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Calculating Displacement and Average Velocity/Acceleration for Circular Motion
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How to Calculate Current in a Silver-Lined Tube?
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Solving Tension Ratio of Steel Wires with Hooke's Law
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Angular momentum with cylinders rolling
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Speed of an exiting gas from a pressured deposit
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Vectors find following in terms of x
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Physics Question: Time for Speeder to be Overtaken by Police Car?
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Motion in One Dimension (Using Calculus)
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Current Question: How Many Electrons in Copper Wire/sec?
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Free Fall Homework: Distance Between Window & Building
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Calculating Voltage Across Capacitors in Series and Parallel Configurations
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Analyzing the Velocity and Direction of Fuel Tank Drop in Two-Plane Scenario
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Field generated by electric quadrupole
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Finding the period of a vibrating ruler
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How Do You Calculate the EMF of a Cell in a Circuit?
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Electric Dipoles and potential energy
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Calculating Net Force Between Two Dipoles
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Short vs Tall: How Centre of Gravity Affects Stability in Individuals
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Why ampare is fundamental unt in S.I rather than charge
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What is the sound level (in dB) at 4.00 km from a firework explosion?
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What is the potential of the big drop formed by 1000 charged rain drops?
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Comparing Two Stones: Solving the Mystery of Height and Time
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What Does Support a Column of Mercury Mean at Sea Level?
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Comparing Distance and Displacement in a Two-Child Race
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Electric field due to a line charge, surface area
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Optimizing Projectile Motion: Strategies for Navigating a River with a Boat
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How Many Helium Atoms Fill a 24 cm Balloon at 76°C and 0.789 atm?
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Vector Questions: Normal & Tangential Components
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How Do You Graph Wave Displacement Over Time for Point P?
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How Long Was the Kangaroo in the Air Before Returning to Earth?
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Kinematics in Two Dimension-Niagra falls
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Relating Image Distance and Image Height
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Vector question. care travels around a track. .
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Thermal Expansion: Solve Problem w/Turpentine & Al Cylinder
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Oscillation of a Mass in Liquid (Densities and Cross-Sectional Area Known)
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Physics and Fluids: Accelerating Particles in a Fluid
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Help with acceleration due to electric field
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Vector Resolution - xy Plane - Airspeed/Groundspeed
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How Does Mass Affect the Terminal Speed of Falling Objects?
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Why Do We Wear Seat Belts Experiment Help
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Calculating Initial Velocity and Time in Vertical Motion
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How Can You Calculate Train Displacement in the First 3.15 Seconds of Motion?
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Electric field from two point charges
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Kinematics: 9.60 km Skid Marks, Initial Velocity Calculation
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How Should a Confused Camel Correct Its Path?
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Ideal gas law - isovolumetric problem
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Temperature Conversion: Increase a Sample by 43.8 Degrees Celsius
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Conservation of Momentum (Elastic Collision)
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Help need about Bermuda Triangle
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How Do Electric Fields Vary with Distance Between Charged Rods?
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How Do You Graphically Represent Vectors Measured in Pounds?
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Simple Special Relativity Homework: Time Dilation and Length Contraction
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Finding accerlation in this problem
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Rocket's Max Altitude: 295 kg Weather Rocket
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How can we derive the distance formula using velocity and acceleration?
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How to find velocity as a function of time?
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What is the density of a block 35% submerged in a liquid?
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Mean surface level atmospheric density
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Dealing with Velocity and acceleration. What do I do next? =P
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Simple Acceleration and Velocity Problem
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Distance and time between 2 train stations
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Velocity squared vs position graph
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River and boat velocity problem
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What is the magnitude of the uniform electric field
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Field Magnitude and force question
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Solving Impact Acceleration Homework
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What Is the Average Acceleration of a Super Ball Bouncing Off a Wall?
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How Do Canoeists' Velocities Reveal Water Speed and Their Effort?
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Calculating Minimum Trailing Distance in a Reaction Time Scenario
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Plane drops packages confounded again
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Work-Energy Theorem in Inertial Reference Frames
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Linear Expansion Problem: Finding Optimal Crack Width for Highway Slabs
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Confounded by King Arthur's knights
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Calculating Velocities of Charged Balls Released from 1m Distance
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How do I find the necessary height for a shot tower in this problem?
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Finding the B-field at a point outside ring of current IN Plane of ring
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Centripetal force on a stunt pilot
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Conceptual question: Atmospheric pressure
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How Do You Rearrange R Values for a Linear Graph in Inverse Proportion Problems?
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What Equations Calculate Ball Trajectory and Force in Physics Problems?
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How to Find initial Velocity at 90 degrees with only a time variable given
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Need help - problem Newton laws + my try
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Train Collision Stopping distance Problem
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Velocity to jump building to building
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How High Does a Rocket Climb After Fuel Depletion?
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How Do You Calculate the Initial Velocity of a Tennis Ball Thrown at an Angle?
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Struggling with a Simple Question? Get Homework Help Now!
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Freight Wagons Collision: Calculating Speed, Acceleration & Force
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Ideal gas in a cylinder closed by a piston connected to a spring
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How Do You Calculate Average Speed with Variable Velocities and Accelerations?
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How Do You Calculate the Angle of Inclination for a Slide?
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Sketching velocity graph from acceleration graph
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Simple wave questions- am I right?
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Photon's emmited by a 100w bulb.
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What is the Density of the Earth in Pounds per Cubic Foot?
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Officer overtaking soldiers (tricky problem)
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How Do I Solve These Physics 1 Homework Problems?
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Calculating Electric Field Due to Multiple Charged Balls
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Accel. of eletron in Electric field.
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How to Calculate Heat Flow Between Boiling Water and Ice-Water Mixture?
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