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Centripetal/Cons. of Energy Problem

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Kinematics, work-energy, conservation, more, less?

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How Do Nodes Function in Standing Waves with Fixed and Open Ends?

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Simple problem that webassign keeps saying wrong

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Magnitude of Angular Acceleration

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Calculating Collision Time: Astronaut's Experiment on Alien Planet

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How do light dimmers change current or voltage?

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What is the relationship between h and R in this circular motion problem?

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Is 2.6x10^9C a Plausible Answer for a Pith Ball Electrostatics Problem?

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Ultrasound transmitter component- longitudinal or transverse waves?

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Finding the Longest Wavelength of Standing Waves on a 254.0 cm String

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How Do You Calculate the Forces Needed to Move and Accelerate a Trunk?

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What is the Force Exerted by the Sun on Earth?

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Does Body A Exert a Negative Impulse on Body B in a Closed System?

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Equipotential Surfaces: Calculating Work Required to Move a Charge

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Field at a distance 'z' from a solenoid

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Car collision, force exertion and impulse.

  • TheAkuma
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UV vs IR Light Bulb Power Comparison

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Baseball thrown at 60° strikes building 18m away and 6m high

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Finding speed of sound in an object

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Microscope Theory - Alternatives to the use of light?

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Calculating Velocity of a Pendulum Using Equations

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Uniform rod can pivot about a horizontal, fr

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Proving Stacking Dominoes' Maximum Overhang w/ Centre of Gravity

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10 kg block on 40 kg slab pulled with 100 N force

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To avoid a collision what is your reaction time?

  • KaseyK
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Maximum photocurrent ejected by electrons in photoelectric effect

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Calculating Tension and Mass in a Hanging Spotlight System

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Finding interference minima and maxima from two in-phase speakers

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Kinetic and Potential Energy rollercoaster

  • Gregg
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Calculating the wavelength of soundwaves

  • leena19
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Pendulum conservation of energy question

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What is the equivalent resistance and current in this parallel circuit?

  • jackxxny
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The Fundamental Frequencies of Open Pipes

  • leena19
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Calculate acceleration of object with applied force and friction

  • username12345
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Should It Be In Series or Parallel?

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Tension in a Uniform Cable: Where Does the Force Balance?

  • Amar.alchemy
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Tangential Acceleration of pendulum

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What is the Average Force on Each Foot During a Jump?

  • prophecygirl
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Water speed in a 2.68 cm diameter pipe filling a bathtub

  • Liketothink
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Steel floating in mercury problem

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What is the Time to Drain a Tank with a Small Hole at the Base?

  • powerbuddy
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Volleyball player jump height: why is my air time 0.61s not 0.83s

  • KaseyK
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A Simple Acceleration Problem - two different answers

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Radioactive Decay: 56Co to 56Fe - Which Type of Beta Decay?

  • Jules18
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Solving Circular Motion: Train Slows from 90 to 50 km/h

  • blackboy
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Free energy from Thorium to Radon

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Average Speed - isn't this average velocity?

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Coal Car and horizontal impulse

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Center of Mass: Plate with hole

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Pile driver - Conservation of enegy

  • darkminos
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What Beat Frequency Results from Unequal Tensions in Piano Strings?

  • physics10189
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Hole in a container and its distance from the bottom

  • brunettegurl
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What is the velocity of gasoline in a siphon tube after opening?

  • smillphysics
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Young's modulus of copper by projecting a laser

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How can trigonometry be used to calculate distance in physics problems?

  • fireykitty
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Measuring gravitational acceleration in a vacuum

  • Skorbee
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Minimum force needed to inject medicine through a syringe

  • mercury126
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Force and flow speed of a syringe

  • aligass2004
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Cart, Incline, Pulley, and a messed up Acceleration.

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Potentiometer vs rheostat for measuring resistance by V-I graphs

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Grade 11 physics project on how cameras work

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Solve Friction on an Angle with 7.0kg Mass: u=0.2

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How Much Work Does a Plane's Engine Perform to Reach 3200m at 65m/s?

  • Some_Thing
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Rotational kinetic energy of a spinning solid cylinder

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What is the mass density of a submerged cylinder?

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How Long Does It Take for a Car to Catch Up to a Truck?

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Derive a general formula for finding range with a spring launcher

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Ranking thermal radiation rates for cube, sphere, and hemisphere

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Inclined plane and inclined force-acceleration

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Finding cable cross-sectional area for stress-strain calculation

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How Do You Calculate the Tension in a String Lifting an Accelerating Mass?

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What is the submarine’s maximum safe depth?

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Why Does an Athlete Seem to Hang in the Air During a Vertical Jump?

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Inelastic collision of snadwiches

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One-dimensional motion with w/ aceleration dependant on speed.

  • Brasi333
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Tank and a hole in it whats the speed?

  • brunettegurl
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Electron and proton revolutions per second in magnetic field

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Block and bullet collision problem

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Speed of car down hill with same power as up.

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Positively charged side with induced emf

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Find Acceleration with only Initial Velocity and Final position?

  • fireykitty
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What is the Minimum Force Required to Inject into a Vein Using a Syringe?

  • smillphysics
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Aim of Refraction Practical Using Snell's Law

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How to Determine the Upward Acceleration of a Mass in a Pulley System?

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Calculating the speed of sound in air

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find the magnitude and direction of the final velocity

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A complex question which has mass, time and acceleration involved

  • TheAkuma
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What is the Average Velocity Vector of a Clock's Minute Hand?

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Two basic physics 11 wave questions

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Determine the dielectric constant

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Horizontal force pushing 96 kg crate at constant speed up 27° ramp

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Range of mass so the body won't move

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Determining Acceleration of Pulley System w/ Friction

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Calculate angles from axis with a 3d vector

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Finding when human population exceeds Earth's water and space capacity

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What rate does water flow through the pipes?

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