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Construct a 25 ohm resistance from a boz

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

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Calculating Frequency of Sound Wave in Water

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

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Multiple physics questions on vectors, waves, temperature and photons

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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

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

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Finding nontrivial solutions when determinant equals zero

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Integration sines and cosines question

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Conservation of Energy Supp. 2

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Find the work done on the block by the spring

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Potential Energy function problem

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Optimal Rear-View Mirror Width Calculation for Improved Car Safety

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Supplementary Prob 1 Conservation of Energy.

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

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

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

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Burning wood with magnifying glass

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

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How Does Compound Interest Affect Birthday Savings Over 20 Years?

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

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

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Water slide energy dissipation problem

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Gravitational Field Strength of Sun vs Moon at Earth

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

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How would I calculate the g's felt?

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Impedance of circuit with capacitor

  • athenaroa
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Solving Conceptual Issues of a Square Wire Loop Problem

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Calculating Torque for a Horizontal Rod with a Hanging Weight

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

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

  • micron
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Can a Nuclear Reactor Produce More Energy than it Consumes?

  • delta_mu
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Ball bearing rolling down a ramp of varying heights

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Factors affecting cellphone signals

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

  • powerball
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Tangential/radial/total acceleration & angle

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What is an extension in a statics problem?

  • philipc
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Does gravitational redshift affect measurements of distant galaxies?

  • billy_boy_999
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Calculating Length of Parametric Curves

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

  • psruler
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Finding torque from crankshaft power and rotational speed

  • NanoTech
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Questions on Internal Energy and Specific Heat Capacities

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How does wave velocity relate to water depth?

  • deimos
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Alpha particle detection rate vs distance from source

  • EasyStyle4747
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Transformer engineering problem

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Calculating Shunt Resistor for Galvanometer to Ammeter Conversion

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Does Scale Affect the Angular Velocity of Ferris Wheels?

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Momentum and energy disagreement

  • ShawnD
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Line Integrals: Evaluating with Respect to Arc Length

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Forces involved in spring-pulley system

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Transfer matrix for s-polarized wave with total internal reflection

  • Norman
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Electrical Energy and Capacitance

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Solving Two Charge Problems - Coulombs and Electrons

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KsP calculations with solubility values

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How to integrate a rational function with repeated quadratic factor

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Is Electrostatic Potential Zero When Electric Field Is Zero?

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Electricity and Magnetism problem

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What's Wrong with My SHM Calculations?

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Calculating moment of inertia for a uniform rod of mass

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

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

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Are My Buoyancy Questions Really That Confusing?

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Equal sign with a triagle above it?

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How Does Charge Distribution Affect Electric Field in Nested Spheres?

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Magnetic Force on segment of wire

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

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Charged particles in magnetic field

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Electrical Potential Energy Problem

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Deriving Wien's Displacement Law from Planck's Law

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

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How Does Current Direction Affect Magnetic Force Between Parallel Wires?

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Bathroom scale on one of the Earth's poles

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Block pushed up frictionless 25° incline by 100N force

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Explain the difference of hyodrogen ions

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

  • cristina
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Electric Potential and Forces in Spherical Raindrop Interactions

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

  • UrbanXrisis
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Is the Calculated Density of the Steel Ball Correct?

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

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

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Missing steps in simplifying an expression

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Getting wrong results for resistivity calculations from V-I graph

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Find the Solve the Problem with Force!

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How Do Magnetic Forces Affect Parallel Current-Carrying Wires?

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Determining Resultant of Concurrent Forces: Law of Cosines

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Formula for centripetal acceleration

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Is the Moon's linear momentum p constant?

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Child sliding down playground slide with friction losses

  • PhysicsPhun
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Two gravitational force questions

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A Spring in a Conservation of Energy Problem?

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