Introductory Physics Homework Help Forum

Free introductory physics homework help step by step from qualified mentors. Algebra and calculus based general physics homework. High school and undergraduate level.

Threads

Potential Energy function problem

  • cristina
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Optimal Rear-View Mirror Width Calculation for Improved Car Safety

  • mustang
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Replies
5

Supplementary Prob 1 Conservation of Energy.

  • cristina
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

What's the relationship between T = r X F and T = I(alpha)?

  • mrbill
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Integration by parts with sin³(3x)cos³(3x) and tan⁴(4x)

  • SEG9585
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Find Initial Acceleration of Rod's Center of Mass with Newton's 2nd Law

  • jstealth03
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Burning wood with magnifying glass

  • einai
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Are We Heavier at Midnight Due to the Sun's Gravity?

  • warehouse54
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How Does Compound Interest Affect Birthday Savings Over 20 Years?

  • Johnny Leong
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Is there an exact solution for (7-x)ln(x)?

  • dav2008
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

A long straight wire carries a (+) current of two amps in a direction

  • athenaroa
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Water slide energy dissipation problem

  • psruler
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Gravitational Field Strength of Sun vs Moon at Earth

  • Invisible
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Finding P(A or B) when A and B are independent

  • Sombra
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How would I calculate the g's felt?

  • SsUeSbIaEs
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Replies
5

Impedance of circuit with capacitor

  • athenaroa
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Solving Conceptual Issues of a Square Wire Loop Problem

  • AshleyF708
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Calculating Torque for a Horizontal Rod with a Hanging Weight

  • Alan6585
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Replies
16
Replies
4

What is a Streamlined Design Engine and How Does it Improve Fuel Economy?

  • delta_mu
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

How Can You Move Ten Feet Without Motors, Wheels, or Human Propulsion?

  • micron
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Can a Nuclear Reactor Produce More Energy than it Consumes?

  • delta_mu
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Ball bearing rolling down a ramp of varying heights

  • Magg$
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Factors affecting cellphone signals

  • spill
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Replies
2

Why Does a Gyroscope's Spin Axis Maintain Its Direction?

  • powerball
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Tangential/radial/total acceleration & angle

  • Klion
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Replies
6

What is an extension in a statics problem?

  • philipc
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Does gravitational redshift affect measurements of distant galaxies?

  • billy_boy_999
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Calculating Length of Parametric Curves

  • sonya
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

How much mass can a brass spring hold without becoming permanently bent?

  • psruler
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Finding torque from crankshaft power and rotational speed

  • NanoTech
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Questions on Internal Energy and Specific Heat Capacities

  • Auron87
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

How does wave velocity relate to water depth?

  • deimos
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Alpha particle detection rate vs distance from source

  • EasyStyle4747
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Transformer engineering problem

  • neraketam
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Calculating Shunt Resistor for Galvanometer to Ammeter Conversion

  • Magna1
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Does Scale Affect the Angular Velocity of Ferris Wheels?

  • celect
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Momentum and energy disagreement

  • ShawnD
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Line Integrals: Evaluating with Respect to Arc Length

  • wubie
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Forces involved in spring-pulley system

  • Luminous Blob
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Transfer matrix for s-polarized wave with total internal reflection

  • Norman
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Electrical Energy and Capacitance

  • ScoutFCM
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Solving Two Charge Problems - Coulombs and Electrons

  • Skipperchrldr
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

KsP calculations with solubility values

  • London Kngiths
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How to integrate a rational function with repeated quadratic factor

  • Kuja
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Is Electrostatic Potential Zero When Electric Field Is Zero?

  • burak_ilhan
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Electricity and Magnetism problem

  • retupmoc
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

What's Wrong with My SHM Calculations?

  • nonzee
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Replies
2

Calculating moment of inertia for a uniform rod of mass

  • Luminous Blob
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How Can I Better Understand Physics Waves for 9th Grade?

  • killjoy
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Using logarithms to compute 37 × 0.785 in bases 10, e, and 5

  • chemical
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Are My Buoyancy Questions Really That Confusing?

  • holly
  • · Replies 35 ·
2
Replies
35

Equal sign with a triagle above it?

  • frankR
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How Does Charge Distribution Affect Electric Field in Nested Spheres?

  • frznfire219
  • · Replies 21 ·
Replies
21

Magnetic Force on segment of wire

  • Aerospace
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Replies
3

Net Force on a Charge at a Given Point from Two Other Charges

  • steve92595
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Charged particles in magnetic field

  • Aerospace
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Electrical Potential Energy Problem

  • Embermage
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Deriving Wien's Displacement Law from Planck's Law

  • gnome
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Calculating Minimum Stopping Distance for a Car on a 15 Degree Incline

  • cristina
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How Does Current Direction Affect Magnetic Force Between Parallel Wires?

  • eku_girl83
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Bathroom scale on one of the Earth's poles

  • psruler
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Block pushed up frictionless 25° incline by 100N force

  • Beretta
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Explain the difference of hyodrogen ions

  • chemical
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

What Is the Radius of a Banked Turn in Airplane Flight?

  • cristina
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Electric Potential and Forces in Spherical Raindrop Interactions

  • broegger
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

How do changes in charge and distance affect the force in Coulomb's Law?

  • UrbanXrisis
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Is the Calculated Density of the Steel Ball Correct?

  • Cummings
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

How does force change in Coulomb's law when charges or distance change?

  • UrbanXrisis
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

How Do You Calculate the Number of Coulombs in a Glass of Water?

  • LTech221
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Missing steps in simplifying an expression

  • exequor
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Getting wrong results for resistivity calculations from V-I graph

  • JoneS
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Find the Solve the Problem with Force!

  • cool2think
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

How Do Magnetic Forces Affect Parallel Current-Carrying Wires?

  • eku_girl83
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Determining Resultant of Concurrent Forces: Law of Cosines

  • RingWraith2086
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Formula for centripetal acceleration

  • cookiemonster
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Replies
2

Is the Moon's linear momentum p constant?

  • Oripmav
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Child sliding down playground slide with friction losses

  • PhysicsPhun
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Two gravitational force questions

  • psruler
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

A Spring in a Conservation of Energy Problem?

  • PhysicsPhun
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Jerk of the point of contact of a ball rolling on a flat surface

  • kuba
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

J j thomson's previous experiment

  • gnome
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How Is Average Velocity Half of Final Velocity in Constant Acceleration?

  • xxpsychoxx
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Enthalpy of neutralization of HCl and NaOH

  • decibel
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Induced emf in a stationary loop near a current-carrying wire

  • AshleyF708
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

What is the Correct Formula for Calculating Speed in a Basic Generator?

  • mrbling
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How Does Changing Gas Quantity and Temperature Affect Pressure?

  • Alethia
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Prove: An, En, On --> L iff An --> L

  • stunner5000pt
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Is There a Surjective Function from Z+ to Z?

  • phoenixy
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Gas law problems with balloons, heating, and diving

  • DoctorReynaldo
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

I in applying Netwon's law of inertia

  • delta_mu
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

How Do Birds Control Their Falling Speed and Cars Stop Quickly?

  • Big Rudy
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3