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Force on a bead due to a rotating wire

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Twins Paradox: Solving for Total Time Lapse

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Magnitude of force on charged particle

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Minimum velocity for puck to slide off 1-meter wooden panel

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Resistance of a water heaters heating element?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Tension in a rope placed on a cone

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RLC circuit with 15Ω resistor, 200μF capacitor, 12mH inductor

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Electric field in the center of an arc

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Conservation of Energy: Pulley and Springs

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Current between concentric cylinders with dielectric

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What happens to a cylinder in a closed tube as angular velocity increases?

  • giokrutoi
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Estimate average speed of electrons in gas?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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How Long to Reach Maximum Height for a 70 m/s Projectile at 45 Degrees?

  • Cortana
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Rod and garage paradox: different fitting outcomes in different frames

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Velocity and Acceleration Relationship

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Resistance, Voltage, and current

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Finding Vmax of a Block in SHM: Mass, Spring Constant, and Distance

  • Litdaze
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TV signal interference from airplane reflections at 75 MHz

  • Charlestonprince
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Electron deflected in parallel plate capacitor

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Relative velocity and water skier

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Cord Oscillates, Tension Changes

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Direction of the magnetic field

  • Cici2017
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Which point has the strongest electric field strength in this scenario?

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Finding the North Pole of a Magnet Using the Right Hand Rule

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Calculating the Total Energy of a Transverse Wave on a String

  • gimak
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Why do magnetic fields above and below a current have the same strength?

  • Cici2017
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Force on an electron in a magnetic field

  • chopnhack
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Capacitance and Dielectrics in Parallel Plate Capacitors

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Direction of friction acting on a rolling cylinder

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Conservation Laws in Elastic Collision of Particle with Rotating Square

  • Fibo112
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Three points at the vertices of equilateral triangle

  • Pushoam
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Year 11: Centripetal Acceleration/Force "Challenging" questi

  • jstretto
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Maximum distance the car accelerates in a circle without skidding

  • Pushoam
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Center of Mass (Subtraction over addition)

  • Ignitia
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Standing wave in stick with resonant tube length

  • Const@ntine
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Tension in a chain with circular motion

  • Pushoam
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Calculate charge and capacitance

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Distance between two events w.r.t. two frames

  • Pushoam
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Minimum value of coefficient of friction

  • Jahnavi
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Force between parallel wires carrying 1.0A current 1.0m apart

  • Cici2017
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Tuning a Violin's Chord (Frequencies)

  • Const@ntine
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Difference between mean speed and mean velocity vector magnitude

  • Pushoam
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Calculating a bolt's free fall time in an accelerating elevator

  • Pushoam
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Magnetic moment and torque equations for current loops

  • J6204
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Runner coinciding with train fronts and backs in special relativity

  • tobix10
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Determining the direction of torque

  • J6204
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Using the right hand rule in physics

  • J6204
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Pytels Dynamics 12.26: Block moves along the x-axis

  • Alexanddros81
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Projectile motion, radii of trajectory

  • Pushoam
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Δt between consecutive frequency configurations

  • Const@ntine
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Wave Confluence: Ship & Radiotowers (Check Needed)

  • Const@ntine
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Calculating distance, angle bet. velocity and acceleration

  • Pushoam
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KE+PE when a rocket's speed is less than escape velocity?

  • GrimReaper
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Calculating the distance to turn off the highway

  • Pushoam
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Calculating Incidence Angle for Tilted Plate and Light Source

  • Yani
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Fireman sliding down pole with friction over distance d

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Pytels Dynamics 12.25: Plane tracked by radar stations

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Velocity of a particle kicked into four point charge square

  • jlmccart03
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Do two particles moving on the same line have different position vectors?

  • Pushoam
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Change in potential energy of air in a piston-cylinder system

  • Pripyat
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How to Calculate F1 and F2 for a Balanced Beam?

  • Buns_of_Steel
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Is My Physics Calculation on Bullet and Block Interaction Correct?

  • epiccy
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Calculate electric potential from a graph

  • jlmccart03
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Two speakers interfering: minimum intensity on a hyperbola

  • Const@ntine
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Magnitude of the electric field

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Pulley system, calculate acceleration

  • dodo lee
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Magnitude and Direction of the Force on a Charge

  • Physistory
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Calulate the distance of objects in Earth's orbit

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Basic torque/static equilibrium problem

  • epiccy
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Wavelengths, Flux Density, Irradiance from a temperature measurement

  • Natalie Johnson
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KVL/KCL with two sources - can a loop have both sources?

  • chopnhack
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Investigation about the emission spectrum of Mercury

  • Zibi04
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Free energy Helmholtz using only the equation of state

  • Dario SLC
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Find the electric field at the origin

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What Is the Acceleration of Block B in a Two-Mass Pulley System?

  • Neolight
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Free fall distance with non-constant g

  • DavidTheGreat
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Frequency of Trucks Overtaking a Cyclist

  • Const@ntine
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What charge is carried by sphere c?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Sound Intensity (Level) - Hearing Aid

  • Const@ntine
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Solving Volumetric Expansion of Water in Glass

  • chopnhack
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What is the Electric Field at Two Points?

  • jlmccart03
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Electrical forces, application of Colomb's law

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Packet dropped from a rising balloon at 65 m height

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Explain speed limits on curved ramp with Newton's Laws

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How Fast Will the Rocket Travel After Using All Its Fuel?

  • Asad Raza
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Magnetic Field of a Line between two wires

  • Litdaze
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RC circuit -- finding the charge on each capacitor

  • fedecolo
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Electricity (Potential difference between points in circuit)

  • Suyash Singh
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Finding time between two arrivals at y = 0.175m in transverse wave

  • Const@ntine
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Find the current flowing through the 3 ohm resistor.

  • prakhargupta3301
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Finding Velocity Components given Speed and Heading

  • Ash_Sdr
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Interference of Waves, Sound Diminution

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Finding the magnitude of electric field

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How to find max velocity in a spring-mass system?

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