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Describe a circle as an ellipse?

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Does a toroidal coil or bolt have a stronger magnetic field?

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Calculating Horizontal Displacement of Ballistic Pendulum

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Energy release from complete fusion of one mole of deuterium

  • bill nye scienceguy!
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Torque needed to stop a grinding wheel in 6.5 s

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Block hits block with spring. Conserv of Energy and Momentum?

  • Fanman22
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Conservation of Momentum (Linear and Angular)

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Help Understand Entropy - Definition, Points & Outline

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Calculating Work Done by Friction on a Block on an Incline

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Why is the R resistance equal to the internal resistance

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How do you complete the square when the coefficient of x is a fraction?

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C++ check a type char variable against letters of the alphabet

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Finding nonlinear transformations from R to R that violate one linearity rule

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Reference Book Griffiths-Introduction to Electrodynamics

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Finding half-lives of two isotopes from decay count data

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Getting wrong answer on physics problem

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Which normal kidney functions should not be replaced by a dialysis machine?

  • GodsChild086
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How do I read a force-time graph and what can I derive from it?

  • gunblaze
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Need to get rid of the 'h' on the denominator

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What Happens If Polar Ice Melts?

  • Aki
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Missile fired vertically past 70m tower

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Uniform Circular Motion equations

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Why do grandfather clocks keep ticking without stopping?

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Finding Image Position of Point Object by Two Radii

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Leaving Freezer Door Open: What Happens to Room Temperature?

  • Nikiya
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Moment of inertia of a cam with off-center hole

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Finding the Arclength of an Astroid Curve

  • ILoveBaseball
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What is the angle between the planes VBHD and ABDEFGH?

  • primarygun
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Find Distance Covered by Point P on Parametric Curve: 0 to 9

  • ILoveBaseball
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Peak Current of 0.03\mu F Capacitor on 2kV, 720Hz Line

  • leolaw
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Should I use radians or degrees mode to solve sec(x) = 3.45?

  • gillgill
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What Forces Affect the Motion in an Inclined Pulley System?

  • azn_oohwee
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Calculus - find dy/dt thank you

  • laker_gurl3
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Inverse Trigonometric Function Problems

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Frequency relationships in uniform circular motion lab

  • MiniTank
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Calculating Combinations with Constraints

  • EvilPony
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Calculating Time and Weight in a Lunar Cliff Drop

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Calculating Distance to Highway Patrol Car

  • Naeem
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Ball dropped in rising elevator with constant velocity

  • jhson114
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Faraday's and Ampere's circuital law

  • robert25pl
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Grounding a Circuit - Electronics Lab Results

  • StonieJ
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How Can I Master Collision Momentum from Knight's Physics Book Chapter 10?

  • physicsCU
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Proving Relativity of Time with Slow Movement

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Potential Energy of 6kg Box Sliding Down 17m Incline

  • the_d
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Why has the pendulum stopped oscillating?

  • apchemstudent
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How to approach analog computer lab prelab questions

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Where can I find a source for human leg efficiency of 35%?

  • Outblaze
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Magnetically Powered Hovercraft / Absolute Zero

  • EmoMusicPwnz
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Decrypting a Vigenere cipher with key length 10

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Pulley, Moment of inertia, and acceleration

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A few questions about electricity and magnetism

  • chen123
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Intersection coordinates are my points right?

  • aisha
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Help verifying work, energy and power calculations

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Oxygen partial pressure in deep-sea diving air at 9.1 atm

  • jmandas
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Minimum Speeds for 100g Particles on Energy/Distance Graph

  • Honore
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How Do You Derive an Explicit Formula from an Integral Equation?

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How you could find E'/E at the min of 180 degrees

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Work done by horses and friction on a canal boat at constant speed

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What is the critical angle for a sliding box on a spherical dome?

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Definition of chemical elements

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Determining Extrema for f(x) = x^2 - 8x + 9

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How Do You Calculate the Effective Mass of an X-ray Photon?

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What Voltage Is Required to Double an Alpha Particle's Velocity?

  • vitaly
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Terminal Voltage of unknown battery

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Rolling Motion of a Rigid Object

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Instanteneous velocity question

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Question regarding summation of series

  • misogynisticfeminist
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Tension Problem in a pulley system

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How can you calculate change in magnetic flux?

  • michaelw
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Linear Operators on Hilbert Spaces

  • Oxymoron
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Book on transducers in marine or underwater acoustics

  • Soilwork
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Kinetic Energy of 10 0.50-kg Balls in Symmetrical Pattern

  • tony873004
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Model rocket with powered phase then free fall

  • Naeem
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Hwk. Problem: Work, Energy, Power

  • shawonna23
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Oscillator on an inclined plane

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Uniform circular motion proportionalities

  • MiniTank
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How can I solve this box of mass work problem quickly?

  • physicsCU
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Comparing maximum torques of square and rectangular coils

  • vaxopy
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Force on rectangular loop in non-uniform magnetic field

  • formulajoe
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Mathematical relationships between force, acceleration and mass

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Magnetic Field Inducing Electric Field - Lighting a 60W Bulb

  • vaxopy
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Confirm Electric Field at Point in Magnetic Field

  • formulajoe
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Conservation of momentum of a raft

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How Does a Time-Varying Magnetic Field Induce Current in a Circuit?

  • jordanl122
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Vertical or Horizontal ellipse?

  • aisha
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Distance between current-carrying loops

  • Brainy_Mike
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Mechanical energy of a mass-spring system

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