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Terminal Velocity of a ping pong ball

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration and Initial Speed from Segment Times?

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Finding an angle in the direction of displacement

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Calculating Tension on Two Wires Attached to 200g Sphere

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Electrostatic force sphere problem

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Calculating Voltage Across Two Connected Capacitors

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Calculate the coefficient of friction on a rotating carnival ride

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Calculating Roller Coaster Speed at the Bottom of a Dip

  • lmc489
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What is the force exerted by the rope on the bucket of water?

  • Claudia16
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Why Does the Scale Reading Change in an Accelerating Elevator?

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Potential energy stored in compressed spring between two blocks

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Ball and Runner: Catching at the Bottom of a Building

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Average coefficient of friction

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Could someone me? I would REALLY appreciate anything

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Bird drops 2 kg fish from 5.4 m height

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Solving Two-Block Pulley System w/Expln

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Drag care race, finding distance and time

  • Prio
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How Does Changing Spring Constants Affect Mass Oscillation?

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Breakdown Potential of a Cylindrical Capacitor

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I have 3 homework questions that i did, can someone just check for correctness?

  • username111
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What is the Relationship Between Spring Constant and Mechanical Energy?

  • Awwnutz
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Calculating Time for Round Trip with Steady Wind - Air Race Problem

  • iluvphys
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Finding maximum acceleration of truck without having package fall off.

  • soul_observer
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Finding the velocity and covered distance of Astronaut pushing asteroid

  • soul_observer
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Particle sliding on a track (cons. of energy problem)

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Rocket problem with changing mass without integrals

  • Ashleyz
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Voltage of battery through voltmeter

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How far does a sliding block on an incline go before stopping?

  • a18c18
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Head-on elastic collision between two masses

  • mangafan
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How Is Work Calculated When No Distance Is Given?

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What is the Mass of Your Faster Running Friend?

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Crate being pulled with and without friction

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Dipole moment electric potential

  • jelliDollFace
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Coefficient of kinetic friction on a 32° ramp

  • physics_fool
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What is the tension in a climber's rope while rappelling down a cliff?

  • lacar213
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Energy with nonconservative forces

  • maniacp08
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Newton's 3 Laws Lab: Solving Problems on Inclined Plane

  • Kandycat
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Uniform/nonuniform electric fields

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Banked Curve- find the Velocity when static MU=0

  • Phoenixtears
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Bullet passing through wood block on frictionless surface

  • 12boone
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Solve Simple Loop Problem: Find Speed at Point A

  • Guruu
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Finding total mass of rectangle with varying surface density

  • Naldo6
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Speed of a ball after collision

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Frictional force on a champagne cork with pressure difference

  • Kickbladesama
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Penny slipping on an accelerating record

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How Fast is the Roller Coaster Car at the Top of the Hill?

  • hbteen
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Coeffiecient of Kinetic Friction problem? (Shuffleboard and Distance traveled)

  • glindawantsme
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How Much Mass Must a Rocket Expel to Alter Its Course by 35 Degrees?

  • pinkerpikachu
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Unit for the slope of a circular motion relationship

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Finding the limit of (sec x − 1)/x² as x → 0

  • lax1113
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Question from our Lab today on Friction

  • Husker70
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What Does the Ångström Unit Mean in Wavelengths?

  • homestar
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Is Work Done Pushing a Car Up an Incline Independent of the Angle?

  • drewdiddy
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Force needed to push a 2.0 kg box down a wall at constant speed

  • tiffany09
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Lenz's Law: Determine Current A-B/B-A

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Two questions - Electric Potential

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Calculate 1st Order Correction to Hooke's Law Period

  • dknight237
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What Is the Potential Energy and Gravitational Force on a Satellite?

  • Husker70
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Force Vector into a Force (Power)

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Finding the angle of a ballistic pendulum with given string length

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Tarzan swinging on a vine from 45° to 30° angle

  • Santorican
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How does a space shuttle's acceleration change as it burns fuel?

  • phynoob
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Determining instantaneous velocity from a graph

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Circular motion and Newton's law question

  • bokonon
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The Equations of Rotational Kinematics

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Lack of friction in Applied Physics

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Pool ball collision, kinetic energy

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Moving down on a frictionless plane

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Calculating Distance of Block Sliding Down Ramp

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Helper springs in truck suspension with two springs

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Work done by gravity and spring on falling 760 kg elevator

  • Bones
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Determining the support reactions on a frame

  • JJones_86
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How Should a Pilot Adjust Course in Wind to Maintain Direction?

  • mattst88
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Power Problem at inclined angle

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Elastic Collisons (Conservation of Ke and P)

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Power needed for motorcycle at constant speed on level and sloped roads

  • leezak
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How Does Impulse-Momentum Theorem Determine Speed and Average Force?

  • kennien
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Projectile motion, need to find angle

  • frosti
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Find μk between the block and the inclined plane?

  • HebrewHammer
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Equilibrium problem (torque and forces)

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Projectile Motion: Boulder from Cliff to Plain

  • jackleyt
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Calculating Work and Speed on a Frictionless Incline

  • Bones
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Conservation of energy in a pendulum

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Ball thrown up and dropped ball hitting ground at same time

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Calculating the Force Needed to Pull a Block

  • HodaM
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Understanding Acceleration: Solving Two Rocket and Gun Questions

  • username111
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Two blocks connected by cord over pulley with varying applied force

  • Kudo Shinichi
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Average force on a tennis ball accelerated over 0.025 m

  • lacar213
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Kinetic Friction of sliding down a pole

  • lacar213
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Car accelerating on a circular track: angular acceleration and skidding time

  • Kudo Shinichi
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How Can Uniform Acceleration and Velocity Affect Train Travel Times?

  • Prio
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What is the magnitude of the normal force in this block stacking scenario?

  • lacar213
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What Happens to X When Force and Total Energy Are Defined by U(x)?

  • veronicak5678
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Boat towing two skiers at 40 degrees and pilot in a loop at 200 km/h

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How Does Tension Vary Along a Rotating Rod?

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What is the speed of the discus at release?

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Calculating Energy Ratio (Ef/Ei) for Earth's System

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