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Light rays through a window pane

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Calculating the Decay Constant of Carbon 14

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Model rocket with constant acceleration reaching maximum height

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How Does Water Pressure Change with Column Height and Diameter?

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Thermodynamics - calculate entropy

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What Is the Annual Rate of Increase for the Price of Milk?

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Solving a Trigonometry Proof: 1+ cos Ө =?

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What is the Sign Convention for Displacement in Hooke's Law?

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Estimating a neutrino mass upper limit from supernova data

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How Do You Solve These Complex Momentum Problems?

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How can I find the initial speed using SUVAT equations?

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Ball thrown at angle strikes wall perpendicularly at 4.9 m

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Calculating Average Acceleration in Uniform Circular Motion

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What are the fundamental principles of matter and its properties?

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Solving the Transverse Wave on a Rope: Tension and Force

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What is the equation for f(x) using just a,b,c,d in a geometric series?

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Solving Sturn-Liousville problem

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Heat required to warm ice from -25°C to water at 25°C

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Integral of (x+2)/√(x²+6x+4)

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Light Refraction at 40 Degrees: Material 1 to Material 2

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Mathematical induction proof for sum of squares of even numbers

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Why do you see a red sunset sometimes?

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What Kind of Motion Does Hooke's Law Describe?

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What Does it Mean to be Singly Ionized? - Spring Constant of DNA

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Energy and Momentum in Electromagnetic waves

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RC Circuit:placement of capacitor on circuit

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Why does the colour black heat faster than white?

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Optimal Laser Tagging Technique for Blue Crabs in Seawater

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Function of a random gaussian variable

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Calculating Interest with Compounding: Problem 9c

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Can someone show me how to do this dynamics question?

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How to Experimentally Determine the Specific Heat Capacity of Ice

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Projectile motion and release angle

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Building a catapult to launch a ping-pong ball 10 metres

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Maximum weight supported by two cords at 45° and horizontal

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Frame of reference and Newton's third law

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How Do You Calculate Focal Length in a Lens Lab Experiment?

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Help with circle tangents, vector properties, wedge dynamics and dv/dt=g-kv

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Getting Crabby at Semester's End

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Prove FE is perpendicular to AB when chords meet in a semicircle

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How to Find the Partial Sum of a Series?

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Microscope focal length and object distance problems

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Can You Solve This Trigonometry Problem Involving Equal Sides and Angles?

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Problem with tether balls - How high should I release the ball

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How Do Interference Patterns and Diffraction Determine Angles in Physics?

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Solving 'How Much Solution' Problems: Minoxidil Example

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Solving the Velocity and Displacement of a Package After an Explosion

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Calculating Beat Frequency in Ultrasound Doppler Effect

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How Fast is a Galaxy Receding When Hydrogen Light Frequency Changes?

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Simple Quantum Mechanics Question - Express Wave Function

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Why Does x*(x+1)%5 Only Yield the Remainders 0, 1, and 2?

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The Hydrogen Atom: Photon Energy of n=4 to n=3 Transition

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Derivative of 1/(4x^2 + 3x - x)

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Rotational inertia and torque of four masses at square vertices

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What is the probability that it is both a king and a club?

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Energy Conservation and Escape Velocity

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Phase difference, coherence, diffraction and Michelson fringes

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What is the energy released during alpha particle emission in Am-241 decay?

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Block sliding down 30° incline with friction and air resistance

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What Is the Value of Theta in the Equation 6 - tan(theta) = 2sec^2(theta)?

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A circuit with capacitor and resistor

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Calculate equilibrium concentraion of NO2(g)

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Work done by gravity and friction on a 5kg block sliding down a 30° incline

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Bernoulli's equation and continuity for fluid mechanics test

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Image Location for a Double Concave Mirror (-20 in Focal Length)

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How much energy is carried by one quantum of these electromagnetic waves?

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Recursie Algorithms. Is my solution ok?

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Solving a Pendulum Physics Problem: Finding the Height of a Colliding System

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Help with introductory physics problems

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Convolution integral with impulse and step functions

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Collision between two blocks on a table

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Solving Angular Velocity of Pulley/Cylinder with Mass M, I, m, h

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Cartesian product notation and plotting the set {(y,z)|y-z≥3}

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Electron force in a magnetic field: velocity left, B-field into page

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Determine the speed of the stone

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Solving Ideal Gas Law: Find Final Volume of Helium

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Hortizontal acceleration of a motorcycle

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How Does Constriction in the Bronchus Affect Air Pressure?

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How Do You Calculate Kinetic and Potential Energy in Projectile Motion?

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Simple harmonic motion in a rocket?

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How Much Power is Needed for a Car to Climb an 8% Grade?

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Object position for 4x upright image in concave mirror

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Vector in cylindrical polar coordinates

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Find n where the sum from i=1 to n equals 34

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Resistance of parallel resistors

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How does torque relate to stopping a rotating wheel?

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