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Why We Step Up Voltage for Long-Distance Power Transmissions

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Relationship between pressure and volume

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Finding the equation of motion for a mass hanging from a spring

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Why Do Ice Skaters Spin Faster When They Pull In Their Arms?

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How Does Thickness Affect Phase Change in Thin Film Interference?

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What is the mean rate of flow through the hole?

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What is the increase in area of the ring?

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Effective resistance between two points with multiple resistors

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How does steady state refrigeration work?

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Why does a PV diagram show heating then cooling?

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Acoustic power of loudspeakers and interference

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Probability of finding a particle and complex wave functions

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Finding RMS voltage, frequency, and current for v=180sin377t

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Electric field from a spinning charged spherical shell

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Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the momentum operator

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What Is the Time for a Particle to Reach the Force Center from Distance d?

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Intensity of EM waves in a conducting medium

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Tension in steel cable with two masses and time-varying force

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Asymptotic solution for 3/2·y(x)+xy'(x)+y'''(x)=0

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How do I simplify the integral in P&S Ch. 6 to obtain Eq. 6.70?

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How do beam current and intensity relate in Rutherford scattering?

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Solving 4-Dimensions Problem: Lagrangnian of Charged Particles

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Calculating Wavelengths for Photons and Electrons in Quantum Physics

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What Happens at Absolute Zero Temperature?

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What force is lifting the weight on the bottom wire and how was it created?

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What is the derivation for ΔN in the MM Experiment: Fringe Shift?

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Circularly polarized light through a linear polarizer

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What Is the New Volume When RMS Velocity Doubles?

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Solving Alpha Decay Problem - Sarah

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Force of Steel Ball Impacting Steel Plate | Average Force Explained

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How Do Line Integrals Relate to Magnetism?

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How to put magnetic field in the wave equation

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Checking signs in Kirchhoff's loop rule equations for a circuit

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Finding Momentum and Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics Problem 1.17

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Magnetic vector potential of infinite wire

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Why does three polarizers give 1/4 intensity instead of 1/6?

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Can Canonical Transformations Solve Velocity Dependent Potential Problems?

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What Is the Average Force Exerted on a Rebounding Steel Ball?

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Energy levels and Balmer wavelength for Ne9+ ion

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Is it possible to measure the PD of photocells using just a voltmeter?

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Proving a light ray exits parallel after passing through a medium

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Visualizing Spin Up/Down Probabilities of an Electron Wave Function

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Length Contraction, which way is it?

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Are These Astronomy Calculations Correct?

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Are these two vector fields conservative?

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Height Ratio of A Coin below the Water

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Quantum Mechanics / measurement postulate

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Thermodynamics: Small Question On Gibb's Free Energy

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How Can Magnetic Flux Density Influence the Damping of Vibrations in Aluminium?

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Understanding the Ideal Gas Law: State Changes and Work Calculation | Geocities

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Thermodynamics: Phase-change refrigeration

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Modeling the Earth-Sun system in Quantum Mechanics

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Thickness of ethyl alcohol film reflecting only yellow light

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Calculating Inertia Tensor of Hollow Cone

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Rayleigh Refractometer index of refraction

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Mechanical enery equation to valve equation

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Draw Ray Diagram for Converging Lens w/ 25cm Focal Length

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Differing wavelengths of equal energy photons and electrons

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Perturbation Theory: Solving a/r+br Potential

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Entropy production in heat conduction through a metal bar

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Characteristic X-rays, intensity ratios

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Schrodinger equation in matrix form

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What is the relationship between intermolecular distance and pressure?

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Calculating Normalization Factor for 1s Atomic Orbital of H

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Maxwell relations and thermodynamic state functions revision

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Solving Normalization Factor for 1s Atomic Orbital of H

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Potential energy and electrostatic forces

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What is the Angular Width of the Central Maximum for a Single Slit?

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Kinetic energy of a spring with distributed mass

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Specific Internal Energy of a diatomic gas

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QM expectation value relation <x^n>, <p^n>

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How Do You Calculate Collision Probability in a Particle-Filled Volume?

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Proving Circular Beam is Composed of Negative Particles

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Magnetostatics Proof: Proving Integral Along a Closed Loop = 0

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What Is the Minimum Lifetime of a Nuclear State with 1 eV Uncertainty?

  • physicsss
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Adding a small extra potential to a simple harmonic oscillator

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BER'S MATH PROBLEM: The Refractive Index of Water

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Eddy Current Displacement Sensor

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Designing a Bottle-Opener Lever: Finding Force-Material Conversion

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Can Tidal Forces Near a Black Hole Tear an Astronaut Apart?

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Mechanics: conservation of momentum problem

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Commutation Proof: Show That [Lx,L^2]=0 Cyclic

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What is the appropriate gain for the MCA amplifier in this scenario?

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Solving Normalization with Psi(r)=Ne^(-ar)

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What makes a function well-behaved in physics?

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