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Spring constant and angular frequency for hanging block

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Determine the magnitude of the maximum acceleration

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What is the Equilibrium Temperature When Mixing Hot and Cold Water?

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Why Is Sin A Used in the Cross Product Equation F=qvBsinA?

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Finding b for a Ball with Non-Uniform Density on a Circular Loop

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Charge velocity and current density

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Static Equilibrium Beam/supports?

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What is the Tension in a Two-Block System?

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What is the Maximum Torque on a Flat Coil in a Magnetic Field?

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Why Is Calculating the Force on a Skier So Challenging?

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Rotational motion conservation of energy; time

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Rotational motion, moment of inertia yoyo problem. PLEASE HELP

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Force exerted on walls of metal box

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How does force F on m1 affect m2 when they're stacked?

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What is the correct formula for calculating launch speed off of the Earth?

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How to Calculate Speed Using Faraday's Law

  • Laurie01
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Calculating 'Push' Force to Maintain Constant Speed

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Velocities of three 0.5 lb balls after two collisions with e = 0.85

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RC Circuit - Currents at Timed Intervals

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Current through capacitor in RC circuit after long time

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Inertia balance/restoring force

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Energy stored and dissipated in RC charging circuit with 21 mF capacitor

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Rotational motion of rotating disc

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Finding equilibrium temperature for ice, water, and aluminum

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Finding spring constant k to produce 81 N*m torque on arm

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What Does Force Represent in the Equation P=Fv?

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Finding initial velocity of a cart using two photogate timers

  • Kristin_Z
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Circuit Analysis - Solving for unknown Voltage

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Magnetic Field at a distance from the center of a Torodial Solenoid

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How Fast Does a Flywheel Spin in a Stopping Hybrid Car?

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Flywheel speed when hybrid car brakes to a stop

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Finding vectors A and B from dot product equations

  • student 1
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Verticle Banking on a circular track

  • physicsnoob93
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What is the angular momentum of an electron

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Two identical balls colliding at right angles and sticking together

  • ace123
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"Understand Motion of Block on Turntable

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Solving OCR M2 Questions: Bullets and Equations

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Does Roger or the diving board do work on the other?

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Weight of a lion standing on th earth

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What is the Motion of the Center of Mass in a Billiard Ball Collision?

  • zila24
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What are the speeds and compression in a collision with a spring?

  • loststudent0
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Calculate Pressure in a Star at Center

  • Irid
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Easy problem, but cant figure it out

  • spidey12
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Sliding heavy crate across rough floor

  • tim_mannire
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Finding mass from a scale reading of 1.47 × 10² N

  • tim_mannire
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How Do Newton's 3rd Law and Skating Illustrate Action-Reaction Forces?

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Object subjected to constant force, determine the force

  • student 1
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Finding David's velocity with respect to John

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Linear speed and rotational quantity

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How Do You Calculate Electric Flux Through a Paraboloidal Surface?

  • TheChicken
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How to Derive Beam Deflection Formula for a Double Cantilever Simple Beam?

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Free-Body Diagrams: Solving for Tension and Weight

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Line perpendicular to two skew lines L1 and L2

  • Failure007
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Calculating Spring Compression from 1m Jump on Scale

  • ace123
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Relativistic Doppler Shift and a Star breaking up

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Mechanical energy of a sliding block

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Projectile Motion Cannon Question

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Calculating the A value of a physical pendulum

  • ttk3
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Net force on solar-powered plane from Sun, Earth, and radiation pressure

  • ally1h
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Two accelerating cars, does car 2 catch car 1 by t = 18 s?

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Moving Proton in an Electric Field problem

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What Is the Initial Phase Angle Beta in Wave Propagation?

  • efairall
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Basic question on length contraction.

  • pc2-brazil
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What does the scale read when two 100N weights are attached to a spring scale?

  • alex_the_seal
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How Can a Toroid Approximate a Solenoid in Limiting Conditions?

  • Chris W
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Propagating wave find initial phase angle?

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Pulley / conservation of energy problem (should be really easy)

  • fvertk
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How Do You Calculate the Charge on a Capacitor in Series?

  • purduegirl
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Maximum plate separation for a capacitor with 220V and 0.375 m² plates

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Physics: Efficiency of toy car going upwards on a slope

  • sciencerules
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What Is the Net Downward Force on a Water Tank's Bottom on Mars?

  • mantillab
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Finding M in an Equilateral Triangle of Gravitating Spheres

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Figuring out the direction of a magnetic field

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What is the Coefficient of Kinetic Friction in These Physics Problems?

  • Rade1990
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Why charges inside a solid metallic sphere tend to go to the surface?

  • shanu_bhaiya
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Two little questions about friction

  • Mr.Barker
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Calculating Energy in a Capacitor with +Q and -Q Charges

  • pooka
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Determining static equlibrium reactions

  • martix
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Cartesian vector application involving two forces.

  • Failure007
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Newton Third Problem Ball on a Scale - part 2

  • Sabellic
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How Far Does a Pellet Fly After Midair Explosion?

  • bodensee9
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Question from Problems in General Physics (Irodov)

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Solubility of a gas in water Kinetic Molecular Theory

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Conservation of Energy ski jump problem

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Will a Metal Sphere's Charge be Uniformly Distributed?

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Newton's 2nd Law for a Particle in Uniform Circular motion

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Solving for Total Magnetic Flux and Induced EMF

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Work Question - Is something missing?

  • Sabellic
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Solve Pith Ball Charge: Equal Charges on Two Balls

  • chukie
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