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How to Determine the Resistance R1 in a Mixed Circuit Analysis?

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Kinetic energy of rotation and parallel axis theorem problem

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Speed at the top of an elliptical roller coaster loop

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Car braking distance using energy conservation

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Converting air pressure equation from kilometers to meters

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Power loss in a transmission line

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How to break up kinetic energy for circular motion?

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Maximum and minimum speeds in a moving cube

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How Does Hill's Law Affect Lifting Different Weights?

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Average Pressure Radiation on Perfectly Absorbing Surface

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Determine the period of small oscillations

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Force needed to move a conducting bar on a wire U-loop in a magnetic field

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Designing a banked circular highway exit with friction

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How Many Angles Maintain 2.00 W/m² Intensity in GPS Satellite Tests?

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Intensity of Interference Pattern

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A few questions concerning voltage, current and resistance

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Equation for sum of torques on a ladder and minimum angle

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How Is Destructive Interference Achieved in a Liquid Film on Glass?

  • Penguin98
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The thickness of glass and the longest wavelength

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Why does this solution assume it's a steady-flow system?

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The time for pressure to build up

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How do you find the magnitude of acceleration?

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Thermodynamics - water vapour cycle

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Maximum of exponential function

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How to find the aceleración and the rope forcé Fs?

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Calculating surface tension with the Capillary Equation

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Atwood machine with variable mass

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Identifying Multiple Oscillations in a Graph

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Conceptual Issue RE: electric potential difference

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How can we determine the thrust generated?

  • Chris Michos
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Do we assume the mixing chamber has an outlet?

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Projectile motion problem, given the KE at the top of the parabolic arc

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Why does terminal velocity give graph A, not B?

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Speed of ball vs Acceleration of the ball?

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Swinging Tarzan: Solving for Maximum Height & Angle

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Finding velocity in the Hall effect with given dimensions and voltage

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Heat flow in and out of a cabaret

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How Many Electrons Pass Through a Capacitor When Discharged?

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Why is the Work Zero on a Frictionless Surface?

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Electric Field due to dipole - solution check

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How to find the normal force of a car jack lifting a car

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How to find the minimum angular resolution?

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Calculating Dimensions of Titanium Disk Under Load

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Block at rest on an inclined surface

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Energy Efficient AC unit by returning air to the building

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What is the Direction of Normal Force in Static Equilibrium on a Ramp?

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Induced EMF — generator coil area calculation

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Net work on a 5 kg box pulled up an inclined plane

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Calculating controller gain in a feedback loop

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How to Calculate Tension Forces in a System?

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How to calculate the drag force?

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What do wave crests indicate about a boat's speed?

  • Mohammed Sayanvala
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Flux through a coil due to Self-Inductance

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How Late Did the Man Arrive to Catch the Train?

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The minimum inclination of a surface

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Finding final temperature in adiabatic compression from 0.1 to 100 MPa

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Block on incline connected to hanging mass by pulley

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Thermal Energy when Heating and Cooling a Cabaret

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Derive the formula for the frequency of a spring

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What is the Entropy Change When Water Freezes to Ice?

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Refraction angle for shooting a dolphin with a dart gun

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Find the charge q(t) for an LC circuit

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Solving Entropy in Moist Air: No Violation of Law

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Does Humidity Affect Entropy in Climate-Controlled Environments?

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Heating efficiency of a Heat Pump and a Space Heater

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Calculating Solar Mass using peak Doppler shifts

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Why cooling air requires electricity and produces heat elsewhere

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Heating a Cabaret during the winter

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Initial and final power supplied by a person pushing a stone

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Torque and counterclockwise versus clockwise

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Block-spring system period on the moon vs Earth

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Centripetal Force Banked Curves

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Potential energy of ball thrown upwards

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A problem about thin-film interference

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Galaxy number density and intergalactic distance estimation

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What is the formula for calculating the mass of air in a piston?

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Bullet shooting vertically into a block

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The refractive index of an unknown liquid

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Finding final speed of falling 200 kg object using kinematics

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Conservation of Momentum Space Ship Problem

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Torque and Angular Momentum - Origin Misconception

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Spring toy fired on flat surface: speed and maximum height

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Final temperature for two blocks of iron placed in contact

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Angular Momentum of a Moving Particle

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Finding source current in parallel R and LC circuit using phasors

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Voltage and electric field in capacitor

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Polarization of Light Analogy Question

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Coin on a turntable problem in a noninertial frame

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Finding phase constant from SHM position and velocity at t=0

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Find the mass of a block on an inclined pulley

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What's the difference between hydrostatic force and bouyancy?

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At what point is Electric Potential zero

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Are Real Images Always Inverted and Virtual Always Erect in Ray Optics?

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AC Circuit and Thevenin's theorem

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Continuous stream of baseballs hitting a car elastically

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Calculating Rotational Kinetic Energy of a Baton

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Splitting of a convex lens problem

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