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Moment of inertia of a beer can

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Multi-variable quadratic question

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When to use cos or sin in physics problems

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Calculate Y Angle in Games Project C++ Code

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Train decelerating from 60 m/s over 600 m

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Conical pendulum: finding tension and angle with horizontal

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Solve Maximum Number of Fringes Observed from Laser Beam on Grating

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Calculating Work and Power: Solving a Tractor Pull Problem

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Bullet hits pendulum bob: minimum velocity for vertical loop

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Kinetic Energy - Force done by friction

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Calculating Energies in Box Potential

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Solving Explosion Problem: Calculate Kinetic Energy of Horizontal Piece

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Relating Work Function and Wavelength

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Expression for induced ε from reducing Loop

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Strategies for Solving Uniform Motion Problems

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Calculating Rollercoaster Speed and Spring Constant

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How many square centimeters is a square meter?

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People in history who determined how to use and calculate energy?

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How Do You Apply Calculus to Determine Force in Physics?

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Simple Harmonic motion of vertical spring.

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How Is the Average Force Calculated When a Pile Driver Hits a Beam?

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Joules required to accelerate 1kg of mass

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How Does Rotation in a Spinning Space Station Affect Astronauts?

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Isothermal Expansion - Work and Heat

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How to Calculate Flow Rate with Given Parameters?

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Resolving Questions - Elements of Electromagnetics Sadiku Chapter 4

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How can I expand my extended essay subject?

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Can a planet exist with such small radius and high acceleration rate?

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How Is Momentum Conserved in a Golf Ball and Clubhead Collision?

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Roller coaster at bottom of dip weight increases 50%?

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Mass of a particle at speed of light

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How Do Electrons Impact Screen Pressure in Televisions?

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Vertical velocity of a soccer ball

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Rigid body/ force applied on a wheel

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Problem on distance, time and velocity when acceleration is the only given.

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Horizontal and vertical velocity of a projectile at t=2.40s

  • Throwback24
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Rotational Dynamics of a light cup

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Solving the Work Needed to Move a Bowling Ball via Conservation of Momentum

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Magnetic Force on Moving Charges

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Electric Potential (Conceptual question)

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At what angle θ will the cylinder of height h and radius r will tumble?

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Find max mass regarding circular motion and tension

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Free Body Diagram for a Baseball Hit by a Bat

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Relative velocity and conservation of momentum

  • Maiia
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What is the magnitude and direction of impulse in a ball-bat collision?

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Pressure at the center of a planet

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Semi circular prism and light rays

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Calculate Work Done by Horse on Level Snowy Surface

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Circular Motion - Finding Tension

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Hockey stick and puck collision

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Buoyancy of Spheres: max mass added without sinking

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What is the minimum height for the track to make the ball go around the loop?

  • needhlpcalc
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Trouble with mechanical physics

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Speed of sound in seawater at 25°C

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What is the net force on the car?

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Astronaut's Maximum Distance from Shuttle Due to Line Breakage

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What Is the Average Force Exerted by the Bat on the Baseball?

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Equipartition Theorem and Microscopic Motion question

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Speed of water from a sprinkley

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Calculating Induced Current in a Rectangular Loop

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Mechanical Energy in a parachute

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Why does angular velocity in rad/s give force in Newtons?

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Energy conversions - wind up radio

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Why does water defy appear to defy gravity when evaporating?

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How Do You Calculate Intersection Points of Two Graphs?

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How to Calculate Axle Diameter for Efficient Cement Lifting?

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How Does Doubling the Radius of a String Affect Its Wave Speed?

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What is the center of mass of a cone?

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Aircraft Direction to Fly North: Solve Airplane Problem

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Does doubling the frequency of a wave source double the speed of the waves?

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Wind Resistance and/or Wind Accumulative Value

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Universal Gravitation Equation and Graphing Calculator

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Is My Solution Correct for Solving Temperature in This Equation?

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Direct substitution in the analysis of periodic motion

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What force does the scale display in Newtons?

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Finding the Amplitude of a spring (Simple Harmonic Motion)

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Volume of ice immersed in water to that in kerosene oil

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Ball colliding elastically with stick: which quantities conserve?

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How Far Will Springs Compress Under Load?

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2 bullets fired at the same time - find kinetic energies

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What is the Mass and Density of the Asteroid Ida and its Satellite?

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Hydraulic lift inquiry big problem

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Physics 11 question - its probs rly easy

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Question regarding the Biot-Savart Law and a Circular Loop

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College physics by serway is it any good?

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Time for cart, hoop, and cylinder rolling down incline

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Monochromatic Light Through Two Microscope Slides

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How can the time variable be isolated in the equation D=VoT+1/2AT^2?

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Roller coaster car energy problem

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How to draw 0.5 amp of current from a 10Ah battery

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Tennis ball elastic collision with two moving balls

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How Does Impulse Affect Particle Velocity?

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