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How Many Electrons Does a Cathode Ray Tube Emit Per Second?

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Rotational kinetic energy of ice skater

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Calculating Forces at A and B on Shelf in Slot

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Solving a Hockey Puck Collision: Final Velocity

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What are the tension and angle of support rope for a cylinder about to slip?

  • Vitani11
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Archived Optics: Shift in y from a thin pane of glass, young's experiment.

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Archived Reflecting telescope with curved objective and eyepiece mirrors

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Pendulum swinging and hitting a peg

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Finding Electric Field at a Given Position due to Point Charges

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Forces: find angle without x/y components?

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Archived Angular magnification and the magnifying glass

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What is the velocity of the projectile when it hits the net?

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Average velocity vector of non-uniform circular motion?

  • Carpetfizz
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Comparison of internal energies: hot nail versus beaker of water

  • memeningful
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Archived How Can You Calculate the Wavelength in a Double Slit Experiment?

  • quicksilver123
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Archived Optics - magnification of a converging lens

  • matematikuvol
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Is PV^gamma Constant in Adiabatic Processes?

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In which case is the period larger? ( Above earth or below?)

  • Vitani11
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What is the Recoil Velocity of a Cannon Shooting a 30 kg Shell at 500 m/s?

  • Luke0034
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Solving a Midterm Physics Problem: Masses A & B with Springs

  • DCholic
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What Does Over Time Imply in the Context of the Huygens–Fresnel Principle?

  • Hamal_Arietis
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Time for which RTG will supply the required energy output?

  • moenste
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Question on the free-fall of 2 bodies

  • Mr.maniac
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What Colors of Light Are Absorbed by Electrons in a 3.1 nm Infinite Well?

  • GummyLizard
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Kinematics of a Thrown Ball: Finding Time to Reach Ground

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How to calculate tension in straight-line motion

  • Peter Halsall
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Which of the following is not a simple harmonic system.

  • cychengad
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Can a balance give accurate reading if measured on the moon?

  • alisdfd
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What is the mass of 55 Cancri in kg and solar masses?

  • Lauren0619
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How Do You Calculate Capacitance for Split Capacitors in PhET Simulations?

  • physocs1
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Rocket speed with changing mass and variable gravity

  • Garunekk
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Can't Identify Error in Calculation

  • RBF
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Infinite square well with step function: probability depends on L?

  • danmel413
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Understanding Heat Transfer in a Closed System with a Moving Piston

  • vijayram
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How Fast is an Asteroid Traveling Toward Earth?

  • fleetingmoment
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New distance between the Geiger counter and the source

  • moenste
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The x components of the average accelerations?

  • emily081715
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Ratio of the rate of decay of R to that of S after 2 hours

  • moenste
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Nuclear equation of the decay, decay constant, # of atoms

  • moenste
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How to make this circuit easier?

  • Earthland
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Calculate the deflection sensitivity in mm per volt

  • moenste
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Calculate the focal length of a planoconvex lens?

  • givemeknowledge
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Masses Over a Uniform Cylindrical Pulley

  • Cdh0127
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When Voltage is Constant (DC), is current also constant?

  • Ocata
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Calculate tension and strain of wire

  • kdunkzz
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What would be the relaxed length of the spring?

  • kdunkzz
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Change in rotational kinetic energy

  • Minestra
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Masses over a Pulley (w/ angular kinematics)

  • Cdh0127
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Finding velocity and work of a collision

  • Jrlinton
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Calculate the Orbital Radius of a Planet

  • Slurpee12
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Elastic collision with pendulum

  • Jrlinton
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Very quick easy Trig/Angle question

  • Pablo1122
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What is the period of the loaded tuning fork?

  • blue.flake
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Equations of Motion of a Mass Attached to Rotating Spring

  • SaraM
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Magnetic Field produced by moving charges

  • shirobon
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Height in conservation of energy problem

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What is the force exerted by each hinge on the door?

  • kamhogo
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Finding velocity upon collision

  • Godisnemus
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Speed, force, magnetic flux of an ion?

  • moenste
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Calculating the Year Length of a Gak Planet

  • Stevemotto
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Wave Problem (time for a point to move half a wavelength)

  • terryds
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Tension in the string holding a falling chain

  • Nathanael
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Conservation of energy/Finding maximum height

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Special Relativity spaceship problem

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Car accelerating, cruising, then braking to stop at 100 m

  • Adriano25
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Forces acting on bar magnet inside a charged solenoid

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Calculating Total Charge on Non-Uniformly Charged Sphere

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Archived Oscillation with Green's Function

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Period of motion of an object dropped through the Earth

  • kubaanglin
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Understanding accelerometer data

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Inductive charging: Emf induced in two coil loops

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What Determines the Force on a Charge?

  • Ashley1nOnly
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How much energy is dissipated in the fourth bounce?

  • emily081715
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Why is power loss = I^2R instead of P=VI or P=I^2R?

  • victorhugo
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How many electron charges are there on the drop? (Millikan)

  • moenste
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Radius of Half Electric Potential Energy

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Temperature Calculation for a Distant Star with Thermal Excitation

  • Vitani11
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How do I calculate the acceleration of the C.O.M. of a pulley system?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Find the force of attraction for a particle outside sphere

  • Vitani11
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Determine the speed of the block at the bottom of the inclin

  • emily081715
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How much energy is dissipated in the first bounce?

  • emily081715
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Gravitational Potential due to spherical shell

  • Elvis 123456789
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Force Problem: force direction and choice of sign for g

  • unknown physicist
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Electric field in nichrome wire with same current as gold wire

  • ricky25j
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How Does Huygen's Principle Explain Wave Propagation?

  • Aliasa
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Finding final velocity and position of a two ended rocket

  • Jrlinton
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Simple Harmonic Oscillator: Mass Spring System

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Calculate the speed of the electrons as they enter the gap

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Ground state energy for exciton in Si

  • adamaero
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Mass, Density and Volume of atmosphere

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Voltage drop across connecting wires?

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Finding magnitude of tension that causes object to slip

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Electron vs Photon question? Significance of momentum?

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Particular Solution of A Coupled and Driven Oscillator

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Force on a mass by two fixed masses

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Find the voltage across the resistor

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How Do Object Space and Image Space Affect Lens Calculations?

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