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Homework Help Guidelines for Students and Helpers
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Hey I posted in homework help but now it's gone
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Homework Help: Introductory Physics Formulary
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Chain falling out of a horizontal tube onto a table
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Earthed plates confusion
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2 pulleys 3 masses problems
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Is it possible for a vertical rod balancing on a table to lose contact by striking the top of the rod?
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Force between two halves of a current carrying hollow cylinder
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Two-layer dielectric, four-capacitor model vs three-capacitor model
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Proof of law of sines using cross product
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Magnetic field due to a coil wound on a hemsiphere
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Falling capacitor connected to constant voltage
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Decrease of amplitude in RLC circuit
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Coulomb's force vs the Lorentz force
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Cone Rolling on Conical Surface Dynamics
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Speed of moth related to Doppler Effect
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Struggling to make relation between elastic force and height
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Correct statement about a reservoir with an outlet pipe
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Correct statement about siphon used to empty water tank
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Bullet collision question
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Power of a thin lens in a medium is 1/fₘ or μₘ/fₘ ?
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Confusion on sign convention in X-ray problems
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Minimum height of water to make the particle visible
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Ice cube in water: entropy calculation (Calorimetry)
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Flux through a ring due to two charges
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Static Mechanics: Aircraft Nosewheel Linkage Torque
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Stacked blocks & pulley system
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Voltmeter readings for this circuit with switches
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Formula for Electromotive force?
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Trying to understand the logic behind adding vectors with an angle between them
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Rolling without slipping on a curved surface
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A bead-mass oscillatory system problem
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Problem about units conversion: cm^2 --> m^2
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Correct statement about movement of curve ball in a fluid
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Mechanics question: Three masses and a pulley on a tabletop
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How to find eddy current (circular) path in this pendulum experiment?
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Mechanics homework confusion
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Why can I neglect angular momentum due to precession here?
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Egg Drop Challenge! Need ideas for winning designs
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Multiple reflections in a mirror system
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How fast is the fly's shadow moving?
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Struggling to understand the concept of this question (ice cube in water optics question)
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Electromagnetic field theory -- Potential inside a conducting sphere
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2 wires attached to another wire attached to a block
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Phase relation between two waves
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Understanding Forces and their Vector Components
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I've come across another fluid pressure problem I don't understand
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I need help making a relation between piezoelectricity and earthquake
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Variable mass system : water sprayed into a moving container
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What Determines the Minimum Mass of a Block in a Collision Scenario?
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Adding and subtracting vectors using vector diagrams
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Electric field due to charges between 2 parallel infinite planes
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Sources for Physics Research Paper on Rotational Blade Motion on Helicopter
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Spherical capacitor RC system -- determine steady state charges
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Acceleration of a wedge: What forces act on the wedge?
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What Determines the Minimum Mass of Block B for Movement on an Inclined Plane?
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Why is the derivative of the potential at a surface assumed to be continuous even though there is surface charge?
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Current through shorted branch -- clarification
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Different way to find center of mass of Hollow hemisphere
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Calculation of Tensile Forces in Piston-Type Water-Lifting Devices at Elevated Locations
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Errors and significant figures
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Collision of a bullet on a rod-string system: query
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Explain this asphalt sheen
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Can terminal velocity be determined from the information given?
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A cylinder connected to a hanging mass
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Compton shift problem
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Atwood's with a cylinder - Rotational Motion
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Help me to clear my doubt about a problem of Classical Mechanics (Car and Bicycle)
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Tension in a string connecting two blocks having equal and opposite velocities
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Physics Problem on Tension in Water
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Physics Extended Essay about Gauss' law and/or Lorentz force
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Toboggan on circular arcs
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Will Y-Direction Motion Cease with X-Direction Acceleration Only?
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Projectile problem: A block released from a balloon
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Help on reflection of a wave from fixed end without transmission
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Electric field due to arc shaped thin rod
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Angular Momentum- Conserved or not?
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Irodov- 1.123- Simple conceptual question with two masses connected by a spring
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Vertical Circular motion- A confusing question
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Most probable velocity from Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
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Reconcile poundforce w/slug and lbmass
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Not a typical RL circuit...
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Problem with pulleys - two fixed and one movable
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Is this an oversimplification? (treating a lens as a set of prisms)
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Change in Displacement Formulation
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Definition of pound force
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Current through an inductor as a function of time
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A hanging ring carrying current in a uniform magnetic field
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Flux through a cylindrical surface enclosing part of a sphere
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Specific heat capacity and latent heat
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Calculating the Planck Length
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Can a dipole be modeled as a point charge?
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Calculate the radius of gyration for a plane figure
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Dynamics of Circular Motion
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Calculating acceleration of a prism and block connected to a wall through a rope and pulley
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Block drifts off between two moving planes through friction
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The sign of the change in potential
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How come violet, with the shortest wavelength, is refracted the most?
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Calculating the time needed until a known velocity for a vehicle with friction as a function of velocity
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Question About homework on Coulomb's Law
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Variable Mass system : Sand falling into a Freight car
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Spherical conducting shell enclosing a non-conducting core
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Concentric conducting cylinders
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