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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?

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Energy Conservation and Friction

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Electron Trajectory: Questions & Answers

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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

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

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Transformer resistance question

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Easy question on diffraction of light

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Calculate the resistance of iron if

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Thermal Equilibirum Calorimeter

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Calculate resistivity of the material of the wire

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Mass of a Boxer: Find with k and x

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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

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Calculating Water Pressure and Displacement in a Vertical Pipe

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Conservation of Energy and Centripital Motion question

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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?

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

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Heat Flowing Through A Sectioned Rod HELP

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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?

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Understanding PV Diagrams - Work

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How Do You Calculate Average Speed for Different Return Speeds?

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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

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Conceptual Question- Hydrostatic Pressure

  • bcjochim07
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Number of Visible Diffraction Orders on a Grating

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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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Solve Force & Motion Homework: Find Stretch of Spring w/ 2 & 3 kg Masses

  • Cantworkit
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Thermal efficiency of a coal powered power station

  • coffeem
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Solving a Work/Energy Physics Problem: Troubleshooting and Solution

  • Jason03
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[CHECK] tension problem a little help

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Is this correct? - Gas Law Question

  • bcjochim07
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Interstellar space travel and reference frames

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Initial Velocity of Bowling Ball in Physics Problem

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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?

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Determine Initial Velocity of Projectile with Ballistic Pendulum

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Simple harmonic motion, spring, block on block, static friction help

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

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Finding Magnitude of Velocity with Variables

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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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YEAR 12 Astrophysics EEI HELP Please?

  • 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?

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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

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Why Is the Calculation of Santa Ana Wind Temperatures Tricky?

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Explanation of the centripetal force and acceleration

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Calculating Pressure Inside Airtight Container

  • jinman
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Relativistic Lightning on Train Problem

  • TFM
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Dumbbells Collision: Work Out Centre of Mass & Angular Velocity

  • jsmith12
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Power Check & Help: 120V Motor, 2.50hp Output, 3hr Operation

  • ~christina~
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Just understanding capacitors and e-fields

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Solving the Homework Equation: See Attached 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

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How Do Electric Field Diagrams Indicate Charge and Field Strength?

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Understanding the Conventional Current Flow in Circuit Components

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How Does Alpha Decay Impact Water Temperature?

  • shigg927
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Speed with a de Broglie wavelength.

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Reflection and refraction of light problem

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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

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Whats the equation for uncertainties of a gradient?

  • kittassa
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Solving Momentum & Energy: Student Throws Books Homework

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Calculate Average Acceleration of Non-Uniform Cylinder Down Inclined Plane

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Potential due to a the sum of point charges?

  • Strawberry
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Conservation of forces and poetential energy

  • MEAHH
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Solar Energy and Green House Effect Question

  • TFM
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Magnetic flux in a coil, find current

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Finding Speed of Ship S: A Vector Question

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