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Determine the reactions at "A" and "B"

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Finding reactions at supports A and B for a beam with a moving and fixed support

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Why are every sixth (or seventh) waves bigger in the ocean?

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Converrgence of oscillating sequence

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How to calculate the efficiency of anything

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Uncertainty principle for proton speed and electrons in n=6, l=4 subshell

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Two capacitors, two resistors and a battery

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How to Solve Electrostatics Problems Using Coulomb's Law

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What is the last digit of (1997)^(1997) - (1994)^(1994)?

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Coulomb's Law: Direction of Force on -C Charges

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How do I calculate power-to-mass ratio?

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Water draining from inverted truncated cone with hole

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Calculating Wave Pulse Travel Time for an 80ft Nylon Rope

  • daisyi
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Point charge in a hollow sphere

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Determining force directions for equilibrium problems

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Free-body diagrams and equations for rubberband airplane flight

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How are the two bulk modulus equations equivalent?

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Horseshoe Impact Force: Can Sand Substrate Substitute for Concrete?

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DC Circuit: Single vs. Two Bulbs Connected

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Transverse wave travel time in steel and copper wires

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How long to reach Mars at 11,000 m/s?

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A few questions i'm finding difficult.

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Why do rubber bands sometimes follow Hooke's Law and sometimes not?

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How Do You Calculate the Wavelength of a Traveling Wave?

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Integral of (1 + [1/2x^(1/2) - 1/2x^(-1/2)]^2)^(1/2) from 0 to 3

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Impact force on knee from rollerblading fall at 5 mph

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Solving the Equation of Motion to Find v[t] and v[x]

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What is the minimum frequency of light needed to eject electrons from a metal?

  • supermenscher
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Difficulty on some distance problems

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Why does air flow upward before an airfoil and divide below it?

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Geological wonders in Europe and Africa for a report

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How can I declare an array of pointers to arrays of characters in C?

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Having troubles integrating e^(2x)sin(x)

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Is JBuilder the Best Choice for Java Development?

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Newton's 2nd Law: Calculating Side Wind Effects on a Projectile

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How to Return a Pointer from a Function in C?

  • Math Is Hard
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How Long Does a Ph.D Take? Answers to Your Questions

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Is L[6] = 6L[1] in Laplace Transforms correct?

  • SpeedBird
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What is dynamical mass generation in QFT?

  • marlon
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Diameter of liquid stream at maximum height

  • Joe Ramsey
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Waves - peaks and zero displacement

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What are the top graduate programs for mathematics?

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What is the change in entropy of the gas?

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What Is the Electric Potential on a Charged Cone?

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What Is the Theoretical Dielectric Constant of Cardboard?

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Estimating head impact forces on a crash test dummy

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How to Analyze Wave Period, Amplitude, and Frequency from a Graph?

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Magnetic fields and Circular Orbits Question

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Conservation of Momentum in a Spaceship Explosion

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Force on short wire near long current-carrying wire

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How Does Malus' Law Explain Light Transmission Through Polarizers?

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Counting Towers: Finding a Recurrence Relation

  • sjaguar13
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Mechanical energy of a pendulum

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Logarithm Problems: Simplifying Expressions and Solving Equations

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What is entropy?

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How Does Current Affect Spring Extension in a Magnetic Field?

  • Sam_The_Great
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Ways are there of picking out the name ELLE from the following table

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Kinematics - How fast must torpedo go

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Is My Answer Correct for Boat Crossing a River Perpendicularly?

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How could I possibly know the radius of that circle?

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Solve Physics Problem: Heat Conducted Through 2 Rods

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Electrostatics: suspended spheres

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Solve Ideal Gas Problem: Net Work of Cycle

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So you should solve for the heat Q directly.

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Pressure inside champagne bottle

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How Do the 36 Officers Problem and Finite Fields Relate?

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Why Is There a '2' in the Capacitor Force Equation?

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Decibel Scale and Noise Limits: Understanding Log Problems

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Counting Theory and Addition Rule Confuses Me

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The rate of change of pressure

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Calculating Apparent Weight of Stone: Specific Gravity 2.50

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Converging and Diverging Lens Problem: Finding the Focal Lengths"

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Thermal Question, I seem to be doing something wrong

  • Brianjw
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What is a short circuit?

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Problems about magnetic/electric fields

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Simple electromagnetism question

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Kinematics and forces: bicyclist, crate, cliff drop, billiard ball

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Force, work, and energy problems

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Impulse and average force stopping a falling ball

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Passing pointers and arrays to a C function

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Porblem about dynamic applications of torque

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How high does a ball rise when released from the bottom of a pool?

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Modeling particle separation in winnowing with wind and drag

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Potential V and electric field E for uniform charge density on sphere

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Calculating Boat's Movement: Rates of Change with Rope Pulling on Pier

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How does the potential of the conductor decreases when it is charged

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Understanding Calculus in Physics: Solving for Varying Acceleration

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Final momentum and velocity of 3kg object after 24N·s impulse

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How do I write insert and remove functions for a doubly linked list?

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Electric Field at Point P on a Nonconducting Rod with Uniformly Spread Charge

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C programming: working with pointers

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Discrete Math - Counting Theory

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