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What is the formula for calculating velocity in a classical potential?

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Solving Projectile Motion: Finding Max Height & Final Speed

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Effect of gravity on the precession rate of a gyroscope

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What Is a Precessing Ellipse and How Does It Relate to Orbital Dynamics?

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Electromagnetism question (Stump book) - Dielectric

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Proving Divergence Theorem using Gauss' Theorem

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Solve Gyroscopic Precession Homework: Find Time for 1 Precession

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Entropy Change of Supercooled Water Freezing Spontaneously

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Problem in finding the electric field()

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A ball on a carpet, while we pull it

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A bicycle tire that has a slow leak,

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Magnitude fo the compressive stress

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How can I find the shape of an orbit under an inverse cube law of force?

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Need Physics Homework Help: Banked Curve Problem with Friction Force"

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Molar Specific Heat Homework: Calculating Change in Internal Energy

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Columb distance/charge balancing problem

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Finding Potential Energy of a Particle Constrained to a Surface

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How Big is the Balloon When Helium Tank Pressure Drops?

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Calculating Work on a Frictionless Horizontal Table

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How to Calculate Artificial Gravity in a Rotating Space Station?

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Effusion Gas Leakage: Estimating the Rate of Escape Through a Hole

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Physical reason for diagonal matrix

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Can Mathematica Plot Functions with Undefined Parameters?

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Mathematical problem from the course of reactor physics

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Do Angular Momentum Components Commute with Nabla Squared and r Squared?

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Force on Particle due to Sphere with Cylindrical Hole

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Electric Flux through a Spherical Surface at the Origin

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Two Quick Questions Regarding Lasers - I hope this is the right place to ask

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What is the new orbit if k is halved in a circular orbit with F(r)=-k/r^2?

  • phys_learner
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Bungee chord (standing waves and antinodes.)

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Velocity in Lorentz Transformations

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Elastic collision between an unknown mass and an alpha particle

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What is the volume ratio of a helium balloon at different altitudes?

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Temperature distribution two semi-infintie bodies

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What is the wavelength of the sound waves emitted by two speakers?

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Optics Homework: Blue Light Diffracted by Grating

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Understanding Motion in a Pulley System

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Solving for Electric Field of Uniform Line Charge | Coulomb's Law Example

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Young's Two-Slit Exp: Calculate OP w/ Wavelength 6.0*10^-7 m

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Net electric force on neg charge next to a pos charge, inbetween a elec field

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Interference and diffraction of light

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How Do You Calculate the Half-Life of a Radioactive Substance?

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Is a Car Considered Alive Based on Its Energy Use?

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Elastic collisions between proton and helium nucleus

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How Do You Calculate Forces on Charges Using Coulomb's Law?

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Lorentz Transformation: Solving Homework Statement

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Proving Vector A and d\vec{}A/dt Are Perpendicular With Constant Magnitude

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Find the electrostatic potential due to a hoop of charge

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Problems related to eigenfunctions and eigenvalues

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Finding equation of motion from lagrangian

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How Does Theta Affect Particle Speed on an Accelerating Sphere?

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Charge density and potential in a semiconductor

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How Do Derivatives Estimate Measurement Errors?

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How Can Total Momentum Remain Zero Post-Explosion in a Moving System?

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Homework Problem Involving Forces, Torque, and Moment of Inertia

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Fluid mechanics: Separation surface of a source in a parallel flow (3D)

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Quantum/linear algebra and vector spaces

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Special Relativity, please explain the meaning of this problem

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How to Calculate Velocity and Position of a Proton in an Electric Field?

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Solving Retard Potential Homework for Sinusoidally Varying Line Current

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NMR, Nuclear & Electron magnetic moments

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Calculating Weight at Earth's Equator: 600.0 N to 597.9 N

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How to Solve These Rotational Dynamics Problems?

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A Medieval Knight attacking w/ a Cannon

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Particle in a Box: Probability of Ground State & Excited State

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Gauss's Law: When to Use r & R in Charged Spheres

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Spherical Harmonics Homework: Calculate Coeficients & Express Function

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Energy States- Bossons & Fermions

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Ideal gas law problem concerning the exponetial atmosphere: part 4

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How Do You Calculate the Range of a Cannon Ball on an Inclined Plane?

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What Is the Frictional Force Between Block and Table After Bullet Impact?

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Electric Field in Cavity of Conductor: Explained

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Effect of a magnetic field on a bean of particles.

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How Do Transmission Lines Function as Parallel LC Circuits?

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Calculating the pressure of a hailstone

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How to Calculate Average Force Vectors During a Collision?

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An approximation of the ideal gas law for real gases

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Calculating size of charge distribution with a known electric field

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Why Does B(cm^3/mol) Change Sign with Temperature?

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Acceleration of Protons and Electrons at a certain distance provided.

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How Is Heat Energy Distributed in H2 Combustion?

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Thermal Expansion of Mercury and Water

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Linear/Surface/Volume Charge Density

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Calculating Instantaneous Flow in a Siphon - Help Needed!

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Hydrostatics and fluid mechanics

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Solving the Displacement of Particle on a Stretchy Spring

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Ideal gas law problem : part 3

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Is the Size of a Wave Packet Constant in Quantum Physics?

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Calculating Charges on Uniformly Charged Spheres

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Understanding Polar Coordinates and Derivatives in Mechanics

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Mass sliding through a metal bar consisting of two conducting rails

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How can I understand the Thevenin Theorem and its formula for e?

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