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What is the wavelength of the x-rays in the direct beam?

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Can Photons Completely Transfer Energy and Momentum to Free Electrons?

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How to Find Friction Coefficient Without Mass?

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PHYSICS work/power/energy question

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Calculating Length of Airplane Start Lane for 300 km/h Acceleration

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Relative Velocity in River Navigation: Solving for Current and Boat Speed

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Calculating Stress in Brass Tube and Steel Bar with Compression Load

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Effect on electron in magnetic field

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Period of oscillating square block on axle with spring

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What is the potential energy of the pair?

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Tension in a helium-filled balloon fastened to a vertical line

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The work of friction forces - and - the total work of systems

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X-Ray Production in Beiser's Physics Textbook: Typo or Not?

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How Do You Calculate Electric Field Strength in a Geiger Counter?

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Capacitance Analogy: Thinking About Resistors Like Pipes

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What Is the Angle Between the Clock Hands at 11:12 AM?

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Finding velocity components for football field goal kick

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Circular Motion of Newton's Laws

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Electric Potential Energy & Acceleration of 2 Metal Spheres

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Finding how fast cylinder length changes when radius decreases

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A perplexing projectile problem

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Centroids and Center of Gravity

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Can velocity and displacement be negative in physics?

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Calculating Lowest Frequency of EMR to Initiate Photocurrent

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Kepler's 3rd Law and the Doppler Effect

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Kinetic and Potential Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion

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Gravitational Force On A Spaceship

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The Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

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Torque and Equillibrium problem.

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Using energy methods in a moment of inertia problem?

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Physics lab: thought lab energy changes

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How Can I Calculate the Kinetic Friction Between Plastic and Cardboard?

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How Is the Fetal Heart Wall Speed Calculated Using Ultrasound?

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Positive work done by FRICTION?

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What are the two possibilities for its x component?

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Finding capacitence, used C = (EoA)/d, but didn't work

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Constant Speed for a Sliding Wood Box

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Finding acceleration and tension for two blocks on an inclined plane

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Car collision problem with reaction time and braking

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Relative Velocity/Motion Problem

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Finding the cafpacitance, I thought it was in series

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Squeezing a capacitor, how does it effected the charge?

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Find the force on a point charge

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Space shuttle centripetal acceleration and car turning on flat road

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Energy required to remove all three electrons from Li

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Calculating Cyclist Speed: 10 Secs and 5 Secs

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More with Centripetal Acceleration

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How Do You Calculate the Correct Heading for an Airplane in Wind?

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Solving Snow Shovelling Problem - 10m x 1.5m

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How Much Solar Panel Area is Needed for Household Electricity Needs?

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Potential energy of the system increase or decrease?

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What Is the Radius of the Amusement Park Ride?

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Downhill Skier: Calculating Resultant Forces

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Calculating Wind Turbine Radius for 571 W of Power

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Can an object have negative momentum?

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Ratio of nuclear to atomic radius

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Projectile Launcher: Simple Ideas for Physics Lab

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Potentials of charge distribution

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PHYSICS PROBLEM-should be easy for AP students

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Solve Ball Drop Problem: Find Initial Velocity

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What Is the Frequency of Vibration When a Cube Is Released?

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Understanding Static Equilibrium in a Scaffold Setup

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Reducing 4 variable algebra in K-map

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How Can Angle of Release Affect Centrifugal Force in Circular Motion?

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Calculating Change in Kinetic Energy of 0.23kg Object

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Calculating Coordinate of B in Sinusoidal Wave Equation

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What Is the Electric Field at the Center of Two Oppositely Charged Curved Rods?

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What force must the seals of a passenger door resist at 10000m altitude?

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Momentum conserved and energy isn't conserved?

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A Finite Line Charge's Electric Field?

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Work needed to shovel 10 cm of snow from a sidewalk

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Calculating Energy Released by Dynamite Explosion

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Finding acceleration and tension with hanging mass pulling block across table

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Four-path walk: finding resultant displacement with L=310m, θ=50°

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Two stacked masses with applied force and friction

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Need confirmation- Energy and PEgrav

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Calculating Electric field strength

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How Much Work Is Done Against Friction?

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How do I solve this mechanics velocity problem involving a hanging chain?

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Air escaping from a heated cylindrical tube open at top

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Calculating Theoretical Time with the T = 2 (pie) Formula

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Work-energy with constant radial force on a spiral rod

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Resistance of a light bulb question

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AC circuits: inductors, capacitors, and RLC circuits

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