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What is the speed of the roller coaster at the bottom of the dip?

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3 masses attached by rope on table with 2 pulleys.

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Derive electric field of infinite plane from field of infinite line

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Work Done on 46 kg Box by Forces: Applied, Frictional, Normal, Gravity

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How Do You Calculate Moles of Water Vapor in Air Using Ideal Gas Law?

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How Do You Calculate the Height of a Waterfall Based on Temperature Change?

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Force and Motion Sliding/Hanging Blocks

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Uncertainty in Sound Recorder Measurements: Finding the Average and Range

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How to Calculate Time and Distance for a Plane Flying with Wind and Vectors

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What is the Evidence Supporting the Doppler Effect in Sonic Booms?

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Reducing Uncertainty in an Experiment to 0.012 s

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Calculating Thermal Energy Dissipated from Brakes on a Descending Car

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Calculating Force Components for U = 7x^2 + 9xy + 3(y^2)z

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Calculating work using the dot product of force and displacement vectors

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Average Velocity vs. Instantaneous Velocity

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Finding constant angular acceleration from wheel revolutions

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Electric Potential/Work Question

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Mass of a star given orbital radius and period

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What does a negative temperature coefficient of resistance mean?

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Calculating Energy Loss in a Hockey Puck Collision

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Findin acceleration with mass given

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Why Are Both X- and Y-Intercepts Equal to 1/f in the Lens' Equation?

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How Many Spectral Lines in the Balmer Series Exceed 400 nm?

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Need to determine resistance of an object

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Is the Heat Equation Model for an Insulated Rod Correct?

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How to find the equation of a parabola with the following vertex.

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Force Equilibrium: Find T1 Expression w/ m, theta1, theta2, g

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Momentum, kinetic energy, and collisions practice problems

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Basic optics question - lenses

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Centripetal acceleration of electron orbiting He+ nucleus

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Pulsar Radius from its rotational period

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Rain from the perspective of a moving train and a gun on the moon

  • Matt H
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Earth and Acceleration due to gravity

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Adding Vectors: Find Resultant Magnitude of P + S

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Specific heat of metal and equilibrium temperature with melting ice

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Why use unit vector for this, and not for that?

  • viet_jon
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Conservation of mechanical energy (low difficulty)

  • Oscar Wilde
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Capacitor charged to 15 V then connected to uncharged capacitor

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Power and Energy Problem-nothing too hard

  • Oscar Wilde
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Finding Speed on Slippery Curves: R, Theta, Mu

  • vivekfan
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Rubber balloon in electric field

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Asymmetric initial velocity calculation

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Distance from Earth where Moon's gravity balances Earth's gravity

  • fishinbro321
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Electric Potential (Potential Energy)

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What is the Orbital Velocity of an Electron in a Hydrogen Atom?

  • stickplot
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Finding theta angle.should be easy one.

  • viet_jon
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What is the tension equation for masses connected by a cord?

  • Caitlin Galla
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Total Energy of Camera Capacitor

  • JumpinJohny
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Electrical potential energy: 3 charges in a line

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Electric field and potential from three point charges at triangle corners

  • Kudo Shinichi
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Solving the Plane's Weight and Horizontal Accel.

  • vivekfan
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Calculating Work Done on Cart During Fall?

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Centripetal acceleration in a multi-arm Tilt-a-Whirl prototype

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J"Calculating Work for Charging a Parallel Plate Capacitor

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Spring Constant Calculation for Compressed Spring with Mass

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How to Build a Popsicle Stick Tower to Withstand 100 lbs?

  • Oscar Wilde
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Problems with Newton's Second Law

  • TheShehanigan
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What Is the Reacting Force From the Hinge and Its Angle?

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Does sound affect temperature?

  • Newton V
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Several basic resistor prelab questions

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Find the difference in entropy between a cup of water and a cup of ice

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Conservation of Momentum: Solving a Collision Problem

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Find x coordinate where electric field is zero between two charges

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Center of mass of an 8 kg stone on a 98 cm stick

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Static/kinematic friction trouble

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Force of friction on two blocks

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Simple Harmonic Motion- From Uniform Circular Motion

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Designing a newspaper boat for pool racing

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Calculating a value of force using vectors?

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Conceptual questions about projectile motion

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Solve Energy & Momentum Problem: Urgent Homework

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Suspended Painting: Finding Its Weight

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Vectors help? How do I find a constant of this vector?

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Should ρ, c, and k Be Included in the Heat Equation Solution?

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Finding clockwise and counterclockwise torques on a balanced rod

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Destructive Interference of Light in 165nm Bubble Film

  • stickplot
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What is the is the rise in temperature of the rock

  • Sheldinoh
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This is a problem on electric current

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How Do You Calculate Uncertainty in the Volume of a Cylinder?

  • Necrosity
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Solve Currents in I3, I2, and I1

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Derived values not satisfying equations.

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Work Energy Theorem and Circular Motion

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Stopping a Box of Unknown Mass on Frictionless Floor

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Electric field at center of semi-circular bent rod of charge

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How to Calculate Average Velocity and Speed?

  • Immy2000
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How Do You Calculate the Capacitance of a Charged Capacitor?

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Magnitude of a Force on a hatch in a Vessel.

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Engineering problem (acceleration of ions)

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Thin rods (H) rotating about an axis

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