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Wheel rolling uphill on a slope with applied torque

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Potential Energy and Total Energy Negative

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Are the terminals of a well-charged battery neutral?

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Regarding Fluids and hydrostatic force ratios

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Solving River Flow Velocity: A Motorboat Problem

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How far will an object travel on a flat surface

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Newtons Laws with mouse and elephant

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Angle between vectors A = -2i + 5j and B = 2i + 3j

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Minimum height for car to complete loop without falling off

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Capacitance: Equivalent C of a Network

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Radius of coil in magnetic field

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Normal force on 80 kg object pulled at 50° and 70°

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How Does Rolling Affect the Speed and Time of a Sphere Down an Incline?

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Circular Motion: Find Tension at Top of 1.11kg Disc

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Showing T² ∝ R³ from centripetal force

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Fundamental frequency of a guitar string

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What is the Temperature Increase of Cars Colliding at 80 km/hr?

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Solving for Time Elapsed in an RC Circuit

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Gravitational Potential Energy child swing Problem

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Amusement Park Ride - Angular Speed

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Truck cylinder, ideal gas law problem

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Nudging an Asteroid. Conservation of Momentum

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Distance where charge reaches half its speed at infinity

  • Brit412
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Potentia Difference and Electric Potential

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Solve Armadillo Problem: Initial & Final Speed, Height

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Average crush force exerted on a car

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Finding charge on a 6.4 µF capacitor with 47.0 V source

  • phy112
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What is momentum and how is it defined?

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What is the Moment of Inertia of a Pulley with Connected Masses?

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Calculating Work Done on a Spring with Given Stiffness and Length Changes

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Current distribution diagram confusion

  • Joan
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Magnetic force on charged particle entering field at angle

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Find the change in electric potential

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Electric Potential, Linear charge with a loop

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Dart hitting falling target and ball off a roof

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Solving Gravitational Force to Exceed Earth Pull on Spaceship

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Work Done: Which Initial Velocity is Most Effective?

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Minimum speed for a ball to complete a vertical loop of radius 2.25 m

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Finding horizontal and vertical velocity of a thrown ball

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Finding amplitude of oscillator

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A square with charges and an electric field

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Two cars collide, find temperature change

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Cascaded low pass filters problem

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Ridiculus position-time graph extrapolation

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Conservaion of Angular Momentum and Center of Mass

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What would the tension in the cable be?

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What is the acceleration of a 7.00 kg sphere in seawater at a depth of 1.20 km?

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Angular momentum and spring collision with two blocks

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Electric field at a point near three charges in a line

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How long is the image of the meter stick?

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Show central force satisfies F = ±||F|| e_r and find ||F||

  • Ed Aboud
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Pendulum and Simple Harmonic Motion Problems

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Block on spring: finding speed and acceleration at different positions

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Why does a proton slow down as it movies into higher potential?

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How Does Spring Compression Affect Sled Velocity at a Waterpark?

  • Aiko
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Energy and Simple Harmonic Motion of block

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Distance of a satellite from earth

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Electric Field and Potential on a Line with Opposite Charges

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Point charges hanging on a string

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Convex mirrors - Sign convention trouble

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RC Circuit and finding Maximum Voltage

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Thermodynamic pressure/temperature question

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Forces and Newton-Identifying Acceleration

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Entropy for reversible and irreversible cycles.

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How far above the water is the top surface of the cube?

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How to Calculate Foam Volume for Buoyancy Support of Cargo Block

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Conceptual question regarding net force and velocity

  • physics120
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What is the Initial Speed of a Basketball Thrown to a Hoop?

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How Much Potential Energy Is Lost to Friction on an Incline?

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Read the manuel that came with your meter.

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Electric Circuit and Internal Resistance Lab

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How Do You Calculate Current in a Complex Circuit Using Kirchhoff's Rules?

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Long Jump Question - Net forces

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Extra Que for Interest: Voltage and Wire Resistance

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Calculating Net Charge on a Spherical Conducting Shell

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Energy loss in ball throw and projectile range from spring cannon

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Slingshot, need Position/time, acceleration and velocity formulas

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How Long Does It Take a Plane to Circle Once at 110 m/s?

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Finding the upward force acting on an object

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Uncertainty principle and hydrogen atom electron

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What Is the Speed of a Mass Displaced from Equilibrium on a Spring?

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Calculating the Initial Speed of an Arrow Shot Horizontally

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Energy of a 2.4kg mass oscillating at 5.0Hz with 7.0cm amplitude

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Uses of various components in electrical systems

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Density of Earth's Mantle w/o knowing radius

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Rearranging kinematic equations to solve for acceleration

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Block on table pulled by two hanging masses over pulleys

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Calculating Impact Speed of 4.00kg Cannon Ball Dropped from 55.0m

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Relationship between heat and resistivity of a wire

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What is the Wavelength of a Tuning Fork with 1000Hz Frequency?

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Calculate Capacitor for 2 KHz Series-Tuned LC Circuit

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Magnitude of electric field by a curved rod.

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Charge on Capacitor: Where Does the Extra Go?

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