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Charge redistribution on capacitors

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Max voltage of an air capacitor

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Centripetal acceleration of a 7.5m turbine at 94 rpm

  • Juliusz
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What is the Mistake in Calculating Power Dissipation in a Resistor?

  • Jahnavi
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Curved Motion: Calculating Acceleration Components

  • isukatphysics69
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Earth's Acceleration Toward the Sun

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General Question about curved motion

  • isukatphysics69
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Why Is My Physical Pendulum Period Calculation Incorrect?

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Using quadratic formula to find time [projectile motion]

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Calculating tangential acceleration of rotating object

  • APphysicsSenior
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Troubleshooting Nonlinear Pendulum Movement with Air Friction: Tips and Analysis

  • Michael Nelo
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Lifting an object, kinetic energy, work and forces

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Is the Total Force in Damped Harmonic Motion Always Opposite to Velocity?

  • fcoulomb
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Maximizing Free Fall Distance: Solving for Equal Time Intervals

  • Juliusz
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Stationary vertical cylinder with heavy piston

  • BobaJ
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Potential difference and charge across a capacitor

  • Jahnavi
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Block on frictionless incline: finding normal force and acceleration

  • Ella1777
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Solution of basic special relativity problem

  • Adgorn
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Show Line of action of suspended rods relative to points on the rods

  • Richie Smash
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How Do I Calculate Fluence, Flux, and Dose for a TiH Beam?

  • sportcardinal90
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How would I calculate how close a ship can approach the sun?

  • CricK0es
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What happens to the angle of a circular ring as temperature increases?

  • Jahnavi
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The work of the magnetic force

  • Eitan Levy
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Comparing slopes and accelerations in a graph

  • Jahnavi
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Time period from potential energy expression

  • Jahnavi
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What conversions are needed for solving a density equation?

  • Makali
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Kepler's 3rd Law Question finding how long a year is for Pluto

  • Jon Bori
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I Need to Calculate the Speed of Sound for a Lab

  • Frosty Cakes
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Find Charges on Capacitor w/ Floating Plates

  • Hydrous Caperilla
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3 balls in a moving mechanics problem

  • Manolisjam
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Carbon-14 Dating: When Did the Iceman Die?

  • Meeeessttteeehh
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Classical Mechanics Problem with balls

  • Manolisjam
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2 trucks pulling a third truck by the means of a pulley

  • Jkyou
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Calculating the speed of longitudinal wave

  • bolzano95
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Charges pushed to the ends of a pole -- Faraday's law

  • Eitan Levy
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How Does Current Direction and Charge Flow in a Solenoid-Wire System?

  • Eitan Levy
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Very quick question regarding work and kinetic energy

  • almosthavoc
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How Much Voltage Is Needed to Suspend Charged Water Droplets?

  • Chawker
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Doubt in electromagnetic induction

  • Vatsal Goyal
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Biot-Savart's law and Ampere's Law -- are they the same?

  • srikanth tupurani
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How Does Water Volume Affect Pressure in a Closed Container?

  • Physicist1011
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Calculating total amount of energy in a fusion reaction

  • Humbleness
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Work from Carnot engine burning 100 cu ft natural gas

  • Mimi Sanford
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Solve RC Circuit Problem: Find Time of Current > 50mA

  • kcombs
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Does r=mv/Bq hold true considering Maxwell's E.M wave theory?

  • randomgamernerd
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Calculate Height of Light Pole from Shadow Length

  • lbwet
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Minimum Initial Speed for Ball to Clear Hemispherical Rock

  • nebullient
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How does this solution make any sense? (Tension problem)

  • Unqualifiedlol
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Centripetal Force Homework: Find Car Speed to Lose Contact w/ Road

  • Tommie Robinson
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What is the displacement and average velocity of a classic car in a road rally?

  • dancingfish897
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Force between Parallel Current Carrying Wires

  • mitchy16
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Projectile motion - microgravity astronaut training

  • nebullient
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Complete Motion of a ball in a Stable Equilibrium

  • TanX
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How Does the Direction of Fields Affect Charged Particle Motion?

  • Jahnavi
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Motion of Charged Particles in E&B Fields

  • PumpkinCougar95
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Heat transfer, how long it takes ice to reach melting point

  • Humbleness
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How is Weight Distributed on a Man's Feet on a Turning Railroad Car?

  • CGandC
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Horizontal propagated movement of mechanical wave

  • bolzano95
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Finding the gravitational force over a flat infinite sheet

  • Phantoful
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Question about Electric Field lines (MCQ)

  • Helmy
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Draw a diagram showing the forces acting on a plank and find x

  • Richie Smash
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Solving for time in a frustrating dynamics question

  • Meeeessttteeehh
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Calculating the Velocity of a Catapulted Object

  • I-Love-Maths2
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Linear motion question -- Drops falling from a dripping faucet

  • Russ Morgan
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Analyzing the Oscillation of a Plank on a Log

  • Jahnavi
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Could this bulb resistance problem be modified ?

  • Jahnavi
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Galilean Transformations Problem: Two moving Rockets+Missile

  • Shadowmaker
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Compute acceleration on an inclined plane with friction

  • Jim Bob
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Three charges constrained to a ring

  • auctor
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Synchrotron Particle Accelerator: How Does It Work?

  • Physics345
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Deriving an equation for the velocity of a particle

  • LonelyElectron
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Kepler's 3rd law and a binary system

  • Taylor_1989
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Is being in something conductive during a storm good?

  • Cheesycheese213
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How do we know how long the force is acting on an object?

  • eprparadox
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Is this Gas Expansion Problem a Quasi-Static Adiabatic Process?

  • Terry Bing
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Forces involved in egg-drop experiment: 25 Newtons to Break an Egg?

  • Yellowkies_3275
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How Do You Calculate Total Displacement in Multi-Stage Motion Problems?

  • TheGeek
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Radial Heat Conduction through a Cylindrical Pipe

  • Thisbe Schwer
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Proving Snell's law using Euler-Lagrange equations

  • CGandC
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Speed and direction of b and anti-b quark

  • FilipLand
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Apparent depth of ring near boundary between two media

  • L-x
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Find the width increases when a monoatomic gas is heated

  • Helly123
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What is the nearest hyperplane to the point (2,1,3,-1)?

  • Leandromann
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Describing lasers, their use, and link to science

  • Physics345
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Cell Phone EM Waves - Health Risks & Physics Explained

  • Physics345
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Find the object's acceleration

  • Kerdo
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Uncertainty/error of a volume is greater than the normal volume

  • AndrewPX
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How Do Bode Plots Help in Designing Controllers for Liquid Level Management?

  • topcat123
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How Does Temperature Affect Electrical Resistance in Copper Wire?

  • porporking
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Thomas Young's double slit experiment

  • Physics345
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Understanding the Relationship Between Potential Energy and Direction in Fields

  • Angela Liang
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Question regarding Coulomb's Law

  • Keshav Santhanam
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How Does a Magnetic Field Affect a Wire Carrying Current?

  • Physics345
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When is an Electric Field eqn set as - or + ?

  • PerpetuallyConfused
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How to do electrical conductivity tests?

  • Cheesycheese213
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Absorbed dose given an initial dose rate

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