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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?

  • zenterix
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Ratio of frequency between heavier and lighter part of composite cord

  • songoku
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High school physics homework problem set

  • Owen Ploe
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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

  • barryj
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Average velocity in different coordinate systems

  • Manish_529
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GRIN Lens - Gradient Coefficient Expression

  • Schreiber__
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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

  • rosedog09
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Variation of escape velocity with equal surface gravity

  • sachin
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How to calculate gamma ray energies following beta decay?

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Minimum force to tip the bin over

  • sdfsfasdfasf
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Depth of a basketball floating on water

  • brotherbobby
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Keplerian Telescope and real image

  • xchen2004
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Concept about photoelectric effect

  • songoku
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Dynamic system of self balancing robot

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

  • jonny997
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Closed cycle of an ideal gas

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

  • Karol
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Statistical mechanics: particles in magnetic fields

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

  • Kartofen69420
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Calculation of Ramp Jump Distance Using Projectile Motion Formulas?

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

  • Simonglo
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Max Impulse on a pendulum

  • PakBosMuda
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Angle that makes kinetic and potential energy of simple pendulum equal

  • DrBanana
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Introduce a battery to an LR circuit

  • laser
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Planar pendulum with rotating pivot

  • member 731016
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What Are the Assumptions and Calculations for Sheet of Charge Theory?

  • Iamconfused123
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Cables, pulleys, 2 weights

  • DylanMurfly
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Balmer series experiment

  • MatinSAR
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Spherical pendulum confusion [Issue resolved]

  • member 731016
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Launch service between two stations along a flowing river

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

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

  • zenterix
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Relativistic motion and length contraction

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

  • tellmesomething
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Critical frequency of Faraday Waves?

  • Anjish
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Find starting velocity from golfer launching ball

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

  • aryan kumar pandey
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Slope of N - t graph of radioactive decay

  • songoku
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Coupled oscillator question

  • member 731016
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Tension in a Two-Crate System on a Frictionless Surface

  • babaypenguin88
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Forces at play in a pendulum

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

  • zenterix
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Resistivity calculation from two-probe resistance measurement of sheet

  • no_einstein
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Simple pendulum with moving support

  • member 731016
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Change in the unit vectors

  • Manish_529
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Coupled pendulum-spring system

  • member 731016
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Field transformations in the z-direction

  • milkism
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Pendulum attached to a rotating vertical disk

  • member 731016
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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

  • laser
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Finding Ex and Ey components for electric dipole field

  • Ben2
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Understanding a very simply RL circuit

  • zenterix
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Small oscillations of a simple pendulum placed on a moving block

  • MatinSAR
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Measuring g on an inclined air track using conservation of energy

  • Envy9268
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Kinematics problem from a competition: Will the 2 sliding boxes collide?

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

  • neelbansal123
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Rolling Sphere On Incline

  • Randomized10
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Block sliding on a semicircular track with friction

  • zuzelle
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The maximum reversible work in thermodynamics (2)

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Impulse and momentum / work-energy

  • GoonP
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The maximum reversible work in thermodynamics

  • tracker890 Source h
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Conservation of momentum (center of mass) in projectile launches

  • TheGreatDeadOne
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Range of frequency heard by observer related to Doppler effect

  • songoku
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Vertical displacement with time of a projectile

  • hello478
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Spring Constant Force Problem Help

  • Thana
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Understanding self-inductance in a solenoid.

  • zenterix
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Condition for resolution of two point sources of light

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

  • daisy7777
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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: not sure which one is correct

  • vwoods316
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Origin of repulsive force on a magnet approaching conducting ring?

  • zenterix
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A wheel of radius r rolls along a curve

  • annamal
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Electronic Circuits - Calculate voltage

  • agatha
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Newton's third law and weight

  • hello478
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Query related to Two-Dimensional Motion

  • Gargi
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Camera drone and speed of air below it

  • hello478
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Graph of viscous force and velocity

  • hello478
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Projectile motion, initial height and range given, find initial velocity

  • dainceptionman_02
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Need to derive a formula for the number of red giants

  • Rageuke
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Finding velocity from time dilation with two unknowns

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

  • jfnn
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Friction - same direction as motion?

  • mancity
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Center of mass acceleration for an inclined plane and mass m

  • Sam Jelly
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How Much Vertical Acceleration Does a Jet Need to Avoid a Hill?

  • KukyZ
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How Does Coriolis Force Influence Particle Motion in Rotating Systems?

  • Bling Fizikst
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