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Astronaut Momentum: Return to Ship in 7.43s

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Calculating the Depth of a Well Using the Speed of Sound

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Rocket Acceleration: Finding the Unknowns with Known Time and Distance

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How Do You Calculate Angular Momentum in a Two-Particle System?

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Relative Motion using Rotatin Axis

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How Do You Achieve Force Equilibrium on a Moving Object?

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Calculate Ambient Noise Intensity Increase: 86.0 dB - 85 dB

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Max Contraction of Two Moving Bodies with Spring Attachment

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How Does Wire Diameter Affect Electrical Resistivity?

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Instantaniouse center of 0 velocity

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Heres a tough sign question with equilibrium that will be on the test.

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Im ready for this test except I cant get started on these 2 questions.

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What is the Correct Way to Calculate the Work Function of a Material?

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Am I using the correct formula?

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What is the speed of a skier at the bottom of a circular hill?

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Answer: The mass of the piston is 16.2 kg.Weight of a Piston: 16.2 kg

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What Formula Applies to a Boxer's Punch?

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Physics Lab Project: Design and Build an Electric DC Motor

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More inelastic problems Homework Question - How Far Do They Slide?

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Given the mass of a star, determine Kepler's constant.

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Doppler Effect of a blown whistle

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Thickness of Film:Constructive Interference @ 547nm, n=1.31

  • hardwork
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What Should Be the Focal Length of Kat's Corrective Contact Lenses?

  • hardwork
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Given properties of nucleus, find its atomic number, mass, and element symbol.

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How to Convert Different Forms of Energy: Examples and Equations

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Compressed Gas Expansion: Energy Transfer and Work Done

  • fball558
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Force & Free Fall Projectile Homework Help

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What's the Critical Angle of Plastic in Water?

  • xswtxoj
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Modiefied Atwood Machine Problem.

  • Ogir28
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What Factors Affect the Number of Emission Lines Produced by an Atom?

  • hellogirl88
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How Fast Does the Block Move After the Bullet Embeds?

  • Spraypaint
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Confused as to what forces are acting on the ladder

  • Scrambler
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I with a physics HW problem PLEase

  • Ogir28
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What is the largest mass that can be placed on the spring

  • jaron
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Finding gravitational potential energy

  • jaron
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How Do Forces Affect the Deformation and Young's Modulus of a Book?

  • Schoomy
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What Determines the Kinetic and Potential Energy Levels in a Punted Football?

  • amandamolegir
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Theory Based Kinetic Energy Question

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Calculating Oxygen Leakage from a Balloon

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Solve Inclined Plane FNET Homework: Time to Stop Skier

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RLC Circuit: Find Missing Component - Inductor?

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How Many Electrons Strike the Screen in 1 Hour?

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Cylinder Rotational Motion Question

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Calculating Fluid Velocity in a Circular Duct

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AC Circuit Analysis - Capacitor

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Physics homework-momentum and impulse-

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Volume Expansion Calculation: 0.81632 cm^3

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Electric potential in a closed loop wire

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How can I derive the period of oscillation for a relaxation oscillator?

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Find the tension in the wire and the components of the force exerted

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Find the maximum AC current flowing through the generator.

  • driedupfish
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Solve Thermodynamic Work Problem: Integrate for a Solution

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Solving the Yo-yo Problem: Final Velocity Calculation

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Finding moment, relative to a different axis

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Projectile motion y=f(x) type ,

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Question concerning a formula to calculate work

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Challence problem on electric potential

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How far is the object from the mirror and what is the curvature?

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What is the Image Distance for a Concave Mirror with R=150cm and Do=?

  • whitehorsey
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Finding Central Maximum Width for Laser

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Work Done by Gas Homework: Calculate W, Max Temp

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Calculating Wavelength of Red Line in Hydrogen Spectrum

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How Do Surface Charge Densities Calculate on a Conducting Spherical Shell?

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Lenses and optics: solving for focal point.

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Elastic Collision between two pendulums- max heights reached?

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Determine the angular velocity and angular displacement

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Interesting End of Semester Project ideas wanted

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How Do You Solve This Thermodynamics Ideal Gas Law Problem?

  • science.girl
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How Much Force Can a Human Femur Withstand Before Fracturing?

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Calculating Temperature Change in a Heat Transfer System

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Calculating Particle Density in an Ideal Gas at STP

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Thermodynamics question (ideal gas temperatures)

  • Koskesh
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How to Determine the Equivalent Forces-Couple System at Point O?

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Escape Velocity and planet’s gravitational field

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Work, energy and power on a slope.

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Thermodynamic Question (refrigerator)

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Quantum Concepts Homework: TRUE/FALSE Statements

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[Faraday's Law] Power Extraction from Line in a country

  • sgod88
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Office Block Height: Calculating from Two Vertical Ball Throws

  • LastMinute
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Forces between 2 parallel wires=>

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Thermodynamic Question (power plant problem)

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Simple harmonic motion spring question

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Using the Right Hand Rule to Determine Particle Charge

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Calculate Charge on Pith Balls: Excess/Deficit Electrons

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How Is the Specific Latent Heat of Fusion for Ice Calculated?

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Calculating the Impact of a Hammer on a Lawn

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Transverse Wave: Amplitude, Wavelength, Speed & Direction

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How Efficient Can a Heat Engine Be Between 1200 K and 300 K?

  • science.girl
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Thermodynamics: Finding Specific Heat of Ice

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Max distance of resolution from 2 point sources of light

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