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Find separation between these two particles - kinematics

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Square Coil, Round Hole and mutual inductance

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An incline plane, friction, and a pulley.

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Questions about magnetism and its uses in devices

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How to Calculate Time and Height in a Skateboarding Jump

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How Does Magnetism Influence the Functionality of Telephones?

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How Does Dimensional Analysis Prove mH Equals Force in Magnetism?

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Will the block move with a parallel force?

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Intro to moving charges in a particle

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Electric Flux and Charges on the Surface of a Sphere

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Differences between delta W or dW

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How to calculate effective resistance?

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Calculating Mass of Cylinder in Rotational Dynamics Problem

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Formulas for torque and velocity in simple algebra

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How Is the Equation a Dot Product in Momentum Problems?

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Vector Potential: Proving Partial Derivative of A = E

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Unable to visualize the concept of Torque.

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Block, spring, and mass problem

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Sinusoidal current i = 10sin(942.5t): find frequency, period, and time to 8A

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Stationary point charge in increasing magnetic field

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What is the magnitude of the impulse from the spike?

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Electric Potential: Explaining Differences

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Rate Of Turn and Turn Radius of an aircraft

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Lorentz Contraction in Supersonic Jets

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Correcting for room temperature and atmospheric pressure

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Relavistic velocity lorentz transformation problem.

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Orbitals around the nucleus problem

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How do you calculate weight distribution on a table's four legs?

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How Does Time Dilation Affect Supersonic Jet Pilots?

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What is the Input Impedance of a Circuit at Low and High Frequencies?

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What does potential energy mean and how does spring constant work?

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Finding the momentum of the each balls

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Understanding Centripetal Force: Solving for Tension

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Friction on an Inclined Plane: Kinetic or Static?

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How is Thermal Energy Converted in a Ballistic Pendulum?

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Integrating with volume element (d^3)x

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Free body diagram of a person sitting on a wheeled chair

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What RPM Must a Shaft Reach for Arms to Extend Perpendicular?

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How Do Newton's Laws Apply to a Tug-of-War on Ice?

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How are the known dimensions of spacetime proven?

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Why do cars of different masses roll down a slide at different speeds?

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What does it mean to be 'quantized'?

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Finding Glide Angle of Cessna-182 Plane at 136 km/h

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How Does Binding Energy Affect Nuclear Fission Reactions?

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Why Does Coulomb's Unit Measurement Include Seconds?

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Electric Field outside a cylinder

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What is the optimal angle for a banked curve on a roller coaster?

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What is a wavefront? sine or cosine graph?

  • MIA6
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Gravitational potential energy - problem

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Calculating Acceleration of a Cylinder on an Incline

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A simple differential equation question.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Galilean transformation problem

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What does the variable k represent in E=(p²/2m)-(ke²/r)?

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Calculating Tank Velocity and Stopping Time Due to Rain Drops

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Calculating Final Velocity of an Object with Power Input

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Riding With a Particle: Measuring Its Lifetime

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Conservation of energy of falling chimney

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Why do different coordinate systems give different equations for pulley tension?

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What is the half life of the isotope?

  • mike2007
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Solving a Physics Problem Involving Two Blocks Connected by a Cord

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Nuclear reaction or chemical reaction

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Do Nuclear Reactions Create New Elements?

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Chemical element and chemical property

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Meter internal resistance conversion and supply line losses

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How Do You Analyze the Electric Field Created by Two Charges?

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Why Isn't Kinetic Energy Always Conserved with Momentum?

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Why wavelength matters in diffraction

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Does Gas Density Influence Expansion When Heated?

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Producing X-Rays from a Television Picture Tube

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Amusement Park ride - maximum period of rotation

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How Does Angular Velocity Change as a Particle Slides Down a Sphere?

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Some vectors and buried treasure.

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Gravitational Force(Why the negative sign?)

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Calculating Velocity and Momentum in Inelastic Collisions

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SAT Question concerning Newton's Third Law

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Force and work for suspended bag, ramp, and action-reaction pairs

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Finding Initial Velocity in 2D Kinematics Problems

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Circular Motion: Acceleration Direction

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Heat turn iron to gold if heated?

  • mike2007
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How fast does light travel in 1 ft?

  • dan001
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Pendulum swing -basic trig problems

  • mujadeo
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Find unit vector and cross product

  • Edwardo_Elric
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Projectiles, Momentum, and work

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Stretched spring -find coeff of friction

  • mujadeo
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Expert golfer's single displacement on the green

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Solve Spring Compression Homework Problem

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Dropping coal on a platfrom (energy cons)

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Challenging projectile question

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Finding pressure and displacement amplitude from decibel level

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Calculating Apparent Depth: Air vs Water

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