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How Is the Number of Particles Calculated in a 1D Diffusion Slab?

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Finding voltage, current and power in a three-bulb series circuit

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What Does u Represent in Electrical Charge Measurements?

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Does +4.3 C mean a positive or negative charge?

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How Does Lens Placement Affect Image Height and Orientation?

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Understanding of Kinetic theory of matter

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How can the acceleration of a body in an ellipse always point towards a focus?

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How Does a Charged Particle Behave in a Non-Uniform Electric Field?

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Solving a Pulley Problem: Finding the Scale Reading

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What Does d Represent in Calculus and Physics Equations?

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Specific heat capacity and latent heat of fusion

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Specific Heat Capacity of a brass cylinder

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How Do You Calculate Electric Field and Potential at Specific Points?

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What is the orbital velocity of the 2nd satellite?

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Thermodyamics, two balls with same temperature, different elevation

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Elastic Collision of moving cart

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Electric field and potential inside and outside a uniformly charged sphere

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Voltage drop in jump lead cables at 100 A

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Calculate RMS Speed of Nitrogen at 227°C

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Combinination of two lenses, converging and diverging

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Solving Cyclotron Movement Problem with 500V and 0.790B

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Frequency of an Accelerating Pendulum

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Particle sliding off turntable - find friction

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What is the Relationship Between Uncertainty in Diameter and Radius?

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What is the angular acceleration of the rotating platform?

  • Elkay
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Calculating Tangential Acceleration of a Particle on a Flywheel

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How much charge is stored in the Earth with a surface electric field of 100N/C?

  • physicmania
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Tension on a Rope with Variable Mass Distribution

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Solve Homework: Find Acceleration & Reaction Force of Wedge

  • Bucky
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Where does the 50% intensity reduction in polarized light come from?

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Gradient, potential and electric field

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What is optical coupling?

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Energy transferred to eardrum from sound wave

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Balance a 12m Board with 500kg and 80kg Man

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Simple Harmonic Motion of an air-track glider

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What type of clock is capable of measuring periods of milliseconds?

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Electrostatic potential energy for concentric spheres

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Why Is Current the Same in Series Resistors?

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How Do You Calculate the Separation Between Two Converging Lenses?

  • Jared944
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Oil drop charge and how to use plate separation and potential difference

  • linuxux
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Magnetic Force, Resistance, Faraday's Law

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What is J.J. Thomson's Experiment on Charge to Mass Ratio of an Electron?

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Magnetic Field of wire on rectangular loop

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Does Newton's Law of Cooling Apply Equally to Different Liquids?

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Calculating the Width of a Valley Using Echo Time Delay

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Average effective dipole moment?

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Traditional double Atwood's machine

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Angular acceleration of a pulsar

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Refrigerator Light (power and Carnot engines)

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Why does a sample with non-constant resistance obey Ohm's law?

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Wave Race 2: Explain the logic behind this formulary?

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Hall Effect Measurement Error Analysis

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Solving for Earth's Velocity After Collision with Asteroid

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Finding current through 20 ohm resistor in multi-loop circuit

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Calculating the Current Through a 10-ohm Resistor

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Is this the right formula to use?

  • linuxux
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Electric Field and the weight of an electron

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What Factors Affect the Efficiency of a Siphon?

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How Do Forces Interact on an Inclined Plane?

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Maximum acceleration machine problem

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Force and centripetal acceleration of electron in Bohr hydrogen atom

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Motion of a Particle: Find Speed & Acceleration

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Projectile motion from 1 meter high, lands 10 meters away, 60 degree angle

  • Jennifer K
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Distance separating current carrying wires.

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Calculating Frequency Shift for Temperature Change in Musical Instruments

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Ladder horizontal force problem

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How Does Doubling Mass and Reducing Distance Affect Gravitational Force?

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How Do You Calculate Angular Velocity of a Sphere on an Incline?

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Find an expression for the velocity of the electron and calculate it

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Magnetic dipole in a loop of wire

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V to get C. Calculating Max Capacitance of Coaxial Capacitor

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Find the magnitude of the initial acceleration of the rod's center of mass

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How Do I Calculate the Value of g for a Pendulum?

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Thermodynamics Problem and Fourier's Law

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Using conservation of energy to find falling object velocity

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How Much Work is Required to Move a Charge Between Equipotential Surfaces?

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How can conservation of momentum explain the behavior of Newton's cradle?

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Force of the track on a rollercoaster

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Magnetic forces exerted by current-carrying wires

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Radio Astronomy - power received

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Linear regression, including Uncertainties

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Sliding vs rolling soccer ball on a ramp with circular section

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How Does a 19kV Potential Difference Affect Electron Deflection in TVs?

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What is the redshift and velocity of the galaxy relative to us

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Ne1 know nething regarding kinetic friction

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Finding the sun's equatorial velocity in m/s and ft/s

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Frictional Forces and 1D Motion

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How to Calculate Speed at Different Points Using Conservation of Energy?

  • Peterson
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Solving Physics Problems with "Conceptual Physics" 10th Ed.

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