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Finding deceleration from meteorite impact depth

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Finding length of conical steel column under 1450 kN load

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Stress Calculations for Girder with W(b) and A Values

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Moment / CG question regarding a bicycle

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Elastic Collisions of steel balls

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Bohr Model: Calculating Wavelengths of Emitted Photons

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How Do You Calculate Mechanical Properties from Load-Displacement Data?

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What maximal load can be lifted from a depth of 1000 m ?

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What is the significance of nodal points in standing waves?

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What happens to the temperature of the gas?

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Student running up a 4m ramp at constant velocity

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How to Create a Pop-Up Effect with Paper?

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Threshold wavelength photoelectrons

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Speed of a photon with wavelength = 500nm?

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Range of projectile traveling through two points at same elevation

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What are the deviations for 145H8/d9 based on tolerance tables?

  • teng125
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Force-Elongation Diagram: Determining Ductility/Brittleness

  • teng125
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How Does Electric Potential Apply to Spheres with External Charges?

  • Saketh
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Converting Celsius to Kelvin: why is 2°C not 548.30 K?

  • MRCHEM
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Projectile Launching: Calculate Speed to Pass Through Point

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How to Calculate Voltage Drop in a Circuit

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Bending moment and stress in axle with 300N load

  • teng125
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What are the stable isotopes of lead and bismuth?

  • Amith2006
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Need info on how do helicopter stay on the same place with res to earth

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Final velocity of both vehicles

  • UrbanXrisis
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How Do You Calculate the Acceleration of a Pulley System?

  • danago
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How Does Air Behave as Sound from a Tuning Fork Travels to a Listener?

  • physics_06er
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Examples of Newton's Laws of Motion in Practice

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Fastest Photoelectron Emission: 400nm Light on 600nm Threshold Surface"

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How does weight distribution work in water?

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How Does a Grating Spectroscope Work?

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How to design a 3 phase induction motor

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Monkey or Weight: Which Will Reach the Top First?

  • whoelsebutme
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Gravitational Potential Energy formula

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Gas Expansion and Work: Effects on Internal Energy and Temperature

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Time difference in projectile motion

  • asdf1
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Just need a confirmation (Force in uniform circular motion)

  • highc
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What is the acceleration and sliding time of a car on a rotating platform?

  • Kolahal Bhattacharya
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Platform on Springs, how to find amplitude?

  • taveuni
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Force of gravity between 2 bars

  • NotMrX
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Maximum charge on a green pea before sparking in dry air

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Why can't helium reach 0 K and become solid according to kinetic theory of gas?

  • gandharva_23
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How to solve (Gm)/(r-S)^2 = (GM)/r^2 for S

  • highc
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Why High Energy Lines in Balmer Series Not Visible?

  • jubba
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A question from kleppner's book

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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How Do You Format Fractions in LaTeX?

  • NotMrX
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Do sliding pucks carry angular momentum before collision?

  • vijay123
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How Do You Determine the Period and Speed from a Sine Wave Graph in SHM?

  • physics_06er
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Electric Potential Hemisphere Problem

  • Saketh
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Solving the Physics Problem: Modeling a Spinning Ball Dropped on Floor

  • NotMrX
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Gravitational satellite question.

  • al_201314
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Galaxies, which are the smallest and least luminous type of galaxy?

  • euphoria0697
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Converting Meters per Second Squared to Kilometers per Hour Squared

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Concept problems. multi choice check my answers.

  • PhillyGixxer
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How Does Mass Affect Calculations in Non-conservative Force Problems?

  • kristen151027
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Object Distance From Converging Lens for 1% Focal Length Difference

  • spoonthrower
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Earths Centripetal Acceleration Effects

  • NotMrX
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Bead on a Wire and Harmonic Motion

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Finding the point where lunar gravity exceeds Earth's gravity

  • nithin
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Shotputter - Projectile Motion

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Intensity of UV light in a cylinder with 90% reflecting surfaces

  • madhukarrapaka
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Which way will a spool roll when thread is pulled?

  • ksle82
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How Do You Calculate Proton Speed and Momentum in Special Relativity?

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Calculating Wavelength in Young's Double-Slit Experiment

  • MD2000
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Understanding Loop Problems in Roller Coaster Physics

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Which Color of Light is Nearest to the Central Maximum in Diffraction?

  • spoonthrower
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Minimum film thickness for destructive interference in yellow light

  • tigerguy
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Rotating Disks - How to calculate final KE?

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Solving Friction Problem: Distance to Stop a Car

  • ksle82
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Question on Diffraction Grating

  • tigerguy
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Moon falls off during ecclipse?

  • NotMrX
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Oil slick area from volume and molecular size

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What Do p and l Represent in the Resistance Formula R = pl/A?

  • anzgurl
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Proton orbiting charged wire and ring of charge problems

  • ELHEK
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What is the parallel shift of the light beam?

  • teng125
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How far will the water shoot out?

  • ksle82
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Two cars braking to avoid collision and police car chase

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Rod moving parallel to magnetic field produces zero EMF?

  • endeavor
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Brewster's Angle: Light in Ethanol to Crown Glass - Significance

  • physicsgal
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Can the Slope of a Graph Determine EMF and Internal Resistance?

  • mininirime
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Qns on potential energy and forces

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Solve Thin Lens Equation: Diverging Lens, Virtual Image

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Induced current in a wire multiple choice question

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Understanding Work and Energy to Solving Physics Questions

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Electric potential energy and displacement

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Special relativity and inertial frames of reference

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How Does Mercury's Density Affect Column Pressure in hPa?

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What is the constant A in the lattice energy equation for LiF?

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Calculating Force for a Box on an Inclined Ramp

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Acceleration of a block of ice - Dynamics

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Long jump at 30 degrees with 7.80m distance

  • singlish
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Why is the electric field strength not zero at x \gg R?

  • Saketh
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