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Frictionless Floor Multiple Choice

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Find magnitudes of vectors B and C when hiker returns to start

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A baseball's movement when considering air drag

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Finding the third force for equilibrium of three forces

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Find average force during contact when ball hits wall.

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Deriving period formula for disk rotating on string through table

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Calculate the force exerted on the handle of a wheelbarrow

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Why Does Adding a Choke Dim an Electric Lamp in an AC Circuit?

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Electric field from two point charges at a given location

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Changing the resistance of a voltmeter

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Acceleration of an electron in a constant electric field

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Distance between 2 charged protons (i'm desperate)

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How to Solve a Kinematics Problem Involving Acceleration and Time

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Converging mirrors facing each other

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Easy Time Graph: Create Visuals Easily!

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Calculating Distance of Runners from Flagpole When Paths Cross

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Can Explorers Communicate After Traveling 5 km North and 6 km Northeast?

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Collision between falling body and body shot upwards

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Electron acceleration in uniform field and charge on two spheres

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Finding height of a well using speed of sound

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Projectile motion: calculating time and distance

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Argument for relationship between scale length and frequency

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What is the initial velocity of a projectile on a sloped surface?

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Describe the difference in sound between a flute and a violin?

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Calculating Displacement with Negative Work

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Moving Ball on sloping surface issue

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Solving for Water Pressure and Equilibrium in a Tube with a Piston

  • sonofahb
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Uniform ladder on a frictionless wall?

  • honestliar
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Kinematics (a lot, but most worked out & conceptual)

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Calculating Kinetic Energy of a Running Cheetah

  • kajasu88
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Adding Resistors: How to Calculate Total Resistance

  • Dell
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Work done by dog pulling sled at 15 degrees with friction

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How Do You Calculate Mass and Density Using Dimensional Analysis?

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Stone whirled in horizontal circle: finding string angle

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When are unit vectors helpful?

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Fairly simple dimensional analysis- somehow gone wrong

  • tigerlili
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Finding magnitudes of displacement vectors for a closed hiker's path

  • PhilCam
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Can You See a Wind Generator from 9000 Meters Away?

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What Acceleration Will the System Move With?

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Velocity of a Rock Thrown from a Bridge?

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Four charges in a plane. Finding the resultant Force

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Finding magnitude and direction of resultant force

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5 problems (Force, Height, Charge, Centripital)

  • LegendofMyth
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Finding the unit for mass × length × second⁻³

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Differential equation of spring-mass system attached to one end of seesaw

  • Tahir Mushtaq
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Minimum mass M to pull block up incline with spring

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What Happens to Momentum and Energy During an Inelastic Collision?

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Is power calculated using applied force or friction force?

  • jeekeshen
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What Are Different Ways to Define Energy in Physics?

  • gurrkin
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How Does Acceleration Affect Final Velocity in an Elevator?

  • Leo34005
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Diesel Engine driving a generator

  • talaroue
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Still trouble with time dilation

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Finding Altitude: Calculating Earth's Gravitational Field Strength

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Investigating a Gravity Car: Calculating Friction & Distance

  • hazman900
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What is the Fourier Transform of f(-x)?

  • likephysics
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Acceleration Deceleration Physics Problem

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A tire sliding about a fixed point

  • Zauce
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Why Is an Exponential Model Suitable for Simulating Radioactive Decay?

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Equilibrium Uniform Beam Problem

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Constant Acceleration of a cheetah

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Average speed problem What am I missing?

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How Does a Catapult Calculate Force and Initial Velocity for a Projectile?

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Some confusion on electron volt

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Constant acceleration needed for a cheetah to catch prey in 3.2 s

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Finding required speed for second half to average 97.2 km/h

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Rotational Dynamics-Moment of inertia

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How to find the final height of a moving object

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Voltage Drop across multiple resistors

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A rock dropped from a cliff using speed of sound

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Average speed of a race car in two directions with wind

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How to Solve for Unknowns in a Complex Circuit Equation?

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Inductive and Capacitive Reactances - AC circuits

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Finding maximum acceleration with COF of Ms

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Converting 6.5°C to Fahrenheit with significant figures

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Finding the Maximum Electric Field of a Charged Ring Using Derivatives

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Finding tensions and angle in a three-string static equilibrium system

  • janelle1905
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Why is angular frequency used in simple harmonic motion?

  • ethascar
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Equations of motion for hinged link with two springs

  • James_Frogan
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Sound Interference: Calculating Minimum Distance Between Speakers

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Difference in depth between the swimmer and its image

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Solve 1D Infinite Potential Well: Find Energy Levels & Wavelengths

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Which Axes Should a Coil Rotate Around to Induce EMF?

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Solve Kinematics Problem: 2 Stones Meeting at Height

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Balancing area of a loop and magnetic field through it

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Velocity, acceleration, and position graphs

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How Far Does the Cop Travel to Catch the Speeder?

  • nhsu
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How shud i apply lenz's law to this?

  • uzair_ha91
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Dropping a Ball off a cliff collision

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Derivation of Doppler Shift from Frequency to Wavelenght

  • IBY
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What are the components and magnitude

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My last kinematics batch (conceptuals)

  • clairez93
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This is the correct average velocity for the entire trip.

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Calculating Microwave Oven Energy Transfer: What Information Do I Need?

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Gravitational force from Earth on a 1.7kg rock on the Moon

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