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How Do You Calculate the Net Force in Physics Problems?

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What's Wrong with My Biot-Savart Law Calculation?

  • Aroldo
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How can we prove that sina'=nsinb using the given information and figure?

  • annalian
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At what distance from the lens is the image

  • annalian
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How to find a percentages in kinetic energy

  • Kofyebs
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Special Relativity of Train Problem

  • i_hate_math
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The magnitude of the electric field

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Projectile motion motorcycle jump

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Solve Ideal Gas Problem: Gamma = 1.4, VA=4.33m^3, PA

  • James Ray
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The distance between the incident point and the refracted point

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Method of Symmetry for Equivalent Resistances

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Calculate where the top of the atmosphere would be.

  • Littlemac
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Potential and intensity of magnetic field

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Mechanical advantage: lever arm

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Electric resistance in the truncated rotating cone

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Potential of Concentric Spherical Insulator and Conductor --

  • scef333
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With what speed does the object get nearer to the reflection

  • annalian
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Challenge problem -- rock sliding up and over a roof into an arc....

  • Ab17
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Electric field strength at a point between charges

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Are the rays parallel after they come out of the prism?

  • zade70
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Coriolis Force Across the Equator

  • DarkMatter5
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When the incidence angle is equal to the angle of refraction

  • zade70
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Find the distance from the mirrors for 4 reflections

  • annalian
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How to Calculate Work Done by a Gas in Thermodynamics?

  • vijayramakrishnan
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Work done on ideal monatomic gas in adiabatic process

  • James Ray
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Question for the resistance of the wire

  • bckcookie
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Exploring Fleming's Right Hand Rule for EMF in a Straight Wire

  • ahmed963u2
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(Snell's Law) How do I find θi and θr?

  • Zoey
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Why does acceleration change here....?

  • Sara077
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Reflection dependence from wavelenght

  • prehisto
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Pendulum on a horizontal spring (Lagrangian)

  • JulienB
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Biking up a hill in different gears

  • ollie_craw
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Time-Independent Perturbation Theory

  • Gwyn-Gwyn
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Two masses on each end of a spring lying horizontally

  • James Ray
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Time taken for a mass on the end of a spring to hit a wall

  • James Ray
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Question about the direction of a vector

  • Sall1230
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How Does Air Pressure Affect Fluid Levels in a U-Shaped Tube?

  • faradayscat
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Pendulum pulse vertical flick period

  • James Ray
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Pendulum on Earth and another planet different periods radii

  • James Ray
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When you heat a sheet, does it expand or compress?

  • Miguel Velasquez
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What is the tension in the rope?

  • ItsAnshumaan
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How does pipe thickness affect head loss at entrance?

  • foo9008
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Circular motion -- Car on a circular track

  • Nikstykal
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Left/Right hand rule....not working?

  • righthandbusy
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Find the electrostatic potential above loop of charge Q?

  • Poirot
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Electrical potential of a conducting spherical shell

  • JulienB
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Simple harmonic motion solved for time

  • MaxBicknell
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What Determines the Thrust of a Lorry Starting from Rest?

  • fleur
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Why doesn't weight work perpendicular?

  • n124122
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Femur Compression/Young's Modulus

  • Student in Need
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How Do You Calculate Acceleration in a Limacon-Shaped Path?

  • Nikstykal
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Energy loss when two charged capacitors are connected in parallel

  • Shiuanchiam
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Calculating the electric potential at the midpoint

  • rrosa522
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Vertical Spring with a Rod: How to Calculate Rotational Kinetic Energy?

  • Tissue
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Vertical Force of Each Truck Wheel: 68670N

  • fleur
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Principle of a positive corona discharge?

  • Milchy
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The size and direction of magnetic induction and force

  • darkprior
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Find Equivalent Capacitance Between A & B with Capacitor

  • WeiLoong
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Pressure-related problem with Mercury and Water in a U-tube

  • horsedeg
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Distance and acceleration problem

  • david_duhig
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Electric Force and Superposition...Help

  • Amaliahch
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Determining the Resistance of an Electric Blanket

  • Johny Prime
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The value of electric current on a sinking conductor

  • darkprior
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Kinematics and dynamic circular motion of conical pendulum

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Determining the focal length of a compound lens

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Capacitor and inductor in parallel

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Show that force is proportional to gradient of PE graph

  • Janiceleong26
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Basic electric force/field question I can't get

  • Kuzon
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Expression y(x,t) for sinusoidal wave traveling along a rope

  • horsedeg
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Magnitude and DIRECTION of electric field of a square.

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Ball on String, Calc V with mass, answer by "accident?"

  • satsrule
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HGL and EGL at gradual contract region

  • foo9008
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What is the tension supporting one ball?

  • Joshua May
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Help Design a Catapult to Hit Specific Targets

  • DeathEater
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Finding the velocity of an inclined mass

  • Sall1230
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How to interpret the equation of position with constant acceleration?

  • Matt2411
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Heat Extracted and Delivered to Reservoirs in a Heat Engine

  • Willfrid Somogyi
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What is the Frequency of This Simple Harmonic Motion?

  • ryanuser
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Moment Question / inclined triangle

  • Sabeshan Ratneswaran
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Using corrcted value for Hardy Cross method?

  • foo9008
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Solving the Hardy Cross Problem

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What value should be used for junction CA in the Hardy Cross method?

  • foo9008
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Question about polarization density

  • Guy ML
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Ratio for the dimples in a golf ball

  • UndyingCactus
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Struggling with the rules behind electricity

  • Kuzon
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How can I derive a formula for change in B field strength?

  • RobertColman
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Calculate the temperature for this reaction to occur

  • Janiceleong26
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Calculating Line of Sight and Obstruction in Restaurant Redesign

  • swopidopi
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Angular Momentum: Problem w/Calculating MoI at 100cm

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Newton's law of universal gravitation

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How do you solve for the final temperature in this insulated vessels problem?

  • Erenjaeger
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Relativity - velocity of object travelling perpendicular to the observer

  • struggles
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How Does an Inductor Affect Current Change Upon Switch Closure?

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How does conventional current flow through the first light-bulb?

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Solve Half-Life Problem: Find # Atoms Decaying in 12 Days

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