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Using Kirchoff's Loop Rule to Determine Currents in a Circuit

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What mistake did I make in finding the net force on a rotating disc?

  • Brilli
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Conservation of momentum - with understanding

  • mathchimp
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Stretching of a wire due to it's weight

  • palkia
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Ranking the Work on Each System: Which Case Has the Most Positive Work?

  • isukatphysics69
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Picture Posting Help - Tips & Tricks

  • G Lenny
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Special Relativity spaceship problem

  • Mathematicsresear
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Point charge - Assertion & Reason type problem

  • Jahnavi
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Work to stretch a spring question (nvm, figured it out)

  • gibberingmouther
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How to Find the Number of Liters of Gas Used in a Gasoline Engine

  • Benb591
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Which way do I measure the potential difference

  • JessicaHelena
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Speed of a moving object, according to another moving object

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Mercury's orbit according to Classical VS Modern Physics

  • Daniel Sarioglu
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Current through parallel cells with unequal EMFs

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Average velocity of gas molecules in a container

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Tension in the string of a simple pendulum

  • BearY
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Moment of Inertia of an inclined disk

  • Raghavendar Balaji
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Find the initial speed of a block before it hits a spring

  • isukatphysics69
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Kinetic/Potential Energy in Waves

  • Kosta1234
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Two rods joined together, find the angle of twist

  • Jahnavi
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Find the work done by the spring force on a box

  • isukatphysics69
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What Is the Maximum Angle Attained by a Particle Projected from Earth?

  • harambe
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Derivation of resonant frequency for SHM systems

  • Bonnie
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What is the Speed at the Bottom of a Vertical Circle?

  • WhiteWolf98
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Which of these materials will heat up faster and why?

  • mrchopsy
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Faraday's law and linearly time dependent B field

  • razidan
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Electromagnetism homework check

  • Sullo
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A particle P2 chases particle P1 with constant speed.

  • Ishan Sharma
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Question about work energy theorem

  • Clara Chung
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Question about centre of percussion of a baseball bat

  • Clara Chung
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What is the speed of the 5th image in optics with multiple mirrors?

  • Jahnavi
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X-Ray Absorption: 0.7cm Bone Thickness | Homework Help

  • Jimmy87
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A small mass m hangs from a thing string and can swing....

  • HappyFlower
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Time Dilation - Darth Vader's age

  • aatari
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Unpolarised light: Orientation of the E-field

  • palkia
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White light interference pattern and its resolution criteria

  • Clara Chung
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Transcendental function and a finite well

  • Taylor_1989
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What are the forces on the center of mass?

  • eprparadox
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Tension in a flexible circular loop

  • cheapstrike
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Finding the New Acceleration Given Point Charges

  • Alex Z
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Disk connected to another object through a pulley on an incline

  • songoku
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How can I plot a graph for these opamp results?

  • NYAME EPHRAIM
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Frequency of a standing wave based on slope?

  • Ari
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Simple Harmonic Motion - Speed

  • Jess_18033152
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Simple Harmonic Motion - rearranging equation

  • Jess_18033152
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Investigating Voltage, Capacitance & Resonance in DC/AC Circuits

  • janiceyyyyyy
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Definition of distance -AR type problem

  • Jahnavi
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Finding Reactions on a Supported Beam: A Differential Equation Approach

  • yecko
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Why is W Tot not equal to W Glider on Spring in Newton's Third Law?

  • Selfless_Gene
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Equivalent resistance of a circuit

  • EchoTheCat
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Find the probability of energy value after a given measurment

  • Taylor_1989
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The phase of a simple harmonic motion

  • Guillem_dlc
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Thermodynamics: Dropping a hot horseshoe into a pot of water

  • Jess_18033152
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How Should Significant Figures Reflect Measurement Uncertainty?

  • Dima Petrukhin
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Ratio of amplitudes in a damped oscillator

  • tiago23
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Thermodynamics - Change in Temp

  • Jess_18033152
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Special Relativity - Relativity of Simultaneity?

  • Luxucs
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Superposition of Plane EM Waves Using Complex Notation

  • WWCY
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Specific heat capacity of a solid material

  • Aleisha
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Heat Question -- Temperature rise of a hiker on a long hike

  • Kevin Kim
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Calculating Specific Heat Capacity

  • struggtofunc
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Thermodynamics (Heat expansivity)

  • Aleisha
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Calculating pressure within a system at a specific location?

  • russiansplash
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Why do I have to use integration and components?

  • Mariah
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A rod of length L and mass M has a nonuniform mass distribut

  • boblolo123
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Why Is My Statics Friction Calculation Incorrect?

  • lc99
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Finding the Kinetic Energy using the mass, radius and initial KE

  • Ella1777
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Normal force as a function of time (oscillator)

  • Luxucs
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Find the moment of inertia of a washer

  • Pablo
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Finding the change in weight from the force & difference in height (y)

  • Ella1777
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Tyres of a car lifting when turning left sharply....

  • Kavya Chopra
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Velocity of a charged particle as it approaches infinity

  • Nasir Jones
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Angular momentum with a large wooden turntable

  • MITPhysics
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Surface Tension of needle on water

  • Aleisha
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GRADE 12: Energy, Springs and maybe momentum/collisions?

  • michael simone
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Differences in velocity conceptual question

  • Pochen Liu
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Find the velocity when the ball rolls without slipping

  • vbrasic
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Finding the net gravitational force with Vector Notation

  • Ella1777
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Remnant Magnetisation varying with input amplitude

  • Cortizza
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Falling solid cylinder with string

  • Suyash Singh
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Question about a cubic crystal and its parameters

  • Clara Chung
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Input impedance of a "Ladder" transmission line

  • Marcus95
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How Fast Does Spaceship A Move Relative to Spaceship B?

  • Hamza Abbasi
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In which direction does the current flow?

  • bolzano95
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Electromagnet -- changing flux and a ring

  • Jahnavi
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How does unbalanced tension affect the motion of a rope?

  • Alex126
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Time Uncertainty Propagation - Stoke's Law & Average Time

  • adityax26
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What is the acceleration of the coin after being dropped?

  • Lesegp
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Comparing Self-Inductance and Power Dissipation in Two Solenoids

  • Jahnavi
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Displacement given the acceleration

  • Guillem_dlc
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Calculate the characteristics of this compression spring

  • bravopipo
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What is the maximum attainable speed for the car?

  • Perseverence
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Derivation process? (Heatsink Fin Heat Conduction Equations)

  • EastWindBreaks
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Problem with line integrals for electric potential

  • WWCY
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What happens to the capacitance after increasing distance?

  • eprparadox
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Help with this Law of Thermodynamics question please

  • Gusk
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Kinetic energy of an alpha particle

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