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How does graded-index material reduce pulse spreading in optical fibres?

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Is it more energy efficient to evaporate water or boil it?

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Ionisation energies of paired vs unpaired electrons.

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Archimedes principle boat displacement

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A particle on the edge of an inclined spinning disc

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Min. and max. mass to keep pulley system stationary

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Pendulum Question Homework: Resolving Tension Components

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Correct use of words to describe a polarized lens. Grammar

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Simple Harmonic Motion Average Velocity

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Determine the velocity after collision

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Gravity, acceleration and velocity question

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Frequency of a bead on a parabolic wire

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Work done negative and positive

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Why can’t transverse waves travel through a gas or liquid?

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Energy loss when boiling in an water experiment -- help please

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Calculating Tension and Reaction Forces in a Ball and Socket Joint

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Determine the perpendicular distance for couple

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What is the change in potential energy of two blocks in a physics problem?

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Resultant Moment of Force Around Point O: 20 Nm Clockwise

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Why Can't I Use Standard Cosine Calculations for Non-Orthogonal Axes Forces?

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A question on thermal stress and axial force in a structure

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Universal Gravitation problem - Satellite Orbit

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Water waves travelling from deep to shallow water

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Newton's third law force homework

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Solving Gas Chamber Problem: Pressure Equality in 3 Compartments

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FBD and Friction: Solving a Common Question | Homework Help

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Electric Field and Potential due to Induced Charges

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Maxwell's theory and electrons in orbits

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Cathode Ray Tube and magnetic field Question

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Calculating Distance Traveled During Acceleration

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Work Done by Gas: Ideal Diatomic Process

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Energy dissipated by a loop of muscle in an MRI machine

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The magnitude of the force of friction

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Coin rolling on another coin, when will free fall occur?

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Investigating Magnetic Train Forces: A Puzzling Inquiry

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KCL to Find Voltage Between a and b

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Will the Block Slide on an Accelerating Inclined Plane?

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Trying to come up with possible topic for physics experiment

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When the speed of light is slower than it should be.

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Can potential energy be greater than total energy?

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Electrostatics || A cone charged unifomly, find intensity

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Askew Pitot tube, airplane velocity measurement

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How Does Friction Change with Applied Force?

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Can anyone explain this anomaly?

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Looking for a good source for problem sets

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A basketball is thrown straight down and bounces back up

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How much kinetic energy to propel an object

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Finding volume of a submerged object

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Different methods of finding the weight-work in a pendulum

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The # of bright fringes in a double slit with finite width?

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Where brick hits ground after sliding off a roof w/ friction

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Calculating gravitational pull on surface for large object

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Force applied by a constant stream of particles

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Moment of a Force: How to Find an Unknown Force on a Pivoted Metre Stick

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How large is the resultant force on Gavin's toy car after he kicks it?

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What is the force required to hold a pizza peel level with a pizza on it?

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Convex Lens Problem: Find Focal Length

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Throw a ball, initial velocity?

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Help with contour plots of effective potential in R3BP.

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Calculate T for Maximum Altitude: 1D Kinematics Problem Solution

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Graphical Derivation of x = Asin(ωt)

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Different diameter rotational inertia

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Derivation of moment of inertia of a solid sphere

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How to convert arcsec to steradians

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Did the Pressure of a Monatomic Gas Change During Isentropic Heating?

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3 pulleys - 2 masses on incline plane

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Time taken for amount of a nuclear material to remain

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Can with water rotates -- the water forms a paraboloid

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Fluid - Work done to blow a soap bubble

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Direction of the components of a vector using trigonometry

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Stopping distance, Book is wrong?

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Distance of geosynchronous satellite from earth

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Requesting help with Potential and Kinetic energy

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Acceleration of elevator and force in cable

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Is Conservation of Energy the Key to Solving This Tricky Problem?

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Classical mechanics:effective spring const

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Mass on Elastic Rope: Solving for Rope Extension after Collision

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Find the acceleration of an object climbing an incline....

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Pellet fired through one foam block, embeds in second block

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Signal to noise ratio and uncertainty in magnitude

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Electric field of dipole moment

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Final Temperature and Time to Reach it When Adding Ice to Rum and Coke

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Power generated by radioactive decay

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Correlation between orbit eccentricity and mechanical energy

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How does the mass of a ball affect the % of energy loss

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30 kg boy in a 1000 kg elevator moving up 5 m/s

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Magnitude of magnetic field at distance from central axis

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Electric Field Symmetry in a Circular Charge Distribution

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Induced Current in Square Loop

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2000 kg boat, motor force of 6000 N, resistance 2000 N

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Understanding the Doppler Effect with Moving Sources and Observers

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How to find initial velocity with height, distance and angle

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Need help using Method of Members to find reaction forces

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What is the change in entropy ΔS of the gas?

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How to Apply Snell's Law Without Knowing the Index of Refraction?

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