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Finding Resonating Frequencies in Pipes

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What is the Formula for Determining Height in Newton's Law of Gravitation?

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What Is the Minimum Magnetic Field Strength to Move a Rod in a Magnetic Field?

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Work Problem/Graph Given/Find final velocity.

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Equilibrium and gravity on a uniform beam

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Maximum Tension in Vine for Tarzan and Jane Pendulum

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Electric field of charged particles problem

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Velocity and Acceleration of the Center of Mass?

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What is the magnitude of the magnetic field .

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Specific heat problem simple, but im missing something ?

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Calculating Acceleration of a Cyclist on a Starting Ramp

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True or False:Gravitation & Circular Motion Concepts

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Conservation of Momentum of cannonballs

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Ball rolling off a roof and resultant force from two forces

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Calculating Angular Momentum and Torque for a Particle in the XY Plane

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Magnetic field at points between two parallel current-carrying wires

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Finding 17 resistor combinations for given voltage and current ranges

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Force on a wire loop from a nearby straight wire carrying current

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Solving Torque/Force Problem: Find F & R

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Forces on a person in an elevator at rest and accelerating

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Law of conservation of energy problem

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What is the Wavelength of an FM Radio Wave at 107.5 MHz?

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Integrating Torque With Force as a Function of Radius

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Intensity of the incident light

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Electric Potential (Charged Plane)

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Skier on slope friction and kinematics problems

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Choosing between equivalent graph forms for frequency and period

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Q/m of a particle in a straight line.

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What Speed Should You Push a Box of Nails Down a Roof?

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Angular acceleration and speed of rotating disk

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Finding pendulum length from kinetic energy vs. angle graph

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What equation to use for projectile motion problems

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Need to find the current in a wire

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Cant determine vrms, even though equations are all correct.

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Why do objects of different masses fall with the same acceleration?

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Electric Fields Question (deflection? :S? and more)

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Pendulum-displacement-amplitude of vibration

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Kinetic energy's dependence on velocity.

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Similar to calculating distance of photon traveling in space?

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Bullet penetration into wood block on frictionless surface

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Can a Two-Slit Interference Experiment Display a Particle Model of Light?

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Calculating Tension for Fence Post Straightening

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How long will it take the zinc to reach the desired thickness?

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Static Equilibrium Climber Problem

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How Fast Must the Race Car Go in the Last 2 Laps to Qualify?

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Slits per cm on diffraction grating

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Spring constant/ block question

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Minimum angle required for resolution

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Who Ages More: Mork or Mindy at 99.1% Light Speed?

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Solve Ampere's Law Problem for Uniform Current Density

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Calculating the Distance Between Interference Maxima: Yellow Light

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Solving Gas Expansion in Equal Containers

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Electric Potential (charged conducting sphere)

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Impulse and Momentum: Gernade Problem

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Finding the maximum electric field along a uniformly charged ring's axis

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A reversed funnel problem (static fluid mechanics)

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What Equation Calculates Magnetic Field Strength in a Solenoid?

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How far behind the front wheels is the center of mass located?

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Why do photoelectric effect electrons have different kinetic energies?

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Early test flights for the space shuttle used a glider

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Radio Telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico

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Box landing in rolling container: energy and momentum

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Calculating Total Acceleration in a Tennis Serve

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Solving the momentum and energy equations for an elastic collision

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How Do You Determine Quantum Numbers from Excitation Potentials?

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Law of cosines/ Parallelogram rule

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How Does Thomson's Experiment Calculate Electron Deflection?

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Relationship between work and kinetic energy

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Calculating Intensity of Unpolarized Light with Polarizers

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How Can I Improve My Understanding of Physics Equations Like Boyle's Law?

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For a science experiment you need to electroplate

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How much work is done when moving a charge?

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Calculate Strain of a Cable: 10-m Long w/ 25-N Sign

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Magnet experiment performed by a math major (yikes)

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Centripetal acceleration of spinning disk edge

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Initial angular speed of fan after switching to LOW

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Angular Displacement at Specific Times

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Particle, kinetic energy, decay point

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Spring Constant (this is really easy, I'm just dumb haha)

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What is the angular velocity of the shutter?

  • mattmannmf
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Calculating Speedboat's Turn Dynamics

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What Determines the Direction of a Red Puck After a Collision?

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Rocket Propulsion Gas Injection

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Magnitude and Direction of Velocity (projectile motion)

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How to find the angle of attack?

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Electric field of a sheet of charge

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