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Modelling a metal detector using eddy currents from Non-Destructive Testing
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Forces on Elliptical Current Carying Loop
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Friction Required for Billiard Ball to Roll without Slipping
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How to find the potential of a field that has regions of non-zero curl
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Sound Wave Diagram Help
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Determine the velocity of the Slider
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Building a Marble Catapult
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Gauge pressure due to a floating body
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Sign conventions for Kirchhoff's loop rule
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Resistance force changing the velocity of an object
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Thermodynamics: Cooling of a heated block of iron in contact with air
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Work done by power supply to maintain a constant current
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Unit vectors that change as a function of time
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Electric field at a point inside a non-uniformly charged sphere
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Looking for data about different types of carbon fiber chemical properties
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Angular momentum conservation on a merry-go-round
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Power dissipated over 1 cycle of a AC source-free RLC series circuit?
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Angular momentum for a bullet and a rod attached to a ceiling
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Force Between 2 Coaxial Current-Carrying Loops
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How Long for a Beam of Light to Reach Earth?
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Particle confined in 3D box - quantum states
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How to Calculate θ3 After Finding θ2 Using Snell's Law?
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Electric field vector equation: Finding the neutral point for two charges
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Find number of microstates of combined system
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Experiment measuring the distance dependence of a suspended metal bolt from a magnet
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Induction confusion for induced charge inside a metal conductor
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Significant figures doubt
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What would the slope of the force between 2 charged particles vs 1/r^2 give me?
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Gauss' law and the potential V (plane layer case)
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Water flowing out of a rotating vessel
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Using Kepler's laws to calculate elliptical planetary motion
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Help with Friction Forces: Box resting on a board on a frictionless surface
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What is the unknown circuit element in RLC circuit given plot of V, I?
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Find at what rate the orbit radius will grow
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Initial velocity of rolling ball
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Did my textbook make a mistake when writing these units?
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Fresnel Lens - Solve for Lithography & Power
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Physics about electric circuits: Changing the resistors changes the currents
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Thermodynamic Work vs Mechanical Work
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Classic Incline problem with cylinder
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Using conservation of energy and momentum in projectile motion
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Torque calculation of CV joint
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Lagrange equation for block and incline
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Fundamental quantities and derived quantities
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Projectile Motion Problem Involving Initial Velocity and Gravity Only
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Cart sliding along horizontal with spring connected
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Does the voltage across a battery include its internal resistance?
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Calculate electric force using Coulomb's law (vector components are the struggle)
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Two tourists and a bicycle - uniform motion
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How many people can be on the raft?
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Find the magnetic induction vector
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Blowing Into Your Own Sail
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Drag Forces and Terminal Velocity
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Why the need to be careful opening a switch on this RL circuit?
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Ratio of frequency between heavier and lighter part of composite cord
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Need help, to help, a friend with their HW (High School)
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Current in circular wire surrounding infinite solenoid in a circuit
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Determining the sound level of a leaf blower
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Average velocity in different coordinate systems
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GRIN Lens - Gradient Coefficient Expression
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Help please on essay about star formation
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Torque on a Pivot Point With Multiple Forces and Different Directions
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Variation of escape velocity with equal surface gravity
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How to calculate gamma ray energies following beta decay?
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Minimum force to tip the bin over
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Depth of a basketball floating on water
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Keplerian Telescope and real image
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Concept about photoelectric effect
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Dynamic system of self balancing robot
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Max inversion temperature for a gas (Dieterici’s equation of state)
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Closed cycle of an ideal gas
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Why is the tension in a massive cable always tangent to its portion?
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Statistical mechanics: particles in magnetic fields
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Calculating Magnetic Field at Point P for Perpendicular Current-Carrying Wires
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Calculation of Ramp Jump Distance Using Projectile Motion Formulas?
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Help with designing a power generating system
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Max Impulse on a pendulum
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Angle that makes kinetic and potential energy of simple pendulum equal
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Introduce a battery to an LR circuit
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Planar pendulum with rotating pivot
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What Are the Assumptions and Calculations for Sheet of Charge Theory?
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Cables, pulleys, 2 weights
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Balmer series experiment
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Spherical pendulum confusion [Issue resolved]
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Launch service between two stations along a flowing river
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Book plots position & force on the same graph, still gets right answer
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Why is source force + electrostatic force = 0 inside battery?
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Relativistic motion and length contraction
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Circular motion doubt: Angular velocity vector for general planar motion about a point in the plane
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Critical frequency of Faraday Waves?
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Find starting velocity from golfer launching ball
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Why is the electric field inside a conducting hollow/filled sphere zero?
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Slope of N - t graph of radioactive decay
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Question about Feynman diagram showing annihilation
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Coupled oscillator question
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Tension in a Two-Crate System on a Frictionless Surface
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Forces at play in a pendulum (conceptual doubt)
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How do I fix the signs in Faraday's Law in RL Circuit?
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Resistivity calculation from two-probe resistance measurement of sheet
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Simple pendulum with moving support
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