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Interference- am I reasoning correctly?

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How Does Sand Affect the Dynamics of a Conveyor Belt System?

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How Do You Determine if Resistors Are in Parallel or Series?

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How to Solve Second Order Differential Equations Involving Sines and Cosines?

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Penetrating power of a beta particle

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Finding Charge on a Cube Corner

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Two slit experiment with glass plate over one slit

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Uniformly charged rod in an arc

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What force is needed to accelerate a car

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Finding minimum cable length with tension constraint

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Minimum initial speed for salmon to jump over 0.55 m waterfall

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Constant Acceleration/Velocity HW question

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Rotational Kinematics-YoYo Dropping from Ceiling

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Why Can't You Always Add Numbers with the Same Dimensions?

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Will a body remain at rest if the net force on it is zero?

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How Does a Rubber Ball Bounce?

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How Does Signal Delay Affect Interference Between Two Loudspeakers?

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Projectile Motion (No initial velocity)

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Calculate Height of Freely Falling Object - 30m in 1.5s

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A somewhat tricky projectile problem

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Is momentum of the atom conserved when it bounces off a piston?

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How do I Find Phase Shifts for two Waves?

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Squeezing a piston and its effect on temperature

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Electris Field Quest confuzzled

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Calculating Tension in a Massless Cable for a Moon Orbit

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Kinematics particle velocity problem

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How to Calculate Time and Distance in Basic Physics Problems?

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Crossing Point Distance Calculation

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Ball thrown upward: acceleration at different points

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Finding coordinates of a point on an out of phase wave

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Projectile Jumper Problem: Finding Takeoff Speed

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Solve Kinematics: Find Vi of Flea Jumping 0.390m

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How Do You Find g Using Atwood's Machine?

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When Do Two Toy Cars on Parallel Tracks Match Speeds and Positions?

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Deriving the trajectory angle derivative equation

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Three strings in equilibrium with tensions and angles

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Minimum Velocity only given distance

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Solving Flux of Electric Field through a Cube of Side L = 2m

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Electrical Force At Equilibrium

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Heat and change of phase problem

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Vector addition problem - component method

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Vector Addition and Components

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What Is the Tension in a Cable at an Angle?

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How far can a 100 W light source be detected by the eye?

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Thermodynamics - engine efficiency

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Finding X and Y components of forces

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Tension of a Rope Connected to Two Identical Blocks on a Rough Table

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Acceleration in terms of velocity and radius?

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How Should Uncertainties and Significant Figures Be Reported in Measurements?

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Finding tension in three ropes supporting a 200 N box

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Friction problem again Okay today is not my day

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Why V = IR Can't Be Used to Define p.d.

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Solve Kinematics Problem: Find x(t) for Chain on Frictionless Table

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Finding Thevenin Equivalent at Terminals a-b

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Free fall of a stone off a cliff

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Kinematics Problem: How Far Will a Pitch Fall Vertically at 61.2 ft?

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Electric Charge on spheres suspended from an angle

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Calculating Displacement of a Grizzly Bear: Homework Solution

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Does Buoyant Force Vary with Material Density in a Composite Object?

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Tension in a uniform rope supporting a hanging block

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How Much Force Must a Professor Exert to Control Cart Speed on a Ramp?

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Calculating Internal Resistance in a Series Circuit

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Net electric flux through torus

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What is the minimum acceleration of the elevator when the cord breaks?

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How Far Did Big Bertha's Shell Travel?

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Finding possible magnitudes when adding velocity vectors

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Vector Displacement Components for Minute Hand from 8:00am to 8:20am

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Is Energy Conserved in Pendulum Motion?

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Projectile: Given V0, h, show d=(v0/g)sqrt((v0)^2-4gh)

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Temperature difference across concrete wall from conduction rate

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Motion Problem: Struggling with Angle w.r.t Wall

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What Is the Height of the Building If a Ball Lands 35 Meters Away?

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Basic Kinematics: Solving for an Object's Motion with Constant Acceleration

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Problem geostationary satellite

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Electric Field at Point P in an Equilateral Triangle

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Vectors and Motion: Calculating Average Velocity and Speed

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Ideal Gas Law: Encyclopaedic Experimental Data

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Solving Incline Motion & Net Acceleration of a Combined System

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How Does Friction Affect Cylinder Movement on Slopes and Planes?

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Projectile Motion Question (physics 101)

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Electric Field/Potential Of A Sphere

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How Do Lorentz Transformations Apply to Aircraft Communication Delays?

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Conservation of Momentum Experiment

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Finding magnitude of surface charge density.

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How Do You Calculate Time and Velocity of a Rocket-Powered Ice Sled?

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Third force balancing two forces and finding vector sum components

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Latent Heat Problem/ Phase Change .

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Free body diagram of hanging pot

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Projectile motion astronaut problem

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What Is the Contact Force Between Two Boxes with Different Frictions?

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How Does Flipping a Coil Affect Capacitor Voltage?

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Tension in string between two blocks with applied forces

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Light-rail train acceleration and distance between stations

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Conservation of Energy- Circular Motion Problem

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Pythagorean Theorem to find the resultant

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