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Calculating Field Gradient for Magnetic Beam Deflection

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How Do You Calculate Thrust and Resultant Force for Saturn V Rockets?

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Solve Heat Conduction Problem: Oven Energy Use & Cost

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Calculating Net Forces on Charged Particles in a Line

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Calculating Kinetic Energy for Colliding Carts

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Level of refraction depends on what?

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Wavelength & Frequency: Thin to Dense Rope

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Is an Isolated Metal Atom at Room Temperature Like a Gas Molecule?

  • Ahmed Abdullah
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Why Does Temperature Remain Constant When Water Boils?

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How Can I Improve My EEI Performance with a Math-Focused Experiment?

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How to Calculate if a Car Will Stop in Time?

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How Do Relative Velocities Transform in Special Relativity?

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How do you calculate the centripetal force in a pendulum?

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What is the source of my speed error in my steel ball experiment?

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What is the Relationship Between Radius and Centripetal Acceleration?

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A problem using Young's equation from the double-slit experiment

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Find the forces exerted by the two cables

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Solving Electrical Resistances & Calculating Work & Mass: Help Needed!

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What is the comet's speed at the midpoint?

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How Deep is the Water in the Tank if Two Streams Hit the Same Spot?

  • Ed Quanta
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Why replace force systems with force and couple systems

  • chandran
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Calculating Amplitude and Initial Values in Simple Harmonic Oscillator

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What is the max. kinetic energy of the oscillation?

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Which Materials Are Most Effective at Blocking Beta Particles?

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Finding the pivot point that minimizes a physical pendulum's period

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Some Questions Involving Newton's Law

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How Does an E Baryon Decay into a D Baryon and a Photon?

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Friction on an accelerating train

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Calculating Minimum Power for Air Conditioner

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Mach number, shuttle re-entry speed, sound travel time and sonar depth

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Image Distance and Magnification

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How Is Work Done by Friction Calculated?

  • ch3570r
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Gauge pressure in water hose behind nozzle with tank and stopper

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What is the Linear Density of a String with Fewer Than Seven Nodes?

  • limeater
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Where to find online physics exercises

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Magnet Movement Affects Current Magnitude

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When doing calculations, should pressure be in atm or Pa?

  • Lee
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Strenght of magnetic fields on magnet

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Ideal Gas Law Lab: Finding R with PV = nRT

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Solving an Elastic Collision Problem

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How Can I Remove Reaction Time When Calculating the Speed of Sound?

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Ideal Gas Law Question: Solving for Volume at Surface

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Analysis of Vibration of Rod Clamped at Midpoint

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Enough information? (WaveLength Question)

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Finding Final Temperature of Ideal Gas from P vs V Graph

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Rate of flow from a leak in a storage tank

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Newton's First Law and objects in motion

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How Much Energy Does a Carnot Cycle Heat Engine Expel Per Cycle?

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How Does Mass Conversion Impact the Dynamics of a Relativistic Spaceship?

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Work done by helium balloon expanding against atmospheric pressure

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Different units in Bernoulli's equation's terms?

  • sinueus
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Calculating Heat Absorption in an Automobile Cooling System with 18L of Water

  • needhelp83
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A question on conservation of energy

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Negative charge between two fixed charges in simple harmonic motion

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Why Can't I Solve This Rotational Equilibrium Problem?

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How to Calculate Velocity Change: Car Goes 13.9 m/s East to 12.8 m/s Northeast

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Solving Static Problems: Get Started with Hints

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Simple Angular Velocity Problem

  • Dorothy Weglend
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Energy input for Parallel Plate Capacitors

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NSO physics questions on gravity, energy and motion

  • ritwik06
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Does Amplitude Influence the Period of a Spring's Oscillation?

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One More Accelerated Parallel Force

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Maximum Parallel Force of an Object

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How Do I Calculate Uncertainty in Electrical Circuit Measurements?

  • mathman100
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Heat engine efficiency for 2700 J work and 8500 J heat input

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Finding average force from a hailstone dent depth

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What is the intensity of sound at the pain level of 120 dB?

  • needhelp83
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How do I apply turning moments to everyday life?

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How Far Above a Planet's Surface is a Starship if Gravity is Halved?

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How Is Instantaneous Velocity Calculated in Particle Motion?

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Why is Channel 1 Connected Across CR and LR Circuits?

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Mechanics - Pivoting rod and angular momentum

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Solid State Physics - Point Defects in Gold

  • Asrai
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2nd year presentation topic needed

  • El Hombre Invisible
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Solving for Angular Velocity and Rotation Angle in a Collision System

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A rod initially stands vertically, then falls.

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Time interval between two positions in a transverse wave

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Tension in cable supporting a cantilever beam with load

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Solve Sliding Dresser Problem - Find F, Np, Nq

  • whitetiger
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Find minimum force to raise wheel

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Relative Velocity after collision

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Calculating Tension in Arms of 56.2kg HS Student

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How Do You Calculate Angular Velocity for a Spinning Engine?

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Find the tension with using forces and torques

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Find minimum force to tip block

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Calculating Electric Forces with Dangling Objects

  • Cory
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Find Speed of Blocks w/ Pulley & Spring

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Understanding Spring Forces: Net Force and Spring Scale Readings

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Tumble dryer basket rotation rate from clothes falling angle

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What is the speed of a car traveling over a hill?

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People jumping in the air simultaneously

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What Does x' Represent in Electric Field Equations?

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Projectile Motion (ignore previous thread)

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Projectile Motion I think I need some equations

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I'm New And I Have A Couple Questions For Grade 12 Physics

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