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How Do You Calculate Speed and Force in Skier Physics Problems?

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What is the Normal Force on a 16.2 kg Object Being Pulled with 10.2N Force?

  • blue__boy
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Calculate Rotational Force of 105 kg Bag Displaced 1m

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Finding the change in Rotational Kinetic Energy

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Solve Transverse Speed Q: Part C & D

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Changing Potential Energy of a Magnetic Coil

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What is the Conservation of Energy in a Car Braking on an Icy Road?

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How Much Is a Charged Bullet Deflected by Earth's Magnetic Field?

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Electrical Field Theory and Tension In A String

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Finding angular frewuency of the oscillator

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Why Does a Floating Block Displace Water Equal to Its Weight?

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Why Does an Electron Slow Down Near a Charge?

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Calculating Force on Pressure Cooker Lid with Changing Temperature

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A plane flies 457 km east from city A to city B

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Calculating Potential Energy of a Spring with a Hanging Mass

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How far beyond the fence does the ball strike the ground?

  • goaliejoe35
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Transverse displacement, tricky MC

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What is the displacement of the car from the point of origin?

  • ace123
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Understanding PV Diagrams and Temperature Changes in Ideal Gases

  • get_physical
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Friction Questions: Explaining Static Friction & How it Relates to Walking

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Calculating Avg Velocity of Car in Rural Rally

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Solving a Puzzling Physics Problem: Average Retarding Force

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Acceleration due to gravity help

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What angles can a tank aim at to hit a target on a mountain 10km away?

  • devanlevin
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How Do You Solve an ODE for a Particle Under Gravity and Retarding Force?

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Tangent Help: Expert Solutions for Your Queries

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Negative Mechanical Energy of a Body: Electron in 1st Orbit of H Atom

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Ice melting in water over time?

  • gillwoman
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Why Does a Satellite's Speed Increase as It Moves Closer to Earth?

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What is the wagon's displacement when t=7.0s?

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Concept Question about Excitation of Atoms

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Can You Help Solve This Physics Equation Transformation?

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Discover Answers to Common Physics Questions on Yahoo Answers

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Motion along a line due to a constant net force

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Brass Wire Wave Speed Calculation

  • K3nt70
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Co-efficient of Static Friction Question

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Solving Force in a Stretched Rope: Applying Hooke's Law

  • Paul L
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Calculating Particle Travel Time in Solid Sphere Under Gravity

  • foxjwill
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Calculating Electric Flux for a Point Charge in a Cube

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Sphere On Incline (Rotational Kinematics and Energy)

  • Pat2666
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How was the max deflection formula derived?

  • Amy54
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Two Blocks and Pulley (Rotational Statics & Dynamics)

  • Pat2666
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Compression and Tension Formulas

  • Amy54
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Calculate Distance of Man Walking on Plank Before Tipping

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Electric Field Due To a Rectangular Charged Wire

  • nikkou
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Calculate Efficiency of 10.0 kW Motor for 8.5 kg Elevator

  • petuniac
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Significant Digits for Longer Operations

  • jwj11
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How can I determine the center of mass of a vehicle?

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Find Final Kinetic Energy of 3.00kg Object

  • suppy123
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Solving Kinematics: Finding the Angle for a Cannon Shooting at 400m/s

  • devanlevin
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Sum of the energies of the two photons

  • badwallpaper0
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Some trouble with my force calculations

  • big_d
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Projectile Motion in 2D: Solving for Unknown Angles and Speeds

  • dragon513
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Force Dynamics and Static Friction

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Batteries in circuit, terminal voltage

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Solving E&M Homework Problem: Find Force on 3rd Charge

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Gauss' Law using linear charge density

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Child's Displacement on Cubical Jungle Gym: Solving the Problem

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Copper resistance thermometer - temperature

  • scholio
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Resistor circuit, potential drop and time

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What is the Shortest Path for a Fly to Walk Around a Room?

  • goaliejoe35
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Deriving Electric Charge: Line, Ring, Cylinder, Cone, Sphere & Shell

  • Chris W
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Linear angular wheel inertia mass problem

  • greg997
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Ice Cube Floating: Help with Bouyancy Question!

  • habibclan
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Missing minus sign - Motional EMF

  • Nick89
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Calculate Velocity of C Rotating About A Axis

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I need some e-books about Mechanics

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GCSE exams soon. with some revision.

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Reading a Force vs Time graph to get distance?

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Problem i have the answer to, but need the formula

  • tommy1
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Capacitances and Potential Difference.

  • WiFO215
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What is the internal resistance of the battery?

  • scholio
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Determining current from charge function

  • scholio
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Capacitor circuit, time for current to drop

  • scholio
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Cylindrical bar of copper - current, resistance

  • scholio
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Calculate Angular Acceleration of Rotational Motion: 4.9rev in 1s

  • islanderman7
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What is the correct angle for a vector with components (-3.18m)i and (4.73m)j?

  • goaliejoe35
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How Does Time Affect Electrical Measurements in a Circuit?

  • scholio
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Acceleration Of Tennis Racket (Linear And Rotational Quantites)

  • Pat2666
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Asteroid Cooling: Solving Internal Temp & Cooling Rate for Radius

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Magnetic fields and induced EMF

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How Does an Asteroid's Radius Affect Its Cooling Rate?

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Unknown mass on a pulley system - Help

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Stopping Rotation of Space Capsule: How Long Do the Jets Need to Run?

  • Vanessa23
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Lifting Baby Safely: Calculating Tension in Backbone

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Electromagnetic Induction and aircraft wing

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Why Do Light Bulbs Blow When You Turn Them On?

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Final velocity for launched ball

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What is the weight of the beam?

  • looi76
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Forces Acting on Person Standing at Earth's Equator

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