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Calculating Period of Hubble Telescope Orbit

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Physics ball thrown in air question

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What Is the Correct Velocity of the Standing Wave?

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A wave generator produces 28.6 pulses in 4.10 s

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Water falling = how much power?

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Coaxial cable bounds in Gauss's law integration

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What Are the Speeds and Heights of a Colliding Ball and Clay Blob?

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Olympic Long Jumper's Takeoff Speed

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Calculating Work for a 71 kg Runner: Rest to 10.2 m/s Velocity

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Proton deflection in a capacitor

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Double your speed. (True/False)

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Determine Initial Velocity, Max Ht for Diver Proj. Motion HW

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Solving Kinetic Energy Lab in Online Physics Class

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Where do two knights collide if they ride toward each other?

  • makdaddymac
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Speed Sliding down a hill (frictionless)

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Motion with Constant Acceleration (True/False)

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Work, Vertical and Horizontally

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Child sliding down 3.1 m frictionless playground slide at 37°

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Calculating Div and Curl for some arbitrary vector fields

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Infinite potential well and linear superposition

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True or false statements about position vs time graphs

  • FAJISTE
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Moment of inertia and integration

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Calculating Safe Speed Range on a Banked Curve: Physics Question

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Showing px-Et is invariant using Lorentz Transformations

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Rectangular Resolution and Polygon Theorem

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Why do the units for time appear twice in the units for acceleration

  • mppaki
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Solid mechanics problem (pretty much a static problem)

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Calculating Capacitance of Misaligned Plates

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Coulomb's Law - Electrostatics

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Car Crash numbers not working?

  • Phoenixtears
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Physics120 car collision question

  • physics120
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Percent Length Contraction (check solution)

  • Quelsita
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How Far and Fast Does the Car Travel to Overtake the Truck?

  • J89
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I don't understand projectile motion

  • Michael17
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How Do You Calculate Electric Field and Potential Between Two Charges?

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Two charged particles moving towards each other

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Finding force and friction coefficient from fuel energy in a car

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Change in Momentum, Impulse, and Wall Impulse

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How Does Geometry Explain the r/R Ratio of .225 in Sphere Packing?

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Electric field of a charged ring

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Kinetic Energy/Circular Motion and figuring out point charges

  • succubus
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What's the deceleration of the car?

  • canucklehead
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Drawing Electric Field Lines and Equipotential Lines

  • jumbogala
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Uniform Motion Problem: How Far is the Island?

  • Raizy
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Velocity and acceleration vectors problem

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Solve Acceleration Problem: Plot Distance vs Time

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Flux Calculation for Non-Uniform Electric Field on Cube Sides

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Electric flux through a multihedral face

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Catch-up problem, can't seem to get it

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Calculating Force and Torque on a Dipole

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The Time of Return for a Particle Undergoing Negative Acceleration

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Charge Distribution on a Conducting Shell

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Maximum Resting Mass and Acceleration in a Friction System

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What Are the Limitations of Charge Values in Physics?

  • JSapit
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What Is the Correct Way to Calculate Net Torque?

  • trajan22
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How Do You Calculate the Bending Angle of a Bimetallic Strip?

  • tejas710
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Can a vector and its torque cross product be parallel?

  • Laurencio
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Calculate how many Kgs of water flows through the plant

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Does Adding Weight to a Suitcase Increase Its Natural Frequency?

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Turntable Rotation with weight on edge v. in the center

  • AROD
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What is the Total Displacement of a Car Driven in Multiple Directions?

  • queenspublic
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Static Electricity and Triangles

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How Do You Solve the Exploding Projectile Problem in Physics?

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How Hot Does a Flashlight Bulb's Filament Get When Turned On?

  • JJones_86
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Static Electricity and particles

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How far does the bird travel before the trains collide?

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Halliday Chapter 25: Final Charge of Uncharged Capacitors Problem

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Calculating external work done in electric field

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Relative Velocity of an escalator

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Electric field at the center of curvature of a solid hemisphere

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Electron beam of a computer monitor

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Thermodynamics of Mixing Ice and Water in a Glass Container

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How Do You Solve Basic Impulse-Momentum Physics Problems?

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Speed and total energy of a 0.45 m pendulum released at 15°

  • toasted
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Finding velocity from displacement and time

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Electric field just beyond surface of proton

  • winterwind
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Net Displacement (Probably very easy, but I don't get it)

  • FAJISTE
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Why does doubling frequency not double wave speed on a string?

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Voltage drop across a capacitor

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Solving Vector Problems in Physics: Hot Air Balloon and Wind Velocity

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725 g block on 30° incline accelerating at 1.5 m/s²

  • shikamarufoo
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What is the speed of a falling box?

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Constant Electric Field and Potential

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Calculate the x-component of the electric field

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How Do Currents Affect Swimming Across a River in Physics?

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Why do pilots need a greater angle of attack at high altitude?

  • gigglin_horse
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Depth of a well (using a stone and sound)

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