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Problem involving Coulomb's law

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Insulator in an electric field

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Electric Field Intensity. Finite sheet of charge.

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Calculating the current supplied battery, working out P.D....

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Hanging Sign Equations: Finding Tension and Force Exerted by Beam

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How does a dielectric affect the capacitance of a capacitor?

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Work done by motor against gravity

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AP Physics Summer Assignment Question

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Finding velocity of elastic collision with angles

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Possible to use centripetal acceleration for this problem?

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Kinematics of a falling object to hit target

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How Does Increasing Pulling Force Affect the Average Velocity of a Trolley?

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Finding Tension in Horizontal circular motion with friction

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Weird Defensive Force Field of Alien Space Probe

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Basics of hydrostatic force on a plane surface

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Normal modes and degrees of freedom in coupled oscillators

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Centripetal Force hydrogen atom

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Finding the voltage after current was found

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Pulleys Jh Homework Statement: Understanding the Concept of Pulleys

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Remote Control Car Specifications

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What is the Output Force of a Wheel Axle?

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How Six 2V lamps could be lit to their normal brightness.

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4.2 Acceleration due to gravity lab error

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Need help with question regarding polarization filters

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Brief explantation as to why x(max)= v(max)/ang freq?

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Electromagnetic Induction concept understanding

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Finding friction w/ out coefficient?

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Conservation of Momentum - Finding Initial Velocity

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De Broglie Wavelength for 1Mev electron

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Coefficient of static friction on a ramp?

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Kepler's law of periods problems about orbiting satellite

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Voltage between two points of a circuit

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Acceleration of Space Shuttle at Lift Off

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Sliding Rod and Rotating Disc Question

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Projectile Motion -- the landing of a rubber duck....

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Force tension, friction, and coefficient of friction

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A problem about Work and Energy :(

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What is the true definition of a crest in physics?

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Circuit analysis current source problem

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Finding Image Distance with a Converging Lens: Magnifying Glass Problem

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How to Calculate RMS Current in a Simple Circuit

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Charge distribution on the surfaces of parallel conducting s

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How do I graph the position for this velocity-time graph?

  • Sarah R.
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Appying a force bar + Young's Modulus + Force Applied

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Impulse of a ball being thrown on to the wall

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Need help figuring out this forces question

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Problem involving Ampere's Law and Understanding

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Finding acceleration of a block on the way down an incline

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Orbital Period Calculation for Binary Star Systems

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Solid disk frictional torque magnitude

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Centripetal force question -- car speed on an offramp

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What Happens to a Pendulum's Period at 90 Degrees Inclination?

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Examples of Beginning of Bernoulli

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Tension in a cable with a traffic light -- Torque question

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How Can Impulse-Momentum Theorem Be Applied to Springs?

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Statics problem: towing force and friction

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Equilibrium: max distance traveled; undisturbed tension

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Net force acting on a piston shaft of an actuator

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Conservation of Energy of cart Problem

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Car & Scooter: Momentum & Force - Who Needs More?

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Finding the Reaction Force in a Truss

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How Do You Calculate Initial Conditions in First Order Transient Circuits?

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Electric field of a coaxial cable

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How High Above the Window Was the Flowerpot When It Fell?

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Momentum Analysis in Rest Frame Decay of Particle with Mass M

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Calculate the average velocity of the car

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Distance travelled in a Cyclotron

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Solving Homework: Increasing Speed of 35kg Mass w/ 55N Force

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Weight of Soldier with Machine Gun in Freefall

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Finding Centripetal acceleration in a vertical system

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Refraction in Isosceles triangle [Uni Phys 2]

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Why Use Unit Vectors in Calculations?

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Finding max. distance and time (projectile motion)

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Torque of two locations with steel beams

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Calculating Momentum and Speed: IGCSE Forces and Motion Textbook Example

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Two masses attached by a rod orbiting around the Earth

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How Does Mixing Water in Different Sequences Affect Entropy Change?

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Alpha Particle & Gold Nucleus Collision

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Initial acceleration of the charge

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Understanding Electricity and Magnetism: Solving Practice Problems

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Projectile Motion Long Jump Question

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Question about electric potential at a point

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Calculating Bulk and Shear Modulus with Young's Modulus and Poisson's Ratio

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Transverse Velocity of Wave, given position & time

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Finding angular velocity after a collision

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Photons of light emitted within the D-lines per second?

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Need help with Newton's Law of Physics

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A question about electric field

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How to Calculate Sag in Terms of Weight, Pulleys, and Distance?

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Conservation of Work and Energy

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What is the voltage across an inductor in an LR circuit?

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Rotational Motion: Solving Baseball Throw Homework

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Diffraction & Interference - interference fringes per cm

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How to calculate the total resistance in this circuit?

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Intensity of light through two polarizers

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Find the frictional force on the block

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Determine force that will cause cylinder to roll out of cart

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Physics Olympiad question resistance and Electric circuit

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