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Potential at a point inside a solid non conducting uniformly charged sphere

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Why is there are precession frequency here?

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How Does Centripetal Force Influence the Flight of a Rubber Band?

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Calculating relative velocity -- Jumping between two moving trains

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Ohm's Law confusion -- How to handle an incandescent bulb?

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Calculating Torque on this Square

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The velocity of a satellite rotating around the Earth

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Doubt Calculating the Total Displacement for this Person Walking

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Brightness of two lamps in a circuit having a changing magnetic field

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Which material has the greatest Young's Modulus?

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How many discs will slide off the board as it decelerates?

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Momentum in a Head-on collision

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Assistance in cutting down unneeded information in physics report

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Questions about speed and motion of a toy car on a conveyor belt

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Diffrence between resolving vector to components and find projections

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Two Equations for Average Velocity?

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Will The Cars Stop In Time? - Check My Work Please :)

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How can a transistor behave as a switch in the saturated region?

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Electric field in a second dielectric given a 2 dielectric system

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Atwood at an incline accelerating down

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Coherent interference at a low photon flux rate

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What is the rocket's initial acceleration?

  • JoeDGreat
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Working mechanism of straws and siphon

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Magnetic field in a solenoid with rectangular cross-sectional area

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Calculations involving different Dielectrics and Capacitors

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Special Relativity problem: Lorentz transformation and Reference Frames

  • James Chase Geary
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Why can a fluid that satisfies the continuity equation cross streamlines?

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E&M: Gauss' Law Surface Charge Density

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What force is needed to break a rope?

  • Lotto
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Particle experiencing only an angular force, determine the r dot

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A circuit involving two non-linear resistances (incandescent lamps)

  • Jan Vesely
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Q: Confusing Conservation of Mass Flow Rate and Conservation of Flow Rate

  • tracker890 Source h
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Why Was My Thread Closed on the Physics Forum?

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Is My Approach to Calculating Relative Velocity Correct?

  • Aurelius120
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Difficulty in deciding when to apply work energy theorem

  • physicsissohard
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Rydberg constant for hydrogen atom and Balmer series

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Work done by gravity on a car rolling down a hill

  • physicsmaster123
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Basketball thrown straight up from the ground

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Q: The instantaneous gas discharge of the system and the C-E

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Problem with when to use Force and Energy. What compresses spring/

  • physicsissohard
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Question about Formulae for Motion in a Rotating Reference Frame

  • Master1022
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Fraction of light reflected inside a diamond

  • Davidllerenav
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Estimating Error in Wavelength from Graphical Approach

  • PhysicsRock
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What will the final velocity of the particles be?

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Switching reference frames between two intersecting lines

  • John3509
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Why is there no acceleration in the southern/y direction?

  • yashboi123
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Coaxial semi-infinite solenoid and superconducting disc

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I need feedback on MCQ test in IJSO style

  • AlexJicu08
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Ratio of Excited Neon Atoms in 5s compared to 3p

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What is the Resultant Force from adding these two forces?

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Explain the phenomenon of decrement of angular momentum

  • AyushNaman
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Verifying the acceleration of gravity in our lab (help with error please)

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Verification of ideal gas law experiment

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Calculating components of a third-quadrant vector

  • Joe_mama69
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Standard angles for vectors (Mechanics)

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Calculate the torque that is produced by this force on a cylinder

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Inductance Puzzle involving coplanar conducting rings

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The theory behind sound generation from spinning objects

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Box on treadmill connected to a spring

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I need opinions on a Projectile Motion problem that I made up

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How Does Lenz's Law Explain the Jumping Ring Phenomenon?

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Resolving Velocity Components in Constrained Motion

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What is a Solid Angle and How is it Calculated?

  • j04015
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Needs clarity on this displacement vector diagram

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RLC circuit resonance experiment

  • Shreya
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Conceptual doubt on frames of reference

  • physicsissohard
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Problem with Dynamic blocks on a fixed inclined plane

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Why are they using Cosine instead of Sine for Cross Product?

  • yashboi123
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Homework help with interpreting SUTAV questions

  • Physics_is_beautiful
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How much work is done to hold a book at a constant height?

  • ktsa
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Are the Battery Capacity Calculations for Electric Vehicles Correct?

  • PhysicsTest
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About critical damping resistance of a ballistic galvanometer

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Statics problem on the resolution of forces

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Olympiad question on destructive interference

  • Glenn G
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Solve for the sum of 3 cable forces on one anchor point

  • aatari
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How can I pluck strings (with changing length) with constant energy?

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Graphing the Power dissipated in a resistor

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Particle moving from one potential to another

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Rate of EM emission based on surface characteristics

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Electric field between parallel plates

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Finding the center of mass of a simple 2D shape

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Calculating low frequency cutoff for this R-C microphone circuit

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What is the explanation for the divergence of the vector function r^hat/r^2?

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Change in system entropy in relation to heat transfer

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Electric field in nonmagnetic material given a magnetic field

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Does weight affect braking distance for transport trucks?

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Finding the time for an object to start rolling without slipping

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Spring momentum conservation problem

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