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Cannon Fire! Senior Physics Research Project

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Electric Field Problem in a Tube

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Finding acceleration from position data with the kinematic equation

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What Is the Final Charge on Sphere C?

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Solve Spring Mass Change Problem: Find Distance for 4kg Mass

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How Fast Does a Bowling Ball Travel When It Falls Off a Table?

  • Michael17
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How many of C8H8's electrons has it gained/lost?

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Change in Velocity: Find Solution and Reasoning

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Block held against a spring going up a frictionless plane

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Lose weight (mass) or train? - effect of losing weight (mass) on power

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Find the coefficient of kinetic friction?

  • kadavis2010
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Kinetic Energy: What am I doing wrong?

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Electric fields and equipotentials

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Spring stretched to store 47 J of elastic potential energy

  • kadavis2010
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Elastic Potential Energy Physics Problem

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What is the heat capacity of the tires of the car?

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Solve for the amount of force on an 8kg ball

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Tension in calf muscle and force on foot from shinbones

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Table tennis and air resistance

  • Michael17
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Time for electron to travel between parallel plates 9 cm apart

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How do you change a base directly without using base 10 or base 2?

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Radius of core, using densities

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What fraction of a 100kg cube floats in fluid with specific gravity 1.2?

  • jan2905
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Significant figures in one of the Sears and Zemansky book problems?

  • FountainDew
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Electromagnetism and Polarisation question

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Epotential of Point Charges - Really Hard Conceptual Problem

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Astrophysics - Apparent Magnitude of stars in a close binary system

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Speed at 5 Seconds on Linear Plot with Slope 5.0 m/s2

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How Is the Mass of a Hollow Sphere Calculated in Water?

  • dnp33
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Work Done by moving point charge

  • DANIELLYMA
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Laser Pointer Wave Energy and eyes seeing

  • TFM
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How do different track shapes affect the travel time of a mass?

  • jan2905
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Resistance and Power Probelm (again)

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Expressing vector C using law of cosines with angle theta

  • fishguts
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Questin about moving an object through liquid

  • kevinf
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The Oscillation Period of A Rod Pivoted at One End

  • Beginner@Phys
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How to Calculate Power and Energy Usage in Electrical Devices

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Maximum particle displacement in a sonic boom wave

  • markmai86
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Specific Gravity, weight and acceleration

  • jan2905
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Special relativity - velocity additions/energy

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How Fast is a Golf Ball Traveling 10m After Being Dropped from a Cliff?

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Problem 3.62, Young and Freedman-On the Flying Trapeze

  • james brug
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Velocity of 1-dimensional projectile

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Angle for destructive interference of direct and reflected radio waves

  • adelianne
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Excess Electricial Charge Fraction

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What is the Net Electric Field Vector at a Point Due to Two Charges?

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Velocity When a Runner Covers Half a Lap

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Calculating net force on a charge placed at a spot

  • phys62
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How Do You Calculate the Mass of a Block from a Bullet and Spring Collision?

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Understanding Fluid Resistance and Drag Forces in Swimming and Tug of War

  • ritwik06
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What is the total resistance in the given circuit?

  • Gregg
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Finding Equilibrium: Solving for Net Gravitational Force on a Mass

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Finding final velocity in a perfectly elastic collision

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100 meter sprint with variable acceleration phases

  • grimsdale
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Electric Field and two point particles

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Calculating Maximum Height of a Rocket in Free Fall

  • Bottomsouth
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Golf Ball Problem-elastic collision

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Blocks, a spring, and a collision

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Conservation of energy/ efficiency question.

  • maccha
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Projectile motion: trapeze catch at 53° angle

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How Does a Gardner Shower Jet's Range Impact the Wall's Wetted Area?

  • succhi
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Solving a 2-Mass System Connected by a Rope

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How Is the Third Piece's Velocity Determined After a Grenade Explosion?

  • tornzaer
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How Do You Calculate Displacement and Distance in Physics Problems?

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Finding y-component of force on 2.6 µC charge from three charges

  • fallen186
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Bernoulli's equation for flow through a pipe with changing diameter

  • jan2905
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Calculating Braking Force for a 3000 lb Car

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The Electric Field Due to a Charged Disk

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Finding the radius of a brass ball using tension?

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Hiker displacement with three vector legs and signs

  • ipwnj00
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Hand force needed to crack a nut with pliers

  • Stratosphere
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Finding current through R2 with VAB=125V, R1=17Ω, R2=84Ω, R3=24Ω

  • dgoudie
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Linear Expansion related to area expansion

  • student 1
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Finding net force from 40 N and 30 N forces using components

  • Turquoise
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What is the mechanical advantage calculation for cracking a nut with pliers?

  • Stratosphere
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Calculate power with v on inclined plane with miu

  • sciencescienc
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Maximum torque from hanging on a 50 cm wrench

  • Stratosphere
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Are the red or green resistors in parallel in this DC circuit?

  • Elbobo
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Why Does Using High Voltages in Power Transmission Reduce Losses?

  • paul_harris77
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What Weight Should Be Hung at Point P for Horizontal String?

  • ritwik06
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Do Normal Forces Always Exist When Surfaces are in Contact?

  • ritwik06
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Solving Gas Pressure Law: 4.5*10^5Pa to 1*10^5Pa

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Force exerted by table on falling chain after distance x

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Is it possible to find the answer?

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Which electric field is larger?

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One-dimensional lattice (electrostatics)

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Watermelon and Superman experiment

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Total outward force of molasses on cylindrical tank

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Calculating Electric Fields Using Coulomb's Law

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How Do You Square Cosine B?

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An electron moving across capacitor problem

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Electric Fields, Finding the zero field point

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Kite string force, negative or positive>

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Friction, Forces, Coefficient of Friction (True/False) Simple

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