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How Do You Calculate Tension in a Crane's Cable in Static Equilibrium?

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Calculating Heat Transfer from Boiling Water on Skin

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HELP car brakes to stop before cliff how do you find work

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Angular Momentum of a Tire (Help)

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Refridgerator Problem: Where Did I Screw Up?

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Work, energy and forces in a horizontal plane

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Work, force, power turbine pump problem

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Is Momentum Conserved with Different Force Directions and Types?

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Calculating Average Force on Proton in Metal Film

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Re: Need help - motion equations

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Roller coaster Conservation of Energy problem

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Light Year Question: When Will We See It?

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Rotational/Linear motion & friction

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Finding magnitude of electric field strength

  • Chi Futbol
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What is the force on an electron traveling parallel to the wire

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Simple Conceptual Question about Forces.

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How Do I Include Tension in a Free Body Diagram?

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Quick Divergence Theorem question

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Mass and Acceleration of a Balloon in General Terms

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Center of Mass & Displacement Question

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Identifying traveling waves and their velocities in differential equations

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Torque and center of mass question

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SR problem in book seems to be faulty

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Physics Q&A: Impulse, Momentum, Fission & Dog Catch

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Rotational Inertia and Torque for a Spinning Frisbee

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Find current with give volts and kWh

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How Can You Create a Temperature-Independent Resistor Combination?

  • Kudo Shinichi
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[Kinematics] Question involving quadratic equation.

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Centripetal Acceleration lab question

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Determining Cable Tension in a Suspended Beam System

  • semaj810
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Need help with rotational problems/angular speed

  • silentsaber
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Latent Heat Q: How to Lower Temp of 125 g Water to 12°C

  • veronicak5678
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Electrostatics, coulomb force between 2 charges

  • Dell
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Voltage drop in Capacitors and Lightbulbs

  • kkroo
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Particle's position as a function of time - Integration

  • phyzmatix
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Tension At Two Points With Acceleration

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Wheelbarrow and load advantage (i think)

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Find the constant acceleration of the train

  • Quang
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So, Lightning Decides to Strikes a Sphere

  • mars3554
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Torque/Intertia: Balancing a Tire

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Calculating the Semimajor Axis of Pasachoff's Orbit

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A mass attached to a cord around a disk

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How to find the angle from the vertical?

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How Does Force Affect the Center of Mass and Momentum?

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How Is Maximum Speed Calculated for a Block on a Vertical Spring?

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Finding force of friction with only applied force and acceleration given?

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What is the Doppler Effect of a Car's Music at Different Positions?

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Combination Circuit Question: Determining Current

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What Happens to the de Broglie Wavelength as Mass Approaches Infinity?

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Special relativity (overtaking)

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Need to find the distance but how?

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Question on Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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Solving Universal Gravity: Height of Chicago's Sears Tower

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Finding the Velocty of A swinging Object

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Force Required to move a 63.5 kg mass.

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Maximum current and Electric field in wire

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Tension / Forces Question 40S Physics. Test Tommorow

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Solving the Physics of a Rolling Loop-the-Loop

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What is the equation for calculating energy carried by a wave?

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Magnetostatics - Determine the magnetic field

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Finding Velocity given angle and distance.

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Finding the surface charge density

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Magnetic Field formula Question

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The Fill Factor of the Silicon Photocell

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What happens when a wave's wavelength is compressed by moving objects?

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Weight on a neutron star ( universal gravity)

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Oscillations in a magnetic field

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1995 Free Response AP Physics Mechanics

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Average distance between water molecules

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How Does the Offset Current Affect dVo/dt in an LM353 Op-Amp Circuit?

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Calculating the Period of a Planet Orbiting the Sun

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Solve Power-Law Spiral With Angular Momentum L

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Equilibrium Shift and Magnitude in Non-Intertial Frame?

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Power and Intensity of Radio Waves

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Finding Net Force: Solve w/ F=ma

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Calculating Horizontal and Vertical Speeds of a Baseball

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Finding Electric Flux of Cube with E Field

  • Dell
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Output of a transformer plugged into a DC voltage source by mistake?

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Momentum Relative to Surface / Plug-and-Chug

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Simple Force and Motion problem?

  • alexas
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Force and Motion, I'm a bit confused on how to approach this.

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How fast is this roller coaster?

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Force & Motion: Find Force Values for 600g Object

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How Fast Do Electrons Drift in an Iron Wire?

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How to find tension between the two blocks?

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Small Oscillations around equilibrium

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How Many Photons Per Second Does a Blue Laser Emit?

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Semester one assignment: Find the angular speed

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Kinetic Energy of a wood on a spring?

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Why is there a doubt in Coulomb's formula?

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How Do You Calculate Average Back EMF in a Rotating Coil?

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Finding the spring constant while stretching and compressing

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