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Refractive index of seawater and a diver transmitting RF for 100 meters

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Forces applied to a spring-loaded gas pedal

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Index Notation, Identity Matrix

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Create a physics problem for me!

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The movement of a package on a conveyor belt

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Calculate how much weight the crane could lift

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Energy stored in a double spring system

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Torque calculation based on distributive load

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How Much Explosive Force is Needed to Overcome Drag and Elevate a Car?

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How should this Beam Loading experiment be designed?

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Surface area of inclined XY plane at 45 degrees

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Two masses on a slope with a connected tension force

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How to write this expression in terms of a Hyperbolic function?

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(Magnetism) Magnetic pull force on a steel ball

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Why is the Bridge Crane Force 2820 N?

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Gauss' law for a cavity in an insulator

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Punching a hole in a tape moving at relativistic speed

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Fast and Furious Scene Analysis

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Can the polarity at the 2 ends of a solenoid be the same in normal conditions?

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Special relativity and standard configuration

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How to calculate velocity of infinite-stage rocket?

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How does burn time affect the parameters in the rocket equation?

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Finding speed of a mass in circular motion with tension

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Conservation Laws and Velocity Reversal in 1D Collisions

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Final Velocity of a car with a opposing decreasing drag force

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Can You Convert Meters to Kilograms?

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Kinetic Energy being larger than Mechanical Energy in a Hotwheels Lab

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Amplifier gain in resonant RLC circuit

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How does a difference in air pressure induce a force?

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Having a hard time learning Newton's 2nd law

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How Do You Incorporate Drag Force in Free Body Diagrams for Multiple Objects?

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What is the definition of the dalton (Da) unit?

  • heroslayer99
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Magnetic field due to electric wire

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Calculate the magnetic moment of a rotating sphere

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Ejected out from an accelerating spaceship

  • brotherbobby
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Find the man's tension pulling the rope

  • Adam Hanns F A Cong
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Calculate density of neutrons in a beam

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How does the rise in temperature of fuse wire depend upon its radius?

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Why does the walker see a stationary river when moving at the same speed?

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Catching a loaf of bread thrown vertically at a window

  • brotherbobby
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How do we know the point of 0 electric field is on the axis?

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How Does Changing Distance Affect Microwave Path Difference?

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How to find the cube roots of a real number not equal to 1?

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Position and acceleration in simple harmonic motion given velocity

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Rigid body dynamics problem

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Calculating tension in three cords supporting a 100 kg mass

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I Thought I Understood Gauss' Law (Sheets)

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Determining field between oppositely charged conducting plates

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Relative uncertainty for products: linear vs quadratic propagation

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A water-bottle demonstration of atmospheric pressure

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Average velocity for two different types of motion along same path

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Heater power keeping a room constantly warm from low temperatures outside

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Power delivered to wheels of car with constant air resistance

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Angular frequency of two hanging bobs of different masses

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Two concentric conducting spherical shells and resistor in between

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Linearizing a circuit with a nonlinear element

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Work done by friction on a hockey puck

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Work done on crate moving on incline

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What does a Zener diode do in a circuit with non-ideal voltage source?

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Half life of multi chain decays

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Find thermal capacity of a Van der Waals gas

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Why Is My Bungee Cord Tension Calculation Incorrect?

  • I_Try_Math
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An optics question concerning pictures taken by camera

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'Police Car Catching Up' problem in kinematics

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Solving for φ on an oscillation problem

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Two dimensional motion problem (kicking a soccer ball into the goal)

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Potential and Electric Field near a Charged CD Disk

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Finding surface charge density for charged particle hitting plate

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Electric field from three point charges

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Finding the moment of a force about a point

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Cosmic ray proton: time dilation between Earth and proton frames

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Minimizing the Energy of Two Conductors Very Far Apart

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How Do Signs Affect Energy Calculation?

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Elastic collision with a massless box

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Electric field on the axis of a ring-shaped charged conductor

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Moment of inertia of a rectangular prism parallel to one face

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Find the transit time of the train

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Heat absorbed and rejected in an isothermal process

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Conservation of Energy with springs

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Force on a charge from a nearby charged rod

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Is my textbook wrong about absolute uncertainties?

  • heroslayer99
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Kinematics, curvilinear motion (a couple of questions)

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When Do Sand Particles Slip Off a Vibrating Plate?

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Action integral for a simple pendulum in Bohn's Analytical Mechanics

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Mass on a vertical spring equilibrium and motion

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Motion of a Parachuter (Terminal Velocity, Time of Flight, Distance)

  • I_Try_Math
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What is the y-component of the force by the floor on her during the collision?

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Max distance a truck can travel without box falling off

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Difficult problem in Rotational Mechanics JEE 2017 Comprehension paper

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Distance-time graph of a ball throw vertically up from a fixed point

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Find tension in string between two blocks on horizontal surface

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