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A little concept problem with those vectors

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Solving a Physics Puzzle: Calculating Rope Tension

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Can a Box Be Created to Shield Against Gravitational Fields?

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Kinetic frictional force question

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Electric Field Conseptual Question

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Magnetic permeability and magnetic resistance

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What Is the Lowest Coefficient of Static Friction for a Log?

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How Is Work Calculated in Physics Problems Involving Inclined Planes?

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Water and Gravity: Can Water Lift Weights?

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Having a bit of trouble figuring something out about a doorbell

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Change in acceleration due to gravity

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Perfectly inelastic collision between two runners verification

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Finding a vector of magnitude 27 parallel to 3i+4j

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Need thorough explanation-electric field

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Resolve all the Tension into horizontal and vertical forces

  • masterofthewave124
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Vector Scalar Product and KE questions

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What kinds of energry conversions

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Heater causes room temp to rise

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Heat engine/max height person can climb

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Calculate Period of Planet X with Kepler's Third Law

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Solving an Inelastic Collision with a Spring: Maximum Compression

  • Delzac
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What is the difference between double torque and single torque?

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KE of electron being attracted by 2 protons

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Why does squeezing a hose make the water go further?

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Mass Dilation and Velocity Question

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How does the force on a bar magnet change as it moves through a loop?

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Bernouilli's principle and downforces

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Gravitational Potential Energy of a planet

  • sophzilla
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Focal length of concave lens using convex lens

  • Amith2006
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Solving Electrical Currents Equations

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Superposition net gravitational force

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Tension in Chain in Multiple Pulley Station

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Temp rise due to hammering nails

  • Bradracer18
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Simple force question that I cant get

  • mikejones2000
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Charge flowing when a 0.4 m square loop is crushed in a 2.3 T field

  • fishmonger
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How Should Impulse Be Applied to a Rod to Make It Land Upright?

  • Saketh
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Qns On The Equations Of Momentum

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Energy required to raise a roller coaster train uphill

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Solving Triangle Problems with 3D Coordinates

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Counting Particles Passing Through a Hole

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Why does Y move east after elastic collision, not X west?

  • al_201314
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Why are my questions given least importance?

  • Amith2006
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Friction forces to keep board from slipping

  • rcwha
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Power needed for Superman to pull a train up a 15° incline

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Moment of inertia, Sphere. New method.

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Help with physics assignment problems

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How Does Adding a Spring Affect Collision Outcomes?

  • chandran
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Does Point A Have Maximum or Minimum Intensity?

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Analyzing Superhero Physics: How Fast Can Superman Really Go?

  • atOnz
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Conservation of energy - the elevator question

  • jamesm113
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Three blocks connected by strings over a pulley

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Calculating the radius of a nucleus of a Pd-118 atom

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Find the Initial Height of a Falling Block

  • c4iscool
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Calculate Wavelength of 3.85 MeV Gamma Radiation from Technetium-99

  • missy~needs~help
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Answer Projectile Velocity when Hitting Ground: 15.3 m/s

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Change in position of image due to insertion of glass slab

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Finding the mass of a vehicle in a collision

  • c4iscool
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Fundamental Frequencies and Standing Waves

  • Lil ze
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Solving a Statics Problem: Finding Reactions Forces

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How Can I Test Relativity or the Photoelectric Effect for a Science Fair?

  • Quantum1332
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I know what mol is, but what is kmol?

  • allok
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Why Isn't My Physics Experiment Calculating Distance Correctly?

  • lucky_boy
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What is the Geometric Relationship Between Vectors and Their Components?

  • nothing123
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What factors affect evaporative cooling temperature drop?

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Meter stick against wall with suspended block equilibrium

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The Impact of Measuring the Magnetic Field on Electron Interference Patterns

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Concept of quantization-Schroedinger equation

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What is the variational principle and how does it apply to physics?

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Critical angle for TIR in a glass prism with n=1.44

  • Alain12345
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What velocity makes a proton relativistic?

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Air bubble inside a glass sphere problem

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Power of a spherical refracting surface

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Trouble locating and describing a convex lens image

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@ould the elevator be moving up or down?

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Innacurate movie physics project

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Is object visibility from unevenly or evenly reflected light?

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Moment of inertia of bar with balls about an off-center axis

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How does internal resistance affect EMF and current in a circuit?

  • Lil ze
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Solve Free-Fall Problem: A Ball Dropped from Rest

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Standing wave on a string with 7th overtone

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Invisibility of flint glass rod in carbon disulfide

  • Amith2006
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How do you insert equations on the forum

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Griffiths (electrostatics) problem

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Finding density at a point inside a sphere from mass and radius

  • Yanah
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Sign conventions for convex and concave mirror focal lengths

  • Amith2006
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Checking Your Work: Calculating Equivalent Resistance

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Problems On Work-Energy Theorem

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Electric Charge on a uniformly charged disk

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Angle of inclined mirror for reflected ray to become vertical

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Calculate the torque on the pedal

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Light ray reflections between two parallel plane mirrors

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