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How far does a charged particle travel before stopping near a fixed charge?

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What Defines Coherent Sources?

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Understanding Standing Waves: Clarity on Conditions

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Calculate the Change in Velocity of a Van

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Eccentricity of elliptical path of earth

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Calculate Speed of Recoiling Hydrogen Atom After Transition to Ground State

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Resistance in a series-parallel combination

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Find the horizontal distance a ball will travel

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Field resulting from line charge

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Equation of a wave reflected from a rigid boundary

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Calculating the Radius of a Charged Ion's Path in a Magnetic Field

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How Much Energy to Position Four Charges at Square Corners?

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How Does Ion Momentum Relate to Magnetic Fields and Circular Motion?

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Thermal Energy and Heat Transfer

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Finding member forces when a reaction equals a member force in a truss

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Mechanics/Kinetics of Particles

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Car braking distance and stopping time at traffic light

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Uniform cicrcular motion problem

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Suspended bag, spring compression, and rotating rod with animals

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Particle motion described by a time dependent function x(t)

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Kinetic explanation of evaporation of boiling/Melting.

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Constant acceleration and brakes

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Solving Probematic Statics: Determining Force in CD

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Motion in one - dimension question

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Frequency of sound wave in air

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Why does water stay in a cup during an inverted airplane roll?

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Heat loss per unit area per hour

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Help with 8 work, energy, and pressure problems

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Solving Part b) of an Amperian Loop Problem

  • jmcgraw
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Optical field question (very easy)

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Ferry velocity from passenger motion and vector addition

  • coolkid
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Sliding Block Problem: Finding Distance Traveled

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What Causes the String to Break in Different Physics Demonstrations?

  • danielI
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Why Does a Hollow Sphere Cool Faster Than a Solid Sphere?

  • Amith2006
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Finding angular velocity from rolling marble between photogates

  • In_Development
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Finding contact forces between two pipes and a roller

  • TSN79
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(Mechanics) A Plank in a Circular Trough

  • Saketh
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Question: Solving for the Coefficient of Friction on an Inclined Plane

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How do I calculate the mass and orbital distance of a planetary body?

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How to Calculate Velocity and Time of a Rock Tossed Into a Hole?

  • punkytrixter
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How Far Will Dave Fall Before the Bungee Cord Stops Him?

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Work done by the gas during the -

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Why Does Length Contraction Affect Only Dimensions Parallel to Motion?

  • georgeh
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Radioactive isotope spilled in lab, how long to wait before entering?

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Construct a Device to Transport a Ping Pong Ball to a Bucket

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Determining frequency of sound using a calibrated cathode ray oscilloscope

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Potential energy of a helium atom

  • Taryn
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Calculating lens power and accommodation of the eye in diopters

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BIENT TEMPERATURE AND RADIATION EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN TWO BODIES IN A VACUUM

  • Amith2006
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Calculating Energy Release from Fission of 0.001kg Uranium 235

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Deriving the hydrostatic equilibrium equation.

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Refractive index to measure temperature

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Is Newton's Law of Cooling Applicable to Forced Convection Losses?

  • Amith2006
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Finding rotation period from weight differences at equator and pole

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Find Mass and Velocity of Proton with 500V Acceleration

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Black Body Radiation: Why Does the Black Spot Appear Brighter?

  • Amith2006
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Photoelectric Effect - Intensity in Phototube

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Mayers Relation of specific heat

  • Amith2006
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Understanding AC Outlets: How Safe are They to Touch?

  • amcavoy
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P-V Diagram Question - Can Q1<Q2<Q3?

  • Amith2006
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How Far Apart Are Two 1kg Masses That Attract with a Force of 1kg.wt?

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Proving Momentum Conservation: A Physics Homework Problem

  • parallax1234
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Which statement about laser light is incorrect

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Concave/Convex-lens and mirrors

  • physics_06er
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Solving Double Slit Question with 16.81x10^-19J Energy

  • physics_06er
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Work done by gravity to fill truncated cone.

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How Is PT Related to PA, PB, and PC in a Rigid Gas Mixture?

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Electric field of sphere with spherical cavity cut out

  • Swagger
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Prove Uniform Spherical Shell Mass Gravitational Field Intensity

  • vaishakh
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Conceptual vector question from Halliday and Resnick

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Solving Kirchhoff's Rules: Electric Circuits and Algebra Practice

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Calculating Current and Charge in a Capacitor Circuit

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Ideal gas behaviour at high pressures

  • Amith2006
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Moment of inertia of solid sphere

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Adiabatic Processes and Ideal Gases

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Radius of Curvature of a 10cm Concave Mirror

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Moment of intertia for rod with weight on one end

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Velocity at Time t: My vs Book Answer

  • Amith2006
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Famous family with four or five physicists

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Can a proton contain 3 up quarks and 1 down quark?

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Deriving Optics: 22/46 Halo, Sundogs, Coronas, etc.

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Resistance of a fructum-shaped bar

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Is this angular or linear momentum?

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What Is Impact Velocity?

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What Force Keeps a Body Moving at Constant Velocity on a Horizontal Surface?

  • Amith2006
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Why is Refracted Angle > Incident Angle?

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Question regarding Newton third law and weight in a lift

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Effect of wire length on nichrome wire resistance

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Background Physics of Bouncing a Ball

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Creating Chemical and Electromagnetic Energy

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Is the Electric Field at Point (-1,0) Correctly Calculated?

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How Does Electron Deflection Occur in a Charged Plate Setup?

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Why Do Solids Expand When Heated?

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Electric potential distance problem?

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How does the pressure vary as we go deep into the mines

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Columns of liquids at different temperuatures

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Electron drift velocity

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