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What is the diameter of the cylindrical rod

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Mechanical energy lost when child jumps onto merry-go-round

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Calculating flux with a magnet and a coil

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Finding refraction angle with Snell's law

  • Muhammad Danish
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Equivalent resistance between two points on a circuit

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Which quantities are not the same for this capacitor setup?

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Calculating Accelerations in an Atwood Machine with an Applied Force

  • issacnewton
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How does atmospheric pressure affect an air bubble's volume at depth?

  • Muhammad Danish
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Solving for F2 in the Turning Effect of Force Problem

  • Muhammad Danish
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Effect of Rotating Polarizing Films

  • chef99
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What is the initial charge of the second object in Coulombs?

  • JessicaHelena
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Viscosity & Temperature - Linearisation and glycerine?

  • adityax26
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Can someone check my setup for finding E.dl?

  • emhelp100
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Finding torsion constant of the wire?

  • jazzymanstan
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Atomic Structure problem regarding interatomic spacing

  • rxy152
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How an oscillator creates electromagnetic waves

  • chef99
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Aluminium weight buoyancy problem

  • Aleisha
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Optimal kicking angle for maximum distance at 20 m/s

  • Stephen Garner
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Finding Period? Calculate Average in 4.56s for 10 Oscillations

  • HappyFlower
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Freezing of water inside a hollow sphere which is rolling

  • Jnan
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Ultra-Relativistic Particle Decaying to Identical Particles

  • GL_Black_Hole
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Showing E.dl is 0 - Why cylindrical coordinates?

  • emhelp100
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Show that three new found nuclei are unstable

  • Taylor_1989
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Calculating Force in the Turning Effect of Force Equation

  • Muhammad Danish
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How do the electroscope leaves behave after grounding?

  • JessicaHelena
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Collision and rotation problems?

  • Japser Lu
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Current Dividing in an Electrical Circuit

  • Muhammad Danish
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Max ω of circular hoop rotating around a peg and oscillation

  • Phantoful
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Dynamics Questions involving Friction

  • Nith
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Determining the width of a slit

  • chef99
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Potential difference across a resistor

  • palkia
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What Z and N values stabilize a nucleus with A=22?

  • Taylor_1989
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Linear algebra, field morphisms and linear independence

  • mariang
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What is the phase margin and gain margin for this circuit?

  • Cocoleia
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Finding the torque on a wire between two poles

  • LuigiAM
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Why are multiple resultant vectors possible for this problem?

  • Muhammad Danish
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Wave Particle Duality For Electrons and Photons

  • Taylor_1989
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Force on conductor in magnetic field

  • Suyash Singh
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Is there a relationship between acceleration and jump height

  • Tony H
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Determining the direction of magnetic force

  • miyayeah
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Ball floating on the surface of water

  • Jahnavi
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Amplitude of particles in progressive waves

  • Krisd98
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Relativistic Decay: Calculating Pion Momentum

  • FilipLand
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Simple closed force system -- Mechanics

  • Maria
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Atomic Structure- Energy diff between levels

  • rxy152
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What is the entropy for an irreversible adiabatic process?

  • eprparadox
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Magnetic field at the center of 3 wires carrying current?

  • Helly123
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Ampere's Law with a coaxial cable

  • Ignitia
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Impulse Question -- A car changing speed and direction

  • mailmas
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Electric field inside/outside (uniformly charged sphere)

  • bolzano95
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Contact Lenses Optics Problem (Two-Parts)

  • DylanXO
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Calculating the Number of Lines on a Diffraction Grating

  • EmilyBergendahl
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Calculating Orbital Angular Momentum: What Is the Correct Answer?

  • Martin89
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Find the charge on the outer surface

  • Fatima Hasan
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Why does E=mc² give the wrong momentum for a photon?

  • pokemon123
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What is the result of connecting two identical storage batteries?

  • Perseverence
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Maximum range angle for bullet fired from moving car at 20 m/s

  • Suyash Singh
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Cannon on moving car momentum calculation

  • mailmas
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How do I calculate the gauge pressure?

  • eprparadox
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Find the charge on the conducting surface

  • Fatima Hasan
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Ball shot into air with velocity (7.6i - 4.9j) m/s at 9.1 m height

  • isukatphysics69
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Find the electric field at a point away from the charged cylinder's axis

  • Fatima Hasan
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Distance between adjacent fringes

  • chef99
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Effective resistance between two points using symmetry

  • Jahnavi
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Parallel Circuits - Joining 2 branches together

  • wolfsloth
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Determining the B-field in center of current carrying loop

  • kaashmonee
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Why Is There a Limit to Drinking Water Through a Straw?

  • Jahnavi
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How Does Friction Affect Acceleration on an Incline?

  • harambe
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Calculating a push force using area, speed, and density?

  • struggtofunc
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Velocity of a football with and without drag

  • N8G
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Elastic collision of block on block

  • Beblak2
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Energy question, what are the quantities conserved?

  • Clara Chung
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Finding a third method to determine light wavelength

  • chef99
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Can a neutral insulator be attracted to a charged object?

  • jumbogala
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How does radius affect frequency in uniform circular motion?

  • Tannerbobanner
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Biot-Savart Law with two semi-circles

  • Ignitia
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Electric force between alpha particle and gold nucleus at 2.0e-17 m

  • Randell Julius
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Separating kinetic energies of two masses in elastic collision

  • Clara Chung
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Force from a Current in an Infinite Wire on a Square Wire Loop Nearby

  • Schfra
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Period of a physical pendulum with a pivot at its center

  • PhysicsKush
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Short-circuited Resistance in Parallel with Reactance

  • GoodPost
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Increase in the volume of a sound

  • EchoTheCat
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Finding acceleration from the angle made by a hanged ball.

  • Mohamed BOUCHAKOUR
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Finding mass of charged sphere in Coulomb's law problem

  • asilvester635
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Criteria for Determining Satellite's Return from Orbit?

  • Clara Chung
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Physics Lens Problem: Find Object Distance

  • meermeeronthewall
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How to find speed with Faraday's law

  • Jacobs
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Direction of the Magnetic Field at a Point

  • ktjj4
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Find the acceleration of a block on an inclined plane with a pulley

  • isukatphysics69
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How Are Reaction Forces Calculated in a Hinged Beam and Strut System?

  • M_Abubakr
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Single/double slit diffraction intensity

  • EF17xx
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Statement slit separation young's double slit

  • EF17xx
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Acceleration of a uniform solid sphere rolling down incline

  • vbrasic
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Moment of inertia of a half disk about an axis

  • vbrasic
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Is D(x,t) = ln(ax+bt) a solution to the wave function?

  • Jamie_Pi
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Effective resistance between two points problem

  • Jahnavi
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Motion of a Charged Particle in Magnetic Field

  • Ignitia
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Find the voltage and energy for each capacitor

  • SgtSkittles
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