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Find Distance of Electric Charge 3 from q1: 13.9 cm

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Why does a positive charge attract a neutral conductor?

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How Do You Calculate Rocket Momentum Changes in Physics Problems?

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How Does Projectile Motion Determine Maximum Height and Time to Peak?

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Calculating Pressure Difference for Indoor Plumbing

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Solving a Rookie QB's Trajectory Problem

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AP Physics C Projectile Question

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Calculating Acceleration and Distance: Entering the Freeway

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Motorcycle Acceleration: Find Position, Velocity & Max Velocity

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Solving AC Generator Problem: Find Voltage Output

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Does a telescope magnify distant objects?

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Determining Velocity of a Police Car Using the Doppler Effect

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Image confusion(electrostatics)

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Gravitation and Circular motion.

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Latent heat problem with nuclear plant heat exchanger

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Orbital motions about the earth.

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Series of Wave Equation problem

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Calculating Speed of Simple Harmonic Motion with Initial Displacement

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Work done by multiple forces pushing a 2.8 kg block up a wall

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Work Done by Force: A Physics Problem Solution

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Adiabatic, isothermal, or isovolumetric

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Solving a Carnot Engine Problem: What Unit Do I Use?

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Net 48N Force Stretches .5m Spring to .78m

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Work and electric potential with van de Graaff generator

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Parallel electric plate question

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Calculating Force on a Pivoting Object for a Fold Away Bed

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Why is it hard to drive a vertical circle ride at constant speed?

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Why Analyze Negative Beat Frequencies if They Don't Exist?

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MeV to Joules Units : How? 'In Electricity'

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How Does Thermodynamic Path Influence Work and Heat Flow?

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Where should the bulb go in a parabolic headlight reflector?

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Ideal Gas Cycle: N2 Undergoing abcd w/ Varying Pressures

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Electric field between one charged plate and a ground plane

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Speed of waves from first source in original medium?

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Solving Baseball's Speed - Find Initial Velocity & Time to Peak

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Solve Distance for Box A Sliding Down Ramp

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Light Truck Skidding Distance at Different Speeds

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What is the marble's speed at the top?

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Fusion vs Fission: Learn the Difference

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What Did You Think of the A2 Physics Practical Exam and Coursework?

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Monkey and sled - conservation of energy problem

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Impact force calculator ignoring gravity during collision

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Compass orientation near a current-carrying coil

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Calculate Displacement Vector from Camp to Summit - 2079m

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Finding oxygen mass in leaking tank and RMS speed problems

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Find the angle between the velocity and the total acceleration

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What is the relationship between magnetic flux and EMF?

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Find the currents in the circuit branches

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Momentum and Energy of a car of mass

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Solving Thermodynamics Problems: Compute C_v and Heat Capacity

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Particle-field(wave) duality

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Carnot cycle, ideal gas relations, and ice melting entropy

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What is the formula for calculating time and velocity with acceleration?

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Solve Solenoid Resistance/Magnetic Field/Length

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Why does electromagnet force on an iron core increase steeply with current?

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Two questions on electrostatics

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How Long After Melting Does Ice Reach Above 0 Celsius When Heated?

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Thanks again!-Luis Constructive and Destructive Interference at Point Q

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Reversing the polarity of capacitor?

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How Does Mechanical Energy Convert to Heat in Lead Shot Experiments?

  • Geoff
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Why is Wavenumber (1/cm) Considered a Unit of Frequency?

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Kinetics in Nromal and Tangential coordinates - SPINING ROD W/ SPOOL

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How do you calculate friction coefficients?

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Why Does the Wizard Slip at 7.35 Seconds on a Rotating Platform?

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Circuit diagram symbol for an electromagnet

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Average thermodynamic efficiency

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Calculating Water Velocity with Static Pressure

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Factoring and Ellipses: How to Solve for Width?

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Tension in a Pendulum Problem - 30kg, 4m cord, 4m/s @ bottom

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Adiabatic process for water

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Absorption of radiation at vibration frequency

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Magnifying Power: Does the Tree Look 10x Nearer?

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Using parallax to measure distance to a pole from a baseline

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Calorimetry Lab: Calculating Specific Heat Capacity

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How Do You Calculate the Coefficient of Expansion for Glass Using Mercury?

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Destruction of e-p pair:energy?

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How Is Current Distributed in a Mixed Wattage Light Bulb Circuit?

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Field inside a cavity inside a conductor

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Determination of charge/mass value in E field.

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Dynamics and displacement problem

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Dynamic Pressure: Is 9,81 kPa Lost per Vertical Meter?

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How Is the Pivot Distance Calculated in a Physical Pendulum?

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Charged particle in magetic field problem

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How Can Radiation Be Used to Determine the Temperature of an Object?

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How Does Increasing Mass Affect SHM Amplitude and Frequency?

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Velocity->Force, concept problem

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Liquid Problem with Bernoulli's Equation

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AZING GAS LAWS: Internal Energy Change in Adiabatic Processes

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What is the force exerted by water in a container?

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Max Height of 6 kg Object with Air Resistance

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Liquids involving continuity equation

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Re: Axis Transformation, time -> distance

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