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Foucault Pendulum at the North Pole

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What is the Largest Quantum Number for Li3+ with a 60 Å Orbital Radius?

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Why is momentum equal to mass times velocity?

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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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Net displacement with signed distances: which formula to use?

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

  • songoku
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Which material has the greatest Young's Modulus?

  • songoku
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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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Wave reflection when rope connects to stiffer rope

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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

  • Tonyapplepan
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Diffrence between resolving vector to components and find projections

  • Mohmmad Maaitah
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Two Equations for Average Velocity?

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Do two cars stop before colliding in 3.2 and 5.1 seconds?

  • valleyldp
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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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Ball bouncing off wall: impulse and collision deformation

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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

  • as2528
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Rod at rest in S' making different angles in two frames

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

  • tracker890 Source h
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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

  • flinnbella
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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?

  • imbumb
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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

  • sss1
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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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Why does air exit the system if its mass stays constant?

  • tracker890 Source h
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Problem with when to use Force and Energy. What compresses spring/

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Interpreting velocity and acceleration terms in rotating reference frames

  • Master1022
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Fresnel equations for light at diamond-air interface

  • 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?

  • DIANAWIELT
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Explain the phenomenon of decrement of angular momentum

  • AyushNaman
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Why is my gravity acceleration measurement only 4.68 m/s²?

  • feynmansorange
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Converting 1672 MeV to mass in kg using E=mc²

  • Saibot
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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

  • MatinSAR
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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

  • AlexJicu08
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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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Charge repelling a mass on a frictionless incline

  • DanielGuh
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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

  • Chijioke
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RLC circuit resonance experiment

  • Shreya
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Accelerating pulley upward at g as equivalent to gravity

  • physicsissohard
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Problem with Dynamic blocks on a fixed inclined plane

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

  • yashboi123
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When does the car overtake the runner in a kinematics problem?

  • 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

  • phymath7
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Statics problem on the resolution of forces

  • CIA16
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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?

  • mt1815
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Graphing the Power dissipated in a resistor

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Particle scattering across a potential step boundary

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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

  • JohnnyLaws
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Calculating low frequency cutoff for this R-C microphone circuit

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

  • guyvsdcsniper
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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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