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Building a half-mile long photogate and fighting diffraction

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Does amplitude depend on mass in SHM?

  • Mark Zhu
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Find the average force at distance x

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Car and SUV meeting on a North-South highway

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Equivalent resistance between points A and D with 1 ohm resistors

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Extract anomalies from two-line element set (TLE) on ISS

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Angular momentum conservation and center of mass

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How do the charges in 3 cancel each other out in net electrostatic force?

  • Salman Ali
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How Do Forces Influence the Shape of Water and Mercury Drops on Glass?

  • pranjal verma
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Surface charge on a conductor due to a charged rod 'q'

  • iVenky
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Two masses on an inclined plane without friction

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Dependence of Coulomb's law on the medium

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Calculate the acceleration of each mass at the instant the thread snaps

  • Josielle Abdilla
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Repulsive force between 2 protons?

  • Nerdydude101
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Transition energy estimation based on bond length

  • hanhjung99
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What Does 'Mutual Potential Energy' Refer to in a Hydrogen Atom?

  • Erik 05
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How Does an Ideal Fluid's Velocity Change When Hitting a Vertical Board?

  • Istvan01
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What is the speed of each particle?

  • OierL
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Ball on elastic cord hits cart with sloped sides

  • octu
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Magnetic field from radial current in an iron disk

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What Happens to the Current Through R1 When E2 is Short Circuited?

  • subhradeep mahata
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Finding maximum spring compression with conservation of energy

  • Physics_Boi
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Is it possible to apply energy conservation here?

  • navneet9431
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Induction Motor Auto-Transformer Starter - Power and Torque

  • Stu80
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Explaination of Solid-Liquid and Solid-gas surface tension

  • pranjal verma
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Comparing air speed through moving and stationary windmills

  • Kamran_110
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Calculate the density at the centre of the Sun

  • artworkmonkey
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Calculating the Weight of a Moving Object Using Momentum and Force

  • Eitan Levy
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Apparent wavelength in Doppler's effect

  • Krushnaraj Pandya
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Collision with a ball spinning about its vertical axis

  • Mmarzipan
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Electric Power - Which formula to use and when?

  • MeAndMyLucidLife
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A problem regarding the lens formula

  • jxocq
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Ideal Gas Law and Pressure at 80°C

  • SakuRERE
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Why can't I subtract electric fields from opposite charges directly?

  • Himanshu Singh
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Derivation: force on magnetic moment in magnetic field

  • robinegberts
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Finding the orbital period of a second planet using Kepler's third law

  • OierL
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Minimum deceleration to prevent a collision

  • Jenny Physics
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Direction of friction in yo-yo where applied force is at top

  • issacnewton
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Work Done by Man in Going Up Against the Motion of an Escalator

  • sarthak sharma
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Rolling motion of Cylinders and Plank on a Slope

  • Kingster426
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What is the Velocity of a Rotating Weight?

  • stackptr
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How to Calculate Energy Produced from Collision of Particles?

  • 1missing
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Hockey puck on table with hanging mass in circular motion

  • Myani
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Gravitation and orbits homework problem

  • Physics_Boi
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Flag pole finding horizontal force component at hinge.

  • Parker Hays
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Induced current along equator of conducting sphere in varying magnetic field?

  • Clara Chung
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How Many Balloons Can Be Inflated from a Helium Cylinder?

  • relatively-uncertain
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Amplitude of a mass joined to a spring in the presence of an E-field

  • Shivang kohlii
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What Is the Average Power of Bullets Bouncing Off Superman?

  • Taylan
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Mass falling to a scale from a funnel

  • Eitan Levy
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Meaning of a phrase in a kinematics problem

  • Fabrizio Vassallo
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Hohmann transfer ellipse to Mars orbit from LEO

  • Raphael30
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Solving for final temp of adiabatic ideal air expansion

  • takeachance
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Are theses approaches correct? (entropy change of water turning into steam)

  • EastWindBreaks
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Force in a magnetic field on a moving coil

  • subhradeep mahata
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Motion on a rough inclined plane

  • Taylan
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Relativistic momentum of two photons from a decay

  • zehkari
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Calculating the wavelength of a surface wave after impact

  • LordOfCinders
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Thermal efficiency of the engine in a PV diagram

  • YC_128
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Electric field of a non-conducting sphere

  • TishBass
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Moment of inertia of two rods (T shape)

  • IanAlpace
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Relativistic Dynamics Problem - Reference Frames

  • Lost1ne
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Zeeman effect: find gas velocity from Fe I spectral lines

  • artworkmonkey
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Determining Work Done by a Person on a Luggage

  • SerenaMay
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Year1 Mechanics (angular momentum)

  • AlanWWW
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How Fast Was the Car Moving in the Radar Speed Trap Experiment?

  • C F
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Skier hitting snowdrift: distance and force

  • Stitch1775
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Does work have the same impact on entropy change as heat?

  • Est120
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How Does the Ideal Gas Law Apply in Multi-Part Physics Problems?

  • barryj
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Calculating τ by knowing I is proportional to A^2

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Velocity of a falling folded rope and reaction force

  • Raphael30
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Thermal Expansion of a Wire Connected To a Rod

  • person123
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How to Determine Velocity at Gear Center Using Point C?

  • WhiteWolf98
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Are Fresnel boundary conditions continuous for EM waves at an interface?

  • Apashanka
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Problems calculating the New Moment of Inertia

  • KMconcordia
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Three Charges Aligned on a Straight Wire

  • Thundies22
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Average force during a ball's elastic bounce off of a plate

  • Apashanka
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Magnetic induction at surface of 50A copper wire

  • subhradeep mahata
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Error Calculation for a Diffraction Grating's Performance

  • zehkari
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Calculating the magnitude of an electric field

  • Haddon
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Moment of inertia of two bars at right angle using Steiner's theorem

  • SchroedingersLion
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Magnetic field at a point due to a line of charge

  • vysero
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Finding input energy for a running athlete with 85% efficiency

  • harujina
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What happens to the current in a loop when a magnet approaches

  • Selene0001
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Achieving Record Distances in the Hammer Throw

  • mr1709
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Finding the Wavefunction for Tunneling,with tunnel lenght L

  • Arman777
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Minimum period for a particle moving around an ellipse with velocity constraints

  • Jenny Physics
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Banked Road Physics Problem: Maximum Speed Calculation

  • mr1709
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Calculating the final velocity of a simple electric train

  • Himanshu Singh
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Reference frames and Galilean transformation

  • Taylor_1989
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Tension force and acceleration Problem

  • chef99
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How Do You Calculate Charge Density in a Uniform Sphere?

  • TishBass
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Velocity of image in plane mirror

  • subhradeep mahata
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Fill an empty bottle with R-134a

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LRC Series Circuit Critical Damping

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What Torque Is Required to Raise a Water Bucket from a Well?

  • OierL
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What Is the Blood Pressure in the Head When Standing?

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