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Maxwell s equations observed in nature

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How Much Work to Tip a Cube into Unstable Equilibrium?

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Minimum distance for a car to stop with friction coefficient 0.156

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Calculating the Molar Mass of Carbon 14

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What is the Work Required to Charge a Spherical Shell?

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Solve Dynamics Problem: Find Accel. & Net Force

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Calculate Specific Gravity: Weight, Buoyant Force & Density

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Current balance experiment giving negative force values

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Utterly lost - internal torques

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How Does Friction Affect Speed on a Sloped Ramp?

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Can Two Interfering Waves' Intensities Simply Be Added for Maximum Intensity?

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Pictures of actual parallel and series circuit setups

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Kinematics Car Distance Problem

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Door acceleration and friction with constant velocity

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Calculating Electron Energy, Momentum, Wavelength

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How Much Water Can Lightning Boil Away from a Tree?

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Crystalline diffraction problem

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How Does Weight Loss Affect the Orbital Period of a Satellite?

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Find forces in members B and C of a static structure

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Average and instantaneous velocity for x=10t² and falling object

  • GraduateStillLearning021
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Why is work done by a gas on a piston considered positive?

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Pumpkin Tower Challenge: Calculating Velocity at Launch & Landing

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Force exerted by person on parachute during descent

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How Slow Should You Go on a Wet, Unbanked Turn?

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How do I attemp such a Question?

  • ilovephysicssomuch
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Calculating Mass and Wave Speed in a String System

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How Does Integration Affect Particle Acceleration Calculations?

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Determining the Efficiency of a Fuel

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Help with interaction forces

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Speed of Muon: Conservation of Momentum/Energy

  • Tony11235
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Initial Velocity for X displacement with air resistance

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Calculating Electric Field of a Solid Sphere with Nonuniform Charge Density

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How Far Away Did the Earthquake Occur Based on Wave Time Delay?

  • Saifz
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What are the possible lengths of organ pipes based on beat frequency?

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What is the current of the 8.0 ohm resistor in this circuit?

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Concurrent And Parrallel Forces 3

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Two doors with different rotation axes: which rotates faster?

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EMF induced in rotating helicopter blade in Earth's magnetic field

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Kinematics / forces - Young girl swinging on a rope

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Destructive interference with two speakers 6m apart at 130 Hz

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How Do You Calculate Charges and Forces Between Two Corks?

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Why am I getting 47.5 instead of 77.5 for this kinematic equation?

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Does voltage split between two wires from a power source?

  • MattVonFat
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How Do You Calculate the Maximum Height of an Object Thrown Upward?

  • finlejb
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How Does Satellite Orbit Duration Affect Gravity Calculation?

  • Physics103
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Calculating Angular Speed: Simple or Complicated?

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Wavelength of C above middle C at 512 Hz

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Piano Tuner: Loosen or Further Tighten String?

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Question on calculating RMS speed

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How to measure heat energy from burning biodiesel safely

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Calculating Significant Figures: 43.49 cm to Meters

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AP Physics Lab Ideas for High School

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Is My Understanding of Basic Relativity Concepts Correct?

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Circular Motion of a heavy object

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How Does Diffraction Grating Explain the Vivid Colors in Nature?

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Electrostatic Force Between Conductor and Insulator

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Why Does the Sine Function Create a Squiggly Line on the Number Plane?

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Stroboscope and string vibration

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Shell exploding at trajectory peak into equal fragments

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Circularly polarized light of intensity through a polariser

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What is the charge on the other sphere after adding electrons?

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How Do You Calculate Frequency and Period in ASK Modulation?

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Coulombs law stuff I dont know what they are asking

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Why Is the RMS Coefficient of a Triangle Wave \(\frac{1}{2\sqrt{3}}\)?

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Calculating Distance: Solving a Velocity Problem with Runners A and B

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Deep space object in zero gravity subject to forces

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Heat and final temperature question

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Solving for Acceleration on an Inclined Ramp

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At what angle is the wall force on a tilted dumbbell maximum?

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How Do You Calculate Deceleration and Projectile Motion Problems?

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CD's have little bumps on them that act like a grating right?

  • UrbanXrisis
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Is it just translational motion or also rotational?

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Potential Difference at Center of Square with q = 0.1uC

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Open-Book Tests: Pros and Cons for Students

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Finding tension in a truss with torque calculations (problem 3.22)

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Why don't electric field lines point toward negative charges?

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Estimating water volume(so lost)

  • TMNT
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Drawing a picture with a building and runner

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How Much Water Evaporates to Remove Heat from Basal Metabolism?

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Calculating Speed to Catch a Ball Thrown from a Building

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Can Four-Wheel Brake Pads Decrease Stopping Distance for Cars?

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Understanding Scientific Notation and Exponential Functions

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Calculating Tension and Reactive Force in a Leaning Ladder System

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Forces acting on a cart and hanging mass

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Calculate Height of Falling Roof Tile

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Decibel / Intensity Problem, How do I approach it? .

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Momentum Vectors: Adding or Subtracting in Isolated Systems

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Proving the Relationship Between Projectile Motion Angles Using Graphs

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