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Calculate the angular velocity of the milk carton

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Force exerted by ramp on ball rolling down a quarter-circle ramp

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What is the motion of the cylinders after the collision?

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Calculate how many revolutions the flywheel turns

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Calculate Change in Speed Using Unit Vectors: Easy Physics Solution

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What is the force exerted by a laser pulse on a target?

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Moment of inertia of a non uniform disc

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Get vibration frequency form absorption spectra line

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Formula for delta star in capacitors

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Finding frequency of an AC current sin wave?

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Energy necessary to put something in orbit

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Projectile Motion- Object Launched in the Air

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Using Laplace to solve circuit analysis

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Why is the potential difference between points X and Z zero?

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Trouble finding the amplitude in a SHM problem

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Fluid Statics/depth in a cylinder

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Type of circuit -- What would you call this?

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Direction of induced current from varying magnetic field

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Calculate the maximum acceleration of a milk carton

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Angular spread of light rays passing through a prism

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Calculating Average Energy of a quantum state

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Which proposed EM waveforms in vacuum satisfy Maxwell's equations?

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Spring and Energy: Rocket clamped to an anchored spring

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Projectile Motion- Plane releases payload

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Calculating Angle to Shoot Sword Over Wall for UT - 65 Characters

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Velocity Vectors and Navigation Across A River

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Calculate vmax and voltage from X-ray distribution function

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Find the angular acceleration of the bridge?

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Finding string tension for a ball whirled in a vertical circle

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Direction of vector acceleration in circular motion

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Plane in flight - Dynamics Question

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Calculating Gasoline Tank Depth and Volume

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Magnitude of force of a disk on a circular track

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Finding the force of repulsion between two point charges

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Find velocity of air using Bernoulli principle

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What is the Direction of the Field and Current in a Changing Magnetic Field?

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CIE A'level question on toppling of connected solids

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Determining equilibrium position between two springs

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Why Does My RL Circuit Analysis Yield a Positive Time Constant?

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Expression for volume charge density of a sphere

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Magnetic Fields- Finding the radius

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Electric field with three charges and a point

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Indices of refraction when wavelengths are given

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Motion of two objects connected by a string

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Electric field Pre-lab annotation

  • Max
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Find velocity from Force graph using Work Theorem and Energy

  • Max
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Four point charges multipole expansion in spherical coordinates

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How Does a Leather Belt Keep Baggy Jeans in Place?

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Working with phasors (Circuits, such as complex power)

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Yes, that makes sense. Thank you for pointing that out.

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Simple Harmonic Oscillator behaviour when a potential term is added

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How Does a Combined Lens and Mirror System Create Images?

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Weight of air on a piece of paper

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Kinematics Question: Falling object

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What is the magnitude of the electric field (rod)?

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Electric field from two +3.0 nC charges 10 cm apart

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Temperature in a Carnot heat engine

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Which drawing represents an AC generator?

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Boatswans Chair pulley Question

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Drag force with differential equations, finding max speed

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What is the Speed of Sound in this Lab Setup?

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Heat required to heat water and ice

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Average normal and tangential acceleration along a curved path

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Body Velocity and Position on X-Axis at a Given Moment

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How long an object takes to stop - using friction, momentum

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Critically Damped System - Viscous force

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Gravitational forces, speeds and masses

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How do I find the amplitude of the combined signal?

  • alexdr5398
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Why do the capacitors in this circuit have the same voltage?

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Potential of a conducting sphere in a conducting shell

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How Does the Doppler Effect Explain Frequency Changes in Moving Cars?

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Driving force of a car experiment

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Relate rotational kinetic energy to potential energy

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Gravitational field outside a hollow spherical planet

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Why is this loop pushed downwards by the magnetic field?

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Simple inductance question: Finding steady state current

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Induced EMF graph of a very small wire moving through a coil

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Force on a pulley from a deflected string with tension T

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Why do a charged and neutral sphere attract if one is insulating?

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Test the limits of Poiseuilles law

  • Ron Burgundypants
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What happens to a coil of wire as current is increased?

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Two circuits coupled by adjacent inductors with third resistor

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Electricity: voltage calculation in serial

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Magnetic flux through a rectangular loop inside a wire

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What is the angular acceleration of an arm

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Why is the time interval T/4 - t, not T/4 + t, in damped oscillation?

  • Carbon123
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Why Does a Car Accelerate When Rolling Down a Hill?

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Why does perpendicular source motion produce no Doppler shift?

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Car on a hill - reasoning for static friction

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How much energy does the Earth radiate to space?

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Collision of point mass and sphere in particular fashion

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How to find the open circuit voltage?

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Conservation of momentum, collisions - what about friction?

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Poynting's theorem in a solenoid

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Why does increasing mass also increase kinetic energy and velocity?

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Switching coordinate system of a field

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Resonance at low and high frequencies of 2 closed end tubes

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