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Breaking tension, and a weight component

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Finding Force given a mass attached to a rope

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How Do You Parametrize Curves for Line Integrals in Complex Numbers?

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What is the wavelength of the incident photon?

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How Much Work Is Done by Force Acting Along the X-Axis?

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Work done using a pulley system

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I = Avnq Where am i going wrong?

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Change in potential energy on a roller coaster drop (frictionless)

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Calculating Magnetic Field of a Tight Coil

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Angular Acceleration. Im totally lost

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Calculate Angle Between 2 Lines in 3D - Easy Formula

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Solving the Kinetic Energy of a Baseball

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A Mass Hanging From Multiple Strings

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Calculating Hawk's Shadow Speed

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What Forces Are Needed to Move a Sled Up an Inclined Plane?

  • DJWise
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Understanding Safety Precautions for Charged Metallic Spheres

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Just Tell Me If Its Doable (Vectors)

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How to Calculate the Centroid of a Half Circle?

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Determine the temperature of the blood/ Heat problem

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What is the correct force to accelerate a block on an incline?

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Forces on a ball in a moving car

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Force-Pulley problem solving for accel

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What is the speed of a pendulum at a given horizontal position and length?

  • whatsntomake
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Compressions and rarefactions of a sound wave

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Mean Time Between Collisions of Ideal Gas Molecules: What Factors Matter?

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Frequency of oscillating cylinder

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Critical Angle Geometric Optics

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Acceleration due to gravity is -9.8m/s^2

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Efficiency of Motor: 6V, 0.25A, 200g Weight, 4J Potential Energy

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Volume when givin Mass and Specific Gravity

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What is the Orbital Speed of a Satellite at 7000 km Altitude?

  • JohnnyB212
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Electric Motor and Magnetic Field

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Rolling Rod in a Magnetic Field

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How long to fire a small rocket. Impulse problem.

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Basic Power Problem: 66 kW Solution

  • renob
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What Frequency Does a String Vibrate at in Its Second Harmonic?

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Block pulled on frictionless slab with static friction between them

  • DJWise
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Frequency of a tuning fork from beat frequencies

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Spring distance vs force lab question

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Solving for Initial Bullet Speed: Mass, Spring, and Friction

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Coefficient of friction question.

  • JohnnyB212
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Mass on spring at two times and springs between walls displaced vertically

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The vector nature of forces hw ?

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Block sliding down an incline and hitting a smaller block

  • 12boone
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Maximum speed of cylinder on rotating turntable before skidding

  • steph3824
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Average Speed and Force Question

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What Temperature Causes a Steel Ball to Loosen in a Pyrex Cube?

  • Lance WIlliam
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Inelastic Collision of a bullet and block

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Circular motion- finding angle of the banking

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Finding tension when a motorboat is towed at constant power

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Problem with caclulatin forces in structure

  • louike
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Calculating the capacitance problem

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How Much Work Does Batman Do Swinging to a Ledge?

  • crhscoog
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Finding net electric field from two opposite charges

  • playyer565
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Plane flying at an angle, trying to find radius

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Calc-based physics help for exam in 2 days

  • di8000
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Calc based- motion in 2 and 3 dimensions

  • di8000
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What kind of math do I include in THIS?

  • Ashleyz
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Conservation of Momentum/Energy related problem

  • maniacp08
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Finding maximum displacement with applied force and spring

  • physics_31415
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Block on Block Dynamic Question

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Work and Potential Energy Problem

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Determination of e/m of electron by magic eye method

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Gravity's affect on weight in an elevator

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What Force is Needed to Double the Constant Velocity of a Block?

  • snoopygal327
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Gauss Law - Conducting cylindrical shell

  • MichaelT
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Moment of Inertia of a Hemisphere

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A small car meshes with a large truck in a head-on collision

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Error propagation for velocity from distance and height

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Finding excess charge in a spherical shell with charge density ρ=C/r³

  • MichaelT
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Newton's Laws Problem- Question on upcoming TEST

  • mrmiggidude
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Energy and WET (Incline pulley system)

  • closer
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Thermal Expansion with rod and ruler.

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Oscillating electron has drift velocity too?

  • loonychune
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Finding Total Number of Electron States with n=3

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How Does Adding Mass Affect Spring Potential Energy?

  • alemon
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How Fast Does a Ball Shoot from a Toy Cannon with Friction?

  • closer
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Force constant of two springs hung together linearly

  • Doctor Lee
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Solving Work Done in Pushing Sled Up Snowy Incline

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How Is an Astronaut's Apparent Weight Calculated in Space?

  • drewdiddy
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Why Is My Calculation of Electron Travel Time Incorrect?

  • cheese825
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Coordinate (1,-2), angle of intersection thru origin?

  • bchandler
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Potential Energy and WET (Incline with friction)

  • closer
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Calculating the Year Length of Planet Y Around Alpha

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Force slowing a bullet and work done carrying a backpack

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Convert 185 lbs, 23 in to Joules

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Difference between electromagnetic waves and matter waves

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Linear Momentum and Collisions- Acceleration Relative to the Ice

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What is the solution to this electron motion problem?

  • steph35
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A train traveling at a constant speed

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Projectile Motion given 2 position equation

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How Can a Mask, Light Gate, and Motion Computer Measure Instantaneous Speed?

  • Revolutionz
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Radial acceleration around a planet

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