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Moment of inertia of regular hexagon with 1 kg masses at vertices

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Solve Farm Gate Problem: Horiz Force on Bottom Hinge

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Solve 2D Projectile Motion Problems with Sample Equations and Steps

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Will two 11-foot aluminum pontoon tubes float 1000 pounds?

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Find the time at which the two balls collide

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Calculating Maxima in 1-D Wave Interference with a Half-Silvered Mirror

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Human cannonball impulse and cannon barrel length

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How Long Does It Take for Two Different Masses to Slide Down a Sloped Ramp?

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Power supply shows 24V instead of 5000V when voltmeter connected

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Calculating Work and Force: Solving a Simple Amusement Park Problem

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Electric field at points A, B, and C inside a hollow ball?

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How Much Work Did Sam Do to Stop the Boat on the Ride?

  • Rha1828
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Calculating End Reactions: How to Sum Moments of All Forces About a Point

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Finding the coefficient of friction of a sled

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Finding the relationship between pendulum period and string length

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Ballistics - Find velocity of arrow

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Grade 12 Physics, centripetal force and projectile motion

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Simple Harmonic Motion: Pendulum of Clock Replaced by Spring-Mass

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A question on finding the resistance from a 3D cube

  • Kudo Shinichi
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Recoil velocity after collision

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Motion of 2 object on an inclined plane

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Applying Newtons laws n an inclined surface with two masses

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How does the constant power of an engine affect the acceleration of a car?

  • raging11
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Loop de loop normal force roller coaster

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Focal Length of a Diverging Lens

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Minimum string tension needed to move the block

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Pendulums ~ period of oscillation

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Free Body Diagram, Newton's 3rd

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What Is the Work Function of Millikan's Hypothetical Metal?

  • TJDF
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Velocity of a Proton in a Capacitor

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Uniform Circular motion, angular velocity and Friction

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How Do You Integrate -e^(-|x|) Over All Real Numbers?

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Calculating Radius of Airplane's Horizontal Circle

  • seraphimhouse
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Calculating the Average Kinetic Energy of a Helium Atom at 20°C

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A Moment of Inertia/physical pendulum Problem

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Torques and Rotational Equilibrium

  • peaceandlove
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Solving a Simple Spring Problem: Finding the Speed of a Launched Object

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How Does Ohm's Law Apply to an Inductor in a DC Circuit?

  • FancyChancey
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Quantum Physics: Calculating Photons/s

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Work, Energy, and Acceleration on a Frictionless Plane

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Pulsed dye laser energy to evaporate blood

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How Is Tension Calculated on an Inclined Slope with Friction?

  • myxomatosii
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Solve Work Problems: Elevator with Mass 1000kg on Single Cable

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Standing wave equation for viola: why is sin(0) making the result zero?

  • Tohoshi
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Calculating EMF in Steel Beam Impact Before Landing

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How Does Time Dilation Affect the Voyager 1 Space Probe?

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Current induced in rotating conductor in Magnetic Field

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Rotational motion of belt drive

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Unit conversion difficulties on simple problem

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Need to know how to solve for test

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Magnetic field using the Biot-Savart Law

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Equivalent capaticnace, charge, voltage

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Finding weight of a mass on an accelerating and braking elavator

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Calculating Coefficient of Friction for Two Blocks

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Calculate Potential Energy of 8.4N Spring w/31.9 N/m Constant

  • Rha1828
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Billiard ball collision at right angle

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Velocity/Time/displancement Question

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Tension of two ropes given mass and angle

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Charge flow when mica dielectric fills an air capacitor

  • Jscrub
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Force of Gravity on the tip of a giant snowcone

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Critical Pressure and Temperature of a van der Waals Gas

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How Is Static Friction Calculated on an Inclined Plane with a Spring?

  • kiarrahannice
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Can Kinetic Energy Be Completely Lost in a Collision?

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Trajectory/velocity/time question

  • Puchiko
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Solving Problem with Units: Max Elastic Potential Energy

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Finding the point where Earth and Moon's gravitational forces balance

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The current and magnetic field of an ideal solenoid.

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Image in plane mirror producing light intensity on a screen

  • DANIELLYMA
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Work done by piston in combustion chamber with fuel energy input

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Why does a spring mass system have angular frequency?

  • sArGe99
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Finding tensions in a rod suspended by two strings

  • physicsneek
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Magnetic Flux through a bent loop.

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Thermodynamics: adiabatic processes

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I need suggestions for my Physics extended essay

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How Fast Must a Student Climb to Match a Lightbulb's Power Output?

  • Knfoster
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Electricity Experiment (Internal Resistance)

  • leviathanX777
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Graphing velocity vs mass for elevator experiment

  • Mathbather
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Impulse, Linear momentum belly flop

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Centripetal Acceleration of space shuttle

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How can a vector be resolved into components in various directions?

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Finding the initial velocity of a projectile motion

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Inelastic Collision of a football tackle

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Very trick velocity vs. time graph

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Tension and Acceleration in a Pulley System

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Dielectric constant of the materials, k

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Conservation of energy and work

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Spring constant and conservation of energy

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Ratio of Angular Momentum: Compact Disc vs. Record?

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Increasing Force: Velocity, Height Calculation

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Did I do this question correctly?

  • andgabbana
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Entropy of water and reservoir

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How much work a battery does connected to a resistor

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Kinetic energy and Angular momentum

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