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How Much Power Does a Car Need to Climb a Hill at 100 km/h?

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How Does Sound Intensity Change with Fewer Firecrackers?

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Which scenario matches a momentum-conserved velocity-time graph?

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Force needed to pull boxes stacked on each other with pulley system

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How Steep is the Hill if a Car Uses More Power Climbing It?

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Surface charge distribution of two metal spheres

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Transverse wave speed and acceleration: y=0.120sin(πx/8+4πt)

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Find Orig. Speed 3.0kg Mass After Frictionless Explosion

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How to Calculate Kinetic Energy and Momentum of a Thrown Ball?

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How do we calculate experimental errors?

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A stone is thrown at an angle of 36.87 degrees

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Maximum depth of submarine window with 40 cm diameter

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Barrel of Fun - Circular Motion

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How Do You Calculate the Amplitude of Oscillation for a Spring-Mass System?

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Why Is 2r Used in Calculating the Masses in Plaskett's Binary System?

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What is the force of the track on the car?

  • ScullyX51
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Max Compressive Stress in Cane: 0.00245 MPa

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Collision Conservation of momentum

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Rotational Motion of a pendulum bob

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Gravitation: Which formula exactly?

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What is the purpose of this diagram in scientific research?

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Cons. of energy with rotational motion

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Simple kinematic equations question?

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Magnetic field in parallel plate capacitor with increasing field

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Distance of hearing a radio station

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Is the Laser-Induced Motion in SHM or Mechanics?

  • Jack_O
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Zero velocity and zero acceleraton

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Optical Spectroscopy and Atomic Structure

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What Determines the Velocity of a Baseball After Being Hit?

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Optics - For what distance must we focus our eyes to see this image

  • Kathi201
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An object placed in front of a plane mirror

  • Kathi201
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Incident Intensity of light transmitted

  • Kathi201
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Effect of Air Resistance on the Speed of a Thrown Ball

  • sammyj
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Space station living quarters problem

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How Far From Shore Is the Dog After Walking on the Boat?

  • JWDavid
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Relative kinematics and radius of curvature

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Elastic Deformation through compression (stress)

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How Do You Calculate Final Speed with Constant Acceleration?

  • NukeNuke
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How Do You Calculate the Overall Center of Gravity for a Person?

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Simple Algebra Question: Finding the Value of X in Equations

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Net magnetic force in unit-vector notation

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Conservation of momentum and SHM of a spring

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How Can a Block Stay on a Moving Cart Without Falling?

  • nns91
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SHM - Horizontal Spring Question

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Calculating orbital velocity at periastron

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Amplitude of a wave hitting a boat

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Weightless horizontal bar equilibrium

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Stick thrown in air physics problem

  • ritwik06
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General equation of a travelling wave and standin waves on a string.

  • Nikhil Kumar
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Finding the net height to catch a projectile launched at 45°

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Gas pressure after withdrawal and heating with PV=nRT

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Solve Integral Problem: Work Done By Gas in Barrel

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What is the Solution for Finding Ball's Speed at Impact and Maximum Height?

  • ScullyX51
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Determining Juliet's Weight Using Center of Mass Principle

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Minimum energy to raise vehicle 5.22e6 m above lunar surface

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What Is the Required Distance for Young's Double-Slit Experiment?

  • Kris1120
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Double slit and colored wavelength

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Standing wave node-antinode distance and microwave frequency

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Force on drain plug and Torricelli's theorem for saltwater tank

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Diffraction grating and red light

  • Kris1120
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Find Acceleration with an angle

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Finding tension in a two-mass pulley system

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Height and orbital speed of a geostationary satellite

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Sound to travel form the TV to the viewer

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Finding Values for Thrown Stone from 45m Building

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Friction between plank and sphere with applied force at 45°

  • ritwik06
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Finding record moment of inertia when dropped on rotating turntable

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When Can the Mass of a Suspended Bar Be Ignored in Torque Calculations?

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Magnitude and Direction of Puck on Ice

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What Is the Torque About the Knee at Different Leg Angles?

  • bmandrade
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Rotational Motion (thin hollow pipe)

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Collision- I don't think conservation of linear momentum can be established

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How Does the Bohr Model Explain Energy Levels in One-Electron Atoms?

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How high does a baton twirler throw a baton in 1.111111111111 seconds?

  • sweedeljoseph
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Net Work Done on 15.8kg Block: 51907.724 J

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Solving Franck-Hertz Curve Questions for Mercury

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How Do You Calculate Total Displacement in Projectile Motion?

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Magnetic force question - should be easy

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How Far Does the Arrow Fall Short of the Target?

  • chrozer
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Finding velocity (deals with coefficient of kinetic energy)

  • mandaa123
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Angular speed people walking problem

  • sweedeljoseph
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How to find the fourier transform of exp(-|x|)

  • samdawy
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Phase constant is twice my answer and opposite sign

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What is the Work and Friction in This Incline Scenario?

  • marker403
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Calculate Bullet Speed from Angular Displacement and Rotational Speed

  • sweedeljoseph
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Is the Collision and Friction Report Accurate?

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What happens to the current when this solenoid's diameter is doubled?

  • selishaphysic
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Gravitational Force on Point Mass by Uniform Wire and Line

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How Do You Calculate Tension in a Two-Block Pulley System?

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Michelson interferometer - change splitting pattern

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Friction free tug of war - result check

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Find Resistivity of Germanium Sample Setup

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What is an Adiabatic Expansion Coefficient?

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