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Calculating Power Loss in a High Voltage Transmission Line

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Projectile Mass Calculation: 275m/s vs 145g at 325m/s

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Why thermal sources repel mosquitoes and why UV index was developed

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Re:Statistics: Applications of sampling thoery

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Ground Level Ozone Production: Reaction Mechanism

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Electric Currents and Resistance

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Can somebody check my answers (DC-circuit)

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How Do You Calculate the Average Density of a Neutron Star?

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Instantaneous velocity and friction

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Why do two cars need equal impulse to stop if momentum change is the same?

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Why Does a Filament Light Globe Draw More Current Initially?

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How Do You Calculate Charge from Electric Field in Electrostatics?

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Buoyancy force and the principle of flotation

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Finding currents ID and IE in a Wheatstone bridge circuit

  • TJ
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Copper cable radius for 400A current with 4 W/m loss

  • phystudent
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How do I solve difficult problems?

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Finding radius, object distance, and magnification with mirror equation

  • mustang
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Adding Velocities with Special Relativity

  • Severian596
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Refraction Index Ratio: How to Calculate with 2 Unknowns

  • Spectre32
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Why does current split after R1 if it's in series with R2?

  • oooride
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Expanding Steel, Can't Follow Equation

  • holly
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How Much Force Is Needed to Move an Object Up an Inclined Plane?

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Reposted Thread: QIS Career Project Interview Questions

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How Does Voltage Affect Electron Speed in a Magnetic Field?

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Calculating Angular Acceleration of Bicycle Wheels

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First-Order Spectrum Width for Diffraction Grating

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Where is electric field energy located and why is mutual potential negative?

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Calculate Force F of Falling Object with Mass m and Velocity v

  • KingNothing
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Magnetic fields at earth equator

  • pattiecake
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How Is Speed Accuracy Measured in Bicycle Computers?

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Electric Field and Optics questions

  • Spectre32
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Two Dimensional Motion Projectile

  • SSVicious
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Finding Acceleration of Spindles with Friction

  • cpuwildman
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Calculating Velocity of a 10-gram Bullet

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Does Eric's Leap Clear the Puddle?

  • KingNothing
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How Does Coulomb's Law Apply to These Electric Field Problems?

  • moonlit
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Conservation of momentum of a boat

  • Chiara
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Ideal Mechanical Advantage of Three Lever Systems

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Identifying Particles by Mass: A High-Energy Physics Experiment

  • tandoorichicken
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Solving Electrical Circuit Problems

  • NINHARDCOREFAN
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Finding resistor values in parallel-series circuit

  • cseet
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Electric field and force from 4 charges at square corners

  • mindhater
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Which Light Bulb Has the Higher Resistivity?

  • arcnets
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Formula for finding the period of a pendulm?

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Diverging Lens and Concave Mirror

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Light intensity through three polarized lenses at 37°, 10°, and 82°

  • KingJaymz
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Simple mechanical energy question [gr.11]

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How Do You Calculate the Maximum Number of Diffraction Orders?

  • jazzchan
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I'm lost on this angular acceleration problem

  • falcon0311
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Solving Center of Mass Prob: Stick Length 0.25m, Mass 0.53kg

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Finding current in each resistor with voltage drops

  • pattiecake
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A motorcyclics performing a stunt - How long is he in the air?

  • celect
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I'm clueless. Oscilloscope as resistor

  • KingJaymz
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Finding R1 when series resistor reduces loop current from 3A to 1.6A

  • pattiecake
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Elasticity in colloids (gels, jellies)

  • elaine216@hotmail.co
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Hairy Electro-Magnetics problem.

  • frankR
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Conservation of Energy involving Spring

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What are the practical uses of astronomy?

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Positive terminal of a battery is at a higher potential

  • pattiecake
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Strange radioactivity question. fast

  • EasyStyle4747
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Calculate Force Exerted Using Simple Machines

  • pvpanther05
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I want to understand relativity

  • insane_pete
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Volume of Air, Fridge Questions

  • holly
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Static Friction presentation Problem

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Impulse and Momentum of a crate

  • jjiimmyy101
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Electric potential, current question

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How Do Forces F1 and F2 Affect the Speed of a Slider Block?

  • jjiimmyy101
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Why Does the Image in a Convex Mirror Appear Smaller?

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Can a Trailer Fit Under a Parabolic Arch Bridge?

  • mustang
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Finding equivalent force position using moments

  • Adam@Home
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How Does Conservation of Momentum Apply in a Three-Part Explosion?

  • falcon0311
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Boy walking on a beam supported at two points—how far until it tips?

  • lollypop
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Why does charge distribute unevenly between coaxial cylinders?

  • SparkimusPrime
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Two capacitors in series: charge conservation or charge redistribution

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Finding real roots of x² + kx + k and three other problems

  • mcintyre_ie
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Modeling conservation of charge

  • SparkimusPrime
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What Happens to the I-V Graph When Voltage Polarity Is Reversed?

  • AngelofMusic
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How Is Work Calculated with a Variable Force?

  • cristina
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Solve Fourier Transform Problem: f(t)=e^(-t^2/a^2)

  • RyanA1084
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Construct a 25 ohm resistance from a boz

  • cseet
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How Does a Toroidal Inductor Affect Velocity in a Motional EMF Setup?

  • dreadstar
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Calculating Frequency of Sound Wave in Water

  • jazzchan
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Why Are Gravitational and Centripetal Forces Equal in Moon's Orbit?

  • dura
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Multiple physics questions on vectors, waves, temperature and photons

  • EIRE2003
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Volume of revolution for y=x-x³ from 0 to 1 about y-axis

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Static friction on a 30 degree ramp

  • dura
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Where is the Center of Gravity for a System of Attached Balls?

  • lollypop
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Finding nontrivial solutions when determinant equals zero

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Integration sines and cosines question

  • ilikephysics
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Conservation of Energy Supp. 2

  • cristina
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Find the work done on the block by the spring

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