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Thermodynamics: box with a moving wall

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Find Wavelength Homework: Solve with Plank's Constant

  • Noreturn
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Diffraction Grating and White Light Problem

  • Abu
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Combining conservation of momentum and kinetic energy

  • DuoASM
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Travelling towards a Canyon Wall: Calculating Beat Frequency

  • John Ker
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Finding power without given speed or time

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Algodoo and Physics Analysis of Interactions

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Tension of Rope in Middle is 17N

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How can I get only one single photon with a coherent light source?

  • alizeid
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Finding the total momentum of system

  • Stormblessed
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What are the dominant forces in different situations?

  • Wes Turner
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Body decay on the axis of an infinite wedge

  • avenior
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Calculating ΔS and P(final) for a Diatomic Ideal Gas in a Partitioned System

  • Noman Rasheed
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Max power of a photovoltaic cell -- where did I go wrong?

  • whatisreality
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Electric Field between two flat metal plates

  • themagiciant95
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First natural frequency for bending, axial and torsion modes

  • Feodalherren
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How do I draw a FBD for centripetal force

  • Biochemgirl2002
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How Do You Solve Adiabatic Expansion Problems in Thermodynamics?

  • Matt Armstrong
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Finding the total energy of a Pi meson

  • AsadaShino92
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How do you work out average acceleration without time?

  • NotVerySmart
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Power required to lift something vertically

  • Pinon1977
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Finding Amplitude of spring oscillation after damping

  • AbigailG
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Find the initial acceleration of block B

  • Vivek098
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What Is the Non-Deformed Length of a Spring Between Two Linked Bodies?

  • inv4lid
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Show the Fourier transformation of a Gaussian is a Gaussian.

  • thomas19981
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Adding mass when a blocks rests on another block?

  • dantechiesa
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A rocket moving vertically -- Find the cosmonaut's weight

  • inv4lid
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Ball rolling down an incline angular and linear acceleration

  • Fascheue
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What is the heat removal in J/min

  • Chad Jensen
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No. of spinless particles in the left half of a box

  • Pushoam
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Physics help to measure friction

  • Biochemgirl2002
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Kinematics question(angular velocity)

  • mcchoy528
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Solving Flux of Molecules Problem

  • Pushoam
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Forces acting on the person carrying a bucket of water

  • miyayeah
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Is this a conservation of energy problem?

  • Lori
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How do i find the coefficient of static friction?

  • sam kim
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Verification of a ladder aginst a wall force

  • barryj
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Quadrocopter Flight: Basic Criteria for Stable Flight

  • Fibo112
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Finding output voltage given two resistances and voltages

  • Mohamed Abdul
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Power Transmitted in a Coaxial Cable

  • Marcus95
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How to calculate the speed of an object attached to a string

  • aron silvester
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Maximum Mass You Could Boil with 1000 J of Heat (Thermodynamics)

  • adamwest
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Energy Problem with Spring, Gravity, and Friction

  • FettuccineAlfredo
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Maximum speed of car on downhill

  • Jack122
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Calculating Gravitational Energy of 100 lb Mass in Rotation

  • Pinon1977
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Kinematics, One Dimension, Acceleration, 2 objects problem

  • Spoti112
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Are These Physics Questions Correct in English and Science?

  • bahtiyar
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How does transformer taps work?

  • janu203
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Generalized Velocity: Lagrangian

  • WWCY
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Find the Coefficient of friction on a banked curve.

  • Motzu2098
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Determining the power of a rotating system

  • Pinon1977
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Fully filled capacitors with parallel dielectrics problem

  • Amaelle
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QM: 1D Potential Well Spring - Energy Levels

  • RJLiberator
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Lens-Makers Equation: Finding Focal Length in Different Mediums

  • PhyHyped
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Thermodynamics - Temperature change of Argon

  • Seven of Nine
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What Is the Escape Speed of an Electron from a Charged Glass Sphere?

  • mitchy16
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Two blocks of mass m1, m2 are attached to a spring

  • Vriska
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Orbital Period of the Earth where the Sun's Mass Changes

  • Maik
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Calculate the Curl of a Velocity vector field

  • themagiciant95
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Interference/Diffraction formulas

  • waley
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Focal Length given M and distance between obj and img

  • PhyHyped
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Calculating Clicks: Spoke Card Oscillations and Rotational Motion

  • Aboramou
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Calculate Final volume and temperature of piston

  • Jamie_Pi
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Magnetostatics - Magnetic field of a nonuniform current slab

  • cmo2978
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Determining speed of electron in a parallel plate capacitor

  • mitchy16
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An object is launched from the Earth to escape the Sun

  • bobbsmmith
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How to calculate the intensity of light, given area and mass

  • Michael Moynihan
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Particle motion + electric field when voltage varies

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Equilibrium with moments of forces

  • LuigiAM
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3-phase delta supply to a 3-phase synchronous motor?

  • Cocoleia
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Remaining in the same spot on a spinning disk

  • Fibo112
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Speed of a Magnet Falling through a Conducting Wire

  • VSayantan
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Energy of a Gas in equilibrium with BB-radiation

  • VSayantan
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How Much Work Is Done When Pulling a Sled at an Angle?

  • joesmith273
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Trace of the Exponential of a Square Matrix

  • VSayantan
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How Do Velocity and Friction Affect a Coin's Motion on a Table?

  • Fascheue
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Validate the Stefan Boltzmann equation

  • tomadevil
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Bound surface charge of a cylinder

  • Taylor_1989
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What Must Remain Constant for W = pΔV to Apply?

  • songoku
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Magnetic field outside a conducting hollow cylinder

  • FranzDiCoccio
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Partial Pressures and Vapour Pressure

  • WWCY
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Derive the expression for the work done by the ideal spring

  • Alexanddros81
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A rope of mass m and length L is hanging from the ceiling.

  • Natchanon
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Finding the speed of the block for one and two springs

  • miyayeah
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Current through an Ammeter in an Electric Circuit

  • VSayantan
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Vertical Circles Centripetal Acceleration

  • Pedgepoke
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Torque and force problem -- Atwood's Machine Motion

  • Fascheue
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Collision of two charged particles projeced in magnetic field

  • carlyn medona
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Time Period of a Small Oscillation

  • VSayantan
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Prove v^ has all of a vector's quantities

  • TheColector
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Finding Equations of Movement and Acceleration Along a Parabola

  • CCMarie
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Using STdev wrong or apparatus error?

  • CricK0es
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What Is the Fundamental Frequency of a Modified Stretched Wire?

  • dantechiesa
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Understanding the Derivation of the Latent Heat and Entropy Equation

  • WWCY
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What is the Mass of a Sample Given its Half-Life?

  • Noreturn
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Using Archimedes' principle in engineering applications

  • Emmanuel
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I dont understand this integration

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