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Planet orbiting around a star whose mass changes

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Center of Pressure: 2b/3 from Free Surface

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LR circuit in parallel, need someone to check answer

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Why is the elastic potential energy when extension is (a+l/20) included?

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Resonance frequency of a wine glass experiment

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Parallel RC Circuits: Charging to 0.75V in Seconds

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Why does the speed remain the same?

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Calculating velocity and acceleration from a position-time graph

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Help with kinematic equations homework problems 25-27

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A ball is swung in a circular path

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Kinematics - Interpreting Graphs and deriving equations

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Kinematics - identifying and describing types of motion

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Energy Loss of a ball falling off the lip of a ramp

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Oscillations of a free hanging chain

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Circular Motion in a Simple Mass Spectrometer

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What is the required torque for a servo to swing a 5lb golf club at 120 MPH?

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How can a photon have a frequency?

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Comparing filament resistances of 100W, 60W and 40W bulbs

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Charge distribution in concentric metal spheres using Gauss' law

  • LambertoPierto
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Help with hydrostatic pressure exercises 11-13

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Calculating Distance Covered by a Particle Using Displacement Vector

  • Nader AbdlGhani
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Projectile embedded in wooden cylinder: angular momentum

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Does temperature of cooking gas change in a moving truck?

  • erisedk
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Thermal expansion of a liquid in a cylindrical container

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Calculating Internal Energy Change: Path 2 of Carnot Cycle Question

  • Munir M
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Find Wavelength of 8cm Closed Pipe: 7th Harmonic

  • ThePhysicsXV
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Electron in a Finite Square Well

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Does Adding Mass to a Spring Change Its Amplitude Range?

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Magnetic Field at center of a Square loop

  • Elvis 123456789
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Is the Kinetic Energy of Water at 0°C Greater Than Ice at 0°C?

  • TT0
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Why is water unable to flow from A and B to C in a branching pipe system?

  • foo9008
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Why does Earth's slowing rotation change the moon's orbital distance?

  • FruitNinja
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Is the Right-Hand Rule Applied Correctly in Determining Magnetic Forces?

  • LaneRendell
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Graphing free fall motion and calculating acceleration

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Power Dissipated in a Sliding Resistor

  • Silverado
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What is the frequency of a police siren when you run away from it?

  • ThePhysicsXV
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Magnetic Field at the center of a square loop

  • Elvis 123456789
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What frequency did you hear 3 seconds after police pass?

  • ThePhysicsXV
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Velocity change due to load dropped vertically onto trolley

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Electron in 1-D box: photon absorbed?

  • Ryaners
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Find Heat Energy Needed to Expand Gas to Triple Volume

  • Munir M
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Significant figures in permissible error calculation

  • Abhishek Gupta
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Why is hydraulic diameter 4Rh in problem 4.4 but 2Rh in problem 4.5?

  • foo9008
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Solve KVL for R and e: 3.2 Ohms, 0 Volts

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Question on Orbits and Kepler/Uni. Grav. Laws

  • RoboNerd
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Determining Direction of Acceleration in Pulley Problems

  • Balsam
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Magnetic field in rectangular coil (not solenoid) Amperes law

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Conservation of energy - elastic potential energy and k.e.

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Make a Eddy Current to Hover - A DIY Project

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Even potential with even/odd energy eigenfunctions

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Do all masses in a pulley have the same acceleration?

  • Balsam
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Using Eddington Luminosity to calculate mass

  • Ellie Snyder
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Rms velocity of electron in free space?

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Black Body Radiation and ambient temperature

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Electric Potential of a Point Charge close to R=0

  • Craig Scott
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Can someone give me some hints for this incline problem?

  • DavidFrank
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How Does Newton's Third Law Apply When a Truck Pulls a Car?

  • sciencecats
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Dynamics of material (momentum )

  • Faraz
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Show that the equipotential lines are circles

  • Erik P
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Angle of average acceleration while turning a curve

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Entropy of a chemical reaction

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Geostationary satellite orbit radius as a multiple of Earth radius.

  • Physgeek64
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Distance of closest approach of alpha particle calc

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Why is There a - Sign in an Integral?

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What Speed Makes Kinetic Energy Equal n Times Rest Energy?

  • Pual Black
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How is Bernoulli's equation related to saxon bowls?

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How do I use the parallel axis theorem for moment of inertia in this homework?

  • reminiscent
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Two Long Straight Wires Carrying Curent

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Why Doesn't the Flow Rate Change When a Vane is Moving in a Pipe?

  • foo9008
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Electrical energy converted to heat in coil

  • Erik P
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What is the length of the string?

  • ThePhysicsXV
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Formula of energy per unit weight

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Archived Magnetic field from surface current using Biot-Savart law

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Rotational Motion: Final Translational Speed

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The maximum deformation of the ball?

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Archived Air entering cylindrical object through orifice during reentry at Mach 25

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Magnetic Field from two parallel wires

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Do Rubber Band Propelled Planes Fly Further?

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Young's Double Slit - Low intensity

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Phase difference between waves in two-slit model

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Specific volume of stone in water displacement

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Induced EMF from moving conducting rod

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Non-inertial frame of reference

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Calculating Launcher Mass from Projectile Acceleration

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Finding the angle of phase difference - two slit model

  • vetgirl1990
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Can Physics Save the Hospital from Mortar Fire?

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Calculating Masses in a Dynamic Pulley System

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How Fast is the Missile Relative to the Rocket?

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Rod sliding on rails with constant current through resistor

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Magnetic field components of a circuit

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Angular acceleration from angular velocity

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Rocket in space travels between two stars

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Velocity of Three Charges Released from Equilateral Triangle

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Rope falling through a hole on a frictionless table

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Normal force of a mass sliding down a quarter circle

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Calculation of permissible error in physical quantity

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How High Can You Jump on asteroid 243 Ida?

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