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Energy, Power, Work related question

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Showing that energy of a falling object remains constant

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Does Increasing Torque Affect Kinetic Friction When a Wheel Slips?

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How Do You Solve These Constant Acceleration Problems?

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Conservation of momentum and jumping girl

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How Does the Sojourner Rover Perform Scientific Tasks on Mars?

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Pendulum collision and elastic collision

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Proton accelerated through 1.2×10⁴ V potential difference

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How Do I Solve Thin Film Interference Problems?

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Mechanical Energy question (Skier going down a slope confusing )

  • physicist2be
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Vector expressions - equivalence

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Electrostatics and potential question

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Charged ball suspended in uniform electric field at 15 degrees

  • AznBoi
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What Is the Applied Voltage V Between Charged Plates?

  • Inertialforce
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Projectile Motion Problem with spitting a seed

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Masses and a Light Rod: Solving for Linear Acceleration Without Gravity

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Electrostatics - Magnitude and direction of electric force

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Gate rotating when bull charges: torque, energy, angle after 3 seconds

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How Does Torque Relate to Force and Distance in Physics Problems?

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What is the angular speed of a rotating line of skaters?

  • vladimir69
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Non-uniform acceleration equation

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Calculating Relativistic Length of a Moving Spaceship

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Calculating Rotational Kinetic Energy and Instantaneous Rate of Change

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What is the time bullet take to get at the animal ?

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Horizontal distance of horizontally fired projectile

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How Is String Tension Calculated in Vertical Circular Motion?

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What is Liouville's theorem all about - Thermodynamics

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Angular velocity find angular displacement

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What is the Rebound Velocity of a Pea Bouncing off a Surface?

  • thomas49th
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Energy of the Simple Harmonic Oscillator

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Calculating Impulse in a Collision: Positive or Negative Velocity?

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Centre of mass of a solid hemisphere.

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Simple Moment of Inertia Question

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Hydrostatic equilibrium for stars question

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Pendulum Problem: AP Physics 1985B1

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The Block–Spring System Revisited

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Difference between Static and Kinetic coefficients of friction?

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How Does Net Force Affect Object Movement Along a Straight Line?

  • Raynor.Jim
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Joule Mobile Mass Transporter Project

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Calculate the Flux through the Pipe Part 2

  • Saladsamurai
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Acceleration of Two Objects on a Pulley

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Cart colliding with block in inelastic collision

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Cart colliding with wood block in inelastic collision

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Two objects colliding elastically on a frictionless surface

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Calculating Acceleration of 2 kg Ball on Inclined Plane

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Is the Velocity Vector Perpendicular to the Position Vector?

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Projectile motion (the dreaded volleyball problem)

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Car Collision Speed Calculations

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Two masses on an inclined plane connected by a pulley

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Finding molecules from a thimble of water scooped from the ocean

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How Quickly Can Two Stacked Boxes Travel 5 Meters When Pulled by a Rope?

  • theneedtoknow
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Velocity/displacement 11th grade physics

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Projectile motion (ball thrown horizontally)

  • boomer77
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What is the Initial Mass Function problem and its solution?

  • grahammtb
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What Forces Act on a Car at the Peak of a Hill?

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Motion with a changing acceleration

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Does a sliding can reach the bottom sooner than a rolling can?

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Projectile motion (soccer kick)

  • boomer77
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What type of Accelrator is the LHC?

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Astronomy Polytrope definition question

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Constituent traveling waves and strings and vibrations

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Calculating acceleration and brake force

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Why is the sign of mu flipped in linearized pendulum equation?

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What is the Density of a Mixture of Two Liquids in a 1:3 Ratio?

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Calculate the Flux through the Pipe

  • Saladsamurai
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Question on timbre (Sound waves)

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Heat Transfer Final Temperature Problem

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Projectile motion question (baseball problem)

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How Is Friction Force Calculated on an Incline?

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Resistance of a brick - Old coursework question

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Deflection of plasma stream near magnetically-responsive surface

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How Does Feynman's Definition of Photon Polarization Differ from Hecht's?

  • Sam_Goldberg
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Calculating G Forces or the Centripical force

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So, How to Find x - Rod Standing on Frictionless Table (Rotation)

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Solving Electric Potential 3: (kQ^2/R)

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How does the frequency of a wave affect its power transmission?

  • clairez93
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Solving Frequency Equation to Match y=mx+c

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Fundamental standing wave problem

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Physics question-finding the magnitude of the electric field

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How Do I Calculate the Internal Resistance in a Circuit?

  • tweety1234
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Direction of Electric on a Circle

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Calculating current in series circuit

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Finding Range, Max Height and Speed of Projectile

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Block sliding down frictionless semicircle

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Electric Potential: Is My Answer Correct?

  • asi123
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Finding electric potential from a charged sphere

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Cannon Problem (Projectile motion)

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Motion of Two Cars: Velocity Calculation in Same Direction - 1 km/h

  • missmerisha
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What Is the Current in a Rotating Electron Model of a Hydrogen Atom?

  • coffeem
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How would you solve a momentum problem including friction and/or springs?

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