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Standard deviation revised by removing a sample

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Solve Mass Spring System: Find Velocity & Compression

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Calculating Potential Difference in Parallel Circuits

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What are the meter readings in the circuit?

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Resonance in tube filled with air

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Conservation of Momentum / Kinetic Energy - What am I doing wrong?

  • bacnka
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Package sliding down incline with friction and spring compression

  • akhila1489
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Finding charge density from voltage on a conductor

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How Does Melting Ice Affect Entropy in a Calorimeter System?

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Thermal Efficiency of an air conditioner

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Calculating the Number of Bounces for a Moving Ball

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Calculating Velocity of a Collar Released from a Depressed Spring

  • Jason03
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How Fast Will the Comet Travel at the Midpoint Between Two Stars?

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Pascal's principle hydraulic press with different piston sizes

  • jinman
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Transformer resistance question

  • Gear300
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Easy question on diffraction of light

  • Sabrina_18
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Calculate the resistance of iron if

  • looi76
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Thermal Equilibirum Calorimeter

  • TFM
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Calculate resistivity of the material of the wire

  • looi76
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Finding boxer's mass from spring compression

  • sup90
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What is the average radius of the pipe within the hill?

  • jinman
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Find the diameter of copper wire

  • looi76
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Calculating Water Pressure and Displacement in a Vertical Pipe

  • alibaba2
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Conservation of Energy and Centripital Motion question

  • ubermuchlove
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What Is the Current Through a Resistor with Internal Battery Resistance?

  • jimmyting
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Calculate the resistance per meter

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What is the Speed of a Paint Bucket System Using Conservation of Energy?

  • ubermuchlove
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How Is Force Calculated on a Proton in a Magnetic Field?

  • jimmyting
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Heat flow through copper-steel composite rod

  • tizzful
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Finding the force between 2 finite length wires

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How Do You Calculate the Rotational Inertia of a Hollow Cylinder?

  • Oomair
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Understanding PV Diagrams - Work

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How Do You Calculate Average Speed for Different Return Speeds?

  • zachcumer
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How Does a Damped Oscillator Behave with Different Initial Conditions?

  • coffeem
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How Do You Calculate the Contrast of a Sinusoidal Grating?

  • isabelle87
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Conservation of Momentum with angles T_T

  • sup90
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Conceptual Question- Hydrostatic Pressure

  • bcjochim07
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Number of Visible Diffraction Orders on a Grating

  • Sabrina_18
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How Do Red and Blue Laser Photon Emissions Compare at Equal Power?

  • elephantorz
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How Do You Calculate Mars' Theoretical Equilibrium Temperature?

  • coffeem
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Relativistic Doppler Effect and a Baseball

  • TFM
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Final project for my AP Physics class

  • matt7944
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Finding where electric field is zero between two charges

  • viet_jon
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Spring stretch with 2 kg and 3 kg masses on frictionless surface

  • Cantworkit
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Thermal efficiency of a coal powered power station

  • coffeem
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Work-energy problem setup check

  • Jason03
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Ball whirling on two strings, minimum speed and tension

  • warmfire540
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Spring-piston gas cylinder compressed when heated from 16°C to 160°C

  • bcjochim07
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Interstellar space travel and reference frames

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Initial Velocity of Bowling Ball in Physics Problem

  • uvburgos
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Find resistance with length in a circuit

  • logic111
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What is the work done by an ideal gas in an isobaric process?

  • hsestudent
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Determine Initial Velocity of Projectile with Ballistic Pendulum

  • uvburgos
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Static friction between blocks in SHM with unknown top block mass

  • scholio
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Calculating Time, Distance, and Velocity in a Kinematic Problem

  • 9giddjl
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Finding Magnitude of Velocity with Variables

  • RedRumRiots
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How Does Coulomb's Law Apply When Socks Repel in a Dryer?

  • lalablu3
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Charged ring inside a conducting sphere.

  • calcisforlovers
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Lunar crater impact experiment using maltesers and flour

  • Razza
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Speed of two protons (I think an easy question)

  • iamkristing
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Understanding Energy and Current in a Complex Circuit

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How Do You Calculate Period and Frequency of a Harmonic Oscillator?

  • chocolatelover
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Simple harmonic motion, finding displacement given time

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What is the final volume of the container?

  • houseguest
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What is the speed of an electron in the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom?

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Find the frequency in an LRC circuit

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Diffraction Problem: Solve for O

  • jcpwn2004
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Why Is the Calculation of Santa Ana Wind Temperatures Tricky?

  • bcjochim07
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Explanation of the centripetal force and acceleration

  • selishaphysic
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Calculating Pressure Inside Airtight Container

  • jinman
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Relativistic Lightning on Train Problem

  • TFM
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Two dumbbells colliding with coefficient of restitution e

  • jsmith12
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Finding current and energy cost for a 120V motor with 2.50hp output

  • ~christina~
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Just understanding capacitors and e-fields

  • buddingscientist
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Help with physics equation from image

  • Shackleford
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Rearranging a Relativity Equation

  • TFM
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Finding Initial Velocity and Direction of a Ball in Free Fall

  • kasse
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How Do Electric Field Diagrams Indicate Charge and Field Strength?

  • negatifzeo
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Why is the anode and cathode reversed in a diode?

  • sanado
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Efficiency of falling mass pulling box across desk

  • UnnamedOne
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How Does Alpha Decay Impact Water Temperature?

  • shigg927
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Speed with a de Broglie wavelength.

  • elephantorz
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Light refraction through a rectangular slab with lateral displacement

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Radioactivity and radioactive decay

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What is the Electric Field at the Origin Due to Two Point Charges?

  • negatifzeo
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Inductance of a loop in a nonuniform magnetic field

  • sfdevil
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Whats the equation for uncertainties of a gradient?

  • kittassa
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Student on frictionless pond throws two books

  • clarkandlarry
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Calculate Average Acceleration of Non-Uniform Cylinder Down Inclined Plane

  • Qwertyuiop123
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Potential due to a the sum of point charges?

  • Strawberry
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Conservation of forces and poetential energy

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