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Kepler's Law for finding velocity

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How Do You Build a Clock Using a Spring and Potential Energy?

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Center of Mass and Moment of Inertia

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Calculating Internal Energy & Temperature Change of Ideal Gas

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Solving Resistor Circuit Homework: DC Motor, Rf, Rr, E, If, Ir, Pth

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Ball dropped in air at 20m/s, why v=20 not v0=20

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How to show that Carnot engine is more efficient?

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How Does Temperature Influence Total Resistance in Parallel Resistors?

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Man Rows Boat: Force, Angle, Velocity Examined

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Conservation of Energy: Solving for Initial and Final Energy

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What is the Thermal Efficiency of an Engine?

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Determining hole size using laser interference

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Conservation of energy hard problem.

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Finding ez: Solving a 3D Vector Equation

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Homework Help: Equations & Solutions

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Time it takes for a capacitor to lose half of its energy

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What is the amplitude of the electric field (laser reflection)

  • Wyoming Physics
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A person walks on a rotating platform at constant speed

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Rock Thrown from 32m Building: Vertical Velocity at 6m Question

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Elastic/Inelastic collision upon Traincrash

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What Is the Speed of the Comet at a Different Distance?

  • Vanessa Avila
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Finding the astronaut's weight on a planet's surface

  • Vanessa Avila
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Momentum conservation (ballistic pendulum)

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How Do You Calculate the Propagation Speed of a Transverse Wave on a String?

  • RavenBlackwolf
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Angular Acceleration and Torque

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Photoelectric Effect: X-ray, 2 Metals, 5 & 2.3eV Work Function

  • Ekramul Towsif
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Understanding Forces and Motion in a 3D Coordinate System

  • Const@ntine
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Velocity of a Point on a Rolling Cylinder: Solving for the Center Velocity

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Calculating initial velocity in elastics collision

  • blixel
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Relativity in X & Y Axis'-a, V, r

  • Const@ntine
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If acceleration is stated is terms of velocity....

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Solve Acceleration of Rod's Centre of Mass

  • Diganta28
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Experiment using a Wheatstone Bridge

  • Taniaz
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What is the Magnetic Flux through a Loop with Opposite Magnetic Fields?

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Gas Collisions in Containers: Comparing Ratios of Wall Collisions"

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Q factor of an AM radio RLC circuit

  • RyanP
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Significance of magnetic flux between wires

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Dielectric strength and breakdown voltage capacitor

  • late347
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Did I understand sound refraction (am I doing it right)?

  • Amar
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Help with B field for a homemade electromagnet

  • StormDuck
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Where to place a weight on a bar so that the net torque is 0

  • fishturtle1
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Discharging capacitor in RC circuit, confusing path

  • horsedeg
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Spring's Potential Energy expression

  • PhysicsIsInteresting
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Infinite Parallel wires Magnetic field

  • Funnynick
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What is the Electric Potential of a Uniformly Charged Ring?

  • Cantspel
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RC Circuit and current from a discharging capacitor

  • horsedeg
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Directional Acceleration at Relativistic Speeds

  • PhysicsLord
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"Vomit Comet" SpaceCraft (0)-V & H at Max Height

  • Const@ntine
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Question about water drop's critical radius

  • Frank Einstein
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Find the net work required to accelerate a cylinder

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How Does Wavelength Influence the Power of a Wave on a String?

  • ChloeYip
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Solving Boat Motor Engine Equations w/ Integration

  • betty0202
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How can I accurately determine the time gained or lost by a clock?

  • Vibhor
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Finding the gauge pressure at the bottom of a barrel

  • Vanessa Avila
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Pulley rotational speed in block and tackle

  • KentVibEngineer
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Rock falls from cliff-Initial Velocity?

  • Const@ntine
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A simple angular velocity with two spheres problem

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Electromagnetic wave phasor conversion

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Calculating RMS Speed of Helium & Oxygen Gas at 260K

  • ChloeYip
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How to Analyze a Plutonium-Based Atomic Bomb?

  • Sarah Madsen
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Position vs time graph simple harmonic motion phase constant

  • Ly444999
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Calculating Hydrogen Mass from Ideal Gas Law

  • ChloeYip
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Two particles undergoing circular motion

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What Causes the Rod to Rotate?

  • physics_rino
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Ice cube sliding off metal roof

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Mass and pulley system (Rotational Dynamics)

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At what time is the velocity perpendicular to the acceleration

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Electron's energies and charge density in plate-capacitor

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How to find magnetic field in a square coil next to an RC circuit

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How Do You Calculate the Speed of a Mass in an Oscillating System?

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What is the Maximum Altitude of a Model Rocket?

  • Januz Johansen
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How to calculate the current of a stream of electrons

  • ravsterphysics
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If a with respect to b, which is the independent variable?

  • Zheng_
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Potential Energy: Find Force, Equilibrium & Conditions

  • betty0202
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Very confusing question about transformer

  • Clara Chung
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How Do You Calculate Changes in Particle Speed in Circular Motion?

  • agargento
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Dynamics: Cannon ball and the moving gun

  • rndaryam
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Moment of inertia of a hollow cylinder derivation

  • Carpetfizz
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Why Does an Object Emit Every Color of Light?

  • Drizzy
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When does the ball come to rest?

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Fluid Dynamics: Solving the Equation of Continuity

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Rigid Object Under net torque question

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Luminosity of the Earth covered in bulbs

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Why Are Stars Hot and How Does Fusion Affect Their Temperature?

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What is the tension in the lift cable and in the string?

  • Starrrrr
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Proton is moving at an alpha particle, distance when it stops

  • niveda
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Help with designing an investigation

  • Jimmy87
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Car Crash Work and Energy Problem

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Choosing different axes in the same system

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Resultant amplitude for waves of different frequencies?

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Velocity vector and velocity intensity

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What is V of the small rocket as observed from inside it?

  • Axidecimal
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Changing velocity of object in space

  • Phys_Boi
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How do you find object's velocity and height using energy?

  • Sciencelover91
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How many slits for a discrete spectrum?

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How far apart are the stations?

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When would the normal force not equal the weight?

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