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Five train cars and their final speed

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Newton's 3rd law and spacewalking

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Energy in a Capacator with a Diaelectric

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Determine the value of the resistance R that will produce a current

  • science.girl
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The Physics of Friction: Why Rough Wood Has More Friction

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Snowball sticks to man on frictionless pond

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How Do You Calculate Stress on a Piston Rod?

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Hershey park/ Physics day Problems

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Calculating Changes in Enthalpy and Entropy for Isobaric Gas Expansion

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T(1/2)+ \sqrt{3}. T ( \sqrt{3}. /2) = 100

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Finding rate of change of electric flux in a charging capacitor

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Canoeist Weight Distribution: How Far Can He Reach Without Getting Wet?

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Two speakers driven by the same force

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Rest energy and Kinetic Energy of a Photon - velocity?

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How Fast Does a Cylinder Roll Down an Inclined Plane?

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Block of wood pushed up a wooden ramp

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Weather balloon in wind, find displacement

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Photoelectric effect and cutoff frequency

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When to launch a rocket to Mars if it's 60.1 degrees ahead?

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How much does a barge rise when 7 tonnes of grain is removed?

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Calculating Earthquake Force with Pendulum Measurements

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Concave lens in water with negative focal length

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Proving Acceleration of A ≤ Acceleration of B

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Sliding/toppling of a block on a ramp

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Time for block A to reach 2 m/s using impulse and momentum

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Calculating Single Slit Diffraction Width with 630 nm Light

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How Much Energy Is Needed to Drag a Block Over a Distance?

  • indie452
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Finding the currents in this system

  • Dell
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Young's Modulus of Copper Wire: N/m Value

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Wave functions and probabilities

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Interference pattern, wavelength

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Calculate density A graduated cylinder

  • danny411
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Sliding Rod In A Magnetic Field (w/ Static Friction)

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Mechanics, PE to position function

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Hydrostatics - submerged lamina

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Electric Force and Potential Energy Calculations

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What is the Velocity of a Car with Constant Acceleration?

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Power in a parallel RLC circuit as a function of frequency

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Calculating Energy Stored in Capacitors in a Series Circuit

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Finding the Spring Constant of a Water-Balloon Launcher

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Bullet fired and penetrates a block of wood

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Calculating EMF and Current in a Circuit with Internal Resistance

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Trouble with a density mass problem

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Finding the fraction of electrons lost

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What is the Force Constant for Gaseous 14N16O?

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Earth's magnetic field ten times superior to what's expected

  • Renji
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What Is the Speed of the Composite Object After Collision?

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How does a collision at an angle affect momentum calculation?

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What are some suitable topics for a paper about physics?

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Are amp-seconds the same as capacitance?

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Calculating Depth of Immersion of an Ice Cone in Water

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Conceptual Question: Energy of ions across a voltage difference

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Batteries in Parallel vs. Batteries in Series

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Calculate Maximum Spring Compression: 0.4 kg Object, 80 N/m Constant

  • cooney88
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Solving Motion Equation: Transposing s=ut + 1/2at^2 for a

  • Sassenav22
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Something weird about Rotational Kinematic Equations

  • Stefenng
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Is Work Done During Changes in State?

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What data do I need to calculate fan power and efficiency?

  • novice_user31
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Strain energy of springs in series with 40mm extension

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Finding moles of gas given pressure, volume, and temperature

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Static equilibrium for ladder against frictionless wall with firefighter

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Time for boats to reach separation distance d

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Tetherball - Classical Mechanics

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Does Terrain Affect Bullet Travel Distance in Sniping?

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Solving a Physics Magnification Problem with a 6cm Focal Length Magnifier

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Stopping a Train: Calculating Time from Velocity

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Proving the spacetime interval is invariant across reference frames

  • authenticgeek
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Does the Cross Product of -k and -i Result in +j?

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Electric Charges Homework: Potential Difference & Capacitance

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Finding time a ball is in the air

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Calculating Acceleration of a Rocket Launch

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Weather rocket constant acceleration and speed at altitude

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Measuring the Height of Mountains on the Moon

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How to find velocity given coefficient of friction, distance, mass and v1?

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Newton's 2nd law and Lorentz Force

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How Does the Biot-Savart Law Apply to Uneven Currents in a Split Loop?

  • GDGirl
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How Fast Was Randy Barnes' Record-Setting Shot Putt?

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What is the Length of the Ski Slope?

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How far apart the stop signs are

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Light intensity from a source on a solar panel at different distances

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Sabine's reverberation time equation and large spaces

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Food value of a peanut from water temperature change with 40% efficiency

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Speed and acceleration of a stone on a rotating tire

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Steady State Ideal Gas Where Do I start

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Calculate the tension in the tie-rope between the rod and the wall

  • Lord Dark
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Calculating Particle Speed with Relativity

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Projectile Motion (Ball thrown Hortizonally)

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Some electrodynamics questions (waves)

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How Is Force Calculated When an Object Hits the Ground?

  • cd19
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How Long Does It Take for Two Rocks Thrown from a Bridge to Hit the Water?

  • mcryder16
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Toy train with sticking wheel: finding deceleration

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