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Engine force on 500 g rocket and go cart acceleration problems

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Newton's 3rd Law applied to binary stars

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ATTWOOD'S MACHINE (rope + pully)

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How Much Energy Does Ice Release When Cooled in a Freezer?

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I didn't even learn this yet but got hw on TORQUE

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How to Find the Velocity Components After 10 Seconds?

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Finding velocity components of a dropped package from a plane

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Momentum, enegy and collisions

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What is the thinnest film for strong reflection of visible light?

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Satellite speed at perigee and apogee in elliptical orbit

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Calculating Car Acceleration with Fuzzy Die

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Calculating Capacitance in Parallel Circuits with AC Generator

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Electric Current - Finding # of Electrons

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Potential on the inside of a hollow insulating sphere

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Calculating the Density of a Floating Block of Wood

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Electric field from two point charges and then some

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What Are the Forces in Equilibrium for a Weight Hanging on a Rod?

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How Does a Cowboy Time His Jump to Land on a Galloping Horse?

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Analyzing Angular Motion in a Bicycle Wheel

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Distance for charge to travel through magnetic field

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Refraction and Mirrors, image position

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What is tangential force in uniform circular motion?

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Expression for the gravitational potential Vgrav

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Induced current in parallel loop

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Sources of error in measuring length and mass

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Conservation of energy of an oscilating system with friction

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Constructive and destructive interference from two radio sources 5 m apart

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Solving Loop in Mathematica for (u,i) Pairs

  • Juliane
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Three spheres attached by conducting wire

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Net Force of Point Charges, Coulomb's law

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Relative Velocity and Acceleration

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How Many Electrons Generate the Charge in Coulomb's Law Problem?

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Projectile Motion parabola effect

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Power absorbed when 2000W heater runs at 230V instead of 250V

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Resistivity of tungsten filament

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Orbital speed of Mars around the Sun

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Rotation of a sphere-how can it happen?

  • Ed Wiggins
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Rockets on a car's effect on velocity?

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Molar Heat Capacities and Specific Heats for Ideal Gases

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Atomic Mass of Rare Carbon Isotope: Solving the Puzzle

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Direction of electron in magnetic field?

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Understanding Elastic Collisions: Solving a Head-On Collision Problem

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Solving for time in projectile motion equation

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Solve 500g Falling Rock Problem: Initial Speed

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Finding aluminum wire resistance at 600°C from resistivity

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Circuit analysis - Finding the currents

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How Does Friction and Incline Angle Affect a Sliding Box's Motion?

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Gauss's Law: An line of charge and a sphere, find flux

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Exploding Object Problem: Solving for the Speed of the Third Fragment

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Kirchhoff's Rules and terminal voltage

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Finding total mechanical energy of a moving ball above ground

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Solve Ballistic Pendulum Height Problem

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How much work must you do to change length of spring?

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Deriving tangent from sine and cosine in banked curve friction

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What is the final rotational speed of the double rotating disks?

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Head-on collision of two carts with different masses

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Calculating Energy Required for Temperature Change of Substance

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Electric Potential of a Finite Rod

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Sound Waves dropping a rock into a well

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Finding Mass and Velocity on an Inclined Plane

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Kinematics problem: stopping distance and time for a 2500 kg car

  • Eric1234
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How Does Conservation of Momentum Determine Speed After a Collision?

  • Crichar1
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Magnetic Flux of Earth onto myself

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Potential Energy of a single particle

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Gauss's law, determing average volume charge density

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How is the entropy of the solar system increasing?

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Finding coefficient of friction and the mass

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Thermodynamics- carnot engine power

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Van and car collision: why is my momentum answer wrong?

  • cybernerd
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Work and Kenitic Enegry problem

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Stone on pendulum: speed at 62° and maximum swing angle

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Electron in a magnetic field and angular momentum

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Astronaut With Gun and Circular Motion

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How to find the current and equivalent resistance in a parallel circuit

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Finding release height for golf ball to land 1m away

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Scalar product of position vectors

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Minimum initial speed for box to reach stranded skier on incline

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Calculating Average Force on a Baseball Using F=ma Formula

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How Does Removing a Dielectric Affect Capacitor Energy?

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Series and parallel resistor circuit analysis

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Finding exhaust temp in heat engine problem (entropy)

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Bullet passing through a 450 kg target: time, force, and target speed

  • julz3216
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Ampere/Maxwell law capacitor problem

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What Is the Maximum Force Exerted by the Floor on the Ball?

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Finding mass of ice in latent heat of fusion problem

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What is the wavelength of waves in shallower water?

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Solving for the Direction of an Electron in a Magnetic Field

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N (Intro 1)Tennis Ball Rebound: Force on Ball During Collision

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Energy stored in a parallel-plate capacitor with constant voltage

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Quantum mechanics scattering problem

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How Do You Calculate the Angle in a Diffraction Grating Equation?

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Questions with uncertainties for lab reports

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Is energy dissipated per unit charge in a circuit measured by e.m.f?

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