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Understanding G and γ in Volume Flow Rate Calculations

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Why does a wet thermometer bulb show lower temperature than a dry one?

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Rotation in a cylindrical cylinder (fluid)

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Converting encoder counts to angle and RPM for 128 count motor

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Amplitude and Young double slit experiment

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Momentum transferred to sphere by reflected light

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How Far Does a Tuning Fork Tine Travel in One Minute?

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Why do lower temperatures result in lower specific heat capacity?

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Water wave speed with wavelength 4.4m and period 1.5s

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Conceptual Question on acceleration and circular motion

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Switches changing brightness of bulbs

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What is the Current Passing Through a 5mH Inductor in Steady State?

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Finding the total translational KE of 1kg of Neon

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How to Calculate Work on an Object with Varying Position-dependent Force?

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How to Use Symbols to Solve a Ramp Problem?

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Total energy of the flowing fluid

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How do I figure out the final position of the block?

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Why is P1 = P_atm - ρ_water(gh2) - ρ_oil(gh1) + ρ_mercury(gh3)?

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Finding the frequency of a vibrating particle on a string?

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Calculate Pressure: Elephant Mass 4000 kg, Leg Diam 25 cm

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Finding relative density of glycerin from mass of container

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2 vectors with cylindrical polar coordinates

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Formula of weight of surface water

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Why is dy 0.005/2 and not 0.005 in shear stress calculation?

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Force on a charged particle inside a charged spherical balloon

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Ball velocity from box sliding distance: energy vs momentum

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How to find the speed of a planet around the sun

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Density: Cube of Aluminum to Copper Sphere

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Finding final speed of object on incline

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Harmonic motion- Two springs, One mass

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Satellite angle, remote sensing

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Heat Capacities Given Equation of State

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2D elastic collision between identical balls at 30°

  • Jam51
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Where will a meter stick with a 2N weight at the 10cm mark balance?

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Effect of rotating polarizer on intensity of transmitted light

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What is the State of Water in a Rigid Container at 120oC?

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What Determines Equilibrium in a Liquid-Vapor System?

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Specific Heat of an Ideal Gas: Temperature vs. Molecular Weight and Structure

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Static measurement of Spring constant with error value

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Force on 30kg cart from 50kg cart when pushed together

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Man pulling 15-kg sled with 5-kg dog: work and KE graph

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(Simple Electromagnetics) A charge placed between 2 charges

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How Is Work Calculated in Thermodynamic Processes?

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Understanding Electrostatics: Calculating Potential of Metal Spheres

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Calculating Mass and Velocity of Exploding Object Pieces

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Interference of light Intensity

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2 capacitors reaching equillibrium?

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Finding final pressure when heating a tank 70% filled with water

  • Baybora
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Why Isn't Induced Charge Shown in Electrostatics Problems?

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Rearranging change in kinetic energy for mass

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Finding the mass of a quantity of gas given P, V, T

  • Kitaek Lee
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Frequency problem (static equilibrium)

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Finding acceleration in multiple pulley system

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Egg Drop Competition - Using popsicle sticks vs straws

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Understanding why the initial height of one block is equal t

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Calculating the Stopping distance

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Bernoulli River: Calculating Water Speed

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What is the solution for finding F1 and F2 when angles are not equal?

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Final velocity of a car rolling down a ramp using energy

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How Fast Does a Tornado Travel If Lightning Strikes Twice?

  • **Mariam**
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Kepler's laws multiple choice question analysis

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A car stopping on a slippery surface on an uphill

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Calculating Electric Field and Distance for a Point Charge

  • WeiLoong
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MCQ question 8 on total energy

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Is electric potential a vector or scalar quantity?

  • WeiLoong
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Work and power to pull a 70 kg skier up a 30° slope at constant speed

  • komarxian
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Questions about 3 colliding object. Can i get some help?

  • Botond
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The internal energy in isobaric process

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Instantaneous Velocity of a electron with a provided formula

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Determining the rate at which speed changes

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Variation on 3-ball elastic collision

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Absorption Line's Different Wavelengths

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Electric intensity at orthocenter of a triangle.

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Can a Bridge Voltage Divider be Used to Calculate Voltage Gain?

  • Pablo3
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What Is the Potential at the Center of Concentric Metallic Spheres?

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How Do Clocks on Moving Trains Behave Near a Tree?

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Calculating m for a Sloping Block with Increased Mass

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Constraint of moment about an axis

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Center of mass for two small particles

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Total forces acting downward on the plane

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Solving a 100N Weight Block Motion Problem

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Is average force dependent on the exertion time of force?

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What force needed to launch an object from moon to Earth

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Friction between roller coaster and track

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Minimum work to separate 1 kmol O2 and N2 from air

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How Does the Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem Apply to a Diving Scenario?

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How Do You Calculate the Diameter of a Camera Lens Based on a Photograph?

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Can student A be lifted off the floor by student B climbing the rope?

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Electric Field between two charged plates

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Astrophysics - Hour angle calculation

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Finding equivalent resultant force for distributed load divided into parts

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Collision of rolling billiard balls

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Calculating mass by pressure needed to move object

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Work done by or on a gas from b to c

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Solving for FBa: Why 59N and Not 50.6j + 8.43k?

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