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Potential energy and gravitation

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Calculating Distance from Water Level to Stream Impact Point

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Ideal gas undergoing cycle change - find temperature

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Center of mass, forces and momentum

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What is their common angular velocity?

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Power to Money Calculation: Get $10K+/Year with Your Power

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Wave Interference: Explaining How Waves Coexist

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Negative electrostatic potential energy

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Charge Placement where Force is Zero

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Calculate Density of Standard Kilogram Cylinder: Quick Guide

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Lense/Image help (interactive diagram fun)

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Linear Momentum Conservation and Work-Energy Theorem in a Block-Slab System

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How High Will Mass #2 Rise in Different Collision Scenarios?

  • Supernerd2004
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Figuring out relationships with graphs

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Cross & Dot Products in Physics: A Comprehensive Guide

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Understanding Internal Energy: Path Dependence and Point Functions

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Kilogram Newtons (Extremely Easy Question)

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Answer Qns on Magnetic Field & Atoms

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Solving Coulomb Triangle: Find Unknown Charge q

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Qns on Motion & Work: Find 1/2(M+m)v^2

  • Delzac
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Does an Air Bubble Impact the Accuracy of a Water Leveling Tool?

  • recon
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Energy of fields caused by RLC circuits

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Solving for Induced Current in a Plane Loop Wire: Faraday's Law

  • SwMarc
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Find the distance this spot travels in one period.

  • justneedhelp81
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Calculating Ocean Depth using Sonar Signals

  • aerogurl2
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What is its period in the water?

  • aerogurl2
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Minimun lens size (in meters) that will permit just resolving 2 stars

  • cheez
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Thermodynamics question - is this right?

  • N_L_
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Units from Operations: 1-kg/s^2, 2-m^3/s, 3-m^2, 4-coul^2/s

  • jaybreezy03
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Filling a volume (pool) at a given rate

  • whoknows123
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Beat Frequency Chart: Solve Problems & Find Original Freq.

  • Alain12345
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Intensity of sounds - Hearing Aid

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Question to aid my science fair research

  • oooo
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What would a PV curve for a Quasiturbine engine look like?

  • taijin
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Rectilinear Motion: Definition and Examples

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Charges, Resistance & Electrical Current, Wavelength

  • ranger12
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Average kinetic energy of all gases are the same

  • Amith2006
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Why do you heat a bottle of mayonaise when its difficult to open?

  • kampai
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Time to React: Calculating the Pilot's Response

  • Brett
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Medical Imaging Student Needs Help with Radiological Physics

  • Imaging
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Determining the mass of a photon travelling at the speed of light

  • Solidmozza
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How Does Adding Ice to Water Affect Final Temperature?

  • aerogurl2
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Calculating Force of Friction for Constant Velocity - Jay Matheson

  • atOnz
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How Does Moseley's Law Relate to Electron Screening and Atomic Charge?

  • big man
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Solving Sound Waves Problem: X vs Y

  • FlipStyle1308
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Resonance frequency in an LCR circuit

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Designing a Bouncing Egg-Drop Container with Springs

  • hushnow
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Calculating Electron Velocity in a Magnetic Field

  • ekinnike
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Another Beat Frequency Question

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Gravity's Effect On A Bowling Ball In A Level Alley

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What Is the Difference Between Vibration and Oscillation?

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Diffraction of light from a single slit and on a wire

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What Does a 3-D Light Wave Look Like?

  • BTruesdell07
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Rate of evaporation physics help

  • Srinand
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Optics and Light: Frequency, Energy & More

  • mmg0789
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Can someone explain work and force problems to me?

  • emma123
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Calculating Force: Newton's Law and the Motion of a 850 kg Dragster

  • aerogurl2
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What is the Direction of the Third Piece After the Bomb Explosion?

  • MrRottenTreats
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Maxwell-Boltzmann speed distribution

  • arnesmeets
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Understanding Electron Volts: The Main Unit of Energy in Physics

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Why the magnetic truck oscillates?

  • matthew77ask
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How Do Charge Locations Affect Electric Field Calculations?

  • endeavor
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Finding the volume of gold in intergalactic space

  • SnackMan78
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Calculating the Height Difference of a Loaded Barge - Urgent

  • matthew77ask
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Question on what a Real and Virtual images are

  • pavadrin
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Energy and Boltzmann's Constant

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Pressure in Garden Hose: Solving P + (1/2)pv^2 + pgh

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Formula for electron accelerated across potential difference?

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Acceleration, velocity, etc. on the Giant Drop

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Finding an electric field from a radio station

  • Noone1982
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How Do You Calculate Capacitance Between Two Spherical Conductors?

  • Brewer
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Thermodynamics - efficiency question

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What's the Density of Mixed Liquids?

  • O.J.
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What is the original frequency and how can it be calculated?

  • Alain12345
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Light Refraction: Direction of Bend

  • mmg0789
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How Do Concave Mirrors Form Real or Virtual Images?

  • mmg0789
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Calculating Impact Energy for Non-90° Angles

  • zbobet2012
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What is the threshold frequency for this material?

  • mmg0789
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How Does Light Diffract Around a Tiny Spherical Bead?

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Calculating Charge, Current, and EMF in a Reversing Magnetic Field"

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Why Use 273.15 and 273.16 for the Triple Point of Water?

  • al_201314
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Graph of V and I against time in AC

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Calculating Earth's Orbit Period using Kepler's Law of Periods

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Doppler Effect Police Car Question

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What is the distance traveled by a blue spot on a transverse wave in one period?

  • FlipStyle1308
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Inflating wading pool with garden hose

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Resisting Collapse: The Physics Behind a Star's Stability

  • orbity
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Tricky Problem (at least for me)

  • need help
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Understand Kirchhoff's Rules: Solving Circuit Confusion

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Why did Millikan use terminal velocity in his oil experiment?

  • al_201314
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Height of bullet at top of trajectory

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Final Exam Q6: Finding Problem with Torque Equation

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Bullet trajectory when fired at an angle.

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