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Does a current produce an electric field?

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Energy Problems of box acceleration

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How Does Rocket Propulsion Calculation Work with Changing Mass?

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Calculating Spring Constant for Maximum Acceleration of a Car

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Tension in a rope connecting two hanging blocks of different mass

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How Do You Calculate the Time Interval Between Bounces of a Ball?

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What is the tension in the cable?

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What level of precision is implied in a order-of-magnitude calculation

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What is the change of speed over time?

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Why does water pressure from F/A not match the 2.31 feet per psi rule?

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Understanding Vector Magnitude and Direction in Mechanics

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Coefficient of Friction at constant speed

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Weighing Less in Skyscraper Lobby: What's Going On?

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How much work to move a charge?

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How to Convert Oersted to Tesla?

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Acceleration calculation is mocking me

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What is the current flowing through the aluminum rod on tilted conducting rails?

  • StudentofPhysics
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Circuit that is both parallel and in series

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Therefore, the most accurate answer would be B. Constant Phase Difference.

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Solving Momentum Impulse Problem: Mass .01kg Bullet & .99kg Block

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Kinetic energy and frames of refrence

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Gravitation (just to check if calculation is right)

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Solving Electric Potential Problem

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Electric Potential voltage and conservation of energy

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Solving for h in Terms of r for Uniform Solid

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How Is the Average Force on a Bullet Calculated?

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What is the mass of the raindrop?

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Determine the electric field that yields the desired result

  • whoknows12345
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Alpha Particles: Time for Half Circle Motion

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Induced Electric Field and Faraday's law

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Index of refraction, angular seperation

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Energy needed for satellite to escape Mars orbit

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Calculating Energy Delivered to a Battery using Ohm's Law

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How does the maximum static friction affect the cylinder's motion?

  • quasar987
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Understanding Water Ripple Behavior

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Skaters, Momentum, and Mass: How Does it Affect It?

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Question Regarding Work Done By Capacitor

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Is Net Work Done When a Car Travels at Constant Speed on a Flat Road?

  • alwysnforevr002
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This is - number of charges trough

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Finding velocity from electron energy in eV for velocity selector

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How do you find the force to stop an object instantly?

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How Do You Calculate the Speed of Vehicle B After Impact?

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Blood splatter pattern from successive drops

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Magnetic force on moving charge

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Harmonic Motion and Springs Question

  • Mattara
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Understanding Center of Mass: How Does it Change?

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Calculating Tension in an Elevator Cable During Upward Acceleration

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Photoelectric effect and energy levels in atoms

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Problem to find angular velocity

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When does the minute hand move away fastest from the hour hand?

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Calculating Velocity Vector after Ball Impact with a Surface

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Physics, projectile motion problem.

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Does a Ball Move Up or Down an Inclined Plane?

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Period, the Pendulum and Frequency

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Final exam: pendulum period, waves, sound, and calorimetry

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Rotating cylinder on table and rolling cylinder on incline

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How Does Friction Affect the Bobsled's Stopping Distance?

  • taveuni
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Why Multiply by 10 in Dead Load Calculations?

  • PhysicsApprentice
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Question on Piezoelectric effect

  • Ukitake Jyuushirou
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Electric Potential alpha particles

  • tigerguy
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Inward Acceleration for Ununiform Slope

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What Happens to Voltage When a Dielectric is Inserted into a Charged Capacitor?

  • whoknows12345
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Find the magnitude of the maximum magnetic force

  • StudentofPhysics
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Tangential speed of moon around earth

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Range Of Half-lives Of Different Radioactive Elements

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Work done by friction on skateboard down quarter-circle ramp

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Collision and Impulse, Linear Momentum

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How Does Newton's Third Law Explain Acceleration in Cars?

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Difference between centre of mass and centre of gravity

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Electricity Sparks: Finding the Voltage Difference for a 0.2 cm Jump

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Average emf is it same as induced emf?

  • skull42484
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Does P=RI² hold for pulsed currents?

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Kinematics (Vectors, fairly easy stuff)

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Solving Power Cable Question - Part (b)

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Machine Converts Chemical Energy To Electrical Energy?

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Is conservation of energy correct?

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Well diameter and height for a Meriam manometer design

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Solving Circuits with Kirchoff's Laws

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How Do You Calculate the deBroglie Wavelength of a Relativistic Electron?

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How many joules of electric energy are there in 1 kilowatt-hour?

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How can I solve this tricky problem involving work and kinetic energy?

  • kappcity06
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Calculating Force: Tractor on Trailers on Incline

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Tension (related to Fe) Question and Gauss Question

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Circuits Wired Partially in Series and Partially in Parallel

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What is the Average Frictional Force Acting on a Sliding Bear?

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Finding the Final Velocity of a Box Sliding Across a Rough Surface

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Understanding Angular Acceleration and Speed in a Human Centrifuge

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Pressure Difference in a Drinking Straw

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Conservation of Mechanical Energy in truck

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Pressure Response Time for Two-Piston Hydraulic System with Vacuum Space in Tube

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Inertail versus gravitational mass

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Force of atoms in different molecules?

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Where Does the Net Electric Field Equal Zero Along the X-axis?

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Momentum Problem: Solving A and B's Post-Collision Direction and Speed

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Why does my wave equation appear to move backwards?

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Forces with direction and magnitude

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