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RLC Circuit Behavior with Changing Frequency, Capacitance, and Voltage

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Electric Field due to multiple point charges

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Relativity: Spaceship travel times and distances

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Archived Solid State Physics: Hall Effect + Semiconductor Lab

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Maximum velocity for the motor movement

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The total tension acting on a rotating rod

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Charges inside a metal sphere will tend to go towards

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Stiffness factor for member in beam

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Classical mechanics electrostatics and charges

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Find change in electric potential energy

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Object Rotating on a Semicircle

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DeBroglie wavelength based on kinetic energy

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Distance and Time for a Moving Muon

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Newton's 2nd Law Problem, Angle exerted on block by surface

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What is the Maximum Height of this projectile?

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Can I use this solution? Angular motion

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Is GPS a good topic for a physics of light and waves research assignment?

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Calculating Angular Acceleration and Speed with Variable Force on a Pulley

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Tug-of-war with competing decay of force equations

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Relationship between emf and magnetic field strength

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What is the Energy Released in a Nuclear Reaction?

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Friction Torque and Lost Energy in Colliding Disks: Where Did it Go?

  • Arman777
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Electric field at a point affected by two charges

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Current through left bridge of a Wheatstone Bridge

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Probability of getting specific states -- Quantum Mechanics

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How do I analyze an ideal diode circuit for forward and reverse bias?

  • Cocoleia
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Is MCB Actually Larger than MBC in Frame Structures?

  • fonseh
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Why does the author use Δ1 + Δ2 for C instead of just Δ2?

  • fonseh
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Induced current in a moving bar on rails

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Friction problem -- 2 blocks and a rope on an inclined plane

  • iwan97
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Net electric flux through a Gaussian cube

  • Jrlinton
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Latent heat and specific heat in insulated container

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Cartesian Coordinates and Cross Product of Vectors for Magnetic Field Direction?

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Current Through A Resistor That Is In Parallel With A Capacitor

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Getting direction of force of two point charges on a third

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Creating closer fringes in double-slit interference

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Finding relationship between Range and Launch height

  • Sam 1998
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Gaussian shell and electric field

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Electric field of a washer (hollow disk)

  • Anne Armstrong
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Train engine climbing a hill: finding work and heat

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Consistent Trajectory for a non-zero rest mass particle?

  • DeldotB
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How do I find the points where the electric field is zero?

  • Mason Smith
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Loudspeaker Question (Sound and Intensity)

  • K_Physics
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Egg thrown upward at 27.4 m/s from 1.36 m height

  • TheFlemster
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Electric field strength near a metal plate

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Understanding Critical Flow and Minimum M in Fluid Mechanics

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Radiating sphere inside spherical shell - heat transfer

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Why does impulse of a punted ball not require its mass?

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Current through a conductor with varying cross-sectional area

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Calculating the Charge on Capacitor

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Magnitude of electric field near spherical shell

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How to show torque in a free body diagram for a ruler on a pivot

  • Justin Webb
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Find electric field strength expression for a specfic region

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Light (Constructive/Destructive Interference)

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Induced current in a metal ring

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Calculating the Size of an Arbitrary Planet

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How to find angular acceleration given a force applied?

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Power Output of a Turbine (Rotational Energy)

  • Ceesa
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Rearranging m1-m2=-2.5log10(F1/F2) to find F1

  • Physics Dad
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Finding the Moment of Inertia for a Rectangular Sheet

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How to find Voltages and currents of the following circuit

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3 Examples of jobs related to the interference of light

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Potential energy in Gauss' gun

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Deriving the moment of inertia of a sphere

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Insulated bulbs immersed in heat reserviors

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Finding angular acceleration from revolutions and velocity

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Uncertainty in Fluid Viscosity Measurement: Improving Result Presentation

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Static Equilibrium: Understanding Changes in Tension and Vertical Force

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Understanding Potential Energy Graphs for Two-Particle Systems

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Calculating Flywheel Rotations in Angular Speed and Constant Acceleration

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Static equilibrium with friction question

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What is the Surface Charge Density Based on Velocity Over Time Graph?

  • Jrlinton
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Charge on a cavity wall and Gauss' law

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Charge between two metal plates

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Gaussian Shell and net electric field

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Basic electrostatics problem; analytical solution?

  • Taulant Sholla
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RC circuit black box circuit modeling

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[PoM] Electrons Fermi level in a crystal

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Find average acceleration - vectors

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Electrical Circuit Problem / Electric Potential Difference

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Why is it not possible for D2 to be off in this diode problem?

  • Cocoleia
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How Long Does It Take for a Flywheel to Stop?

  • Arman777
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Electric Flux through half a cylinder

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Impedance matching a purely resistive load

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Activity of 1 g of carbon if 1 in 10^12 atoms are carbon-14

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When is gravitational value - and/or +?

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Angular acceleration of a wheel w/string on inner hub?

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When will a rope break on 2kg and 3kg objects under increasing force?

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Volume occupied a single molecule of water.

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Oscilloscope AC/DC Rectifier Problem

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Understanding Cylindrical Capacitors: Charged vs. Disconnected

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Inelastic collision between two perpendicular particles

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