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Thermal energy problem: Gas expansion in cylinder

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Calorimetry: Finding mass of ice, water, steam left

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Mastering Physics: Electron turning 90 degrees in capacitor

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Polarity Reversal: Why Is Voltage of Right Source Negative?

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Uniform Slab-Finding Electric Field Using Gauss Law

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Why does the spinning of wheels move a car?

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MasteringPhysics: Find the angle between the point charges.

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Relativistic Momentum of photon

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Coefficient of Restitution problem

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What is the Young's Modulus of Aluminum, Steel, and Brass?

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Moment of inertia for this assembly

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Rising of a hoop given the falling of beads

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How Does Earth's Core Contribute to Surface Heat Compared to Solar Radiation?

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Finding the scattering cross section

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Coulomb's Law and point charges

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How can I show that the bulk modulus is about r^-4?

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Alternating RLC circuit with an additional capacitor

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How did my friend get this "Theoretical Velocity" ?

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Double slit experiment with a glass-covered slit of unknown n

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Does refraction only happen wih light rays?

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Calculating Electric Field Strength and Direction for a Negative Charge

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What Resistor Value Discharges a Capacitor 99% in 5 Seconds?

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Motion of Charged Particles in Field Uniform B-field E=0

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Current of RC Circuit After Switch is Opened

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Finding the angular frequency of an object

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What is the electrical potential at point P?

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How to find the optimum angle for takeoff for ski jump using

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Gravity between you and your computer monitor

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Non-Complex Capacitor Potential Difference question

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Thermal Expansion: Finding common temperature (Ring/Sphere)

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Russell Traction Apparatus: Find W & Traction Force

  • Melissa Reyes
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Magnitude of charge with common Transparent tape

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Intensity of light passing through 3 polarizers

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Energy of neutron in fission reaction

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Rotational motion down an incline (ring/hoop)

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Sliding blocks and a string problem

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Normal forces for small car performing a vertical loop

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Pendulum velocity using energy forumula

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Calculating Sound Intensity and Pressure Variation at a Distance

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Relations between torque for system of pulleys

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A mass is free to move on a horizontal frictionless surface

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Centre of gravity, centre of buoyancy (image)

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How Do You Solve a Double Atwood Machine Problem with Unequal Masses?

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Is the Young's Modulus Equation Homogeneous?

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How can we improve the performance of our mousetrap racecar?

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Problem about measurement and probability of energy

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"Calculating Work, Energy & Speed of Block on Spring

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A pulley of mass m using conservation of energy

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How to solve a simple elastic collision problem?

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Conservation of momentum - Vertical spring

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Finding magnitude and direction of an electric field

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Archived Momentum science experiment help

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Archived Atwood Machine, I determining position of the masses.

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Solving for RMS current of a resistor, help?

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Angular momentum for a shrunken Earth

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Volume of water required to cool thermal/nuclear plants?

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A bead rests at the top of a fixed, frictionless hoop.

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Proton trajectory grazing a charged sphere

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Prove that the period of a SHM is 2pi*sqrt(m/k)

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Is my solution for Kirchoff's Rules Problem correct?

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Block on Spring SHM, Finding angular frequency

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How Does the Angle Affect the Height and Speed of a Toy Car on a Track?

  • Supremetheking
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Velocity Charged Particle between Parallel Plates

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Action-Reaction Force for external forces

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The relationship of the current before and after a change.

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Voltage & Current & Push & Force & Potential

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Newton's Second Law: Car and Rock Problem

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A particle of mass m is initially at rest

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Question regarding finding mass given a weight and gravity

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Force of a block on an incline above a horizontal

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Change of Variables Legendre's Equation

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Determine the angular momentum in polar coordinates

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Sound & Music, Mass on a spring

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Sound & Music, String Frequency

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Magnetic Flux Through a Square Loop

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Equation to calculate absorbed dose of radiation?

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Ranking brightness of lightbulbs in a circuit

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Kinetic energy of plate tectonics problem

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How much stored energy do the plates have?

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Understanding Moment and Center of Gravity in One Dimension

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Why Is the Number of Nucleons in Earth Incorrect?

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Kinetic Theory - Mass on a piston

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Final temperature real gas behaving ideally

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Archived Simple Harmonic Motion - Spring-Pendulum-Mass System

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Archived Simple pendulum problem with only velocity and angle known

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Archived Pendulum Motion (Simple Harmonic Motion)

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What is the Electric Field rule?

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Normalize Hydrogen Wavefunction

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Spring problem using work energy theorem

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Gauss' Law -- Clarification about using the equation please

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Capacitor with uniform space charge between them

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Electric dipole in Uniform Electric Field (3D)

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