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Clock precision as a function of temperature and height above sea level

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Finding the formula for escape velocity

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Poisson's Ratio Coursework: Urgent Help Needed!

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How Do You Calculate Angular Acceleration from Tangential Acceleration?

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Two identical convergent lenses

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How Do I Find the Missing Values for Unknown Weights in a Pulley System?

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Calculating Uncertainty for Standard Deviation

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Solving Rotational Problems: Force & Torque Calculations

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What are the Forces and Acceleration of a Ball Subjected to Three Forces?

  • MaryJane101
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Finding acceleration of two masses connected by spring horizontally

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Find Angle Between Vectors A & B: 105.27

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Rotational/angular problem: the bike wheel with a valve stem

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Magnetic field of a cylinder with an offset hole

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Mass Needed to Keep Rod Spinning at 1200RPM

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What is the Maximum Work Extracted by a Heat Engine with Constant Volume?

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How Do You Calculate the Tension in a Cable Supporting a Beam and Crate?

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Finding the Magnetic Field of two slabs.

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Coefficient of rolling friction question

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Fractional Weight Reduction from Gravitational Attraction of Water Tank

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How Do Magnetic Fields Interact in a System of Three Parallel Wires?

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How Much Ice Melts from a Sliding Block's Kinetic Energy?

  • chops369
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Why Did Edison and Westinghouse Advocate Different Electricity Systems?

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How Can Kinematic Equations Prove Vf² Equals vi² Plus 2ad?

  • Juicey
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Downward force of the plane problem

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Collision of Two Carts: What Speed After Impact?

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I on building a mousetrap car.

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Magnet falling near an iron wall

  • Peter Persoff
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What is the analogy between capacitor discharge and radioactive decay?

  • gangsta316
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What direction will the force from acceleration act in this scenario?

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Two-Dimensional Springs: Potential Energy and Force Analysis

  • ch010308
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What are the key benefits of understanding wavefront dynamics?

  • Mubeen A
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How Does Kinetic Energy Change on an Inclined Plane with Friction?

  • ramenmeal
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Loop the loop. Rotational problem

  • makeAwish
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RL Circuit Discharge and RCL Circuit

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Finding Acceleration of a Ball in Constant Motion

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Potential energy functions of a particle

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Use Gauss' Law to find the magnitude of E in a sphere

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Car's Acceleration Into Gusting Wind

  • Pat.Foop
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Physics help- tangential acceleration

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Finding the Inductor in an RL Circuit

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How to Calculate Mass Using Torque?

  • bballa99
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Simple Harmonic Motion Discrepancy

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Calculating Heat Loss from Brake Discs Using Forced Convection

  • Davieslad
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How Do I Solve These Complex Torque and Rotational Dynamics Problems?

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Is Electrical Potential Energy a Vector or Scalar?

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Calculating satellites´ period of revolution

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Solving Momentum Problem: Find Speed of Package & Cart

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Diffraction Grating Problem, brightness maximum involved

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Help with decelleration, acceleration and time

  • djszkoda
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Two Rotating Discs: Kinetic Energy Loss Due to Friction

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Potential Difference in and Electron/de Broglie Equation

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Calculating Electric Potential for a Wire with Linear Charge Density?

  • mjolnir80
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Collisions question? (involving momentum)

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Which statements about heat flow are true?

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Formally finding the center of mass

  • guitarman
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Electron held up against force of gravity

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How Fast Was the Bullet Going Initially?

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Center of mass and cross product

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Perfectly Inelastic Ball Collision: Final Velocities of Both Balls

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Finding time of a proton travelling in an electric field?

  • newtonsapple
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Faraday's Law of Induction and Current

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What is the speed of the chain at this instant?

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Gravitational Force on 0.64 kg Sphere in Space Shuttle

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Electron Deflection in Parallel Plate Capacitor

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Calculating Mass of Identical Lead Spheres Attracting 0.30(myu)N

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Kinetic Friction Homework: Solve for Acceleration of 880 N Crate

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How is scuba gear related to the gas laws?

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Determining Speed of a Chain: Calculating for a Point Particle System

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What is the velocity of the 250 pound mass when it hits the ground?

  • chelito19
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How Does Time Dilation Affect Clock Readings in Different Frames?

  • bigevil
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How Long Until Coffee Cools to 70° Using Newton's Law?

  • baileyyc
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Current in a loop (Kirchhoff's Laws)

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What is the maximum static friction of my shoe against the wood board?

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Total Energy Help: Ktrans, Wgrav, Whand, Ktotal & Krot

  • fball558
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What is the Electric Flux Through a Disk with a Charge at 0.5R?

  • Dell
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How far does a rocket-powered hockey puck land from the base of the table?

  • tatertot560
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Does a Hydrogen Atom Weigh Less than the Sum of Its Parts?

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Motion Experiment Ideas for EPI Prac

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Designing a DC transmission line

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Static and kinetic friction of a crate

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Charge, Potential, Work, and Electricity

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Speed of a Bullet Using Conservation Laws?

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Ultra long range projectile problem

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Required change in pressure to change volume

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Traveling Waves and a Question about Functions

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Solving for Time in Scalar Product Equation

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Velocity problem (only distances are given)?

  • driftk
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Projectile Motion wind acceleration

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Potential Energy of a roller coaster cart

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