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Solving Billy and Speakers: 16m, 0.8m, 3000 Hz

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What Is the Focal Length of Veronique's Glasses for Clear Vision?

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What is her speed relative to the ice surface?

  • Ry122
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Question about normal friction and acceleration

  • Lee Colombo
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When and where do two thrown coconuts collide?

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Rotational Inertia of a Rigid Body with Joined Rods

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Distance a spring has been compressed

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Solving Two Bugs on a Fan Homework Problem

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Protons in a particle accelerator

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Thermal Properties: Pressure, Volume, Temp question

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What Is the Speed and Average Acceleration of the Minute Hand on a Clock?

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Calculating the Average Force of a Weather Balloon on an Airplane

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Solving Rotational Speed Homework with Radius of 40cm

  • zombie4000
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Finding the charge on a capacitator

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Change in potential and kinetic energy

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Energy dissipated by a resistor in an RC circuit

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Calculate Momentum & Force with Zero Gravity & Mass: 80 kg

  • XodoX
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Vacuum Chamber Suction Pressure: -100 Kpa or 0 Kpa?

  • nastaynas
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Acceleration produced from dragging a box up a hill?

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Physics Inelastic Collision: Initial Velocities & Kinetic Energy

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Projectile motion in a spring loaded gun

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Calculating Coefficient of Friction for a Skier on an Inclined Slope

  • Alexi
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Dipole in an Uniform Electric Field concept?

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Superposition of 3 forces on a point charge

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Empty a gel from one tank to another tank (closed system)

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Spring Passing Equilibrium Position

  • TwinGemini14
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Question:Parallel capacitors and electric beams

  • Joop!!
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Inclined accelerating pendulum question

  • cloughenough
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How Much Ice Is Needed to Cool Water from 25°C to 10°C?

  • Finland
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How Does m=2 Affect the Path Difference in Double-Slit Interference?

  • lha08
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Period of Oscillation for a Standing Transverse Wave on a Flexible String

  • collegegirl13
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Calculate the Effective Spring Constant using Coulomb's Law

  • jamba88
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Why Do Incandescent Bulb Light Patterns Differ with Slit Experiments?

  • Funktimus
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Calculating Post-Impact Velocity in a Golf Club-Ball Collision

  • Ry122
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Isothermal Expansion: Work and Heat

  • minidee
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Entropy of Macroscopic Collision

  • begbeg42
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Convex Mirror Image Calculation

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Parallel Lightbulbs- resistance total

  • GDGirl
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Calculating Coefficient of Kinetic Friction from Given Forces

  • Ry122
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Work and electric potential in a field

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What is the PHYSICS metric unit for the measurement of:?

  • amandamolegir
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Determine the normal force on the track

  • Ry122
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Second Law of Thermodynamics - heat pumps and air conditioners

  • elcaptain
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Light & Optics Physics Contest: 2 Questions Need Help

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How Do Bats Hear High Frequencies?

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Inelastic collision, kinetic energy

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Energy added to Ice- determine final temperature

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Motion in the field (electric, magnetic) questions

  • 385sk117
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Solving Spring Homework: Angular Frequency & Amplitude

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Image Distance of a concave mirror ( with algebra)

  • Cheezay
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Spring Compression from 8.0kg Mass Sliding 7.00m Down 51deg Incline

  • Ry122
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How Is the Net Electric Field Calculated Between Two Negatively Charged Disks?

  • StephenDoty
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How much work done by friction? (coefficient given)

  • Lothar
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Conservation of Energy & circular motion

  • nrahim
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Ratio kinetic energy of alpha particle / kinetic energy of proton

  • 385sk117
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Batter hits a ball momentum problem

  • mandy34874
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Mass equivalent to one hydrogen atom?

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How Do You Calculate the Period of a Spacecraft's Elliptical Orbit?

  • KayleighK
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Nuclear Physics, photons, electrons and positrons

  • aimslin22
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Nuclear Physics, portons and neutrons

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Period of Mass on Spring: Amplitude & Period

  • okgo
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Calculating Sound Intensity and Level of a Whisper

  • xgoddess210
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What is the ball's maximum acceleration?

  • lijoeman
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Probability Density for Interferometer

  • Einstein2nd
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Can someone explain the inclined plane picture to me?

  • Lothar
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Need help showing work for these problems

  • kiarrahannice
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Solve Gravitation Problem: Find Planet Radius from 11 kg Satellite Orbit

  • ChazyChazLive
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What is the oscillation frequency?

  • lijoeman
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Lagranguan / Coupled Oscillator

  • Trenthan
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Inclined plane (ranking normal force)

  • jtulloss
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Need help with a question about momentum

  • stayfocused
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How to draw a freebody diagram of a non ideal pulley

  • Gorz
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De Broglie and other Quantum Questions

  • DizzyDoo
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Complete Inelastic collision & Force

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Coursework - Determining Resistivity

  • coolnufc
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Mechanics by Landau: Solving a Lagrangian Problem

  • Advent
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Cylinder gas, pressure question

  • yopy
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Various problems & questions - help,suggestion?

  • R A V E N
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Mass/charge balance of Beta decay/nuclear reactions

  • cashmoney805
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Bright Fringes (Intro to Quantum Physics Qestion?)

  • megaoka
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System of particles, linear momentum (easy problem)

  • lemonpie
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Unpolrized light passes through 2 polarizers

  • Cheezay
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How to Calculate Satellite Launch Speed for an Elliptical Orbit?

  • clarabelle
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Why Is My Calculation of Angular Momentum Incorrect?

  • vorcil
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Elevator problem: energy, power, intensity,

  • Jack Brodie
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How Does Destructive Interference Occur With Different Sound Wavelengths?

  • keemosabi
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How Does Angular Acceleration Affect Angular Velocity?

  • ymehuuh
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Center Gravity and Moment of Inertia

  • ymehuuh
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Potential Difference Across Resistors in Circuit

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Impulse-Momentum Theorem and acceleration

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What is the Frequency of the Lower Pitch Tuning Fork?

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