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Why does photoelectric current depend on intensity if max KE doesn't?

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Particle Released From Narrow Potential - Fourier Transform

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Frequency of gears (given frequency of shaft)

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Projectile Motion - Two fired at different times

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At any given instant, how fast might an electron be moving?

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Understanding Linear Momentum of Waves with No Mass

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Forces of a basin surrounding a drain

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Determining revolutions of a wheel

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Force of a wire induced by earth magnetic field

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Questions of single slit diffraction

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Finding Work From Impulse: Calculating Impact on a Ball by a Bat

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Force on a dipole moving through a magnetic field

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How Much Work Does the Landing Mat Perform on Yelena Isinbayeva?

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Battery terminal voltage with 5.0 Ω internal resistance

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Electrical potential of the sphere

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Calculating Input Voltage for Switched Op-Amp Circuit

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Why does an autofocus camera need to emit IR if objects already emit it?

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How to Calculate the Area Under a Curve for v(t) Using Integration?

  • brycenrg
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Center of gravity vs center of buoyancy

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Whats the force applied for a cart traveling up a hill?

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Current induced in concentric superconducting loops

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How Do You Calculate the Velocity of a Point on a Rotating Disc?

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How Do You Calculate the Acceleration of This Inflated Balloon?

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Dielectric in a capacitor in equilibrium

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Determine is box of unknown mass is sliding down a ramp?

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Current directions in two-battery circuits with Kirchhoff's laws

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Inelastic Collision and kinetic energy?

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Calculate the work done when a conductor moves through a mag

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Finding the magnitude and direction of the electric field

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Displacement-distance vs Displacement-time graphs for waves

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Equation relating mass, time, distance, velocity, and force?

  • The Exestentialist
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Determining universal gravitational constant G

  • Tony Manilla
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Newton's Third Law and Car Crashes

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Why does a spinning egg keep rotating after you stop the shell?

  • Balsam
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Converting Position/Time to Velocity/Time Graphs

  • john lavoie
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Minimum velocity on inclined rotating rotor at 10°

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Relative velocity of vehicles moving at different angles

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Thermal Dynamics - Ring Heated Up

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Archived Balanced length of a potentiometer wire

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Carbon Dioxide in the Martian Ice Caps

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Maximum height to push a fridge without tipping

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Calculate Friction in Spring hanging from ceiling

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Why generalized force equals to zero?

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Pulling a Carpet: Min Force & Velocity of Centre of Mass

  • Titan97
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Is the Impulse of Force Calculated Correctly in This Bullet and Block Collision?

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How to Find Angles in a Static Equilibrium System with Pulleys?

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What is the acceleration of the 10 kg block on the frictionless ramp?

  • JustAverageSkill
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Would two conductors of same charge touch or not touch?

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Elastic collision with a spring constant and unknown masses

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Thermodynamics conceptual problem

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Curve fitting (Linearization) of functions (and thus graphs)

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How Do You Calculate the Specific Latent Heat of Fusion of Nitrogen?

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Electric Field of 2 charges on x-axis

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Water fountain projectile motion with 3.5cm launch height

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Cylindrical barrel Hydrostatic Pressure

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Question on Rotational Motion and Torque Theory

  • RoboNerd
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How to explain force in turning car

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Elevator acceleration when apparent weight doubles

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Finding average force and time

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How do I find distance given time and an arbitrary distance?

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What Is the Minimum Energy Required to Break a Molecule Apart?

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Finding Angle of String with Two Charged Balls

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Locomotive stopping distance with 142N friction force

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How are Newton's 2nd and 3rd Law Both True?

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Why is 1.2g the Hypotenuse on an Inclined Plane?

  • Jamie Bristow
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Charged particle released from rest: final speed calculation

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Archived Lenz' Law Scenarios for two wires with varying distance between them

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Shearing Force Direction in Fluid Mechanics

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Free falling particle near Earth's surface (Diff. Eq.)

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Why is the ratio of displacements in springs different than expected?

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Two objects attached with a spring

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Drag Racing Acceleration Question

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Kinetic energy of three protons with two positrons at square corners

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Particles connected with a string

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Calculating Initial Velocity of Water After Nozzle Increase

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Why Is the Resultant Force on the Blade Directed Downwards?

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Why aren't pressures equal at the same point in Bernoulli's equation?

  • werson tan
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How to find the acceleration of a rebounded ball?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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What do 2.1 and 0.35 represent in this force equation?

  • werson tan
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Work Done on 100 kg Block by 100 N Force in 4s

  • x2017
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How Do You Convert Between Lux and W/m²?

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How to find the acceleration of a ball rolling on ground?

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Calculating temperature rise due to solar insolation

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Potential due to non-uniformly charged disk

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Cyclotron magnetic field questions

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Can a Thief Escape a Building Using a Rope?

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Acceleration down a ramp given mass and friction

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Horizontal circular motion problem, what am doing wrong?

  • SherlockLCooper
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Determine the number of times the magnetic field has wound around the Sun

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Min force to open the water gate

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Explanation of formula T = 2pi sqrt(m/k)

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What is the coefficient of discharge and why use it as z?

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How far does the block travel up the incline?

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Simulated circular motion on a roller coaster

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Why subtract forces in the same direction for pulley system acceleration

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