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Bouyant force and apparent weight

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How Does Resistance Affect Current in Parallel Circuits?

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What is a differential equation?

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How Do Astronauts Calculate the Acceleration of an Asteroid in Space?

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Determine the maximum current discharged from a battery

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How Are G and g Related in Gravity?

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How Do You Calculate the Force Exerted by Water on a Sled?

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Ratio of max height of a projectile to planet radius

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Momentum and energy in a self-propelled vehicle with descending load

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Calculate Weight of 75.0kg Woman on Earth

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Coulomb's Law Can someone I don't understand how to do this.

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Is Centripetal Force the Only Force in Space-Based Circular Motion?

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Titanic and Iceberg. What forces take part in the crash?

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How much energy is used to operate the oven for 7 hours?

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Frictionless Peg Slide On Wedge

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Tutorial: Half-Lives and Radioactive Decay

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How do I calculate the average deceleration of a car?

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Calculate Wave Properties: Frequency, Wavelength, and Speed

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Thermodynamics - Melting of Ice

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Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution Question

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How Long Does a Bicycle Lead a Car After a Traffic Light Turns Green?

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How Do You Determine Spring Compression in Harmonic Motion?

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Newton's Second Law: Calculating Net Force on a Wagon with a Child (28.5kg)

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What Is the Charge on Each Pith Ball?

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Uncertainties- am I doing them right?

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One-dimension collision question

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How Do You Convert Measurement Uncertainty When Changing Units?

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Astronomic gravitation problems

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How Do You Determine the Source Location of a Sound Wave?

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Electric potential with charges

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Inelastic Collision with Spring

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Motorist braking to reach red light when it turns green

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Constant acceleration problem involving NASA exploration vehicle.

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Gravitational acceleration/tension?

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Vertical Circular Motion problem (Carnival)

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How Much Does Gravity Affect Weight on Mercury?

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Honors Physics Momentum Problem

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What Is the Maximum Force on a Rope Attached to a Car?

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Law of conservation of kinetic energy?

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How do wavelength and frequency change when sound enters water at 4x faster speed?

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Is a Vector Perpendicular to the Sum of Two Perpendicular Vectors?

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Power output of 1200 kg car accelerating to 80 km/h in 10 s

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Question on Rotational Dynamics (Just understanding something, have solutions)

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What Type of Energy is Associated with Object-Environment Interaction?

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Child sliding down 4.0 m high slide with friction losses

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What is the impulse exerted on objects A and B during their collision?

  • Joe Jacobs
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Find the tension of the system (picture included)

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Lenz Law: Which Capacitor Plate Becomes Positive?

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Cart Explosion- Is Energy conserved?

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Adding two sound intensities in decibels

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Car jack efficiency: 3000 N load, 10 cm lift, 1200 N input over 30 cm

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Elastic Collision problem with atoms.

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Pushing capacity of a human being

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Show that the initial speed is vi = sqrt 2gL(l-cosθ).

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The Vector Nature of Newton's Second Law

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Simple Solenoid Problem Solution Using Ampere's Law

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Electricity - polarization/grounding

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Total mass of galaxy, circular acceleration and gravity

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Compute mass of black hole, gravitational and circular acceleration

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Small oscillations of constrained particle

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What Minimum Speed Must Jane Have to Swing Across the River?

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Calculate Min Initial Kinetic Energies for Javelin, Discus, Shot Throws

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Rebounding: Basketball Player Exerts 280lbs of Force on Floor

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Is Your Experimental Value Within the Accepted Range?

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Angular displacement in radians problem

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Why use +/- to specify direction for scalar quantities

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How Can Vernie and George Swing Across the River Despite the Wind?

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Finding Electric Field at Point x Away from Origin

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Bernoulli's Equation of water tower

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What is the Mass Density of a Floating Cylinder in Water?

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How Much Does an Empty Lift Move When Entered by 8 Passengers?

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What is the charge on each sphere in a force balancing problem?

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How Does Torque Affect Angular Acceleration in Rotational Motion?

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How far above the top of a fence?

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Hemisphere being pulled by a rope problem

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F=ma calculation in vector format

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Calculating Charge from 2D Electrical Force Problem

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Two identical charges repelling from rest 3.5 cm apart

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Science Fiction Movie and sound waves

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Sir Isaac Newton contest solutions 2007

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Destructive Interference of Light Waves in Bubble Film (165 nm)

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Find Area of flattened gold with limited info.

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Factor label method with rotational motion

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Gauss's law and conductors in electrostatic equilibrium

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What Type of Charge is Generated by Touching a Door Handle?

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How Does Batman's Jump Impact the Speed of a Getaway Boat?

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Voltage Analysis of Parallel RC Circuit with Series Components

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Solved: Physics 20-1 Energy - Mass on a Spring

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Balls and clay blob - Collision problems

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Harmonic movement of a spring question

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Can a Grocery Bag Hold 20kg of Groceries with 5 m/s2 Acceleration?

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Why is minimum thickness λ/2 for oil film reflection, not λ/4?

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Electric Fields potential of zero

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Momentum/Elastic Potential Energy

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