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How Is Current Calculated in a Mass Spectrometer?

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Moment of inertia of a leftover square

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Can dx/dy always be used for integration and derivation on a circle?

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How many air molecules are there inside the tire?

  • SmugBug
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Are measured values and readings the same thing?

  • Indranil
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Momentum conservation: block-wedge problem

  • Krushnaraj Pandya
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Find the resistance and EMF in a circuit

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Kleppner-Mechanics Solar sail 2

  • MARX
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Expression of radius and helical motion in a magnetic field

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Magnetic moment and magnetic field and dot product

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Find induced current, magnetic force, work in inclined plane

  • Helly123
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Ampere definition and infinite wires separated by 1 meter

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Does Heat Radiation Decrease the Number of Photons Over Time?

  • Jahnavi
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De Broglie wavelength of electron and proton

  • Jahnavi
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Basic forces question with a pulley problem

  • Eitan Levy
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Calculating Applied Force for a Moving Block on a Table

  • Alyona
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How Do You Calculate the Speed of a Rod in a Magnetic Field?

  • SHOORY
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Deformation of a metal sheet with a tip force applied

  • jassie1990
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When will the barrel become half empty?

  • mathchimp
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Electric Flux through the Face of a Cube

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What Force Keeps a Bar at a Constant Angle on a Smooth Plane?

  • Krushnaraj Pandya
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Moment of inertia of a metal plate about three points

  • Krushnaraj Pandya
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Final velocity of two blocks between a spring

  • PedroPicapiedra
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Angular momentum of a spinning baseball

  • Keith Moffet
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Linear regression errors vs measurement uncertainties

  • Felipe Lincoln
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Find the angle for which both disks are no longer in contact

  • Nicolas Gallardo
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Where Is the Error in Calculating the Distance Traveled?

  • prakhargupta3301
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Distance, Time, and Temperature question

  • Nathan J
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Find the torque for a vehicle wheel

  • MikeN232
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Not sure how to plug in numbers for Work Energy Theorem

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Electricity and Magnetism Electric Field Problem

  • astrolady022
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Radius of a particle's path in a B field and magentic momentum force

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Magnetic energy stored in a cylindrical conductor

  • Granger
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Capacitors in series with voltage source after switch change

  • Kosta1234
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About electricity and the EMF -- Multiple choice question

  • Sabeshan Ratneswaran
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Entropy and the partition function for nitrogen

  • jbowers9
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Electrical Potential of a uniformly charged spherical shell

  • icesalmon
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What is the apparent weight of a woman riding over a hump in a car?

  • vbrasic
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Moment of inertia with system of rods

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Determine the ground speed and the course of the plane

  • Alexanddros81
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Why does doubling the grating lines give different diffraction angles?

  • maxelcat
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Understanding Molar Volume at STP

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How Does Velocity Relate to Displacement in Pulley Systems?

  • prakhargupta3301
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Finding the Velocity of a Mass in Circular Motion

  • barryj
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Change of of the pressure of water inside a container

  • Baris Kalfa
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Gravity of the Earth if its mass were doubled

  • Albert einstine
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Center of Mass Balancing Question

  • lola96
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What force do the arrows represent?

  • lioric
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Electric Potential Difference Problem

  • Noah2305
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Linear momentum of two photons with same wavelength

  • Jahnavi
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Which of these metals provide magnetic shielding?

  • lioric
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Finding the Equation for a Plane Containing a Point and Line

  • happykamper21
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Stopping distance of a car rolling down a hill

  • Barnt
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Solar intensity at Earth: why is 1400 W/m² constant if it's power?

  • Jahnavi
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Force on Electron in Light Bulb Filament (240V, 6.0cm)

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Calculating the period of a low Earth satelite using Kepler

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Calculating Spring Constant and Energy Conservation: How Fast Will the Bag Drop?

  • MarieMarie94
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Why does the spring paradox give the wrong equilibrium position?

  • LukasMont
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Calculating Work to Charge Parallel Conducting Plates

  • razidan
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Angular velocity of bicycle wheel

  • Nelson2436
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Air resistance differential equation

  • David Koufos
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Flux with an infinitely long surface cutting through a sphere

  • mk9898
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Calculating Electric Potenial Difference

  • chef99
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Checking integral solution steps against answer options

  • prakhargupta3301
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Finding the momentum of a photon

  • chef99
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Having a problem in steps while solving integrals

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A copper wire and an iron wire - Potential difference

  • mk9898
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Direction of Magnetic Force on a Wire Moving Down a Slope with Current I?

  • Eitan Levy
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Calculate Internal Angular Momentum and Energy

  • Nicolas Gallardo
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Energy in a rotating square loop

  • Granger
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What law will be used in this experiment?

  • EelAnes
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Why this special case occurs in an exchange of heat

  • Andres Padilla
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Why is dt omitted when integrating velocity to find displacement?

  • prakhargupta3301
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Linear Acceleration of a Rigid Object with Attached Disks and Tension on Cord

  • Nicolas Gallardo
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Car test, and vibrations problem

  • Mohamed BOUCHAKOUR
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Which circuit has the largest resistance across a PN diode

  • Eman 55
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Weight of person on Earth, and on a different planet's surface?

  • joyxx
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How do I calculate work and heat in a PV diagram for an ideal monoatomic gas?

  • Muthumanimaran
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Flux between two current-carrying wires

  • Gene Naden
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Object whirled on conical pendulum with 10 kg mass and 4 m radius

  • psstudent
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Calculating Charge and Time in a Discharging RC Circuit

  • Moolisa
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Bond Strength and Force constant

  • Muthumanimaran
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Entropy change in an RC circuit

  • yamata1
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Magnetic field in the case of a thin magnetized cylinder

  • Granger
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Special relativity and Lorentz factor problem

  • RealKiller69
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Volume ratio in an adiabatic gas expansion

  • Granger
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Find the unknown capacity of two capacitors

  • Kirill Vlaksov
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Proton-oxygen-18 reaction: gamma ray energy and binding energy

  • Jimmy87
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32.76 Time for current to decay with capacitors and resistors

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Force Required to Maintain Conveyor Belt Speed: 7N

  • Antu Ghosh
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What is the pressure surrounding a liquid at its boiling point?

  • dromeascr
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Matrix representation of raising operators for a 3-state system

  • Mutatis
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Statics - Support Reaction in Truss

  • Philippe
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Wave packet width given a wave function

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How to determine if this is β- or β+ decay?

  • PerpetuallyConfused
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How to proceed from a Poisson bracket calculation

  • Apashanka das
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Rope on Table Kleppner-Mechanics

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