ball

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Vectors and motion in 2D (physics problem)

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

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Motion with constant acceleration

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What Is the Final Temperature in the Copper Calorimeter Experiment?

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Addition of vectors and direction

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Finding initial velocity from distance and final velocity

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Force that link 3 exerts on link 2 in vertically lifted chain

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Finding Final Velocity [Need Assistance]

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Copper cylinder volume increases by 0.150% from 20°C

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Person walking on overhanging plank before it tips

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Simple,quick relative velocity question?

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Find its position at the instants when velocity is zero

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Car at traffic light with position x(t) = bt² + ct³

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How Long Will it Take Me to Catch The Bus?

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Study guides for Serway college physics

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Backpacker walking west then east with different velocities

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Horizontal velocity of a baseball throw at 35°

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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?

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Connected Capacitor: Potential & Charge

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Solving the Toaster Friction Problem

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Average speed for a 42.2 km marathon run in 3 h 53 min 17 s

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Calculating Initial Velocity and Acceleration of Passing Cars

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Superball bouncing off wall 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

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Stable equilibrium and net force

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Object drops vertically with a horizontal force acting on it

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Basic Kinematics HW questions for AP Physics

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Force Needed to Propel Object to 100m on Moon

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Finding the magnitude of velocity given vx and vy

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Electric field of an infinite charged rod

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Stuntman jumping 2D kinematics.

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

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Backpacker walking west then east with average velocity

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Calculating Maximum Height and Flight Time of a Model Rocket Launch

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How to figure out a equation given the variables

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

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Verifying the Limits of Newton's Second Law with Blocks

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Shopper on moving and stationary escalators

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Physics. Linear Mechanics question

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Minimum force to hold an inverted cone with two fingers

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Damped harmonic oscillator and displacement

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Stuntman jumping between buildings with 1s flight time

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Distance travelled with constant velocity or constant acceleration

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Capacitance potential difference Problem

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Potential difference(capacitor)

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Why doesn't radius depend on cord length in conical pendulum?

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