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Angular Velocity; Given Coefficient of Friction and Radius

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Why are truss structures and stranded cables stronger?

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Minimum MgF2 film thickness for strong reflection at 531 nm

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Buoyancy problem and density of ice

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Why can dot products be negative if magnitudes are always positive?

  • Pupil
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What Is the Initial Temperature of Copper in a Mixed Substance System?

  • bigboss
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How Deep is the Ocean Using Ultrasonic Waves?

  • smillphysics
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Work energy theorem to find the maximum compression

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How can I calculate the mutual inductance between two rectangular loops?

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What is the Tension at the Ends of a Hanging Rope?

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Is the Net Work Done Positive and Does It Function as a Heat Engine?

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Finding the launch angle for a projectile and whether a glass tips over

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Electron moving through a uniform magnetic field

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Conservation of Momentum Set-Up

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What is the Density Ratio of a Submerged Ball in a Fluid?

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Non-uniform Hanging Bar: Finding the Center of Mass

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Why do two methods for time to collision give different results?

  • C_Ovidiu
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Amusement Park Physics: Solving for Friction Force in a Spinning Cylinder

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Tangent force on a rotating rod

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Calculating Time to Reach Initial Velocity from Acceleration-Time Graph

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Transmission Line - Solve for frequency subject to phase angle

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Calculating Horizontal Force to Accelerate Shopping Cart

  • Dave25
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Bullet embedded in wood on spring: finding spring constant and SHM properties

  • groundhog92
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Pendulum with adjustable lengths

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Simple Harmonic Motion and hung spring

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Temperature and Heat - what am i doing wrong?

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Do two decelerating trains heading toward each other collide?

  • Dave25
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What Is the Net Magnitude of the Electric Field at y = 0.200m?

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Buoyance - pressure on brick immersed in water

  • bigboss
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How Do You Calculate Neutron Flux in Neutron Activation Analysis?

  • cortiver
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Accelerating wedge with friction

  • Patta1667
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Electrical Potential Difference between parallel plates

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Mechanical Vibrations (Pendulums)

  • dipset24
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Minimum speed for ball to clear hemispherical rock of radius R

  • blackboy
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What is the Speed of the Cart Launched by a Spring?

  • Walid11
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Why Is My Calculation of the Center of Mass for a Uniform Wire Incorrect?

  • toastie
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Solving a Kirchhoff's Law Problem: Finding the Equation for a Highlighted Path

  • ninjadrummer8
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Force on 3rd Charge w/ 7.98nC: 3.17E-5N

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Mountain climber Equilibrium Question

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Weather balloon radius at liftoff using ideal gas law

  • PrideofPhilly
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Temperature Change: Sum of Daily Changes

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Coefficient of Restitution between two balls

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Calculating Resonant Frequencies of Closed Air Columns

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Coefficient of friction in snooker shots using kinematics

  • bijou
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Finding kinetic friction coefficient for block 2M on a table

  • JUniTo24
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Power Problem: Accelerating a Car over Track Distance

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How Do Kinetic and Potential Energies Change During a Ball's Ascent?

  • nikan_ange
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Pulley and Mass on an Inclined Ramp

  • theuniverse
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Conservation of kinetic energy and momentum in a collision

  • sugaJ
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Does a toboggan's height on a frictionless slope depend on the slope angle?

  • Amar.alchemy
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Calculating Charge Transfer between Objects

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What is the Fermi energy of metallic potassium at 0K?

  • joel.martens
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Classical Mechanics - Pulleys System

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How Does a Capacitor's Energy Change Over Time?

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How can capacitive reactance be zero for no capacitor?

  • bobaustin
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Why both teams pull equally hard but one team wins tug of war

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How Do You Calculate Tension in a String with Mass and Acceleration?

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Can an atom absorb a photon with non-resonant energy?

  • Linday12
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What causes an object's acceleration to increase or decrease?

  • bluejade
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Cube collision (with a pivot) and Angular momentum

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Speed of car with changing mass problem

  • bodensee9
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Coin sliding on spinning record with friction

  • groundhog92
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Find the tensions in the strings

  • MyNewPony
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Friction Problem with Pulley System: Determining Acceleration and Force

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What Are the Core Postulates of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity?

  • rchenkl
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Work Done By Friction on a Circular Ramp

  • MyNewPony
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Banked Frictionless Curve, and Flat Curve with Friction

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Linear momentum head on collision

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3 capcitors (series? parallel?) i cant tell

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Calculating Velocity of Bullet at Ground Impact

  • theuniverse
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Determining drift velocity of electrons at specific temperature

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Methods for measuring the density of a swimming pool water sample

  • JPhysic
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Why Is Cosine Used to Calculate Induced Voltage in a Conductor?

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Error propagation for acceleration from d = ½at²

  • Digitalx04
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Electricity- Power dissipation formula question

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Calculating Gravity Using Angular Speed and Weight

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How Much Water Escapes from a Pressurized Steel Vessel?

  • 2020vision
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Rolling disk with point mass on edge

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How does Fermat's Principle apply to the concept of Heroes?

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Fundamental Frequency of nylon string

  • rchenkl
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Acceleration in one dimension

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Block on 45-degree wedge pushed with constant acceleration

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Object Free fall quadratic equation problem

  • Pupil
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Easy Question, but giving me trouble

  • Dave25
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Does a pendulum reach maximum speed at its highest point?

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Relationship between momentum and acceleration, and force

  • Self-Help
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What is the formula for the radius of a satellite's orbit?

  • jacob117
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Two cars in different directions

  • Dave25
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Finding Total Energy of a system

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How to draw a reflected ray from mirror Y to observer A

  • Mark1991
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How to solve for the capacitance of an interlocking plates

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Solving for Mass in a Spring Scale Experiment

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Proving Vector Space of 3-Tuples Fulfilling 3x1 - x2 + 5x3 = 0

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Finding the Critical Angle of Glass in Water

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