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Bowling Question - Rotational Motion

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Maximum mass hanging from a rod at 50 degrees before slipping

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Is Earth's acceleration in an elliptical orbit toward the sun or the center?

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Period of uniform plank with spring not at Center of Mass

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Diving board with two supports and torque due to diver

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Amplitude and coefficient of friction problem

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Does Optical Reversibility Apply to Both Reflection and Refraction?

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Do plane mirrors make a room appear twice as large?

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Calculate Impulse of 0.4 kg Ball Kicked at 5m/s

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Solving Angular Acceleration of a Rod-Ball System

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Why do currents flow opposite to the larger EMF in a two-battery circuit?

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Gas leaking from a steel tank at changing temperature and pressure

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Shock wave arrival time for Mach 3 jet at 20,000m altitude

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What is the Coefficient of Kinetic Friction for a Box Pushed at an Angle?

  • physicsphail
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Centripetal acceleration of protons in an accelerator

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How High Will the Unattached Ball Rise After the Collision?

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Finding force (using mass and time)

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Finding Binding Energy (B.E.) through B.E. vs Nucleon graph

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Can You Verify the Accuracy of These Statements?

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Which Direction Is the Man Facing If Earth's Rotation Is Slowing Down?

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Simple Harmonic Motion of an oscillating particle

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Calculating Magnification of Christmas Tree Ornament

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Apparent Weight of Planet Problem

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Maximum power dissipation in load resistor with internal resistance

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Lense with two mediums speed of a fish in an aquarium

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Neutron kinetic energy from uncertainty principle

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How Long Does It Take Earth to Orbit the Sun?

  • maddad
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How Do You Calculate Spring Constant with Friction Involved?

  • rileyjah
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Force pushing 184-kg crate with net work zero by friction

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Transverse wave particle speeds

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Finding Spring Constant: Solving the Spring Problem

  • rileyjah
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Output Voltage Equation for AC Source at 90 Hz?

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Wave-particle duality of light and gravitational lensing

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Find Final Image Location & Magnification in Lens Combination 21

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Magnitude of centripedal acceleration

  • dr2112
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Maximum incline angle for rolling nickel coin to reach 0.5 mm height

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Rolling Ball Height In Terms of Ho

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Spring constant of a bungee cord from oscillation period

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Elastic collision between cube and ball on a table

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Radial force of a rotating stick

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Finding rope tension and angle for a 30-kg engine held by a strut

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Find the acceleration of each block

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Pulley problem with definite mass rope

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What Is the Effective Force Constant Between Two Atoms?

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Time for rocket shot upward to reach the ground

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What is Velocity at t=5s? Answer with Units

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Hockey player catching opponent with constant velocity and acceleration

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Dog walking on a floating raft—center of mass approach

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Tension of an Object Swinging in a Circle

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Center of mass of physical pendulum

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Force on scale as 1.2 kg object slides down 21° wedge

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What Stops the Mass on a Frictionless Surface?

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Finding period and amplitude of a driven spring-mass system

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Finding wave speed from standing wave equation with tension and mass

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Calculating the electric field in an electron gun

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Calculating Velocity/Speed of a Lost Coin

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Year 11 motion/vector problem?

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Calculating Mass of the Moon with Apollo 11 Data

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Final speed of car accelerating at 0.26 m/s² for 35 seconds

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Finding the Distance for Enlargement with a Thin Lens

  • just.karl
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Angle of Refraction: 60 Degrees

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Metal ball sticks to putty. Where does the energy go?

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Simple Pendulum and harmonic motion

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Force components and tension in equilibrium problems

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Work done with no kinetic energy change in space

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Meter stick with displaced center of gravity balanced with known weights

  • Kandycat
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Solving Ideal Gas Q: Temps & Press at A,B,C,D

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Projectile Motion in Bigger Radius.

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Spring constant from mass and period

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Solving for the Distance of Fall for 4kg Block

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Pump energy cost for solar heater and air pressure in a container

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Is the Frictional Force on a Block Pushed Against a Wall 4.9N or 7.2N?

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Heat Flow Between Containers: What's True?

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Voltage at a Point: Calculate Electric Field

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Tangential speed of a rod pivoted from one end

  • Vasili
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Net Force Questions: Calculating Frictional Force

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A Block Slides Down an Inclined Plane

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Finding the mass of a block on an inclined plane

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Calculating Water Viscosity from Flow Rate

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Is Momentum Conserved in a Two-Object Collision?

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Eye lens focal length change to focus on object 1.69 m away

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Stokes' Theorem and Maxwell's Equations

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What is the initial velocity of a rock thrown off a 20-m high cliff?

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Block sliding across another block with applied force

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Ideal Gas Law and kinetic energy

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What Is the Normal Force on a Person at the Top of a Ferris Wheel?

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Conservative force vs nonConservative force

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The instantaneous velocity of a freely falling object

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What is the minimum height for a ball to complete a loop and rough surface?

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An Angular Velocity Question

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How Does Friction Affect Work When Moving a Board Across Different Surfaces?

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