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How does an eddy current brake work exactly?

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Ion moving through electric potential difference and magnetic field

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Direction of travel of a plane wave given direction of electric field

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Mathematical representation of a pulse on a rope

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Planet moving in elliptical orbit around a star

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Why can we add impedances in series?

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How to understand the direction of tension in a charged closed ring?

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Internal energy of a gas and kinetic energy, "typical velocity"

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Damped harmonic oscillation

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Question on mirror and lens combinations

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Find the direction and the magnitude of Frictional force

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Shortest distance along the shore and into the lake

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Magnitude of magnetic field at different points near a capacitor.

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How to find voltage across capacitor in RLC circuit?

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Vertical circular motion

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Can Geiger Counter Ticks be converted into particle/wave counts?

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Kinematics: Acceleration of a figure skater changing direction

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Find the electric field at a point in 3 dimensional space

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The electric potential inside a conducting sphere with charge Q

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X and Y coordinates of an oscillating object on a spring.

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Simultaneous events separated by distance and time

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Finding speed of spaceship traveling to star ##a## light years away

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Stationary observer meaning in relativity problem

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Particle moving at speed ##bc## relative to laboratory frame

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Why Doesn't Time Dilation Affect Pendulum Observations on a Moving Train?

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Two cyclists ride between a pair of towns with and against the wind

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Universal gravitation’s problem -- Balancing gravitational forces from 2 masses

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Experimenting whether the diameter of a pot affects boiling time for water

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How to obtain amplitude of current in parallel RLC circuit?

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Uniform Motion in 2D - A man chasing a bus

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Why is force linear near stable equilibrium in a potential?

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Ap physics 1 velocity center of mass question

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Self-inductance of LC circuit given rate of capacitor discharge.

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Formula for the average EMF of generator

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Calculation of current in driven series RLC circuit

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Magnetic energy density, self-inductance of coaxial cylindrical shells

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Test question: What is true for a mechanical impact?

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Find work given two conservative forces and a nonconservative force

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Shadow velocities for two burning candles on opposite walls

  • brotherbobby
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Atmospheric pressure and water pressure - Boyle's law

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Net force on a pulley system with unbalanced vertical forces

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IPHO classical mechanics: A mass falls on an exoplanet

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Electric field inside a hemispherical shell of charge

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Induction heat flux density induced by wire in a slab

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Non-Uniform Magnetic Field Calculations

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Power Radiated From a Copper Cube

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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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Sound wave diagram feedback

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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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Induction confusion for induced charge inside a metal conductor

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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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Why does a box on a board on a frictionless surface accelerate together?

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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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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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Two tourists and a bicycle - uniform motion

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