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Work and energy and that sort of rot. :/

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Verify Answer- Porsche Power Question

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Distance during acceleration: why do I get 23.02 m instead of 24 m?

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Momentum of Bird on Swing after takeoff

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2 Quck Questions on Work and Energy

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Conservation of energy and height of projectile

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What am I doing wrong with the AMU conversion?

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Physics/Chem Gas, Pressure, Volume, Temperature Question

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What is the Coefficient of Kinetic Friction for a Puck Sliding on Ice?

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Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy Problems

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How Do You Calculate the Amplitude of Forced Oscillation in SHM?

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Accceleration/Velocity questions

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Projectile motion - velocity/time unknown

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Average mass loss rate of a rocket engine during burnout

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How Far Does a Greyhound Leap When Chasing a Hare?

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Help with applied maths problems

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Why is the gradient constant in Figure 2?

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How Fast Must a Person Run to Catch a Ball Dropped from a Building?

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Space shuttle Atlantis orbit question

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Air resistance on falling pine cone and pulley system speed

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Resultant force in equilateral triangle

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I from someone who has recently taken A-Level physics

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Asteroid Speed: Calculating with Kinetic Energy

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Kinematics 1 Dimension, Person Running Solve for Time

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Total centripetal acceleration ringworld

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Gravitational acceleration/ centripetal

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Spring Energy-a block slides down a frictionless incline plane

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Finding resultant of 60N and 30N forces at various angles

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Maximum EMF induced in a radio antenna loop

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Circluar Motion Involving Rotations Per Minute

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How to Calculate the Speed of Water Exiting a Shower Head with 24 Holes?

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Can Dropping Objects Increase Momentum?

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Impulse/Change in Momentum Problem

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How Is the Average Pressure of Hailstones on a Window Calculated?

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How to Prove This Fourier Series Summation Equation?

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Satellite Orbital Speed at 10% Gravity

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Why Increasing Pully B's Diameter is Incorrect

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Force on Rhonda's body from seat belt and windshield

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Does work depend on the direction of displacement?

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Physical Proof that these movies obey Laws of Physics

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Verifying that a critical damped oscillator approaches zero the fastest.

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Resources for learning static electricity, Coulomb's law, and Gauss's law

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Calculate the Moon's Synodic Period from a graph

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Forced oscillation, Equation of Motion and verifying solutions

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Charge redistribution when capacitors in series reach equilibrium

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Calculate Force Needed to Tip a Rectangular Prism

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Doppler Effect of a security alarm

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What Is the Force on a Crate When a Midpoint Rope Is Pulled?

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Right Hand Rule Associated Question

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FB Diagram Problem: Is My Sketch Correct?

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Momentum/Impulse [Final Velocity]

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Difficult mechanics problem - is this even possible to solve?

  • Anonymouse
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Calculation of Electric field Density(easy question, )

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Water in the Bucket: Free Body Diagram? (Vertical Centripetal Force)

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Doppler effect with electromagnetic wave radar gun

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Conservation of energy regarding electrons

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What is the Half Value Thickness for Lead at 0.4 MeV and 1.59 cm^-1?

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Physics project: Self propelled car

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How Do Mass and Speed Affect Kinetic Energy in Cars?

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Gauss's Law 2 concentric cylinders in electrostatic equilibrium

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Screwed joint - free body diagram

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Determine the value of pressure in pascals

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Simple(ish) mechanics problem, conservation of energy

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Electricity and magnetism - planar symmetry question: plastic sheets

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Moving clocks and time dialation question

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Does glass or rubber attract a negatively charged plastic comb?

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How to Determine the Coefficient of Friction for a Sliding Brick?

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Pressure in side a bag, that has been microwaved: Problem 12.19

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Angular Momentum: Work Done & Frequency Change

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What average force was exerted on the player by the ball ?

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Calculating Pressure in a Meteorological Balloon at -20.0C

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Minimum Work Needed to Push 1000kg Car 300m Up 17.5o Incline

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Kinetic velocity independ. of direction?

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Height, Velocity, Angle, Gravity = Range

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Sphere Rolling vs. Sliding Down a Ramp

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Beat frequency from radio waves with wavelengths 3.141m and 3.135m

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Moment of Inertia Ball and Stick Collision

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Lamp Brightness in Parallel Circuit

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What is the smallest vertical force which will move the crate

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Trying to Find Center of Gravity on Semi Truck (a real one)

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A-level gas and thermal physics exam questions with multiple parts

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What are the Moments of Inertia for a Ball and Hoop on a Ramp?

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Troubleshooting Centripetal Force Lab Calculations: What Went Wrong?

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What is the electron concentration in a p-doped semiconductor?

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Energy, Power, Work related question

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