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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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Find Acceleration & Tension in a System with Two Blocks and a Connecting Cord

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Calculating Tension in a Revolving Mass: Homework Solution

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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?

  • sunnnystrong
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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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Centripetal Force and Work: Understanding the Relationship

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

  • sunnnystrong
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Time Dilation - measured vs observed time interval

  • astrocytosis
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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

  • flamespirit919
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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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Radial and Tangential Acceleration

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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.

  • Rijad Hadzic
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A question on E Flux and Fields

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Can someone help me express mm/s In negative powers notation

  • AndyKeeble
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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)

  • Janet1234
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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

  • Notaphysicsmajor
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Calc Direction of Tension: Work & Kinetic Energy

  • Elias Waranoi
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Radial component of B field of solenoid

  • madhavpr
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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

  • dannyboy2233
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A ball is hit with initial velocity -- Find the Horiz/Vert displacement

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Kinematics physics lab help sources of error

  • Chriszerchage12345
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Acceleration & max displacement from velocity equation

  • ldesai149
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Finding the Direction of Magnetic Fields with Opposing Currents

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Minimum safe height for a roller coaster

  • jmm5180
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Relativity and Equivalence of Mass and Energy

  • Alena Selone
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Maglev Train and Earth's Rotation

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Find the induced electromotive force (epsilon)

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Kinematic: Problem based on free fall

  • NoahCygnus
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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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Use Max Planck's quantum theory to explain the following...

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Resistance of a heating element?

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EM Induction:current in one coil inducing current in another

  • Taniaz
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Particles in a Magnetic Field Question

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Gauss' Law: Charge distribution on concentric spherical surfaces

  • Arman777
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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

  • vcsharp2003
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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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Question about Gaussian wave packet

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Find the linear acceleration of points on a rolling cylinder

  • vcsharp2003
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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

  • Arman777
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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

  • hndalama
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Molar heat capacity at constant pressure/volume

  • Nick Jarvis
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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

  • dunn1313
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Question about Magnetic induction of circular loop

  • BREAD
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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

  • davidpascu
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Lorentz Transformations vs Galilean Transformation

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Calculating components of a force applied at an angle

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

  • Adrian379
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Projectile motion when you are only given time and range

  • Acmnji
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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?

  • Guidestone
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Kinematics: Find average speed from displacement-time graph.

  • NoahCygnus
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Finding displacement current in an AC capacitor circuit

  • Peter Andrews
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Spring block system on inclined plane

  • randomgamernerd
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What is the equivalent capacitance between points A & B?

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Hole though the Earth and SHM: why is uniform density assumed?

  • Vitani11
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Perfect Inelastic collision with string tension

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Field of an infinite plane sheet of charge

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Solving for Imax and Energy in an LC Circuit: Homework Help

  • clamatoman
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Intrinsic semiconductor, carrier concentration

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Calculate Max Lever Length for Toppling Block

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Need some help with forces on a dangling prism Internal Assessment

  • yanshu liang
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SHM Amplitude vs. Frequency graph

  • Taniaz
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Electric potential of a conical surface

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Filter Graphing Help - Calculate & Graph Response

  • MYMLA
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Time measured by a car-Special relativity

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Cylinder rod charge density (Gauss Law)

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