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E = hf what sort of Energy is this?

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[Momentum and Energy] How much of initial velocity is lost?

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Compare and contrast a 2.2 eV photon with a 2.2 eV electron

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Person pulling themselves up a double pulley

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Find two lowest frequencies standing wave

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Find currents I1 and I2 in a 3-loop, 2-battery circuit

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Putty ball colliding with block on frictionless surface

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Acceleration Vector Word Problem

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Find vertical distance of missed shot

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Work to stretch a spring 15 cm supporting a 400 g mass

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Changing the Seasons by Shifting Center of Mass

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Calculating thickness of insulation, rate of T rise and fall

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Cartesian Vector Form - Door with 2 Chains

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Calculating the Time for a Car Chase: Kinematics Question

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The Height and Speed of a Geosynchronous Satellite

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How Does Earth's Magnetic Field Combine with a Nearby Current-Carrying Wire?

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How do I find the forces acting on a ladder?

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Terminal Velocity: Solve Physics IA Problem

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Acceleration and tension in two blocks connected by cord

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Tension in upper wire for revolving 970g mass on two wires

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How to Determine the Number of Turns in a Solenoid?

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Problem using centripital accel.... Can you check my work?

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Finding the Zeros of Damped Harmonic Motion Equations

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How Is Angular Acceleration Calculated for a Speeding Ferris Wheel?

  • EthanVandals
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Finding electric potential between two concentric spheres.

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Why does centripetal force do zero work on a swinging ball?

  • EthanVandals
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Problem using Newtonian Gravity.... Will you check my work?

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Time Dilation - measured vs observed time interval

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How Does the Electric Field Influence Potential Difference Calculation?

  • Arman777
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Decelerating Force of Dust on Spaceship - Conservation of Momentum

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Proving the expectation value of any eigenvalue function

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Photon-electron collision with pair production

  • WrongMan
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How is gravitational acceleration affected with distance?

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Is angular acceleration the radial or transverse component?

  • Faiq
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Explosion and conservation of momentum problem

  • Pochen Liu
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Lagrangian about rolling disk on a horizontal plane

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Is internal energy really decreasing in situation 2?

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Magnitude of tenstion required to get chest moving.

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A question on E Flux and Fields

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Express mm/s in negative powers notation

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How Small Must Mars Be Compressed to Become a Black Hole?

  • Seth Newman
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Drawing free body diagrams (torque; rotational motion)

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How Much Kinetic Energy to Accelerate a Proton to 0.9999c?

  • StillLearningToronto
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Algebra Kinematics: Ball above head, how fast must travel to

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Why is tension antiparallel to dr in the string-pulling problem?

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Radial component of B field of solenoid

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Can this gravity problem be solved without using the Earth's mass

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How to analyze the compression of a clay ball

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A ball is hit with initial velocity -- Find the Horiz/Vert displacement

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Sources of error in sprint kinematics lab with spark timer

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Finding acceleration and maximum displacement from Vx = 2.0t - t²

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Finding the Direction of Magnetic Fields with Opposing Currents

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Minimum safe height for a roller coaster

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Relativity and Equivalence of Mass and Energy

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Maglev Train and Earth's Rotation

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Find the induced electromotive force (epsilon)

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Body dropped from tower covers 7x in last second

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About electric fields (Symmetry)

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When will two current-carrying wires touch each other

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Can you get the inertia from the angular speed?

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How Long Does It Take for a Ball Thrown Upwards to Hit the Ground?

  • NoahCygnus
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Photoelectric effect behavior with intensity and frequency changes

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Resistance of a heating element?

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Voltmeter reading when current varies in adjacent coil P

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Particles in a Magnetic Field Question

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Length and Area of Cylindrical Nichrome Resistor

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Angular acceleration of an atwood pulley

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Heat energy in an inelastic collision

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How Does Changing Temperature and Pressure Affect Gas Density?

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Rigid body orientation using Euler angles confusion

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Integrating a Gaussian wave packet

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Find the linear acceleration of points on a rolling cylinder

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Why Does a Sealed Chip Bag Expand at High Altitudes?

  • Jam Smith
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Applications of the Helmholtz Coil: Shielding and Stabilizing Fields

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Fourier/heat problem involving hyperbolic sine

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Where is the force coming from to compress the spring

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How to calculate the gravitational field outside of a sphere

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Identify class for three metal bars (Magnetic Field)

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Dipole Oscillation İn Electric Field

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Momentum in a photon -> cathode collision

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What constant acceleration do you need to catch up?

  • Cynthia
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10 cm diameter loop in magnetic field

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Force diagram of a spinning mass tied to a string

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Molar heat capacity at constant pressure/volume

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What is the kinetic energy of a proton when neutron decays?

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Electrical and Mechanical Energy as it relates to Capacitors

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Magnetic induction of circular loop at axial point

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Calculate the force to stop a train

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Network function for an opamp circuit

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Rotation of a ring pivoted at several points

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Lorentz Transformations vs Galilean Transformation

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Calculating components of a force applied at an angle

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What is the Work Involved in Lifting and Moving a Box with a Crane?

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Projectile motion when you are only given time and range

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Finding the angular spread of a diffraction minima?

  • Peter Andrews
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Why Does Pulley and Spring Setup Result in 2(x1+x2) Displacement?

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Finding average speed from a displacement-time graph

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