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What happens to the charge and amount of energy stored?

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Determining the direction of the magnetic field

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Rocket thrust force calculation

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Heat transfer between two iron blocks

  • ardour
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Mass-spring question (frequency and amplitude)

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Moment couple (opposite direction on same line)

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Did I calculate the acceleration and Tension correctly?

  • Bart Allen
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How Does Magnetic Moment Change with Temperature and Field Strength?

  • patrickmoloney
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Is my approach correct for the 3D moment couple problem?

  • yecko
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Net forces versus net moments -- solving a beam problem

  • yecko
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Conservation of Momentum Lab (Carts Collide and Stick Together)

  • kenzieleigh
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Calculating Resistance in a Circuit using Kirchhoff's Laws

  • physicsStudent00
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How harmonics are produced in a guitar string?

  • Gabriel Maia
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Capacitor circuit time constant problem

  • helppls
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Understanding Point B: Solving for Normal Force at Point B

  • Miliman13
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Fluid Statics- u-tube displacement

  • helppls
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Area under the curve of a mass time graph

  • blueblast
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Calculating Current in a Wire Loop Inside and Outside a Solenoid

  • Noreturn
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Finding the Amplitude of a Trigonometric Motion Equation

  • Fascheue
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Understanding Mass-Spring Behavior in Zero Gravity

  • aatari
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Applied force compared friction force at constant velocity

  • JakeCC
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Frequency and wavelength of vertical string wave

  • ming
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How does angle of incidence affect microwave reflection intensity?

  • Cocoleia
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Calculating Work: When to Use W = Fd cos(a) vs. the Integral of F

  • caspeerrr
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Banked Curve-Determine smallest static coefficient of friction

  • Alexanddros81
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Understanding T = (Seconds/Revolutions) in Uniform Circular Motion

  • Miliman13
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Are ALL parallel plate capacitors linear?

  • lonelypancreas
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What Are the Forces at Play in Antarctic Snowcat Towing?

  • milkywayiguana
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Comparing kinetic energy of system to kinetic energy of center of mass

  • Human_being
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Coulomb's Law, Three Charges, X Y Components, Angle

  • Stenn
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Finding the correct formula for the speed of waves in shallow water

  • lostpersson
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Pendulum on the end of a rotating disk

  • Smouk
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Is the Use of C_V in Adiabatic Expansion of Carnot Cycle Incorrect?

  • Pushoam
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Finding velocity and acceleration at t=2 from x=4t, y=30−2.2t²

  • Lori
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Finding speed when given deceleration and distance?

  • Mady Hernandez
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Finding the magnitude of the force

  • Muthumanimaran
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Finding x(t) for a Particle Under Force F(x) = kx

  • Fascheue
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Calculating the maximum temperature of a heating wire

  • Komberly
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Finding Displacement based on Velocity Graph

  • Lori
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Circular Motion question, why does Fnet = 0 (so that T=W)?

  • sodnaz
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How Does Heat Relate to Work in Thermodynamics?

  • Pushoam
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Direction of the induced current

  • Suyash Singh
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Generate sine wave with signal generator on scope

  • loesung
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'Unusual' mathematical step in integration

  • jdbbou
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Particle with mass m and force F(t). Show that x = x(t)

  • kafn8
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Frequencies of fundamental standing waves

  • ardour
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What is the impact speed of the proton in a 4850V capacitor?

  • prokaryote
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Potential on the axis of a uniformly charged cylinder

  • acrimius
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Net force acting on positive charge

  • ardour
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Electric potential due to collection of charged particles

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Net force and acceleration as a result of a parachute

  • ardour
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Ball hitting a wall at an angle - x and y motion

  • peesha
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Finding lift and resistance for equilibrium with thrust 103000 N

  • Rhineland
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Bicycle catching a braking car with time-varying acceleration

  • Poetria
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Why must stable circular orbits require Ueff to have a minimum?

  • Prashant123
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Angular velocity of cylinders after slipping over each other

  • carlyn medona
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How to calculate the total energy in the point given.

  • Mendokusan
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Elastic collision of two titanium balls with equal approach speeds

  • terryds
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Energy Lost during elastic collision.

  • orientor
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How Does the Method of Images Simplify Electrostatic Problems?

  • timetraveller123
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Reversible Isothermal Expansion Steam

  • zwambooo
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Finding the resistance in a parallel-series circuit.

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Projectile Motion velocity vector Problem

  • Lori
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Buoyancy of a sealed hemisphere underwater

  • Nathan B
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Relativity: Initial velocity and e/m of Thomson's experiment

  • Matt21
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Why does the phase factor go with -z in this quantum mechanics problem?

  • grandpa2390
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System of two particles: Prove motion along connecting line

  • Cepterus
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What is the total amount of work done by friction?

  • OGBJ
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How do I calculate the mass of a moving object?

  • Joseph Hotto
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Using Gauss' Law to Calculate electric field near rod.

  • Nathan B
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Find how far ahead a grandfather clock gets after a period of time

  • Nathan B
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Two motorbikes accelerating toward each other over 80m

  • michaelgtozer
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Acceleration and velocity: Car and train problem

  • Cat29
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Block sliding down hill splits into two blocks

  • TGProm
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Two forces on 4.87-kg object accelerating in y-direction

  • Asad Raza
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Determine work done by electric field

  • Baramos
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How Do You Calculate the Magnitude of Acceleration in an Elevator?

  • Poetria
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Is -i equal to e^(-iπ/2) as a phase factor?

  • grandpa2390
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Particle incident from right on finite square well potential

  • RJLiberator
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How would you calculate the refractive index?

  • Vaish
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Rotational Equilibrium Question

  • Joshd99
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How to Calculate Total Power Factor in a Parallel AC Circuit?

  • Cocoleia
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What is the Speed and Number of Protons in a Van de Graaff Generator Beam?

  • doggydan42
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Conduction Angle of a Diode Circuit

  • NBaumbick
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Finding string tensions with a 5 kg mass suspended at angles

  • Masrat_A
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How many points of zero probability in a finite well?

  • L_landau
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Partial differential equation boundary

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Uneven distribution of charge on a ring problem

  • Ahmed Farhan
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Are Human Cell Walls Capacitors?

  • doggydan42
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Elastic collision and angle of deflection problem

  • Ahmed Farhan
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Why Do Objects in Convex Car Mirrors Appear Closer Than They Are?

  • Suyash Singh
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Normal modes of a two mass, two spring system?

  • Spiral1183
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Are the Fresnel coefficients equal for E and B fields?

  • Gabriel Maia
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Calculating Jupiter's Magnetic Dipole Moment Using a Dipole Approximation

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