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Push a 22kg crate up a frictinless incline

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How do you derive a Range prediction equation?

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Can Friction Actually Speed Up an Object?

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Projectile kinematics sticker for me

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Inelastic and elastic collision problems

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Linera Expansion and heating from a stream of electrons

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Maximum Stress on a wheel in motion

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Magnetic Field around a Bundle of Wires

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How Do You Calculate L and C in an RLC Circuit with Given Reactances?

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Solving Pendulum Question: Find Energy for Every Other Time Push

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Magnitude of the baseball's momentum?

  • tnutty
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Finding ratio of 2 masses with acceleration

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What is the axis and angle of rotation represented by this matrix?

  • Gregg
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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?

  • xplosiv
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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

  • ChazyChazLive
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Calculating the magnitude of the force on an electron

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Change in internal energy as Tarzan falls and crouches

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Electricity and Magnetism questions Gauss's law, groundingetc.

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Electric field at midpoint between 2.0 μC and -2.0 μC charges 10 cm apart

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

  • nweis84
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Simple problem in calculating kinetic energy

  • Laurlaur790
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Time dilation: period of a clock

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Lenz's Law - Induced Magnetic Field/Current

  • pujam3
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How Do You Calculate the Capacitance of a Capacitor?

  • RedBarchetta
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Net force direction when a 6 kg particle has velocity v = 5ti + 4t²j

  • soul5
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Max acceleration of car up ramp

  • diffusion
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Electrical Potential Difference between two plates

  • coolgirl
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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?

  • magma_saber
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Speed bump question - Newton's laws

  • feveroffate
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Two conceptual questions regarding Newton's laws

  • feveroffate
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Acceleration with position given

  • silentsaber
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Moving wires in magnetic field/force

  • pujam3
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Momentum and work energy question

  • nugget
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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?

  • clairez93
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How Does Friction Affect the Movement of a Book Up a Sloped Surface?

  • vorcil
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How Do You Calculate Acceleration in a Free Fall Scenario?

  • cire792
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Correct Formal Equation (Force due to a Spring)?

  • PFStudent
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Questions about centripetal force

  • sheenu32
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Calculate Electric Field at Origin 0 - $\lambda, \vartheta, R$

  • afm-91
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Momentum Conservation in a Swapping Chair Scenario in a Spacecraft

  • nugget
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Thermodynamics Entropy +2nd law problem

  • physstudent1
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Determine the radius of the electron's orbit

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Show that terminal velocity equals

  • wayneinsane
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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?

  • nugget
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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

  • nugget
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Piston-cylinder with air and nitrogen at different temperatures

  • rock.freak667
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Interference fringes between rectangular pieces of glass

  • Yroyathon
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What is the Light Intensity 3 Meters from the Bulb?

  • dewdrop714
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Block and cylinder down an incline

  • vladimir69
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How Much Ice Was Added to Cool the Lemonade?

  • chops369
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Electric field from a line charge and spherical shell with Gauss's law

  • mmmboh
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Moment of inertia and velocity of an object

  • Silentblade
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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?

  • Nikolan
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Explosive Particle and momentum

  • TFM
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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?

  • makeAwish
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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?

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

  • scuroangel66
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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?

  • peaceandlove
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Finding tension between two blocks with friction using Newton's second law

  • yunuscanemre
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Collisions+momentum+energy experiment

  • Atlaπtis
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Finding work from force vector (2.7i + 3.2j) N and displacement

  • silentsaber
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Energy transfer from x altitude to geosynchrous altitlude

  • tnutty
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Two Blocks Sliding, Newtons 3rd

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

  • Dell
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Finding tension T4 in a five-rope pulley system

  • myxomatosii
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Finding resistor R with voltage 5.0V and current 62mA

  • Phoenixtears
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Calculating Time and Forces with Frictionless Surfaces

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Parallel-Plate Capacitor Question

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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?

  • makeAwish
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Rank Magnitude of Torque for Forces A-F on Wrench

  • makeAwish
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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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