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Find the speed of the source (Doppler Effect)

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Is Walter Lewins Loop Trick. Correct or False?

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Dipole vector associated with charges

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Y=cx[L−x], The value of the constant c for a perfect circle

  • member 634857
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Twin Paradox from Moving Reference Frame- Return Journey

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Which bulb will glow brighter in a series and parallel circuit?

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Solve Kirchhoff's Laws Homework: Find Current I in a Circuit

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How do you work out the wavelegth (Franck-Hertz experiment)?

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Distance traveled by a rock dropped off of a cliff....

  • Carol-Anne
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How to Rank Charge Density of Conductive Spheres?

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How to Round for Significant Figures in Scientific Calculations?

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Homework help: Uncertainty with negative power

  • Jerry Z
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Calculating Time to Reach Ground from Rocket Launch

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Angle between radius and acceleration

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Plot the position of the particle x=Acosbt

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Kinematics: baseball toss with an angle provided

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Flux of a vector and parametric equation

  • Xsnac
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What is the total charge enclosed

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Vectors Homework: Displacement & Direction at 80°

  • Rob123456789
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Projectile Motion Kinematics: A catapult launches a rock....

  • DracoMalfoy
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Magnetic field due to a straight wire and circular arc

  • Victim
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Acceleration of a shot put ball

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Help with NEXT and FEXT volatage magnitudes

  • Callum Plunkett
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The equivalent resistance for the resistors in this circuit?

  • Islam Sabry
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Kinematics: Ball thrown off of a building

  • DracoMalfoy
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How Is Work Calculated for a Gas and Balloon in Isothermal Expansion?

  • Steve W
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Projectile Motion Kinematics: Finding maximum height

  • DracoMalfoy
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A stone is thrown off a bridge....

  • DracoMalfoy
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Why Is Magnification Undefined for a Point Object in Ray Diagrams?

  • Krushnaraj Pandya
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Kinematics: Motion in One Direction: Car Chase

  • DracoMalfoy
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Is This Transmission System Exercise Correctly Solved?

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Inconsistency in a Velocity-Time Graph

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Frequency of Reflected Underwater Sound Wave

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Analyzing Elastic Collisions w/ Conservation of Energy and Momentum

  • A Physics Student
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Kinetic energy and momentum in an elastic collision

  • Monsterboy
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How Do Friction Forces Act on a Ladder Leaning Against a Wall?

  • minimario
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Projectile motion of a cannon ball versus time

  • Archimedess
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Super Basic Collision Problem - Preparation for SR

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Finding the Flux of a Vector Field

  • Civil_Disobedient
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Why Are Relative Velocities in Elastic Collisions Frame-Independent?

  • gibberingmouther
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Using Macaulay's method of deflection on a cantilever beam

  • Kyle Grayston
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'They' haven't considered centripetal acceleration

  • baldbrain
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Rank charges in spheres (Physics 2)

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Finding the Earth's magnetic field strength using a Galvanometer

  • netknowledge
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Calculating the distance traveled by a ball

  • Joakim 1
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Using Mathematica to solve an ODE

  • Ashley1nOnly
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Electric and Magnetic field acting on an electron

  • Joseph Rolls
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Motion in One Dimension: The Tortoise and The Hare Race

  • DracoMalfoy
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Uniformly charged ring on the axis

  • SlyCedix
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Conservative force in spherical coordinates

  • Felipe Lincoln
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Stimulated emission per second per atom?

  • Philip Land
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Physics Help with elastic collision

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Dimensional Analysis: Period of a Pendulum to the length

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Running / walking for half distance

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Kinematics: Two engines, One Rocket, and Displacement.

  • DracoMalfoy
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Calculating Significant Figures for Regulation Soccer Field Area

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Thermodynamics problem - circular process

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Trouble with another Kinematics question

  • DracoMalfoy
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Average Acceleration Calculation for Ball Bouncing off a Tennis Racket

  • DracoMalfoy
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Kinematics Equations: Displacement Calculation with a Wheel | Homework Help"

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Radial Distribution Function (RDF) versus Radial component

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Position from velocity time graph

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Need help with this question regarding kinematics.

  • DracoMalfoy
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Why Is the Angle 90 Degrees in Elastic Collisions of Equal Mass?

  • Abu
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The height of a dielectric material between two coaxial pipes

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Projectile Motion and acceleration of particle

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Find the resistive constant in a critically damped system

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Angular speed calculation after an inelastic collision

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Work done in adiabatic process vs work done in isothermal

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Please help prove this fact about a ball falling....

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Significant figures and rounding

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Calculate the impulse of tension

  • Amitayas Banerjee
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Three blocks and a spring on an inclined plane....

  • navneet9431
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Heat Capacity relations for 1st order phase transition

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Energy: What will be the minimum ratio of m/M here

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Mass going up an inclined plane with initial velocity Vo

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Velocity from an elastic collision

  • Millie Baker
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Problem about a rigid body pulled by a mass

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Convert Julian Dates to Decimal

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Estimate of the greatest possible radius of a rocky planet

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Elastic Collision in Two Reference Frames

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Particles after an elastic collision

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What will be the final velocity and direction of two colliding cars?

  • M. M. Fahad Joy
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How Do You Calculate Vector Change in 2D Elastic Billiard Ball Collisions?

  • MatusVeselka
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Free surface charges on concentric cylinders

  • Philip Land
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Finding the Scalar Triple Product of Three Vectors

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Rotational mechanics string wrap around twig

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Finding Initial Velocity v0x for Particle with Non-Constant Acceleration

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Magnitude of the electric field across cell membranes

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Electric Field Force Exerted Vertically

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Energy conservation in an alpha-scattering experiment

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Physics concepts behind pneumatic tube systems?

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What is the amplitude of induced EMF in a magnetic dipole antenna?

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What is the size of the magnetic dipole moment?

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How Does Earth's Slowing Rotation Affect Day Length Over Centuries?

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Wavelength = deBroglie Wavelength?

  • Krushnaraj Pandya
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Energy of Li2+ atom according to Bohr's model

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