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Calculating Tension Force in a 3-Wire System for a 28 kg Chandelier

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Work, displacement, and gravity problem

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Angular speed of baseball player catching a line drive

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Finding spring compression to store 35J of potential energy

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What Is the Passenger's Apparent Weight in an Elevator?

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Power required to move up an incline

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Temperature of iron and aluminum cubes in boiling water

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Minimum Impact Velocity for Pendulum to Swing Over Top of Arc

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Two boxes are on frictionless ramps (Speed and KE)

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Fan attached to a sled blowing at the sail

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Springs: Inclined ramp, object moving down towards spring

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Direction of induced current - VERY basic

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RLC circuit potential difference

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How Does Friction Affect the Motion of a Cylinder on Planks?

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Finding acceleration of rod and wedge with friction negligible

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How Do You Calculate Resultant Forces in a Parallelogram of Forces?

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What Is the Magnetic Field at the Midpoint Between Wires M and N?

  • Queue
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Solving a Skateboarder's Projectile Motion Problem

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Probably a Kirchhoff's laws problem

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What are Electrical Potentials?

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What B-field is required so that the protons are not deflected?

  • shimizua
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An electron in a magnetic field

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Car Work, Acceleration and Power

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Power, Work, Kinetic Energy Problem

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Finding the third force to balance two forces 110 degrees apart

  • Oscar Wilde
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Magnitude of electric field due to line of charge

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What Is the Charge of q2 When the Net Electric Field at Point P Is Zero?

  • BugsSport
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An Ion passing through an electric and magnetic field

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What Is the Rotational Acceleration in a Revolving Door?

  • tymartin
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Solving for V in mgh=1/2mv^2+1/2mr^2(v/r)^2

  • Jordash
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How Do I Solve These Physics Problems on Friction, Forces, and Tension?

  • Sweet Sara
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Calculating Torque and Rotational Inertia for Opening a Heavy Door

  • tymartin
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How to Solve RL-Circuit and Transformer Power Problems?

  • Hannisch
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Spring, Mass, Incline (Conservation of Mech-E)

  • rmunoz
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Calculating Mass of 4.2m Post Suspended by 1,700N Cable

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Dissipation, resistance, and power.

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Dissipation of Power by Resistors

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A question on alternating current

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Compressed spring momentum problem

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Finding coefficient of kinetic friction on 30° incline

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Why is the current reading the same in each lamp in a parallel circuit?

  • phillyj
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Finding the Net Electrostatic Force on Particle 3 in a Coulomb's Law Problem

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Hanging a deer from a pole - find tension

  • ldbaseball16
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Finding the Lorentz factor for a spacecraft at 0.4c

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Era of recombination - temperature variant

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Finding the balance point for a uniform bar with three masses

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Modelling Vehicle Deceleration in Simulink: Adding Drag Force Considerations

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Frictional implications on non-elastic momentum

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Potential difference between the plates?

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Comparing Collisions: Momentum and Energy Conservation

  • dherm56
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Significant figures vs decimal places in lab reports

  • Coach
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Calculating Black Hole Mass Using Reduced Mass and De Broglie's Wavelength

  • Enlighted One
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Calculating Rotational Kinetic Energy: How do I find the answer for part 2?

  • makeAwish
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Fluid, pressure and weight question

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Comparing Temperature and Kinetic Energy for He and O2

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Why does a spring force use cos(45°) for small displacements?

  • Saladsamurai
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Tension in string holding 4.82 kg block to wall on 10.7 kg block

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Solving Momentum Issues: 98kg Man & 86g Stone Speed Calculation

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Solving Submersible Acceleration: A Physics Challenge

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Potential Energy (WebAssign Question)

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Spring (conservation energy) with friction

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Rotational inertia and torque of a frisbee

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Calculating luminosity density of the universe

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Forces acting on an inclined object

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Manipulating Data to Form a Linear Graph: A Challenge

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Calculating Magnitude of Forces Between Protons

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Acceleration of masses in Atwood machine with one on a table

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How Does a Scale Determine the Mass of a Student on a Beam?

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Solving Henry Sincosky's Static Friction Problem

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If earth's poles are reversed suddenly

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Moment of inertia of thin rod with non-uniform mass

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Electric field from two charges: where's my error?

  • rayhan619
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Calculating work (positive or negative)

  • okgo
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Finding the magnetic field due to a current

  • jumbogala
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How Can We Use Oil to Estimate Avogadro's Number?

  • fluidistic
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% polarization of partially polarized light

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Electromagnetic Repulsion research

  • willynilly
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How Many Coulombs of Positive Charge Are in the Nuclei of 2.0 Mol of O2 Gas?

  • rayhan619
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This is seems like an easy question

  • neotriz
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Acceleration and distance problem

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Simple Pendulum Period Calculation for Different Conditions

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Coil Moving through a Magnetic Field

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Change in gravitational field strength

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Static equilibrium mass problem

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Simple Pendulum and acceleration

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Capacitor charging to limiting voltage in RC circuit

  • jumbogala
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How Do You Apply the Right Hand Rule in Physics?

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Linear speed of electron in Bohr hydrogen atom

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How Does Mass and Velocity Affect Momentum on a Moving Conveyor Belt?

  • bc33rocks
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How to find initial velocity from range and angle.

  • iHEARTmath
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What is the missile's speed at the peak of its trajectory?

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