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Why can't any vehicle orbit Earth in less than 80 minutes?

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Completely Lost in this Physics Problem Sinusoidal transverse waves

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Meteoric Radiation Decay Question Check

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Find Reactions of 4000lb Crate in Truss Figure 1

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Simple Velocity Problem: Solving for Time with Two Traveling Cars

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Resistance from I vs. V graph problem

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Finding EMF from a circuit with total resistance 900 ohms

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Magnetic field at the center of a solenoid?

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Adiabatic Hot-Air Balloon Rising Question

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Why is non-collinear momentum not considered in this analysis?

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Special relativity velocity tansforms

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How Do You Calculate the Spring Constant for a Trampoline?

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A Multirange Coil Ammeter Galvonmeter (?) resistance question

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Question that I simply can't figure out and

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Force applied to a wagon [Answer Check]

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Can a car be considered in rotational equilibrium?

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Magnetic Fields, Deuterium and curved tracks

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Trajectory parametric equations

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Snooker ball collision with table side and coefficient of restitution

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Calculate Initial Muzzle Velocity for Gun Using Physics Equations

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Charge vs. Electric Field Strength

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Finding support forces on a suspended beam

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Extra-Solar Planets and their stars wobble

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Impulse and change in momentum of a golf ball struck by a club

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What makes a fictitious force fictitious?

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Interference Jones and the number of bright bands

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Electric Currents, Magnetic Fields

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How does a photodiode work in reverse and forward bias?

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Mechanics Question of a particle

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Calculate the average binding energy per nucleon

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Calculating the Age of a Body Using Carbon-14 Dating

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Load bearing structure made of matchsticks

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Reception of distant FM radio broadcasts

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Gravity Ratios using pronumerals

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Proving the Truth of a Simple Formula

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Electric Car Battery Internal Resistance Effects

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Physics Olympics: Design System for Cable Car "Bomb" Drop

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Wavelenght of the incident light

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First Law of Thermodynamics and ideal gas

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Why do both nuclear fusion and fission release energy?

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Force and Motion Homework: Solving for Mass Comparison on Slopes

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Why current leads to a greater resistance

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What Are the Dimensions of A, B, and D in the Rocket Velocity Equation?

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Resnick's Introduction to Special Relativity

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Submerged depth of wood raft in fresh water

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How Much Energy Does a Light Bulb Waste in a Month?

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Simple Harmonic Motion Maxiumum Velocity

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Building a Successful Faraday Cage for Cell Phone Signal Cancellation

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Particle Physics, perhaps a classification problem

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How Does Thermal Expansion Cause Concrete Sidewalks to Buckle?

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Finding the second displacement vector from two known displacements

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Why Should a Boat Row at 90 Degrees to Cross a River Fastest?

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Wording Question Regarding Angles

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Pulley Motion Analysis: Determining Tension in a String

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How Does Accelerating a Car Affect Its Engine's Angular Metrics?

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How Does a Liquid Oscillate in a U-Shaped Tube?

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How to Calculate Uncertainty in Scientific Measurements?

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Time to Pass 30m - Joe's Car 4.33s

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Is energy released in Ra-226 decay without mass conversion?

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Find Distance Given Mass and Velocity for Failed Locomotive

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Finding Maximum Energy of Ejected Electrons in Photoelectric Effect

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Two wheels and angular acceleration

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How Do You Calculate Maximum Speed in Spring Oscillations?

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Monatomic Ideal Gas volume expansion

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Quick forces conceptual question

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Finding resistivity experimentally

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Total voltage, current and resistance

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Fabry-Perot interferometer diffraction

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Speed of signals in digital phone line?

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Equilibrium problem and a beam of mass

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Work Done and final temperature of 5 mols of Ideal Gas

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Spring Oscillation: Solve for Speed at t = 0.820s

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Force and friction on stacked prisms with 45° angle

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Horizontal force on parcel on 30° incline

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Two spheres colliding in a circular groove with coefficient of restitution

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Solving 2D Pulley Forces Problem with Force F and Angle theta

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Angluar Speed and Moment of Inertia

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Power in Circuit: Calculating Output of 12V Supply

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Energy stored while loading a spring

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How Is Average Force Calculated in Physics Problems?

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Work is done against friction, producing thermal energy

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Gas Law Problem: Finding Final Pressure in Two Connected Containers

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Forces on a steel ball of mass Question

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How Do You Calculate Forces Acting on a Hamster and a Wedge on a Scale?

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Integrating ρ^(-0.1x) over a cylindrical volume for charge

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Finding electron speed from photoelectric effect with platinum

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Relativistic Effects on Muons' Probability to Reach Earth Surface

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A question regarding kinematics

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