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Find the Y component of Electric field at a point

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Decay length of the evanescent wave

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Elastic potential energy (spring) problem

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Calculating Quasar Variability Using CCD Camera and Magnitude Comparison

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"Uncertainity Product for Particle in 1-D Box

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Finding Time and Vf: Car chase problem

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How to Calculate the Bird's Net Displacement Using Vector Addition?

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Why does cyclist B profit most from slipstream, not C?

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Finding displacement after two walks with cosine law

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Is the least count constant for Vernier scale or variables?

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Ball striking rod end: angular velocity after collision

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What is the height of a ball after being in the air for T/4 seconds?

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How Far Will the Glasses Land from the Stopped Bicycle?

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Calculating the relevant variables for a rotating habitat

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How Do You Calculate Instantaneous Velocity at a Midpoint in Particle Motion?

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The use and meaning of the three beginning physics equations

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Find electric field a distance P from a charged rod

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Applying a force in a wheel bicycle

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Electric field magnitude and direction from three point charges

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Find the range of acceleration so that the drums won't fall

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How do I determine the force on a object moving on a curve?

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Determine the net charge of sphere C

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If given A,B,C, Find constants x,y |xA +yB=C

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What angle will give the object the greatest range?

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Pressure in a closed pot with water and air heated to 100°C

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Do a tractor and Tesla braking on a mountain road collide?

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Two suspended charged particles, find the angle from vertical.

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Dynamic reaction versus Coriolis acceleration of the disk

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How Is Electric Flux Calculated for a Rectangle in an Electric Field?

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Projectile motion with only distance, an angle and a ratio

  • Julie Yum
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Propagation of Error and Relative Error

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Charge distribution on concentric spheres

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Finding Vector Angle using cosine law

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Simple Harmonic Oscillator with Boundary Conditions

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Which block will strike first? Left or right?

  • Qmechanic18
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Calculate the relative angular velocity

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Rotational Momentum: Calculating Angular Speed After Cockroach Stops

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Interference Fringes in a Diffraction envelope

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Consistency of Faraday's Law and Electric Field Equation in Optics

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Charge entering into the field between capacitor plates

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What is the speed of an object with a momentum of <-1,-2,3>?

  • Liam Corbin
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Fresnel equation and Snell's law

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Map question involving vectors (find the angle)

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The mass of air in the pressurised air tank

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Two blocks on a plane connected with a Rod

  • Navin
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Can More Readings Reduce Fractional Error in Measurement?

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What’s the relation between activity and half-life

  • Angela Liang
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Model Rocket Launch: Maximum Height, Time, and Duration Calculations

  • Zacharrry
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Kinematics Problem: Train braking and blocking an intersection

  • Zacharrry
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Electric field as a function of time

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Finding drop height when object travels 1/4 total distance in last second

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Relationship between x and y components of E

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How Does Inserting Different Dielectric Materials Affect Capacitor Performance?

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Amount of water spilled when the temperature is changed

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Speed of ball dropped from building after falling 2d

  • Peter Groppino
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Trying to get an average speed of 60 MPH

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Graph of Position Seems to be Wrong

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River question (looking for angles and headings)

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Solving for Temp Change of Epoxy Frames for Lenses Insertion

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Problem in the C.G. and torque equilibrium

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Basic physics units problems involving the Ideal Gas Law

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Which circuit shows the correct connection and values?

  • jaximus
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Radial Acceleration on a string

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The speed of a metal wire on two rails with a magnetic field

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Photo-current and Intensity of light

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Which graphs represent different types of current flow?

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Dimensional Analysis of an oscillation

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Equilibrium conditions for a pulley system with three weights

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Energy conservation when particle orbits rotating circle

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Max angle of deflection in a relativistic elastic collision

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Minimum Acceleration of an ambulance

  • Austin Gibson
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Determining Speed given Horizontal and Vertical Distances

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Using a CCD camera to solve physics problems

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Problem in understaning potential energy

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Deceleration of a squirrel versus a WW2 airman

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[Mathematical physics] - Integral problem

  • Mulz
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Calculating the Maximum Kinetic Energy of pions

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What is the correct tension equation for a pendulum at rest?

  • Pochen Liu
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Finding the Accelation Of A Body In Presence Of Frictions

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Mathematica recursion limit error plotting electric field

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Finding where an electron would be in equilibrium

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Distance traveled with linearly increasing kinetic energy

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Distance traveled (DeltaD) and acceleration

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A and C collide with B inbetween; AB elastic, BC inelastic

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How to find the expression for current and power in an inductor

  • Master1022
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Solving for Angle to Destroy Rocket Launcher

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Percent composition of Silver (two naturally occurring isotopes)

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How Do You Calculate the Meeting Point of Two Stones Thrown from a Cliff?

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Effect of density on downward rolling spheres

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Electric field of bent non conducting rod

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Electric field of ring of charge/washer of charge/disk of charge

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Morin's explanation about the work done by friction

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Calculate the mass when not hanging it in dynamometer

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Electric field above a disk that equals half the max electric field

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Momentum equation and open channel flow

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How to reduce the integral equation for light deflection?

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Calculating total Coulomb force vector ?

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