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What is the Specific Heat of My Alloy?

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Two Dogs and a Tire: A Physics Experiment

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Work-Energy theorem and kinetic energy pertaining to a car

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Thermodynamics: Adiabatic Process and Changes in Volume and Pressure

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Finding the Cross Product of A and B: A Puzzling Answer?

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What Minimum Height Must the Sides of a Steel Boat Have to Float?

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Torque direction using right hand rule

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Elastic Potential Energy of a Spring Between 2 Blocks

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Temperature of Pluto's Atmosphere

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Heat/First Law of Thermodynamics/Calorimetry - Have work done

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How Many Beers Does It Take to Reimburse Energy Expenditure?

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Static Equilibrium of a tree sapling

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Gravity in a uniform density sphere and a shel

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Acceleration of mass on a spring

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How to Find a Skateboarder's Speed Down an Inclined Ramp?

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Tyrolean traverse rope sag with safety factor

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Torque and netwon's second law: True or false question

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Thermodynamics involving rods and heat transfer with conduction

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Time for a micro-wave to travel a distance

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Do Friction Forces Have Units?

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Find amplitude, wave speed, and nodes from standing wave equation

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How Do Sinusoidal Waves Interfere to Form a Resultant Wave?

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Electric field caused by a uniform linear charge

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Circular Motion and Friction on an amusement park ride

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Collision, Bullet fired into block of wood

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Simple Harmonic Motion of a machine part problem

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Elastic collision, frictionless surface

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Significant Figures: Do Instructors Require Them?

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Angular acceleration when wheel rotates on rotating turntable

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Answer Check: Displacement Currents and Capacitors

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Calculating Orbital Time of Sun with Average Radius of 2.5*1025 km

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Minimum Radius of Space Habitat to Maintain <1/100g Variation

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Weight Density and Mass Density

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Astronaut traveling what effects would she feel?

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Torque and equilibrium; concept problem

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Relativity and observed length of a moving object

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Kinetic Energy of tennis ball drop

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What is the Time Read by a Moving Clock in Basic Relativity?

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Friction force on a rolling ball

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Capacitor Circuit (Capacitor as source)

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Angular speed when a spinning disk reaches pure rolling

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Partial Pressure question (should be easy to answer)

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Rotation kinetic energy/linear velocity

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Impulse on ball involving angles

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Is the answer for (3 + i) / (6 - i) correct?

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What are the velocities of the carts after a perfectly elastic collision?

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How Does River Current Affect Boat Speed and Crossing Time?

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Mass momentum of inertia in lab, error analysis

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Calculating Work Output from Thermal Efficiency of Car Engine

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Gravitational Field problem Question

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How Does the Position on a Turntable Affect a Mass's Acceleration?

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What do photons carry information about?

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What Is the Volume of a Gas Bubble Just Beneath the Surface of Mercury?

  • greyknight
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Rotation Problem/Total Kinetic Energy

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What Is the Correct Value for k in the Latent Heat Equation?

  • jcpwn2004
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How Do You Calculate the Electric Field to Suspend a Proton?

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Angular Momentum: Rod on Rotating Disk

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Physics Free Body Diagram Question

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How Does Tension Vary in a Simple Pendulum?

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How Do You Calculate Displacement and Time of Flight When Sliding Off a Roof?

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Finding spring constant for water balloon launcher range

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Free body diagram for pendulum at 30 degrees amplitude

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Billiard ball rolls with slipping to without slipping.

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Spring compression after inelastic collision of two blocks

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Solve for Acceleration at Point B in a Rod on a Frictionless Surface"

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Kinetic Energy/Velocity Relationship

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How would i find the coefficient of sliding friction

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Find work done by each of the forces.

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Steel guitar string: max length, min radius, and fundamental frequency

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How Long Does It Take for the Planet to Complete One Rotation?

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Rolling Without Slipping/Loop Problem

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Fission Reaction Energy Calculation

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Energy and Circular Motion Problem

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Calculating Angle in Two-Slit Experiment with High-Speed Protons

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Spring constant with given mass, find Work

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How High is the Watermelon When Its Kinetic Energy is 4.61J?

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Tension in string with hanging mass and sliding block

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What is the resultant magnitude and direction of three perpendicular forces?

  • ghostanime2001
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Physics Home Work: Coefficient of Friction Requirement

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Harmonic motion whose damping is not related to velocity

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Why Can't Brass Rods Be Charged by Rubbing?

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Photons per second hitting an aperture

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How Do You Calculate Angular Momentum for a Swinging Bob?

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Moving two blocks connected by a spring

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Maximising sensitivity in a voltage divider

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Two capacitors reconnected with opposite terminals together

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Conservation of energy of a rollercoaster car

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Finding tension T1 when T2 is 10N in suspended block problem

  • vballkatie22
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How Much Heat is Needed for a Steel Sphere to Pass Through an Aluminum Plate?

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Understanding Force Statements: Solving a Confusing Homework Problem

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To what depth will the bullet penetrate the block in this case?

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Does gravity affect the frequency of a standing wave?

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How Much Force is Needed to Move a 50kg Crate?

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What Is the Initial Momentum of the System?

  • Maiia
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Minimal force to move a 20 kg block at constant speed

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Is 1/2ln(a+4)+ln(b)-5ln(c) equal to ln(b/(c^5(a+4)^(1/2)))?

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