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Two tourists and a bicycle - uniform motion

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How many people can be on the raft?

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Find the magnetic induction vector

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Blowing Into Your Own Sail

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Drag Forces and Terminal Velocity

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Why the need to be careful opening a switch on this RL circuit?

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Ratio of frequency between heavier and lighter part of composite cord

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High school physics homework problem set

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Current in circular wire surrounding infinite solenoid in a circuit

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Determining the sound level of a leaf blower

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Average velocity in different coordinate systems

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GRIN Lens - Gradient Coefficient Expression

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Star life cycle and celestial body formation research paper

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Torque on a Pivot Point With Multiple Forces and Different Directions

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Variation of escape velocity with equal surface gravity

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How to calculate gamma ray energies following beta decay?

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Minimum force to tip the bin over

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Depth of a basketball floating on water

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Keplerian Telescope and real image

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Concept about photoelectric effect

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Dynamic system of self balancing robot

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Max inversion temperature for a gas (Dieterici’s equation of state)

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Closed cycle of an ideal gas

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Why is the tension in a massive cable always tangent to its portion?

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Statistical mechanics: particles in magnetic fields

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Calculating Magnetic Field at Point P for Perpendicular Current-Carrying Wires

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Calculation of Ramp Jump Distance Using Projectile Motion Formulas?

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Designing a power system with hot air, steam and lake water

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Max Impulse on a pendulum

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Angle that makes kinetic and potential energy of simple pendulum equal

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Introduce a battery to an LR circuit

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Planar pendulum with rotating pivot

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What Are the Assumptions and Calculations for Sheet of Charge Theory?

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Cables, pulleys, 2 weights

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Balmer series experiment

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Spherical pendulum confusion [Issue resolved]

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Launch service between two stations along a flowing river

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Book plots position & force on the same graph, still gets right answer

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Why is source force + electrostatic force = 0 inside battery?

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Relativistic motion and length contraction

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Why does angular velocity depend only on perpendicular velocity in planar motion?

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Critical frequency of Faraday Waves?

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Find starting velocity from golfer launching ball

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Why is the electric field inside a conducting hollow/filled sphere zero?

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Slope of N - t graph of radioactive decay

  • songoku
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Coupled oscillator question

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Tension in a Two-Crate System on a Frictionless Surface

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Forces at play in a pendulum

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How do I fix the signs in Faraday's Law in RL Circuit?

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Resistivity calculation from two-probe resistance measurement of sheet

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Simple pendulum with moving support

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Change in the unit vectors

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Coupled pendulum-spring system

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Field transformations in the z-direction

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Pendulum attached to a rotating vertical disk

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The value of the spring constant k that I calculate seems too high

  • dannolul
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Is electromotive force the sum of electric and motional terms?

  • zenterix
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Length of string in a standing wave

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Finding Ex and Ey components for electric dipole field

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Understanding a very simply RL circuit

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Small oscillations of a simple pendulum placed on a moving block

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Measuring g on an inclined air track using conservation of energy

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Will two boxes sliding toward each other with friction collide?

  • Jim Alexandridis
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Flashing light beacon from Earth reaching spaceship moving away at 0.75c

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Rolling Sphere On Incline

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Block sliding on a semicircular track with friction

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The maximum reversible work in thermodynamics (2)

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Impulse and momentum / work-energy

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The maximum reversible work in thermodynamics

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Conservation of momentum (center of mass) in projectile launches

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Range of frequency heard by observer related to Doppler effect

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Vertical displacement with time of a projectile

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Spring Constant Force Problem Help

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Understanding self-inductance in a solenoid.

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Condition for resolution of two point sources of light

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How do I model this function? (Damped Harmonic Motion)

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Emf in coil rotating inside magnetic field

  • songoku
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Refraction of light when traveling from air to glass

  • songoku
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Finding critical angle for total internal reflection

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Origin of repulsive force on a magnet approaching conducting ring?

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A wheel of radius r rolls along a curve

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Electronic Circuits - Calculate voltage

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Newton's third law and weight

  • hello478
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Query related to Two-Dimensional Motion

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Camera drone and speed of air below it

  • hello478
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Graph of viscous force and velocity

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Projectile motion, initial height and range given, find initial velocity

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Need to derive a formula for the number of red giants

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Finding velocity from time dilation with two unknowns

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Derive trig equations 4, 5, and 6 from 1, 2, and 3

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Friction - same direction as motion?

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Center of mass acceleration for an inclined plane and mass m

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