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Potential of hollow open ended cylinder

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Which side of a resistor is positive/negative?

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How Do You Calculate the Electric Potential of a Charged Cylinder?

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Find the maximum length of x that will maintain equilibrium

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Error calculation for µ in standing wave experiment

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Potential at the center of a sphere between two long rods

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Can You Solve Graphical Vector Problems Using Only Math and Integration?

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Why is the area of infinite small annulus 2πr dr?

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Physics involved in an egg-drop project

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Rank the vertical component of velocities at the landing points

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Find acceleration and centripetal force

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Rank the rate of speed changing of object?

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Extrema of electrical potential

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What is the direction of the current in the given image?

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Forces and Elevators: Free-Body Diagrams and Calculations

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Location of electrons and protons

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Minimum force to separate two oppositely-charged ions

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Electric potential at an unknown point

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Plotting Potential of 2 Charges: Solving 4πε0φ

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Discover the Effects of Rotating Polarizing Films | Explained with Examples

  • Physics345
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Kinetic Energy Equations in MS Excel

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How to find vectors and bisectors of an electric field

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How to find unknown refractive index to solve for theta

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Projectile motion: Two Balls and Building

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Find Initial Velocity Given Height, Range, and Initial Angle

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Understanding PhET simulation (Faraday's law)

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Calculate the initial acceleration of this pulley system

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Find final velocity in a horizontal projectile motion

  • vAhmed
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Rank velocities of projectiles at landing?

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Rank the vertical component of velocity?

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The magnetic flux density at point P between parallel wires

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Relation between power factor and phase angle

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What amplitude of simple harmonic motion of the spring....

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Why do electrons collide with ions in a conductor

  • Genji Shimada
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How Much Work is Done by Gravity?

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Confused about choosing current direction in nodal analysis

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What is the speed of block as it reaches O from point P

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Three parallel plates -- find the electric field

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Calculating mass of a planet (Law of Universal Gravitation)

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Number of Photons inside a Laser Cavity

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Thermal Neutron Absorption Rate in Water?

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How Can You Calculate Mass from Force if Acceleration is Zero?

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Rubber strings pulled and realeased -- find the max height

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Young's double slit experiment with two sets of slits

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Optimal Trajectory Angle for Maximum Area?

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Pulley-Block-Spring System: Understanding the Forces Acting on a Hanging Block

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Confirmation of a net force calculation from a diagram

  • Humbleness
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What Is the Speed of the Man Relative to the Ground?

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Solve Hoop and Disk Inertia Homework

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Work to move electron/proton between the plates of a charged capacitor?

  • JustAStudent
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Moment of Inertia in Planet System

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Simple question (help?) -- Forces to spin up a wheel

  • lc99
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Calculating Orbital Speed Using Conservation of Angular Momentum

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Finding the internal resistance of battery

  • rmiller70015
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Current in circuit with many resistors

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Calculating the net force acting on an object from a diagram

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Electrostatics: calculating the E-field of a line charge

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Finding minimum and maximum intensity of waves

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How Do You Model Free Fall with Air Resistance in Differential Equations?

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Why don't units have match for specific heat and mass

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NBr3: Polar or Nonpolar Molecule?

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Intensity for Young’s Double Slit Interference

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Optimal Velocity for Projectile Path over a Sloped Roof

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Ball hitting baseball bat (with no impulse)

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Set up the Lagrangian for a CO2 molecule

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Basic Newton's Rings Numerical Problem

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Finding launch angle from vertical and horizontal distance

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Infinite wire -- Magnetic field from a current in a long L-shaped wire

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Calculating uncertainty for a small sample

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Wind Turbine Energy Transformations

  • Physics345
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Electric Field from Long Hollow Cylinder

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Solve Columb's Law Problem: Helium Nucleus & Proton Acceleration

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How to Derive Power for a Drone Hovering Using a Capacitor?

  • Chris Johns
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What is the volume of a block of silver that weighs 107 N

  • Alex Beltran
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Question about Absolute Dependent Motion Analysis

  • Oklid
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Distribution of ions in a cylindrical container

  • Mat15
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Centripetal forces | finding coeff of friction with only velocity

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Volume of smaller pyramid is less than the volume of the whole.

  • R_moor
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Why can Nature can be modeled with only the 1st and 2nd derivatives?

  • morenopo2012
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Rotational Dynamics Homework Help

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Finding Velocity of Golf Club After Impact with Ball

  • x2017
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Relation of Charge polarity and voltage polarity

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What variables affect the height of a Heron's fountain?

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Solve Force & Moment Homework: Why Don't Consider P at C?

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FInding current in parallel and series circuits

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Current Flowing through High Voltage AC Transmission Lines

  • Dave Johnson
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Medical supplies dropped from a plane (projectile motion)

  • Humbleness
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How to Solve a Timing Diagram with Multiple Logic Gates?

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Question about charged particle in an electric field

  • Matthew Muro
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Elastic and inelstic collisions conceptual questions.

  • R_moor
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Explaining Damping with a car's suspension

  • Physics345
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Can someone explain this equation to me? Δm=μΔt

  • PurpleRain
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Find Distance d for Impulse on Stick to Rotate Once

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A plane, diving with constant speed at an angle of 53.0 degrees....

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Sound Power Level (SPL) of a loudspeaker

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