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How Does Pipe Expansion Affect Water Pressure?

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Differential cross section/simple integral

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Sphere rolling down rough hill then sliding on ice

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Can gravitational potential energy of a system be negative?

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B Field in Semicircle Conductor

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How Does the Boy Balance the Forces While Carrying the Sack?

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Initially charged capacitor disharged through a resistor

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When does Kathy overtake Stan in the drag race?

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Euler's Equations for Extremas of J: y=C*e^x

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How Do You Calculate the Vertical Acceleration of a Unrolling Disk?

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Coefficient of friction of a sitting block

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Maximum Compression of buffers for a Train

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Vacume technology at pressure;molecules in amount of volume

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Torque on a Pulley Homework: Find Speed & Average Torque

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What is the coefficient of static friction in this scenario?

  • yoleven
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How can different distances and speeds result in the same velocity?

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Is the Decimal .83333333 a Constant Value?

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Calculating speed for 10 meters in 15 seconds

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What Is the Maximum Reaction Time for a Ranger to Avoid a Deer?

  • jp0108
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Electrons subjected to a continuous force

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Velocity question i can't figure it out

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Conservation of energy theorem problem

  • fishingspree2
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Compute the mass of the marble?

  • Max CR
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Finding the distance a spring compresses

  • dal11
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How long would it take to walk 10m ?

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How Do You Calculate Instantaneous Speed from a Speed-Time Graph?

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Finding loop radius from apparent weight at bottom of loop

  • Physics197
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Equilibrium Pulley Tension Problem

  • livewire852
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What Is the Reaction Force to Gravity on a Book Resting on a Shelf?

  • steve0827
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Painter falling ladder: let go or hang on

  • gabee
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Find the Acceleration of the Aar Going Downhill

  • Trix
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Pulleys - find force to accelerate a block

  • Pakbabydoll
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Net Force on airplance cabin surface

  • tbstar
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What physics will you use to find the speed?

  • deanine3
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Write expressions for simple harmonic motion

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How high do you need to be to weigh 69.7 percent of your surface weight?

  • shabut NAA
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Which car has greater momentum at the cliff's edge?

  • deanine3
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Solving an Equilibrium Problem: Finding the Maximum Angle

  • DD31
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Calculating Charge on Capacitors in Series

  • slammer
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Gravitational Forces on Ship Stranded Near Black Hole

  • rpcarroll
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Maximum distance spring compressed.

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What is the average force exerted on the putty by the surface?

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Sledgehammer on pivot, using inertia, center of mass, finding speed

  • bocobuff
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Electrons transferred when balloon acquires -0.60 nC charge

  • soulembracer
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How Does a 10% Reduction in Sun's Power Affect Earth's Temperature?

  • aforce20
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Momentum (airplane landing, word problem)

  • mickeymouseho
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The coefficient of static friction on an unbanked curve

  • apt8
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How much horsepower are you applying?

  • Max CR
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Thermo problem causing me to hemerage

  • csingham
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What Speed Do Ice Skaters Reach After a Collision?

  • sweedeljoseph
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Work done by air resistance and gravity

  • Maiia
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Force applied by tree in car crash (1015 kg at 32 m/s)

  • sweedeljoseph
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How Do You Calculate the Original Velocity of a Cannonball in a Collision?

  • sweedeljoseph
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Linear acceleration of bicycle

  • bocobuff
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Power Stairs Problem: 690 W Needed for 44 kg Person to Climb 12 Flights in 15s

  • sweedeljoseph
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Work and energy with normal force

  • Maiia
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Radioactive Decay Differential Equation Question

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Can You Solve These Conservation of Energy Equations?

  • blayman5
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When do I use cos and sin in a free body diagram?

  • emoseman
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Find gravitation on Mard and the Earth

  • DollarBill
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Calculate Moment of Inertia at Point A

  • asi123
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Chain sliding off a table, find the function a(t)

  • packers7
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What is the equation for calculating power output?

  • Max CR
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Find the force applied to you by the rubber bands?

  • Max CR
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If there were more friction present, how would your results change?

  • teababy
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Angle between two refraction angles

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Velocity of two gliders after inelastic collision

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Scalar factors of parabolic cylindrical coords

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Potential energy of 2 sprinds on a single point

  • dal11
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Do Physics Misconceptions Affect Exam Scores?

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Torques exerted by Gravity (CONFUSING)

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Angle of refraction through ice into water

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Determining the Mass of Jupiter Using Io's Orbital Parameters

  • Husker70
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How do drums relate to Newton's laws and two other physics topics?

  • FunkyStickers
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Finding the reaction angle at point A in a statics problem

  • JosephR
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Angular acceleration of a rod released from horizontal

  • asi123
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Calculating Propagation Velocity with MATLAB

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Intensity of polaroids at an angle

  • Sasha26
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How Does Temperature Affect Water Overflow and Gas Behavior in Physics Problems?

  • Kickbladesama
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How Does Helium Affect the Fundamental Frequency of an Organ Pipe?

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Not sure how to do this angular momentum, torque?

  • Raylyn
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Torque problem involving rolling disk stopped by a force

  • xregina12
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How do I determine the distance between two lenses in a telephoto lens system?

  • creative_wind
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Electric Potential in a region of space

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Proving T-W=(mv²)/L from conservation of energy

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Photon energies from hydrogen atoms excited by 12.8 eV electrons

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Rolling ball on curved track: finding horizontal distance x

  • Kamkazemoose
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Find the magnitude of the horizontal force exerted by the lower hinge

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Why Doesn't Momentum Conservation Apply to a Cart with a Sail?

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Finding vertical force on beam with cable-supported floodlight

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What is the net torque on the system

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Calculate Change in Volume of Seawater at 10.9 km Depth

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How Is Displacement Calculated in a Shear Strain Scenario?

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Young's Modulus: maximum depth of mine

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