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Fluid mechanics - ice melting into water

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How Does Incident Angle Affect Two-Slit Interference Patterns?

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Determining the Speed of a Bowling Ball using Realistic Values

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Electric Field of Equilateral Triangle with Uniform Charge Densities

  • feras
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Calculating Acceleration of a Falling Bucket Attached to a Pulley System

  • the whizz
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Conservation of energy of a jet powered car

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What is the angle between two component vectors with magnitudes 8 and 10?

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What are the forces on a hinged beam supporting a shop sign?

  • djunderseage
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Difference between circular, rotational, angular and tangential motion

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How Do You Calculate Torque in a Current Loop with a Hanging Mass?

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What angle maximizes air time for a launched ball?

  • pyroknife
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Is Your Calculation of Net Torque Correct?

  • Intrusionv2
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Is Online Tutoring Effective for Last-Minute Test Prep?

  • Max CR
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Spring Question? How much does the block move?

  • lu6cifer
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Calculating Entropy Change in a Thermal Conduction System

  • bpaterni
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Angular momentum/angular velocity.

  • the whizz
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How Does Air Resistance Affect a Flea's Jump Height?

  • Jaklynn429
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How Is the Force Calculated for Two Masses on a 30 Degree Incline?

  • lpcampbe
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Solve Drawbridge Problem: Will Cable Break Before Lancelot Reaches End?

  • the whizz
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Solving Hockey Puck Friction Problem

  • PvtDonutDJ88
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How Much Work is Done When Separating Two Opposite Pole Magnets?

  • Wingeer
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Solve initial-value problem for heat equation and find relaxation time

  • mmo115
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Change in entropy when mixing water and alcohol

  • bpaterni
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Bernouli's Equation/Pressure Problem

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Object bouncing off wall and friction on inclined plane

  • stonnn
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Ferris wheel: rotation rate for 3g at bottom and seat belt force at top

  • luckycharmz
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Calculate the distance of the ship from the island

  • xcalibur
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Projectile motion with friction?

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Bug landing on rotating sphere system: torque and angular momentum

  • waterfaire
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Explanation of Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis

  • alara_rc
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Electric field between two separated metallic balls.

  • klackeos
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Evaluating Poisson Brackets: H=p^2/2m+V?

  • Domnu
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Volume Flow Rate: Solve for Water Leaving Faucet in cm^3/s

  • kathmill
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How Does a Spring's Compression Affect Scale Readings?

  • nns91
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Specific Heat and Maybe Latent Heat also

  • twilos
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Calculating Mass Sliding on a Slope

  • hodgepodge
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Bullet hits mass attached to spring with pic

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How Does Elevator Motion Affect the Tension in a Suspended Lamp's Wire?

  • charan1
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Why are substances with shorter half-lives more radioactive?

  • alara_rc
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Compton Scattering/Conservation Of Energy

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How Far Does a Slowing Train Travel?

  • lvck
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The entropy of the universe can never decrease

  • avenkat0
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What is the Net Force on a Block Against a Wall With Static Friction?

  • kathmill
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Projectiles launched at an angle not sure if i posted this already?

  • aly1201
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Final kinetic energy of 2kg and 8kg masses after perfectly inelastic collision

  • hodgepodge
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Percentage of upolarized light

  • ally1h
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Angular Velocity of a turntable-man system

  • Kizaru
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Frequency and perceived loudness at different distances

  • cfl25
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Work done sliding a 1 kg block 1.5 m on a shelf with friction

  • roxxyroxx
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Where does the kinetic energy go when a parachute slows a falling person?

  • hodgepodge
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Impulse on 15 g object hit by 45 g object

  • roxxyroxx
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What is the electric field intensity at point A due to two point charges?

  • Inertialforce
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Calculate Escape Velocity to Leave Solar System

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Force exerted in inelastic collision

  • chrisbowe82
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Energy to a 40% efficient engine

  • laxmanic33
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Calculating Apparatus Error: What to Do?

  • nokia8650
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Centripetal Force and Banked Curves

  • KOKA
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Snell's law of refraction, and Wolff BRDF

  • luisbf
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Finding volume, buoyant force, and density of a floating plank

  • amy bowersock
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Detecting a stars microwave radiation intensity

  • Vuldoraq
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Minimum Potential Difference Required

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Electric Potential & electron oscillation

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What is the length of the can above the water level?

  • rhodium
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How High Does a Ball Go If Thrown Upwards at 40m/s?

  • cyberhev
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Finding refractive index from total internal reflection

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Center of mass of baseball bat problem

  • nns91
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Who Will Reach the Bottom of the Hill First?

  • Shaunzio
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Finding velocity in circular motion without friction

  • swede5670
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Car on banked road at 14 degrees with no friction

  • PatrickL
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How Does Rope Tension Vary Along Its Length and Affect Wave Speeds?

  • bowma166
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Magnitude and direction of the force of the seat on you?

  • charan1
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Solving an Inelastic Collision: Finding the Angle of Motion for Two Cars

  • alexito01
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How Does the Angle of a Pulley Affect Tension in the System?

  • Shambles
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What Is the Final Speed of Two Colliding Discs?

  • chicubs08
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Calculating Leverage and Mechanical Advantage

  • Ignoramus
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Projectile Motion and basketball dunk

  • omegax013
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Calculating Energy Received by a Human Eardrum at Threshold of Hearing

  • Cheezay
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And, at the moment, I cannot answer your question.

  • kimberly
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Check kinematics graph problems 5 and 10

  • monkey13330gg
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How Do You Derive the Angular Velocity of a Ball in a Hemispherical Bowl?

  • mjolnir80
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What can be calculated from a trolly rolling down an inclined plane?

  • Anyone
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How High and How Long Will the Apple Travel?

  • lakhani7
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How to find the amount of work done on an object

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How Does Satellite Motion Work?

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How Is Torque Calculated in a Drawbridge Pulley System?

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Find the image distance - optical instruments

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Determing angular velocity after a collision

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Minimum spring compression for toy car to complete a loop

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Maximum acceleration of a bungee jumper with spring constant 150 N/m

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Physics 11: Calculate Velocity of Student Throwing Backpack on Ice Surface

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Motorcycle cop catching Ferrari: required acceleration over 2 km

  • kurtrudviking
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Several Old Exam Questions. (Mechanics and thermodynamics)

  • Phoenix940
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What are the calculations for a ball rolling up an incline plane?

  • charan1
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Frequency of first intensity maximum for loudspeakers

  • vaizard
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Archimedes Buoyancy Formula and washing astronauts

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