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Kinematics: find maximum height

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Finding Force and work on a moving object

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Electric field of concentric rings

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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

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

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Finding current I using Kirchhoff's laws with multiple loops

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

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Time for rock to fall second half of cliff distance

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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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Absolute uncertainty in R−2 with measured distance

  • Jerry Z
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Calculating Time to Reach Ground from Rocket Launch

  • Joakim 1
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Angle between radius and acceleration

  • KristinaMr
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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

  • Ashley1nOnly
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Displacement from a rotating Ferris wheel after 80°

  • Rob123456789
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Does a rock launched at 50 m/s and 35° clear a 3.5 m wall at 10 m away?

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

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Acceleration of a shot put ball

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NEXT and FEXT voltage magnitudes for parallel PCB tracks

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

  • Islam Sabry
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Finding building height from ball thrown horizontally at 10 m/s

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

  • Steve W
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Ball kicked at 20 m/s and 50°: finding maximum height

  • DracoMalfoy
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Stone thrown from 40m bridge at 30°, find maximum height

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

  • Krushnaraj Pandya
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Trooper chasing car at 24.0 m/s with 3.0 m/s² acceleration

  • DracoMalfoy
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Is This Transmission System Exercise Correctly Solved?

  • Guillem_dlc
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Inconsistency in a Velocity-Time Graph

  • john-b
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Doppler shift for sonar reflecting off approaching whale

  • betamu
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Elastic collision of equal masses: why does energy and momentum give two answers?

  • 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

  • Ghost Repeater
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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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Rabbit and turtle race with nap: finding speeds before and after break

  • 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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1.3 kg mass slides 1.8 m down ramp and collides elastically

  • teresalin2004
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Showing that 2π is unitless in the pendulum period equation

  • DracoMalfoy
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Running / walking for half distance

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Rocket with two engines: finding total displacement

  • DracoMalfoy
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Calculating Significant Figures for Regulation Soccer Field Area

  • sp3sp2sp
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Thermodynamics problem - circular process

  • solidbastard
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Average velocity for a bike ride with a break

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

  • DracoMalfoy
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Finding displacement when a wheel turns 100 times between two marks

  • DracoMalfoy
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Radial Distribution Function (RDF) versus Radial component

  • sgstudent
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Position from velocity time graph

  • sp3sp2sp
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Ball thrown downward off a cliff: finding height

  • 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

  • knowone
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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

  • MathError
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Work done in adiabatic process vs work done in isothermal

  • shihab-kol
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Proving equal times for rise and fall of a thrown ball

  • oofllama
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Significant figures and rounding

  • sp3sp2sp
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Calculate the impulse of tension

  • Amitayas Banerjee
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Work done by a spring on an inclined plane with three blocks

  • navneet9431
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Heat Capacity relations for 1st order phase transition

  • Carbon123
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Minimum m/M ratio for two blocks to cross on a pulley system

  • PhysicsBoi1908
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Mass going up an inclined plane with initial velocity Vo

  • herardo
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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

  • kakaroth
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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

  • Priyanka88
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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

  • Civil_Disobedient
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Energy conservation in an alpha-scattering experiment

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Physics concepts behind pneumatic tube systems?

  • SDSphysGod
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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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