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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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Projectile trajectory (True/False)

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Gravitational Motion: Find 2 Objects' Height Above Ground

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Electric flux through cube faces with point charge at center

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Critical angle at oil-water interface and refraction problems

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Can You Qualify for the Olympics by Long Jumping on a Moon?

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Rearranging acceleration equations

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Deflection of beam due to magnetic field

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Calculating Displacement of Roller Coaster Motion

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How to Solve for A and Theta in a Difficult Vector Problem?

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Critical speed of a banked curve (with friction.)

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Acceleration in terms of position

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Velocity, Acceleration, Car problem

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Average speed, and total distance traveled

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Electric field at point from two point charges on x axis

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How Do You Calculate Forces in a Three-Charge System?

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Finding magnitude and direction of a rocket

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How fast must a car go to average 60 km/h over 200 km?

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Kinematics Problem on hot air balloon

  • gadawg90
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Need help finding what formula to use?

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Displacement and 1-D Kinematics

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Voltage at Vab, balancing, Increasing

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Thermodynamics- pV^n = constant.

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Simple Harmonic Motion Archimedes

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What Temperature Makes Copper and Iron Wires Equally Resistant?

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Finding the x-component of electric field from a charged quarter-circle arc

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Volumetric Expansion of Liquids

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Converting Minutes to second in sig figs

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Speed, Velocity and Average Acceleration

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Calculating excess charges on Earth's surface?

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Finding acceleration and distance for cars slowing to rest

  • magdalenagirl
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How Do Pt Graphs Convert to Vt Graphs in Physics?

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Movement in a straight line problem

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Angular momentum and Linear momentum elastic collision

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What is the Capacitance of a Capacitor When a Conductor is Inserted?

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Finding the magnitude of a vector sum with components

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Average speed for 80km at 100 km/h and 50km at 75 km/h

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Displacement of a point on a wheel rolling half a revolution

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Solving for Blood Pressure Difference: What Now?

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How Does a River Affect Chaining Accuracy in Surveying?

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Finding Thickness of glass knowing OPD and refractive index.

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Finding Incident Intensity for Unpolarized Light

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Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle (Helium ballon and cargo problem)

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Volume of dissolved oxygen gas at standard conditions

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Acceleration in terms of velocity

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Find Average Velocity of cart rolling down the slope.

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How long is a stone in air thrown upward from a 12 m window?

  • Firebird
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Energy of a Dipole in a Constant E Field

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Model rocket maximum height with constant acceleration phase

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What Forces Balance a Knot Pulled by Three Different Ropes?

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Acceleration in free fall: find final velocity and height

  • Firebird
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Current in the curcuit from watts and volts

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Conduction, How much heat flows through per second?

  • chunkytuna21
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What is the Solution to Gauss's Law for a Charged Plate Capacitor?

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Calculating Induced EMF from AM Radio Broadcast and Dipole Antenna

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Problem with electric diagrams.

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Calculating Percent Uncertainty in Area of a Circle

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Time for Car 1 and Car 2 Collision: Solving the Puzzle

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Ball thrown upward at 30 m/s, find velocity after 4 seconds

  • fattydq
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Calculating Average Speed of a Car Round Trip

  • tigerlili
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Unknown Charge Ratio Calculation

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Rigid Body Equilibrium problem (no calculus)

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Acceleration Homework Help: Motion Diagram and Sticky Track Analysis

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Particle problem, velocity and acceleration

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Why Might an Ocean-Based Thermal Energy Scheme Fail to Be Sustainable?

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Solving Acceleration Problems with Variables Explained

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How to Compute Average Velocity for Mixed Walking and Running Distances?

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Electric Field due to a Dipole (not on a z-axis)

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Solve for Ball's Height After Launch in Circular Chute

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Calculating Potential Energy of Three Point Charges

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Solve Cable DBE Force Components @ D for Equilibrium Problem

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SHM block on a string questions

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Calculating Work Done by a Gas on a p-V Diagram

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Average Acceleration Problem checking answer

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Should I average the following when calculating heat capacity?

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How Does Gauss' Law Apply to Complex Cylindrical Charge Distributions?

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Skier accelerating down a 20m slope with friction

  • GrandMaster87
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Statics Problem - Moment on a Bridge

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Calculating the Distance Fallen by an Electron Beam

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Rescue plane drops rations from 113 m at 40 m/s

  • Warmacblu
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Why Does a Car Lift Wheels During Sharp Turns?

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Latent heat of fusion for Silver

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Two identical like-charged conductive spheres are placed very close

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How do find the displacement when it is =ing to distance

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Spring constant and electric field with Coulomb's law

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Deceleration, velocity, acceleration, distance

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Calculating Separation of Car and Truck

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