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How Long Does a Point on a String Take to Move Between +2.0mm and -2.0mm?

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Which Experiment Best Demonstrates the Particle Nature of Light?

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Formula One: physics assignment

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What are some household items capable of gaining an electric charge?

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Two very long straight conducting wires problem

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Measuring energy of photon to within some accuracy

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Newton's Laws, Force and Kinematics

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Problem on the transfer of heat into different materials

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Projectile to hit x,y from x,y given max height

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Gauge Pressure problem (algebra based)

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The Electric Field Produced by a Finite Charged Wire XD

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Where Electric Potential is Zero

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How Do You Calculate Tension and Normal Force in an Atwood Machine?

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Solving a Rectangular Loop Wire Problem: A Tutorial

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Relative density of ice in cylinder

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Can Ampere's Law Still Apply When Whole Solenoid Is Enclosed?

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Semantics making Bernoulli's Eq KILLER see if you can make sense

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Current-Can someone solve, please?

  • mar7pau
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Calculating Vertical Ball Collision Speed at 100m Cliff | Physics Question

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Force necessary to create enough friction.

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Kinetic energy of relativistic electrons

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Calculating the Fall Time of a High Diver from 36 m

  • Stroodle
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NON coplanar forces, please i thanks

  • jdhen
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An ice cube floating in water, what is the volume of the part under water?

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System of pulleys - find acceleration

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Flow and Flow Rate: Determine Rate & Pressure Change

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Object Weight given only difference in weights in and out of water

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Current Electricity Homework: 3V Battery & 30 Ohm Resistor

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How to Calculate Buoyant Force and Volume of a Submerged Object?

  • missnola2a
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Find magnitude of the magnetic field

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Pendulum gravity on X planet ratio

  • missnola2a
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1d kinematics help - ball thrown vertically upwards

  • skydiver
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Force 0.20 kg Object: Acceleration from Rest to 25 m/s

  • dance_sg
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Finding angular velocity using conservation of angular momentum

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Speed of Sound in water given frequency

  • jdg
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Acceleration of 50kg vs 75kg Object: Find the Ratio

  • dance_sg
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Help with Kinematics: Moving Towards Origin

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Why Does Water Balloon Drop Not Match Expected 9.81m/s² Acceleration?

  • psychosushi
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Horizontal/verticle distance, velocity

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Elevator and mass of a student help

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Calculating Min Incident Angle for Ray Emerging from Prism

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Shifting Centre of Mass Puzzle?

  • PeterPumpkin
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Basic calculation problem with commutators

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Not really a question, basic physics instructions (book error?)

  • Raizy
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Electric force between 2 parallel plates

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Wavelength Ratios for a Pitching Boat in a Deep Lake

  • songoku
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How far does a car travel before reaching a speed of 100 km/h?

  • Stroodle
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Finding Tensions of Fixed Point Charges

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Calculate Car's Speed in Collision: Brakes and Skid Marks Analysis

  • Stroodle
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Equilibrium of Forces in a Hemisphere: Solving for Angles and Ratios

  • harimakenji
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How Does Simple Harmonic Motion Relate to Sinusoidal Functions?

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Conservation of energy and momentum?

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Possible Variables in a Planck's Constant Practical?

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Calculating Energy Required for Space Shuttle Orbit Boost

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Can you show me if i did these calculations right?

  • graphicer89
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How to Calculate 3D Projectile Movement with Initial Vectors?

  • wraithseeker
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Solve Bernoulli's Problem: Water Flow in Garden Hose

  • jdg
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To find the density of a material of the body using moments

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Emf induced in the windings of coil

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Is Acceleration Different During a Baseball's Flight?

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What Is the Tension Force in a Clothesline Holding Big Bird?

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Solving a Buoyancy Problem with Carbon Steel

  • jdg
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Helps on Projectile motion and moment of inertia

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Optics - distance between object and image

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Understanding the Force on a Spring: Why is it 1.2 - 9x?

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Force & Torque in Classic Mechanics: Calculating Accelerations

  • tom_backton
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Radians to Meters: Conversion & Possibilities

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How Fast Will the Climber Accelerate and How Long Until the Rock Falls?

  • orange03
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Problem involving Coulombs Law; suspended masses

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Problem about uniformed charged ring and a charge in the center

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Work done on the block by force

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Two masses attached by a spring

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If a person breathes thirty time in a minute what is ?

  • graphicer89
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Calculating Pisa Point of Failure

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Work and Kinetic Energy of weight

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How fast should a space station rotate to simulate Earth's gravity?

  • orange03
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Explaining Electric Current Density and Conservation Law - Jeffrey

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Circuit/Current/Resistance Problem

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What is the Induced Current in the Second Coil?

  • cashcabwatche
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Frequency of a Car's Vibrations?

  • jumpingjack90
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Kinetic Energy and Total Mechanical Energy

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A little history of physics .How is physics involved in this?

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Dot and Cross Products (of Gradients)

  • jeff1evesque
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Problem in Perfectly Elastic Collision w/o given mass

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Why Might Experimental Gravity Measurements Differ from the Standard 9.8 m/s²?

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Kinetic Friction of moving car hitting a stationary car

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Sliding down a Track, loop, Conservation problem

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Why Does Divergence of Electric Flux Equal Volume Charge Density?

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Perfectly inelastic collision - conceptual - where does the lost KE go?

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The Work Done in Pulling a Supertanker

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Sphere rolling down a ramp problem

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Moment of Inertia of slender rod

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Change in kinetic energy Velocity not given

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Kinetic Friction of ride down a ramp

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