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Capacitor in series voltage problem

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Archived How Many Oscillations Until Pendulums of Different Lengths Resynchronize?

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Find mass of load that falls off truck

  • Andy Salter
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What is the Direction of the B Field from Electron Motion?

  • PhysKid45
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Find ELectric field in these regions of a spherical shell

  • grandpa2390
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Circular motion object falling in the circle

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Electric potential at the bottom of a ring?

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Meissner effect and future application to the hoverboard -- Ideas?

  • Oussama
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A 3rd method of finding wavelength in a double slit

  • LionLieOn
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Concepts regarding Electric Potentials of Spheres

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Maximizing Electrostatic Force between Two Point Charges

  • Vishakha
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Newton's Second Law -- Accelerations in a pulley system

  • Jonathan Schierl
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Electrostatic Potential Energy stored outside a shell.

  • cheapstrike
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Electric Field -- Rod from far away

  • Arman777
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Magnitude of acceleration of boxes -- is this method correct?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Calculating Input Voltage of a Step Down Transformer

  • ilovejava
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The point at which 2 vehicles meet

  • Hannah Wallace
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Finding an expression for Electric Potential?

  • PolarBee
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How to calculate the average with uncertainties?

  • Tyler S
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Mechanical wave reflection at a boundary

  • Toby_phys
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What will be the weighing machine's reading?

  • Ravi Singh choudhary
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Rotational Inertia of Solid Sphere Suspended from Ceiling

  • AlexH
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What Causes Discrepancies in Calculating Initial Angular Velocity?

  • AlexH
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Electric Field-Dimension Analysis

  • Arman777
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Projectile Motion/ Explosion Mid air

  • RED119
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Find ratio of diameter of two Cylindrical Resistors?

  • jlmccart03
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Maximum temperature reached by gas in expansion

  • timetraveller123
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Calculating EMF and Internal Resistance: A Practical Guide

  • Gustavs1337
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Optimizing Mass for Vertical Rod Buoyancy in Unknown Fluid

  • timetraveller123
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Calculating Internal Resistance: Methods A and B

  • Adriano25
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Total energy within a specific region.

  • jlmccart03
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How does a buffer amp not remove all loading effect?

  • itzernie
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Dipole in a nonuniform electric field problem

  • BrainMan
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When the truck is at rest, will the crate also be at rest?

  • javii
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Sound & Music - Ptolemy Reduced Frequency

  • Torrie
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Parallel plate capacitor: Proton vs Electron

  • Kmol6
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Which choice do I choose from the quadratic?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Single slit with minimum uncertainty

  • HelpPlease27
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What is the Method for Finding the Magnitude of a Complex Vector?

  • David932
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Quick clarification/question on Electric Field at a point

  • Pablo1122
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Resultant Electric field between charges

  • williamhannah
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A Newton's law question which is too hard for me

  • tze liu
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Entropy Change in Reversible vs Irreversible Gas Expansions

  • Silviu
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Mass sliding on frictionless inclined plane compresses a spring

  • Nacho Verdugo
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A quick and simple question/clarification on circuits

  • Pablo1122
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Newton's Second law: Tension on Cable

  • aatari
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Relative motion problem with airplane and wind velocity

  • Stormblessed
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Efficient Heat Engine and Final Temperature Calculation

  • danyull
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Lorentz Transformation and position of the object

  • Blue Kangaroo
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Pressure variation with sound waves equation

  • llatosz
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How is Work Related to Velocity?

  • Eeeff
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What is the speed of bomber when it releases its cargo

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Resistance, cross-sectional area of long coated wire

  • Cocoleia
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Partial Differential Equation in Special Relativity

  • Nerrad
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Energy use, conductive-convective layers and air films

  • kokodile
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Calculate the diameter of a baby's head using ultrasound speed

  • Littlegirloud
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Deriving an expression for the energy required to separate charges

  • Taylor_1989
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Newton's Second law: Pushing the box

  • aatari
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Is the API Hydrocarbon Emission Formula Dimensionally Consistent?

  • popoff
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How Do You Calculate the Laplacian in Polar Coordinates?

  • davon806
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Current as a function of time in an RC circuit

  • terryds
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Is the force on a dipole parallel or perpendicular to the electric field?

  • Iron_Man_123
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Forces between the dipole and a point charge

  • Albi Mema
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Extension in a Spring: Which Mass Causes Greater Extension?

  • Ameya Darshan
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Efficiency and Law of conservation for a skateboarder in a skate park

  • pageb
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Why does work have the wrong units?

  • Vitani11
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Motion in a Central Gravitational Force

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Electric Field Calculation (Square Wire)

  • Arman777
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Is nitrogen at 27˚C and 100 kPa an ideal gas?

  • tommyninetwo
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Is Mass the Same as Weight in Truss Calculations?

  • dlacombe13
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What Is the Acceleration at 55 km/h in a Sharp Monaco GP Turn?

  • Rijad Hadzic
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Electric field intensity on thin electric sheets

  • Cocoleia
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Finding electric potential where electric field is zero

  • cmkluza
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Compton Scattering Angle Calculation

  • HelpPlease27
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Acceleration of couch pushed by non-horizontal force

  • John A
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Torque to lift object by cable on a drum accelerating

  • swotty
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What Is the Maximum Induced EMF in the Inductor?

  • Asmaa Mohammad
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Elastic Collision in two dimensions question

  • iwatchcredits
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Using Capacitors on Breadboards: Tips and Tricks for Beginners

  • Taniaz
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Electric field, surface charge density

  • Cocoleia
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Derivative of Planck's spectral distribution

  • CricK0es
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What is the motivation for using a ceiling fan in a high ceiling?

  • JOSEPH JAMES
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What is the Relationship Between Kinetic Energy and Momentum?

  • zeldaspurpose
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Circuit is constructed with six resistors and two batteries

  • PhysicsNo
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Logarithm word problem, is there enough info?

  • late347
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Centripetal Force Problem with Tension on an Unknown Planet

  • Jimmy5764
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Thermodynamics Change in Internal Energy?

  • Ricardeo Xavier
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Electron Scattering and Bragg's law

  • jasonchiang97
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Why does the current take this path?

  • AXRY
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Continuous Distribution of Charges Problem

  • BrainMan
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Torque and rotation around a fixed point

  • spacediver
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Projectile Problem: Marble falls from Desk

  • aatari
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Angular Momentum Question concerning a Merry Go Round

  • WilkinsD
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Calculating Forces and Equilibrium of a Drawbridge

  • hndalama
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Calculating Required Force for Pushing Metal Blocks | Static Friction Help

  • Lily131313
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Insane Dimensional Analysis Problem

  • cytochrome
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Sign of differential length in work

  • jonjacson
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Frequency domain and mesh currents

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