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Finding an oscillator's period with a dataset in Mathematica

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Ball Speed at Window Top from 38.8m Building: 13m in 2s

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How Do You Calculate the Total Displacement of a Car Accelerating Uniformly?

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What is the angle between a vector and the positive x-axis?

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Hollow cube - moment of inertia

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Drawing lemonade of density 1000 kg/m3 up a straw to a maximum height

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Finding charge and energy from a current-time graph

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Midpoint of P and Q: Finding 1/3 Distance

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Magnitude and direction of the current in conductor

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How Many People Can a Raft Hold While Keeping Feet Dry?

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Flight time of Projectile motion

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Find the acceleration of a race car traveling up a curve

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How to Calculate Mechanical Advantage of Box On a Board

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Basic special relativity question

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Tension elevator on a scale problem

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Tension in two wires supporting a 150N lamp at 120° and 90°

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Center of mass of a rod question.

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Linear speed and radial acceleration of 12.7mm drill bit at 1250 rev/min

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Thermal Conduction - Finding Temperature of Interface Between 2 Slabs

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Finding the x-component of force on a point charge near a charged rod

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Thermal Equilibrium: Solving for the Specific Heat of an Unknown Metal

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Possible Difference in Light Paths for Coherent Sources at Point P?

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Calculating frequency and amplitude from oscilloscope traces

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Girl Throws Weights: Calculate Speed Relative to Ground

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Electric Charge of Water droplet falling

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Solving a 1500 W Heater Short Circuit

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Electric field and point charges

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How Much Force Does a Falling Boy Exert on a Net?

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Film interference with light and refration

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What is the Solution to a Tension Problem using Trigonometry?

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Banking a Road: Calculating the Angle at 30ms^-1

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Improving accuracy in a simple pendulum experiment to measure g

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Calculating Force on a Wire in a Magnetic Field

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What Orientation Produces Maximum Torque in a Magnetic Field?

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"Calculating Work Needed to Change Orbits

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Max acceleration and speed for y(t)=2.0cos(0.5t+π/4)

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Finding the y-component from Vectorys

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Torque and angular momentum of a swing

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Calculate Force on Submarine Hatch due to Seawater Pressure

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How Do Incline Angles Affect the Speed of a Rolling Ball?

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Mass compressing spring: finding maximum compression distance

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Physics thermodynamics equation

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What does fraction of G mean? (SI units)

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What Distance Must a Rock Fall to Double Its Speed?

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Water stream narrowing from 16mm to 10mm diameter

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Net Potential Energy between two Adjacent Ions

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Why use opposite signs of g for rocks thrown up and down

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The Attempt at a SolutionLaunching 1000kg Weather Rocket: 5100m in 20s

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New to the board. Can I get some guidance on a couple of questions?

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Water velocity and pressure in hose-nozzle system

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Calulating voltage across a resistor

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How Do You Calculate the Time and Height of a Ball Thrown Upwards?

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What is the Angle of Deflection in a Colliding Ball and BB Gun Problem?

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What is the angle at which the archer fired the arrow?

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Object thrown horizontally from cliff: finding height

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Calculating Overtaking Time and Distance in One-Dimensional Motion

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Velocity Time graphs and Displacements

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How Large is the Spherical Cavity Inside the Concrete Chunk?

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Calculating Gauge Pressure in a Two-Story House

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Wierd question involving time and acceleration

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Buoyancy (Weight of a barbell underwater)

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Beginnger Coefficient of Kinetic Friction Problem

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Magnetism and force on a conductor

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Momentum and Collisions in 2 dimensions

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Why Do These Basic High School Physics Problems Confuse Me?

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Circular Motion: Radial Distance vs. Period of Rotation

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Circular motion, projectile, collision, and spring oscillation problem

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Cup on a table, heat or work process?

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What is the maximum height for siphon water drainage?

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How Do You Solve Basic Kinematics Problems?

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How to calculate sound intensity when given decibels

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Conservation of Momentum Problem- Bullet

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Elastic collision shuffleboard problem

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Solving the Last Practice Problem: A Coast Guard Challenge

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Maximum acceleration before tipping occurs

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Physics Particle Movement Calculations

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Bullet embeds in wood block, find maximum height

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I solving three problems (2 for friction, 1 in hooke's law)

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Does the weak force affect electrons or quarks?

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Sound intensity in a soundproofed room with decibel difference

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Magnetism - Quick solenoid question

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What is the intensity formula for a spherical sound wave?

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Calculate Flux Density of Current Loop

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Force components at 40° angle on a wagon with friction

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Introductry Physics- Coloumbs Law problem

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What is a differential equation?

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What Direction Does Surface Tension Pull on a Circular Plate?

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Symmetry Arguments-a finite cylindrical can

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Coefficient Of Friction (Circular Motion)

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Forced Oscillations of Mass-Spring System: Reasons for Observed Behaviour

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How Do You Calculate Tension in a Transverse Wave on a String?

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How Can I Calculate X Ideal for a Water Balloon Launcher?

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Classical Mechanics: Solving for x(t) from V(x) = const.

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