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What is the fraction of the total power wasted in the leads?

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How Does Fertilizer Affect Plant Growth in Controlled Experiments?

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Show the commutative property with dot product

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Finding the coordinates and distance of this drawing

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Verify Divergence Theorem for Q with G(x,y,z) in $\Re^3$

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Find Charge on Ball in Electric Field: Solve Problem

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How Do You Find a Plane Orthogonal to a Given Line?

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Find the sum of the vectors u and v if theta is the angle between them

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Verifying Arc Length of Vector: <2e^t, e^-t, 2t>

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What is the Energy Transfer in a Copper-Water System?

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Calculating Acceleration and Displacement in 1D Motion

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Finding where a line intersects the coordinate planes

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Maximum height reached by package dropped from ascending helicopter

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Complex analysis- Oscillation/vibration class

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Jill's Sprint After Shopping Cart: Physics Kinematics

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Fermi Style Estimation Question

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Factoring a(b⁴−c⁴)+b(a⁴−c⁴)+c(a⁴−b⁴)

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Two objects travelling on a parallel plane

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How to approach the two trains and bird problem

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Calculate Resultant Force on Positive Charge in Rectangle with 4 Charges

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How heavy would you be on neuron star

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How Does Mercury Affect the Air Column Length in a Sealed Cylinder?

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Unit Conversion ad Significant Figures

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E-K Diagrams, valence band, conduction band

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Acceleration (short question, but not so simple)

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What is the angle of a circle with radius 5 metres?

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Prove the Square Root of 2 is irrational

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Endomorphism Ring: Proving f(R) = E

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Calculating Resultant Force Vectors in a 2D System

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Thermodynamics question i dont get

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How Can You Calculate Daily Water Loss in a Heated Indoor Spa?

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Product Notation: Expressing Prod_{n=1}^k a_i

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Griffitsh electrostatics problem

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Proving Euler's formula using the exponential series

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Proof by Induction: Understanding D/dx Formula

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How Do Earth's Poles Affect Electron and Proton Distribution Forces?

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Oscillations of a Piston in a cylinder containing a trapped gas

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My son is having difficulty with a problem.

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Organic Chemistry: PhenylEthene Solidifies when Exposed to Air

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Proof of Uncountable Domain for f:A-->B

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Proving Divisibility by 3 for $\mathbb{Z}^{+}$ Sets

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Solving Relative Position Problem: Velocity of Boat w.r.t Water

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Adiabatic expansion of ideal gas from 500K to 6.5x volume

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What would be the energy eigenvalues of this particle?

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Simple Elevator Ball Physics Problem

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Conservation of Energy: Proving the Relation ((mdx^2)/(dt^2))=F(x)

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Cab accelerating and decelerating over 2 km distance

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Work-Energy Theorem: Find Final Speed of Ship

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Three daughters with ages that multiply to 72

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Determine the empirical formula of the compound

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Maximum velocity direction in spring oscillation with x(t) = A cos(ωt + φ)

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Just want to understant(Diff EQ)

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Totally Lost (Free Fall Distance)

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Understanding Conventional vs Electron Flow in Node Voltage Analysis

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Using logarithms to solve y=kx^n for the exponent

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Finding vector magnitude and point coordinates from diagram

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Finding the maximum of V(a,R) = -(qp/R) - [qt/(R-a)]

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Trouble with Two Physics Problems: Speed of Sound and Acceleration

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Resolution of Components Problem

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Points of maximum curvature on y=e^x and xy=1

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Work done on a bubble and power of heart pumping

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Simplifying Surds: Adding and Subtracting

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How is making ice cream similar to evolution?

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Questions concerning cross products, dot products, and polar coordinates

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Car rolling off cliff and rocket projectile motion problems

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[calculus] Continuity of partial derivatives

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How Much Does a Plumb Bob Deviate at 40 Degrees North Latitude?

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Does M/2 satisfy probability measure axioms, and counterexample for M^2?

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Determine the power per unit area arriving at the Earth

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Integrating Trig: Solving Definite Integrals with Sin and Cos

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2 Problems regarding Gauss's Law

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Combining Probability Measures: A Concrete Illustration and Proof"

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Solve Seebeck Voltage Conversion to Temperature Issues in Colorado

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Prerequisites for studying Peskin and Schroeder

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Commutator [H_D,L_k] for the Dirac Hamiltonian

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How do I Calculate Derived Dimensions from Fundamental Units?

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How Does Causality Emerge in Quantum Field Theory Expressions?

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Multiplying algebraic fractions with 6x^2+5x-6

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How do rationalise {(plusminus)2(sqrt)2/(sqrt)3}

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Surface area of a sphere problem

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What is the indefinate integral

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What is the electric field above a uniformly charged cylinder?

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Simple harmonic movement problem

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Calculating Velocity in Free Fall from a Given Height

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Find the thickness of Aluminium Foil

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Physics multiple choice: acceleration, velocity, and inertia

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How Do You Calculate Friction and Normal Force on an Incline?

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Fun hw question I can't seem to get

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Average acceleration of tennis ball bouncing off wall

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Checking calculus work: integrals, centroids, volumes and work

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Double checking charges and electrical field problems

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