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Electric Heating Coil: Potential Difference in 3.5 mins

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Derivation of Mean Thermal Wavelength

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Electric Field and Gaussian Pillbox

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Gauss' Law and a uniform surface charge

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Three charges arranged in equilateral triangle

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Is a cyclic machine with given heat and work transfers reversible?

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Why Does the Michelson-Morley Experiment Use T1-T2 Even After Rotation?

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Gauss Law and a hollow spherical shell

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Firefighter Sliding Down Pole: Magnitudes & Directions of Forces

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Car braking force and distance with constant deceleration

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Solving Dynamics Block Problem with Zero Force at Θ = 30 Degrees

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Calculating Force Exerted on Horizontal Beam in Fig. 11-25

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What was the solution to the current through wire problem?

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Best Homework Threads: Examples & Appreciations

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Pacemaker battery charge and lifetime from ampere-hours

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Simplifying scattering integral, goldstein derivation 3.4

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Find Force F(v) of Boat Drag Force: Barger's Classical Mechanics

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Help with Goldstein chapter 2 derivation 2

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Special Relativity, change in distance and time at slow speeds

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Is Everyday Experience Inconsistent with Newton's First Law?

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Spherical coordinates position vector

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Operator Equation Msg Deleted: Solving Info Issues

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How much energy is stored in the capacitor?

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An easy electrodynamics question, and yet

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What are cross-section, differential cross-section, and solid angle?

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Spherical symmetri of eigenfunctions?

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Solving a Mechanics Problem: Deceleration

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How Can I Tackle This Physics Study Guide Effectively?

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Geodesics on a Circular Cylinder: Solving Ch6 Q6.4

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Question regarding Energy of a Particle in a Box is Quantized

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How Do You Calculate the Starting Force for a Mop on a Frictional Surface?

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Need problems 1.4–1.24 from Wangsness EM Fields 2nd ed

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Electric Field and Potential Change in a System with Equipotential Surfaces

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Reviewing physics I in my physics II class and having trouble

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Struggling with AP Physics Problems: How to Correct My Calculations?

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Waves, solving Energy with position?

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Velocity and force in jump from 4.5m roof with 0.7m deceleration

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How to Calculate Magnetic Flux on a Surface Along a Wire?

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First Person to Introduce Magnetic Mirroring

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Calculating Diameter of Beam in Glass Laser: Optics Theory

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Chasing Cars Problem: Find GC Speed to Catch BC

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How Do Plastic Sheets Affect Young's Interference Pattern?

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Double Dirac delta potential energy eigenvalues from Griffiths 2.26

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Solving Keyboard Problem with Capacitance

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How to graph x vs t and find average velocity?

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Matrix exponential of a 2×2 operator and hermitian adjoints

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How Do You Solve Atwood's Machine Problems Involving a Car and a Rock?

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How Can Two Bullets Fired from the Same Rifle Collide Midair?

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Heisenberg's Uncertainties, question

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How does the kinetic energy change for a varying mass?

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Electric Field and potential of spherical shell

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How Much Energy is Needed for Electrons to Probe Nuclear Size?

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Find the de Broglie wavelength of an electron

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Basic Thermodynamics problem I can't see.

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Finding Wavelength of Light in Water (n=1.33)

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Electric field with three charges

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Electric flux through Gaussian surface with three charges

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How do I solve for the length of a hanging cable with no friction?

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Sign of 2nd order term in equation 8.30 Bransden & Joachain

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How Do You Derive the Angular Momentum Equation from Rutherford Scattering?

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Normal force on mass sliding down accelerating wedge

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Integrating EM Energy Density: Is E=hf?

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Why doesn't a radially oscillating charged sphere radiate?

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Finding series and parallel connections in capacitor network 3.126

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How Close Can Alpha Particles Get to a Gold Nucleus in Rutherford's Experiment?

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Particle moving in horizontal circle inside spherical bowl

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Cylinder with moving piston as air moves in spring contracts

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Deriving Gamma(v): Start with Galilean Transformation

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Solving the Differential Eqn. for Field Lines of Vector Fn.

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Magnetic field of plane current/solenoid (Griffiths ex. 5.8 and 5.9)

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Hall Voltage Effect: Calculating Potential Difference

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How Do Energy Levels Change When HD+ is Replaced by D2+?

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Kinetic Energy: It sounds simple but I have been having a very hard time

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Maxwell stress tensor for radiation pressure and Coulomb force

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Finding a General Solution for Eigenfunctions in Quantum Mechanics

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Deriving magnetic force from magnetic moment and induction

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Help with central force problems from past papers

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Harmonic oscillator probability

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Moment of inertia and Center of mass

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Magnetic field in a cylindrical cavity in magnetized medium

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How Is the Light Ray Equation Derived from Fermat's Principle?

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Stability of nucleus on emission of elementary particles

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Point charge between two conducting plates

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Conserved charge generates symmetry transformation in Hamiltonian Mechanics

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Atomic transition - What does this notation mean?

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Principle and applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy

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What Happens to the Effective Potential in a Hydrogen Atom for l>0 and r<r(min)?

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How Does Quantum Mechanics Affect the Landing of Marbles?

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Classical Mechanics Problem: Central force

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How much total kinetic energy is needed in this case?

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Inertial Frame Characteristics in Newtonian Mechanics

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How Do You Solve a Proton's Orbit and Electric Field Problems?

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Acceleration due to solar radiation pressure

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