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What is the amplitude of the resulting oscillations?

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Find the minimum kinetic energy of two electrons in a 1D box

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Determining pressure at various altitudes using integration

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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?

  • ikihi
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Moment of inertia of a falling tree at 17° angle

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Internal energy and temperature change with heat transfer and work

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Shunt-wound DC motor: finding field and rotor currents, emf, and thermal losses

  • David112234
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Ball dropped in air at 20m/s, why v=20 not v0=20

  • MrGoATi
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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?

  • ravsterphysics
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Man Rows Boat: Force, Angle, Velocity Examined

  • Const@ntine
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Solving for initial and final energy using conservation of energy

  • Neon32
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What is the Thermal Efficiency of an Engine?

  • yecko
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Determining hole size using laser interference

  • Drizzy
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Conservation of energy hard problem.

  • Neon32
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Finding ez in a unit vector equation

  • hubluh
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Finding tension in a rope connecting two blocks on an incline

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

  • sliperyfrog
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Finding electric field amplitude from laser force on reflecting surface

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

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

  • Jud Rice
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Elastic/Inelastic collision upon Traincrash

  • TheChemist_
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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)

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

  • RavenBlackwolf
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Stuntman descending on rotating cylinder rope

  • jakec
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X-ray photoelectric effect with 5 eV and 2.3 eV work functions

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

  • Const@ntine
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Finding velocity of point on rolling cylinder given polar motion equations

  • doktorwho
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Calculating initial velocity in elastics collision

  • blixel
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Relative velocity and acceleration between two accelerating cars

  • Const@ntine
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Converting acceleration stated in terms of velocity to time

  • k_squared
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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?

  • ATT182
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Ratio of wall collisions when temperature quadruples

  • Any Help
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Q factor of an AM radio RLC circuit

  • RyanP
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Significance of magnetic flux between wires

  • Faiq
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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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Magnetic field too large for electromagnet with carbon steel core

  • 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 parabolic trajectory velocity and height at max altitude

  • Const@ntine
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Vapor pressure over a water drop as a function of temperature and radius

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

  • blixel
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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

  • dennislam
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Electromagnetic wave phasor conversion

  • TheRedDevil18
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RMS speed ratio of helium to oxygen 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

  • Vibhor
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What Causes the Rod to Rotate?

  • physics_rino
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Ice cube sliding off metal roof

  • Carpetfizz
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Mass and pulley system (Rotational Dynamics)

  • ikihi
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At what time is the velocity perpendicular to the acceleration

  • hhhp8cec1
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Electron's energies and charge density in plate-capacitor

  • late347
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How to find magnetic field in a square coil next to an RC circuit

  • davidhowie34
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How Do You Calculate the Speed of a Mass in an Oscillating System?

  • Adriano25
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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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Finding force and equilibrium from exponential potential energy

  • betty0202
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Why does transformer secondary voltage not equal rated voltage?

  • 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?

  • Gopal Mailpalli
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Why does blocking a hose opening increase water distance by a factor of 4?

  • joseph_kijewski
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Rigid Object Under net torque question

  • stratz
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Luminosity of the Earth covered in bulbs

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

  • dykuma
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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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Designing a transformer investigation using all given equipment

  • Jimmy87
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Car Crash Work and Energy Problem

  • a1234
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Choosing different axes in the same system

  • Carpetfizz
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Resultant amplitude for waves of different frequencies?

  • mintkints
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Velocity vector and velocity intensity

  • doktorwho
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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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