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Measuring temperature in a pressurized chamber with a thermocouple

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How Do I Calculate Work Done by Forces in Physics Problems?

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Find Inertial Reference Frame Using Acceleration

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Atwood's machine with accelerating pulley

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Work Required to Empty Tank of Hot Chocolate

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Fluid Mechanics and Bernoulli's principle

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Can Implicit Differentiation Be Used to Solve for dy/dx?

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Impulse needed to stop a 100kg mass at -25m/s and stopping time with 430N force

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Power Needed to Accelerate 700kg Car from Rest

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How Do You Solve These Integral Problems Using U-Substitution?

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Question regarding to magnetic field

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Charge on capacitor plates in RC circuit with two resistors

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Calculating Magnetic Field of a Conducting Loop Using Biot-Savart's Law

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Does Heating a Frying Pan Change Its Mass?

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Electromagnetic radiation and Canadian Light Source

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Cyclist cycling in a perfect circle - find radius

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How does a transformer regulate power between its different sides?

  • myself
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Mortgage with amorization period of 25 years BUT Y?

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Horizontal force is needed to pull the sled

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Proof of Convergence: Limit (n!)/(n^n) = 0

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Which term should be chosen for u(x) in integration by parts?

  • zanazzi78
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Factors affacting time period of pendulum

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How Do FDTD, Finite Volume, and Finite Elements Differ?

  • physmurf
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Work done by rotating mass in orbital decay

  • UrbanXrisis
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Centripetal Force: Mass, Speed, Frequency, Radius

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Linear system with complex eigenvalues: are my eigenvectors correct?

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Uniform Circular Motion Confusion

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Induced EMF in loop in magnetic field

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Quantum mechanics - angular momentum problem

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Trig functions that i have to memorize?

  • gillgill
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How fast will a car be moving at a certain point?

  • vitaly
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Angular velocity maximum when rod with unequal end masses swings down

  • flower76
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Solving dv/dt - (k/m)v² = g for air resistance

  • $id
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Calculating internal resistance of a battery using V=IR

  • JoakimvE
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Magnetic field from overhead power lines at 30m height

  • leolaw
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Time of flight of an accelerated electron in a television tube

  • dranger35
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How to calculate relative doppler shift

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Index of Refraction: Proving Rays Are Parallel

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How Does the Angle of an Incline Affect the Time of Descent?

  • VooDoo
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Are there closed form solutions to the harmonic series?

  • courtrigrad
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Angular momentum, torque, and circular motion homework

  • mark9159
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Last hope = this forum (Math Physics Calc C)

  • Fox
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What is the Triganomic Identity for Simplifying Trig Expressions?

  • lektor
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How Does Friction Affect Skateboard Performance and Design?

  • Maltaethirion
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What is the combination of the safe?

  • chjopl
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Calculating Voltage Across Capacitors in Series and Parallel

  • NotaPhysicsMan
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Uncertainty of a 50g Ball's Position: What Does It Mean?

  • jaidon
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Cauchy sequences in an inner product space

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Calculating Speed of Comet at Greatest Distance from Sun

  • UrbanXrisis
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Tension in 3.14kg, 2m Radius Rope Spinning at 1 rad/sec

  • biketar827
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How Do Newton's Laws Explain the Motion of a Boat When Stepping Off?

  • IntellectIsStrength
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How Many Miles Must I Run to Burn Off My Meal's Calories?

  • JasonL
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Solving for Charge Position from Flux and Gaussian Surface

  • Alem2000
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Two trains leaving same station 500 km apart

  • Tom McCurdy
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Egg carrier design for 2.5 inch cube, 20 foot drop

  • parksobong
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How to Calculate Magnetic Field at a Point Near a Wire Using Biot-Savart Law?

  • DeepThought
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Which direction does a conducting bar move when the switch closes

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Two Lense Problem: Solving A, B & C

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Checking partial fractions integration with three examples

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How do you integrate the square root of cos³(x)?

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Projectile Problem With Athlete

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How Do You Solve This Exponential Growth and Decay Algebra Problem?

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How do I find an unknown weight ?

  • mushhhy
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Speed of object A overtaking object B from A's reference frame

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Sodium hydroxide neutralized by phosphoric acid

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Force of gravity between two objects

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How Do I Calculate Uncertainty in Combined Measurements?

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Calculating the Power and Impact of Black Body Radiation from the Sun

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How Do I Solve These Challenging Definite Integrals?

  • EasyStyle4747
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Disk with radiation pressure rotating from hinge equilibrium

  • andrew410
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How Do You Calculate Self-Inductance of a Resistor in an A.C. Circuit?

  • stevedave12
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Problem with electromagnetic waves

  • andrew410
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Find the volume of the resulting solid

  • ProBasket
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Integrals of sqrt (simple, but I am getting frustrated)

  • Meghan
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How Do You Solve These Quadratic Equations in Real-Life Scenarios?

  • TheShapeOfTime
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Finding tension in three cables supporting a 198N bird feeder

  • wetcarpet
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Projectile Launch - Earth's Radius

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Wave transmission and reflection at a lossy junction between two strings

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How Do Microwaves Affect Water Temperature in Different Sized Containers?

  • andrew410
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Induced EMF from Dropped Steel Beam: Physics Calculation

  • waywardtigerlily
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Balloon FreeBodyDiagram Question

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Physics Hwk. Problem: Frictional Force

  • shawonna23
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Finding Max and Min in Oscillating LRC Circuit

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Proving (1-cos2x+sin2x)/(1+cos2x+sin2x) = tanx

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Finding Equilibrium Angle in Uniform Electric Field

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What Is the Correct Tension in Each Wire Holding Up the Light Fixture?

  • wetcarpet
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Understanding Simple Harmonic Oscillators: Phase Constant Explained

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Does the Integral Diverge as a Tends to Infinity?

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Solving Angular Momentum Problem: Why Answer Differs from Book

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Conservation of momentum of a rocket

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Solving z^4 + 75 = 28z^2

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