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Determine the ratio of the electron's speed

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How to find the mass of a conveyor belt so that it doesn't slip

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How far does the police car travel to overtake the speeding car?

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Cp/Cv Value for Water Vapor and Hydrogen Gas at 2755 K

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Gauss's (hard to understand) Law

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Solve Questions on y=x^2 ln x and f(x) = xe^x

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How Do You Calculate the Derivative of y = a log10(x) + B?

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Recursive integration physics problem

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Finding loci from real and imaginary parts of log((z-ia)/(z+ia))

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What is the substitution for y in ln(x+y) = e^3x?

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How do I properly bound the area between polar curves?

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Find Stretch of Each Spring After Cutting 100-Coil Spring

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Find dy/dx of (cos x)^(sin x) using log differentiation

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Calculating Torque of Hinges on a Door with Multiple Forces

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Is there an x such that e^x = 0?

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Acceleration of the center of mass of this cylinder

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Solving Acceleration of Blocks on Incline

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Compressed spring and Hooke's law

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What is the relationship between wind velocity and drag?

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Momentum of biker dragging foot

  • StotleD
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Change of variables to find integral of x²+y² over region B

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Peak voltage across RLC series circuit with capacitor and coil

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What Are the Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues of a 2D Harmonic Oscillator?

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Carbon-14 decay after 12000 years with 32g initial amount

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How do I calculate mean error from standard deviation?

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Solve Simple Square Roots: (-6)^1/2 x (-7)^1/2 = (42)^1/2

  • frozen7
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What is the Kinetic Energy of an Electron Accelerated Through 400V?

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When will PEI population exceed Newfoundland's?

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Adding/subtracting moments of inertia

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How Does a Perturbation Affect Energy Levels in an Infinite Potential Well?

  • cyberdeathreaper
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Mixture Problem (differential equations)

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Solving Y=\sqrt{x}(x-1) Derivitive

  • cscott
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Finding the composite function g(f(x)) with linear and radical functions

  • Aprilshowers
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What is magnetic and electric flux conceptually?

  • Celestiela
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Are Equipotential Surfaces Around Parallel Wires Really Circular Cylinders?

  • rachmaninoff
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What is the Correct Determinant for a Misprinted Matrix?

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Aircrafts Staying Level in Upside Down Flight: How Is It Possible?

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Average energy of gas of fermions at T = 0

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Power in delevering electricity to a factory

  • melissa_y
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Why does water have a higher melting point than other group 4 hydrides?

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Electric field at corner of square with charges on other corners

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Determine the time it take for the car and the truck to meet

  • Arden
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How do I find the mass of a spherical gas cloud with varying density?

  • cronxeh
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Understanding Transition btwn Steps of Dirac Delta Function

  • cyberdeathreaper
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Flux of F=(x, y², -z) through unit sphere using divergence theorem

  • cronxeh
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A few questions about water pressure, temp, and sound

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Differential equations on mathematica

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Finding the charge inside and outside a metal shell

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Why is the magnitude of the electric field equal in all cases?

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How do I derive the formula d = 1/2(g)(t^2)?

  • Omar.Castillo
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Electromagnetic waves - antennas

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Why Is (A^{T}A)^{-1}A^{T}=A^{-1}(A^{T})^{-1}A^{T}=A^{-1} Incorrect?

  • Yegor
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Solving the differential equation d²f/dφ² = qf(φ)

  • cyberdeathreaper
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What's Wrong with My Ball Throw Calculations?

  • frozen7
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Determining an electric field in vector form, got the answer, just checking.

  • mr_coffee
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What is the time needed for A to move 50cm downward?

  • frozen7
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Electric field inside conductors and cavities

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Minimum antireflective coating thickness for blue light on glass

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Water depth in conical pond with evaporation

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Difference between a short circuit and a parallel circuit?

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How Do You Plot the Graph of a Function with Given Derivatives and Asymptotes?

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C Understanding Time Dilation: The Observable Property of Space-Time

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Equation satisfied by nth roots of unity

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How do I derive the formula for free fall displacement?

  • Omar.Castillo
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Finding and approximation for Planck's constant ( H )

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Proving Linear Operators: Commutator Relationships

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How is potential energy related to orbits of satellites?

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Minimizing CHEMIX production cost with linear programming

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Magnus force and boundary layer equations

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Does torque do work on rotating objects?

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Physics resources for finding extraterrestrial life project

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Velocity of .30 Cal Rifle After Firing a Bullet

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Calculating Average Speed of a Tapir

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How Does Momentum Conservation Determine Velocities in Collisions?

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How Does Matrix Rank Relate to Vector Independence and Dimensionality?

  • physicsss
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Finding a, b, c from inflection point at origin and local maximum at (2,4)

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How does escape velocity vary with an object's mass?

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Easy problem still wrong answer

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How to Calculate Potential Energy and Power Output of a Falling Mass

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How Do You Calculate Stopping Distance Using Conservation of Mechanical Energy?

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Are These Properties of Odd Functions True?

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Ranking 4 numbered points according to net electric field

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Statistical differentials approximation for product Z = XY

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Solving a Growing Tree Problem with dy/dx=x/10

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Maximum force before penguin slides off sled

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How Do You Calculate the Probability of Both Picking a Red Jelly Bean?

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Linear programming equation problem

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How to calculate the distance a car skids before coming to a halt?

  • frozen7
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Can one predict an outcome over (n) spins?

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Find magnitude and direction of electric field from a charge

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How do you do this? Probability

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Oscillations of 1.5 kg Block on Spring: Frequency and Stretch

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