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Speed of a sphere fired straight up, including quadratic air resistance

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Why doesn't the space pod move when astronauts take their seats?

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Solve Quarry Crane Problem: Find Rope 2 Tension

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Force of an electron with magnetic and electric fields and velocity

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Solve Rotation Problem: Wheel w/ 8 Spokes & 30cm Radius

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Calculating the magnitude of the force on an electron

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Help with change in internal energy for a real system.

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Electricity and Magnetism questions Gauss's law, groundingetc.

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Solving Two Point Charges: Calculating Electric Field

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How much torque must the pin exert to keep the rod from rotating?

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Simple problem in calculating kinetic energy

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Time dilation: period of a clock

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Lenz's Law - Induced Magnetic Field/Current

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How Do You Calculate the Capacitance of a Capacitor?

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Determining Force & Direction of 6 kg Particle's Motion

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Max acceleration of car up ramp

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Electrical Potential Difference between two plates

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Ultracapacitors - How long until the potential difference drops to 6V

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How Much Work Is Needed to Stretch a Spring from 12 cm to 16 cm?

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Speed bump question - Newton's laws

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Two conceptual questions regarding Newton's laws

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Acceleration with position given

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Moving wires in magnetic field/force

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Momentum and work energy question

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How Do You Calculate Voltage Drop in a Copper Wire?

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How Do You Solve These Complex Circuit Problems?

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How Does Friction Affect the Movement of a Book Up a Sloped Surface?

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration in a Free Fall Scenario?

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Correct Formal Equation (Force due to a Spring)?

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Questions about centripetal force

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Calculate Electric Field at Origin 0 - $\lambda, \vartheta, R$

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Momentum Conservation in a Swapping Chair Scenario in a Spacecraft

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Thermodynamics Entropy +2nd law problem

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Determine the radius of the electron's orbit

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Show that terminal velocity equals

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Find position, magnitude, and direction

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How Do You Calculate Forces on a Car Traveling on a Banked Curve?

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Determining the time it takes to reach half of a penny's terminal speed

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Car on an incline, friction related question

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Some serious help needed in thermodynamics

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Interference fringes between rectangular pieces of glass

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What is the Light Intensity 3 Meters from the Bulb?

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Block and cylinder down an incline

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How Much Ice Was Added to Cool the Lemonade?

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Electric field from a line charge and spherical shell with Gauss's law

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Moment of inertia and velocity of an object

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Resultant and normal force of car on banked curve

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What Are the Initial Speeds of Two Cars After a Rear-End Collision?

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Explosive Particle and momentum

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Work and kinetic energy of stretched spring

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Capacitors Connected, Disconnected, and Connected Again

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About Quarks - How Big is One?

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Displacment in simple harmonic motion after periodic time

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Do Friction Forces Exist Between a Rod and a Shaggy Bowl?

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Find Optimum Angle of Launch: Calculate Velocity of Ball from Catapult

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How Does Angular Momentum Affect Merry-Go-Round Speed?

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Solving Argon's Turbine Expansion Problem

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HW Question, very simple. mass/gravity

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Calculate Refraction without Snell's Law?

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Why Doesn't Total Mechanical Work Equal the Sum of All Work Values?

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Building a hovercraft, having an issue with finding center of mass

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What Is the Tension in the Right End Cable of Scaffold 1?

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Quesiton on Newtons Second Law, Need Help.

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Collisions+momentum+energy experiment

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Work & Vectors: Finding Force Work from Point to Point

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Energy transfer from x altitude to geosynchrous altitlude

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Two Blocks Sliding, Newtons 3rd

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Finding α for F=F1+F2+F3 to be Parallel to AB

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Simple Pulley Ratios: Find T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, F

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Finding resistor R with voltage 5.0V and current 62mA

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Calculating Time and Forces with Frictionless Surfaces

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Parallel-Plate Capacitor Question

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Friction Formulas: Fn, Ff & Mu w/ D, T, A, Vi & Ramp Angle

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How do i find electric field of a sphere?

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What is the Maximum Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Rigid Rod System?

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Rank Magnitude of Torque for Forces A-F on Wrench

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Normal Forces on a Ferris Wheel: Is the Top or Bottom Greater?

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Max \omega for Stationary Bar on Prism 1 with Coeff. k < cot\alpha

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Calculating Maximum Kinetic Energy in a Flywheel

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Proof of Cosine law using vectors

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Measuring the coefficient of friction

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How Do I Solve for Variables in the Combined Gas Law Equation?

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Does Mass Affect Friction in a Pulley System?

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Maximizing Motorcycle Jump Height: Solving for the Optimal Speed

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From what height was an object dropped?

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Is the Focal Point of a Concave Mirror Always Positive?

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Fundamental frequency and higher harmonics

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Calculating Work Done by Force on a Block

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The Change In Gravitational Potential Energy?

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Why Does Increasing Weight Decrease Acceleration in a Pulley System?

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Radii of Curvature for Separating CO2 with 12C and 14C

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Current Carrying Wire Magnetic Field Deflection Direction

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Maximum acceleration up ramp

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Moment of Inertia for Hexagon w/ Point Masses & Length 7 cm

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Solve Farm Gate Problem: Horiz Force on Bottom Hinge

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