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Newton's Law Problem: Calculating Acceleration on an Inclined Plane

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Equivalent Capacitance (Not in series or parallel)

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Minimum mass of box pulled by rope at 31 degrees

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How to find force vector from kinetic energy without using F = ma

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What Forces Act on a Charge at the Corner of a Rectangle?

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Lead and glass rods at different temperatures with same length

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What is the Mass Density of Air at 1 atm and -50°C?

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Forces and elongation in three steel bars on rigid member K

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You slowly back away from a plane mirror at a speed of 0.10 m/s

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Why Electric Fields are perpendicular

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Find position vector from given velocity

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Conceptual Standing Wave Question

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Finding Lambda 4 for mechanical harmonics

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How Long Can a Leaking Boat Loaded with 1200kg Float Before Sinking?

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Density of the sun as a white dwarf.

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Freq. of small oscillations in two pendulums

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Calculating Average Power for a 51 kg Woman Running Upstairs

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Electric potential at the origin

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Ship with propellers: mass flow, force, acceleration, and flooding

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Tower height if dropped object would take half time if thrown at 60 m/s

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Gauss's Law: Solve Cylindrical Shell Problem

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Find the Time and write it as a power

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Stone dropped in a well: total time for drop and sound return is 2.30 s

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Equation for gravitational field intensity from hanging mass experiment

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What is the reading shown by the ammeter?

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Why Does Cherenkov Radiation Form a Ring in a Concave Mirror Setup?

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Dynamics - forces in two objects, Newton's third law

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How Does Vector Addition Apply in Calculating River Crossing Distances?

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Distance and displacement, relative motion

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Finding amplitude and phase in sum of sinusoids

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How Far Does the Student Swim Across the River?

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How Do You Calculate the Net Force and Angle in Vector Addition?

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How Does River Flow Affect a Swimmer's Resultant Velocity?

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Rotational Dynamics - Algebra Based

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Cannon Question: Loose Cannon Velocity

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Calculating pipe size for closed loop watering system

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Direction of current for Kirchhoff's Current Law

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How Do You Calculate the Tension Tx in a Multi-Mass System?

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Using area of pv graph to find work

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Solve Network of Resistors: R1, R2, R3, R4, V=6V

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Unit vector parallel to plane and perpendicular to another vector

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Kinetic energy of rotating merry-go-round after 3 seconds

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Adiabatic Process in a heat engine

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Coulombs Law Problem - Find the Force

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Solving Velocity Vectors Problems: Tips & Tricks

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Solving cubic roots (with imaginary number)

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What is the initial speed of a bullet fired into a ballistic pendulum?

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Calculating Tire Revolutions and Angular Speed in a Braking Car

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Why Is the Acceleration Not Zero at the Highest Point of a Thrown Baseball?

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What Is the Loss of Mechanical Energy in a Car Collision?

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Driven Oscillation- Motion of a particle, with given equation.

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Question on simple acceleration concept

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Why voltage in a circuit is in a sinusoid form?

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Rectilinear Motion of Particle

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Range of values of force for string to remain in tension

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Distance traveled = Average velocity x time

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Calculating the Angular Size of an Image with a Magnifying Glass

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Newtown 2nd law of rotation problem

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Height and Range of a projectile

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Maxwell equation, magnnetic induction field question?

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Projectile motion given theta and x

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How Do You Calculate the Focal Length of a Microscope's Eyepiece?

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Blocks are connected by thin strings with tensions

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A ball is thrown in the air @ 30m/s

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RMS x-component of velocity in argon gas cylinder

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Solving the Pulley Problem: Calculating Ceiling Force

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Solve Mass Suspended from Uniform Boom

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Average Speed = distance/time question.

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Spring constant and oscillation frequency for mass on incline

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Calculating Volume Using Buoyant Forces

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Calculate the change in entropy of the universe

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Velocity over time / 2 questions

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Weighing yourself in the elevator

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Potential difference and electric fields

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How can the boatman cross the river in the shortest time?

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Why does ignoring cylinder inertia give wrong time for rope acceleration?

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Find the net gravitational force?

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Matrix dot products and phasor applications in circuits

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Wave optics YOUNG'S DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT

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What is the length of the inductor?

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Ray diagram for spherical wave reflecting from a plane surface

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Current electricity and finding resistances

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Input and output of an operational amplifier

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Calculating Point Charge from Kinetic Energy and Electric Potential

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What is the magnitude of the force the first exerts on the second?

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Explain the concept of significant figures?

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Plane speed relative to air at 25° angle and water molecules melting

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Electric Field 2: Calculate Electric Flux Through Cube Corner

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SHM(mass suspended vertically on spring)

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Derivations of dimensions problem

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Why is the height change L - L cos(θ) for a ball on a vertical rod?

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Shooting a cannonball over a cliff

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