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How can light be partially polarized?

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

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Calculate the volume of 1.00 mol of liquid water

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How to calculate the propagation error for a tricky Eq

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Energy dissipated as heat when a 70 kg man climbs 15 m rope

  • Sam Vermeulen
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Find all resistor values in the Wheatstone bridge

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No. of trials for P>0.99 of at least one basket ball success

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Hollow sphere with water poured in to make it just sink

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Probability of a student failing a prelim but passing the course

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How Much Current Should Flow Through My Electromagnet Experiment?

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Solving for Final Equilibrium Temperature of Water-Copper System

  • Sam Vermeulen
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Two blocks slide on an inclined plane

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Dimensions of Air Drag Constants and Terminal Speed Equation

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Using Conservation of Energy to Analyze a Potential Energy Graph

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Centripetal Force / circular motion question

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Heat pump design for cabaret climate control

  • Matt Poirier
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How Does Newton's Third Law Apply When a Bat Hits a Ball?

  • SillyYak
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Calculating Torque and Current for Quadcopter Rotor Blades

  • Timothy Teo
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Constant rotational kinetic energy

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How to Determine Values of L and C in a Series RLC Circuit at Resonance?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Tangential and centripetal force

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Moment of Inertia of a molecule of collinear atoms

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Number density and molecular spacing in an ideal gas at room temperature

  • Matt Armstrong
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Understanding Two Convex Lenses: Ray Diagram and Focal Lengths

  • waley
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Finding the final speed of a Positive and Negative Charge

  • Abu
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What is the Work Done During a 100m Sprint?

  • dboice95
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Why do cases with different masses have equal kinetic energy in SHM?

  • Huski
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Torque on Rod Due to Normal Force at a Hinge

  • erfz
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Convert atomic mass into Joules

  • Sebastiaan
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Show the relationship between torque and angular momentum

  • Shank
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Work done by a force over a distance, relative or absolute?

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Force of Wind from these variables

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S = 12t and S = 490t^2 What do they mean?

  • Indranil
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Can't find correct expression for discharging RL circuit

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Why does Na-22 positron decay rate not approach zero at maximum energy?

  • Tian En
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How Do You Calculate the Velocity of a Stone in Projectile Motion?

  • The Vitruvian Man
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Why does doubling the turn radius increase max speed by √2 not 2?

  • micjk
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Angular Momentum of a hydrogen atom in the 7f state

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Electrostatic Force - Locations of a second charge

  • Sandro Romualdez
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Angular momentum and rotational energy

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What is the role of cosφ in calculating power in LRC series circuits?

  • waley
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Rewriting cos function as sine function

  • Rijad Hadzic
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What circuit element should be placed in series to raise power factor?

  • waley
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Maximum frequency if there is to be one diffraction order

  • thomas19981
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Mechanical Advantage in a crank system

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Elongation With change in Force

  • Armando Arizpe
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Derive velocity for hanging mass unwinding from cylinder

  • Anonymous123451234
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Air I would need in order to be able to safely float 1000kg

  • Clasi
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Broglie wavelength - calculate electric potential difference

  • pbonnie
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What will be the energy required to make 1 electron escape?

  • Tanishq Nandan
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How Does Invariance Apply in Relativity Theory?

  • timetraveller123
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Can't understand my books diagram?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Angular momentum and rotational inertia

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Finding Lee's mass when she jumps off a skateboard

  • Kate2018
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Is there a way to find the velocity of air in a flute?

  • orangeraindrops
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What a I doing wrong? Swing/pendulum Questioj

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Calculating Area Under a Graph with Units in Gravity-Free Space

  • juju1
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Elliptical Orbits and Angular Momentum

  • WWCY
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Simple Pendulum motion - Numerical Integration

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Pressure needed to shoot water 12m high

  • Raffaele
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How to Find Instantaneous Velocity Using Force

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Using Energy and momentum conservation to derive the equation

  • Jenna
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Finding Work done under a graph?

  • juju1
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Torque acting on a particle in rotational motion

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Calculating Rotational Speed After Dart Strikes Target Disk

  • xxphysics
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Grating and slits problem 28 from 9702_s17_qp_13.pdf

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Rearranging T = 2π√(l/g) × x² to make g the subject

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Voltage of thundercloud as point charge

  • Physiker98
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What does the constant A represent in T=A√L for a conical pendulum?

  • Helenah
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How Does Bernoulli's Principle Apply to Varying Pipe Diameters and Water Flow?

  • Matt Armstrong
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Basic Inertia/Newton's Laws Questions

  • Gilbert189
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Projectile Kinetic Energy and Recoil in Spring Gun Experiment

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Why does heat treatment affect Young's modulus in bobby pins?

  • Dionisius DH
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Balancing a Seesaw: Finding Mass with Torque

  • Katelyn
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Power and rate of photon emission with a given temperature

  • wang jia le
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Torque On a Clock Hanging from a Nail

  • tul725
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Work done on a shopping cart by friction when being pushed

  • juju1
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A disk is tied to a stationary rolling disk and let go

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Expectation value of mean momentum from ground state energy

  • TheBigDig
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Why is conservation of angular momentum failing in this case

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Three Pulley - two masses system.

  • SciencyBoi
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How Is the Vertical Force Calculated at the Hinge in a Beam and Sign System?

  • Anonymous123451234
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Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a Hamiltonian

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Kinetic energy of solid sphere that is rolling

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Time of Electron/Proton to Radiate Away Half of Their Energy

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Variable-mass system: locomotive with coal dropping into freight cars

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What is the acceleration normal to PC in polar coordinates?

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Cylindrical Vector Field Equation Convsersion to Cartesian

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Transmission and reflectivity in a Michelson interferometer.

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Thin-film interference: finding minimum and maximum reflection thickness

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Velocity from position-time graph for dog's motion

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Why does pin A have an x component if pin C has no y component?

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Why must we use integral to find the resultant force?

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Constant acceleration and radius of curvature

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Solving Torque Unit Issue: kg*m3/s2 ≠ kg*m2/s2

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