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How Many Base-Out Configurations Exist in Sleazeball?

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Why Is My Electric Potential Calculation Incorrect?

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Force exerted by rod on unrolling paper roll against wall

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Does Light Pass Through a Slit Unaltered When Wavelength Equals Slit Width?

  • Alice-Shallom
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Net charge of −59 μC: how many excess electrons and mass increase?

  • supermenscher
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with Angular Momentum/Angular Speed

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Complicated Centre of Mass Question

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Ladder in limiting equilibrium against wall and ground

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Moving Mass on a Moving Incline

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Package dropped from plane and ball rolling off table

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Sum of (i^2)/(4^i) where i is from 0 to infinity.

  • Johnny Leong
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Solve for Man's Velocity on Ice After Throwing Book at 20 m/s

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Solving a Linear Equation with e^(x^2) Integrating Factor

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Rod rotating with moment of inertia at angles? HUH?

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Magnitude or direction of a vector

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Threshold Frequency: Find Energy of Photoelectron w/ 0.4eV Work Function

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration and Angular Speed in Physics Problems?

  • franz32
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Chemical effect of electric current

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How Much Work Is Needed to Move a Sodium Ion Across a Cell Membrane?

  • supermenscher
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Problem driving me insane electric forces

  • supermenscher
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Finding minimum air gap between parallel plates before breakdown

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What Triggers Current Flow in a Photo-Tube?

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Kinetic Energy and Angular Momentum of General Rotation System

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Convert Text to LaTeX File- Easy Steps!

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Finding the derivative of (1 - sin x) / (1 + sin x)

  • maccaman
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Gravitational force and the distance from the earth

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How Do You Differentiate y = sin(cos x)?

  • maccaman
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Finding electric field from potential V(r)=V₀r²/2R²

  • wave41
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Finding pass mark and A grade threshold in normal distributions

  • maccaman
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Solving a Derivative Problem with f(x) = SQRT(1-3x)

  • ladyrae
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Wavelength of Electron questions

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Calculate Torque on Solid Cylinder: Mass, Radius, I

  • ke2cool
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Speed, velocity and accelaration

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Finding frequency, period, wavelength and speed for six wave problems

  • BRITTANI
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Why Does the Atwood Machine Problem Calculation Differ from Expected?

  • Shentar
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Solving Precalculus Problem: 1 - x-3/x-2 = 2x-3/x-2 - Tony Zalles

  • Tony Zalles
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What's the Width of Your Eardrum?

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TRIAC semiconductor device and ISM band applications

  • Alireza
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What are insertion, deletion and inversion mutations?

  • Nec
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Solving for Spring Constant and Distance in Falling Elevators Problem

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C program: storing rounded float to int variable

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Net electrostatic force on q2 in a square of four point charges

  • supermenscher
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Friction force from foot pushing at 15° angle with 800N weight

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Deceleration Problem: Solving for Time, Distance, and Trajectory

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Struggling with Econ? Firm Producing 10 Units, Profit $50

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Finding Electrical Field Around a Charge

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Electric Potential of an insulating washer

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Calculating Net Force on Positive Particles Using Coulomb's Law and Vectors

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Capacitors in parallel question

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Problems on Antidifferentiation

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How Do You Calculate Elevator Acceleration Using Scale Readings?

  • redshift
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Is morse code flashing a flashlight AM or FM modulation?

  • wikidrox
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How to Solve an Atwood Machine Problem with a Pulley

  • e(ho0n3
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Work Done Moving Box on Inclined Plane: 160 Newton

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Electric potential at infinity from two point charges

  • wave41
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Which Charge Do I Use for Calculating Capacitance?

  • wikidrox
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Converging lens and Concave mirror

  • HeyHow!
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About aerial dish used in communication

  • Johnny Leong
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Angle between light rays after emerging from a prism

  • shingetsunohimitsu
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The Constant Horizontal Force Needed to Raise the Wheel

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Max Speed for 1500 kg Car on 90 m Curve

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Are electricity and magnetism more alike or different?

  • DoctorReynaldo
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Recursive Integral Simplification

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Mechanical Kinetic Energy vs Electrical Potential Energy

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Projectile motion and radius of curvature.

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Identifying Material Based on Density

  • AKG
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What is the reference for our year based on periodic motion?

  • Lindseynh
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Questions about the titanic ship

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Sound Question: Chimney Flue Resonating at Fundamental Frequency

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Finding the derivative of f'(x) = √x/3 − 3/√x + 2/x³

  • ladyrae
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What is the Vertical Force on the Support Closest to the Piano?

  • pupatel
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The Force of a Tractor Pulling a Trailer Up an Incline

  • Wade
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What does the escape sequence \x4d represent in C?

  • Math Is Hard
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Intensity For Three-Slit Grating

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Is the Derivative Calculation Correct Despite the Notation Error?

  • ladyrae
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Spinning Bicyle Wheel, Person, and Platform

  • e(ho0n3
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How Do You Calculate Total Power in a Hydroelectric Power Station?

  • Alix
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Partition of Integer need advice

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Oil film thickness from interference maxima and minima

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Calculating Force from Ball-Bat Impact

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Finding f'(x) = x/(2x-1) using the limit definition

  • ladyrae
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Finding f'(x) for f(x) = x - (a/x)

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Websites to help secondary students with math

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Conduction, convection currents, radiation

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A static charge vs. electrical charge?

  • Amphi
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Spool rolling behind a person pulling the rope

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Angle of an emerging ray through two boundaries

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Converting 25 Degrees to Radians: A Puzzling Question

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Binomial Distribution (Statistics)

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Frequency of fundamental and overtones in a guitar string

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How High Should a Rifle Barrel Be Aimed to Hit a Target 200m Away?

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