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Isentropic Expansion Within a Steam Turbine System

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Increase in kinetic energy in current carrying conductor

  • carlyn medona
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Power of a Force: Find Power from Fv in 3s

  • hendrix7
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Total energy of charge in parallel plate capacitor

  • Inquisitive Student
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Change in Temperature for Stretched Surface

  • GL_Black_Hole
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How to calculate force given Newtons, degrees, and friction

  • Josef
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Vectors A and B are in the xy plane

  • DoctorMathU
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Charge Distribution in a Parallel Plate Capacitor with Connected Plates

  • carlyn medona
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Run Fastest to Weigh Most at Equator!

  • Johny158
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What is the Elastic Potential Energy of a Toy Car's Spring?

  • Leah12
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Potential Energy Problem -- GPE of a person at 5334m above sea level

  • Leah12
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Integration of an equation relating to electrostatics

  • Lazy Rat
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Rod Hanging in Water: Find Line of Buoyancy Force

  • Horvath Bela
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Finding Potential Difference Across AB in a Multi-Cell Circuit

  • carlyn medona
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Force between two charged particle beams -- proton and electron beams

  • carlyn medona
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What Is the Coefficient of Kinetic Friction for a Block on an Inclined Plane?

  • EchoTheCat
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Imaginary value for magnetic field?

  • Hawksteinman
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Centripetal force throughout a vertical circle

  • Matthew_B
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Calculate minimum work input of refrigeration cycle

  • tezktenr
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Calculating the Distance a Rock Travels Up a Sloped Hill

  • eglaud
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Calculating Launch Speed for a Catapult with Drag Force

  • juju1
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Integration of an interaction force to find potential energy

  • miyayeah
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##\alpha_P =\frac{V-b}{TV}## Find equation of State

  • GL_Black_Hole
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Building a Self-Contained Egg Tower Device: Grade 12 Physics ISU Project

  • Sandro Romualdez
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Calculating Tension Using Work Energy Theorem

  • JHLee
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Speed after gliding with friction force present using work/E

  • miyayeah
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Conducting sphere with chrage in centre

  • Taylor_1989
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Spinning disk, friction and pure roll

  • CrunchBerries
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Rotational Dynamics of a Grindstone

  • aw2693
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Final velocity parallel to the track when the ski jumper lands

  • KeevKK
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Deriving the formula for tidal generating force TGF

  • HenryM
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Tennis ball bouncing off wall with units in force calculation

  • eglaud
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Two capacitors with opposite terminals connected together

  • carlyn medona
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Resultant force-couple system where resultant couple is 0

  • Francis Hannah
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Resolving reactant forces on supported beams.

  • Adrian Haddock
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Capacitor with two dielectrics inserted diagonally

  • carlyn medona
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Work, energy, power tennis ball problem

  • ferrariistheking
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Electric Fields - Electron Passing through deflecting Plates

  • aatari
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Potential Energy and Distance Graph

  • Exuro89
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The mass of an object with pulleys

  • Francis Hannah
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Find the time when the spring force reaches max magnitude

  • SirChris93
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External Forces and Potential Difference

  • Abu
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Determine the elevator's acceleration

  • y90x
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Electric field of a current carrying conductor along its sur

  • fab123
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Algorithm to matrix product MSR format

  • drudox
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Variables in a lab (controlled, independant and dependant)

  • Simon George
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Accelerated Electron and its Potential Energy

  • Abu
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Position Functions for Two Cars Colliding on a Straight Road

  • Jesper K
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How to find the work on an object on an inclined plane pulled with a rope

  • Kelvin Andersen
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Find Viscosity of Fluid on an Inclined Plane

  • Perodamh
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Force acting on a dielectric placed between parallel plates

  • carlyn medona
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Potential difference in multi cell circuit

  • carlyn medona
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How far to the right can a person walk before the plank will

  • QaH
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Roller coaster problem involving velocity

  • y90x
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What is the Speed of a Falling Object Attached to a Rotating Spherical Shell?

  • CoreanJesus
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Calculating Final Velocities in 2D Inelastic Collisions

  • fatcats
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Find the force to push a book sideways on a table

  • y90x
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Centre of mass of non-uniform rod

  • carlyn medona
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A long rod being pushed in zero g vacuum

  • Horvath Bela
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Force on the bottom of the vessel containing a submerged cube

  • manasi bandhaokar
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Multiplicity/Probability: Einstein model of Solids

  • WWCY
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Error propagation, is this correct?

  • EastWindBreaks
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What Is the Minimum Stopping Distance to Prevent Crate Sliding?

  • y90x
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Solve for the tension in a rope pulling a box

  • y90x
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Calculating Mass of a Vibrating String Using Known Quantities

  • zengodspeed
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Internal energy during the expansion of a gas?

  • Pericles98
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How Long Does It Take for a Handle to Become Unbearably Hot?

  • WWCY
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Writing Hamiltonian: Classical Mechanics

  • WWCY
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Why am I not getting the correct natural frequency?

  • EastWindBreaks
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Determining Magnetic Field Direction

  • Spackle
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Force Questions -- Snooker ball collision and a rock through a window

  • Gulfstream757
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Calculation of Speed for Message Packet on Small Planet

  • dantechiesa
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Elastic Collision between a Ball and a Stick

  • VSayantan
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How do I draw all forces on a stone sinking in water?

  • Karagoz
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Angular acceleration, velocity, momentum of a door?

  • Haveagoodday
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Please help me with this mechanics problem -- pulling one end of a spring

  • vijayramakrishnan
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Work done in expansion of a bubble

  • Vriska
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Force problem with three masses and two pulleys

  • Dayanara Avilez
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Simple Kinematics Problem, unsure of my error

  • N8G
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Transformations of Energy in Wind Power

  • fatcats
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Induced current in a loop of wire when straight wire is cut

  • astrocytosis
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Convergent lenses and calculating image position

  • mortymoose
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Moving along a horizontal surface (no friction)

  • inv4lid
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Function with 3 variables (I know how two are related )

  • pangolo
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Solving Total Work Problem on Rotating Object

  • Pinon1977
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Center of mass system of two interacting identical Fermions

  • Dustgil
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Lagrangian: Pendulum down a slope

  • WWCY
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Sheer and bending moment diagrams

  • fayan77
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How far a a fastball travels (projectile question)

  • Hadeel1
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Rotating spool on table with friction

  • erfz
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Find the mass in static equilibrium problem involving a spring

  • sleepymia
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Geometric optics (near point problem)

  • Augustine Duran
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How can light be partially polarized?

  • orangeblue
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Show ##(\frac{\partial S}{\partial G})_Y = -\frac{C_Y}{TS}##

  • GL_Black_Hole
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Calculate the volume of 1.00 mol of liquid water

  • Leo_lee
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