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Resistors in Series - Lab data confusion

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Simple pendulum - displacement increase

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Resistors in Series - Lab data confusion

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Deriving the energy density of the Electric Field

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How Should a Pilot Adjust for a Westward Wind to Fly North?

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How to solve gravitational force exerted

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EM: Electric field, Two thin rods uniform line charge

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Determine the normal forces to hold an upside down cone

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Electric field of a positive plate

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Determining the direction of an induced current

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Understanding Resistance and Current in Ohmic and Non-Ohmic Components

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Pressure Halfway through a planet

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Negative vs Positive work on an escalator

  • Matt Poirier
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Particle traveling towards a plate with an Electric Field

  • doggydan42
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Average velocity when the interval has a domain

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Manometer finding absolute pressure at P1

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Finding the Charge on an Ion in a Zero Electric Field

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Force exerted on counter-rotating wheels by a tennis ball

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Calculating Unknown Forces in a Vector Diagram

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Kinematic problem, are my variables right,

  • rashad764
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2 unknown Forces+known resultant force

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Cartesian to curvilinear coordinate transformations

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Electric Field between Two Thin Conducting Plates

  • doggydan42
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Thermodynamics of a Constant Volume Gas Thermometer

  • RJLiberator
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How do I calculate masses predicted by the force law equation

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What is the Maximum Angle of Deflection in a Particle Collision?

  • fedecolo
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Bohr-Sommerfeld model question "Old" Quantum Theory

  • RJLiberator
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Adding Vectors-Calculating Magnitude and Location

  • kevbos
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Impulse and momentum in two dimensions - velocity question

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Faraday's Law: Induced Voltage and Current in a Loop with Resistance R

  • horsewnoname
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How to approximate—kinematic question using special cases

  • Demetrius
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Electric field in an infinite layer

  • Bestfrog
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Car and Ball Acceleration Problems

  • Masrat_A
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Two object leave the same point with different speeds

  • Matt_rb
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Position of a charge (out of 3) with a net force of 0

  • doggydan42
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A ship leaves the island of Guam and sails 285km at 40 degre

  • aron silvester
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Projectile Motion -- position and the highest point

  • Masrat_A
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How do you determine the sign of a magnetic field?

  • Vladi
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B-field inside a charging || plate (disc shaped) capacitor

  • Pushoam
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Inductor as a battery in a circuit

  • Pushoam
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Calculating electric flux when given a charge (Gauss)

  • Will12
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Quantum Mechanics: Expectation values (Griffiths)

  • WWCY
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Finding electric potential of two concentric rings

  • Richardbryant
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Finding torque in rotating cylinder (viscosity )

  • bobblehead
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Isothermal Work Calculation for an Imperfect Gas

  • RJLiberator
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Which directions should be set to positive? Impulse/momentum

  • Specter
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Calculating Work with Vector Components and Variable Force

  • Chansu
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EMF in bigger loops kept on both sides of a small loop

  • Pushoam
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How to avoid an egg being cracked when dropped

  • a129
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What do the values represent in this equation?

  • jfnn
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Angular frequency of a physical pendulum

  • Pushoam
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Circular Motion of bicycle wheel

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How much do you need to increase the pendulums length by to

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EMF across a loop with one end in a parallel plate capacitor

  • Pushoam
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Current due to metal spheres kept far away in the sea

  • Pushoam
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Vector Addition and Subtraction for Homework Help

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I-V graph of two wires and temperature

  • shihab-kol
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Question regarding inelastic/elastic collision.

  • jfnn
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Determine the ratio of the charge to the mass

  • Vladi
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What is the charge of each conductor afterwards?

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Finding the Braking Force of a Truck on an Inclined Plane

  • Bill_Nye_Fan
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How to determine the direction of the E-field of an EM wave

  • Luk
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Calculating Force to Pull a Rope Using Impulse Momentum Theorem

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The force required to raise a bridge/lever to an angle?

  • helppls
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Understanding Negative Current in Discharging Capacitors

  • Pushoam
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Need help finding the density in this particular problem

  • Alexandra7
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Lenz' Law - request for formula (for 2 given cases)

  • Student149
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Finding a second velocity with a first and average velocity

  • Heidi
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How to calculate the uncertainty for weight?

  • jfnn
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Projectile motion thrown apple question

  • Specter
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How do I find the final velocity and how high the bridge is?

  • Julia Smith
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Determine stopping distance of a train - modified Euler method

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Dimensional formula of distances in certain formulas

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Block sliding up an inclined plane

  • Kevin Smith
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Frictional Torque of a Spinning Top

  • MR SPIN
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Increment of capacitance of conductor

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How do I convert 6.7 km/hr/sec to m/sec^2

  • Lia44
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Rearranging acceleration formulas

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What Is the Minimum Speed and Tension in a Swinging String with Keys?

  • Specter
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Spring Mechanics Homework: Find Maximum Elongation

  • sankalpmittal
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Electric field generated by ions in a box

  • Bestfrog
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How do you find the third vector C in vector addition problems?

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Determine stopping distance of a train traveling at 20m/s

  • Alexanddros81
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What is the net electrostatic force of the sphere at the origin?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Why does my experimental value of g differ greatly?

  • jfnn
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Time Dilation, calculate the age of the returning astronaut

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2-D Kinematic Velocity and Acceleration Practice Problem

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General Definition of Potential Energy - Conceptual Help

  • Irfan Nafi
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What is the torque on an electric dipole in an electric field?

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Fire an arrow at a moose as it runs away

  • Girn261
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What is the Thermal Conductivity of a Diatomic Gas?

  • WWCY
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Formula confusion for magnetic field inside capacitor

  • Suyash Singh
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Constant velocity, constant acceleration?

  • jfnn
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I want to calculate mark space ratio: f=25000Hz,T=4us

  • engnrshyckh
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Finding the aceleration of a system

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Finding the maximum displacement

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Force on a 3rd point charge due to 2 other point charges

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Thermodynamics Hydrogen question

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