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Heat Capacity and Latent Heat question

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How Does the Heat Transfer Rate Affect a Beaker of Liquid Nitrogen?

  • Jimmy87
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Understanding the Spring Constant: Solving a Practical Problem

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How Does Coil Design Affect Galvanometer Sensitivity and Scale Linearity?

  • moenste
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How do i find the the distances above ground?

  • lane99
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Transformer and the brightness of bulbs

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Calculating the induced voltage

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Rotating disk find the radial and transverse velocity

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Statics of a particle, mechanics, F=ma

  • Kajan thana
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Why electron affinity of noble gas is endothermic?

  • NuclearBoofluff
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Temperature change in different containers

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Newton's Second Law question, 3 blocks acting to each other

  • The Lich King
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Magnetic field pattern in a hor. plane, wire force direction

  • moenste
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Speed skier travelling up a hill

  • Ly444999
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Calculating work done on a gas

  • Potatochip911
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Millikan oil drop experiment charge determination

  • Jacob Pilawa
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Calculating Coefficient of Restitution for Two Solid Balls Colliding

  • nysnacc
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(Sp. Relativity) Krel / Kcl in powers of (v/c)^2

  • Kunhee
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Rock thrown off a horizontal cliff

  • Kiana Hill
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Uniform Circular Motion Problem. Help

  • aki_23
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Help with two electrical circuits please

  • diegovmtj
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Uniform Circular Motion Problem

  • aki_23
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Finding the angle where acceleration is 0 in the system....

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Max probability of finding an electron in 3dz2

  • Titan97
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Calculating change in entropy with °C or K.

  • rmiller70015
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Question about electrical potential energy

  • Faiq
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How Do You Calculate the Final Velocity of a Projectile?

  • vinamas
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Investigation about the inverse square law of light radiation

  • supersub
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What did I do wrong? Two-Dimension Vectors

  • Shelilla
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Particle Decay After a Certain Distance

  • PatrickStar
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Are resultant force and total force the same?

  • Zheng_
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What is the relationship between I_eq and i_1, i_2, i_3 in Kirchhoff's Laws?

  • math4everyone
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How Does Temperature Affect Copper Wire Resistivity?

  • Pao44445
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The balance reading when direction of mag. field changes

  • moenste
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Why is Icm not needed in the Parallel Axis Theorem?

  • ChloeYip
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Traveling Wave on a String: Shape Retention & Direction/Speed

  • Aliasa
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Average force exerted on the ball

  • nysnacc
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What is the horizontal force exerted by the pivot on the rod

  • Vitani11
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(SP. RELATIVITY) Annihiliation of Electrons into Photons

  • Kunhee
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How to find the mass of a pith ball using electric forces?

  • Shannon Smyth
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Tension and Newton's second law

  • Touran Khan
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What is the magnitude of the girl's change in momentum?

  • emily081715
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How does the energy loss change when blobbing on concrete instead of water?

  • ChessEnthusiast
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Tension Force between two rotating masses on strings

  • NarcolepticPig
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Find velocity of rocket that obtains more gas from gas cloud

  • Scronin267
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Pulley Question, mechanics question

  • Kajan thana
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Show these wavelengths are consistent with Rydberg formula

  • Kara386
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Is Force a Conservative Vector Field?

  • gspsaku
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How is the Couple Acting on a Coil in a Galvanometer Represented?

  • moenste
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Calculating the resultant electric field

  • diredragon
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What are the accelerations of the blocks?

  • Vitani11
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Scaling of Emission Wavelengths in Balmer Series for ##Li^{2+}##?

  • Kara386
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Find direction of current in a magnetic field

  • moenste
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Frictional Force Problem: Solve with 25kg & 0.36 Coefficient

  • Josiah W
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Heat energy and liquid nitrogen boil-off rate

  • Asad Raza
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Conservation of Energy of Mass on Crane

  • elf197320501
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Relativistic Energy and Lorentz factor

  • Kunhee
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Two Parallel Wires: Magnetic Fields

  • ShotgunMatador
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Does Bread Land Peanut Butter Side Down?

  • Vitani11
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Calculating Tension and Acceleration in a Circular Motion

  • Bobbie Reidler
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Calculating Energy Stored and Dissipated in a Capacitor Discharge

  • NkaujHelp
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Angle of Rain on Earth: Investigating Relative Velocity

  • ChloeYip
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Archived What is the equivalent capcitance of this circuit - Figured it out.

  • riseofphoenix
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How Does Electric Potential Relate to Electric Field?

  • diredragon
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Projectile motion with two objects

  • OccamsRazor1
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# of gas particles hitting one face of a cubic container

  • FranzDiCoccio
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L-shaped tank problem; forces due to water pressure

  • Any Help
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Solving for Launch Angle Using Vo

  • Alex T Weliever
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Bar movement, find angle to keep the bar stationary

  • moenste
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Boyant force on an immersed body.

  • Any Help
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AC through the wires, forces acting in/out of phase currents

  • moenste
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Magnetic flux density between two wires

  • moenste
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Determining phase shift of two frequencies

  • teetar
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Dashpots and the Work - Kinetic Energy Theorem

  • Taulant Sholla
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Problem with solving laplace equation with a charged ring

  • throwaway128
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Average acceleration of the a particle in circular motion

  • decentfellow
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Work and energy for a lowered block

  • Kpgabriel
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How Fast Must the Woman Walk to Match Her Friend's Speed?

  • emily081715
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How to find theta in a mutiple slit question

  • MartinFreeman
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How Do Tension and Friction Forces Interact in a Two-Block System?

  • vijayram
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What is v and delta X after switching between frictions?

  • Sciencelover91
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Determining mass of a weight on a three spring scale setup

  • merricksdad
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Worldlines and spacetime diagrams

  • alc95
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Evaluating my experiment; kettle water boiling efficiency

  • Omar H
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How do I properly set up this F.B.D.?

  • Vitani11
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Can a Tiger Outrun a Lion in a 100 Meter Dash?

  • physicaled
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Understanding Forces in a Whirling Tube Filled with Liquid

  • decentfellow
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Bicycle Distance: Kinematics & Friction Coefficient

  • vinamas
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Flux density expressions at solenoid centre

  • moenste
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Distance of compass to wire based on magnetic field strength

  • songoku
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Calculating velocity using maxwell distribution

  • kingkong23
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Need help starting a Scientific Investigation Report

  • PhysicsOfLearning
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What is the Net Force on q1 in a Rectangle of Charges?

  • Cimino54
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How to calculate work done on spring from object on slope?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Calculating Work Done on a Particle Using Basic Formulas

  • Jrlinton
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How to Calculate Capillary Rise on the ISS

  • yung_flower
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Is My Calculation of Kinetic Energy Change Correct?

  • Jrlinton
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Finding the voltage at a radius of a cylinder

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