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Diffraction Grating Homework: Find the Distance of Bright Fringes

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Calculating Volume Flow Rate of Olive Oil at a Processing Plant

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Relativistic Calculations for De-Broglie Wavelength

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Why Does a Rolling Sphere Climb Higher Than a Sliding Particle?

  • connorc234
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How Do I Interpret This Graph for Homework?

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Can conservation of momentum be applied here?

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Electric Potential due to conducting sphere and conducting shell

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Multipole expansion of polarized cylinder

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Spring energy problem at an incline with friction

  • Helpmepls11
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Radius of a lead nucleus and alpha particle

  • Oribe Yasuna
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Physics Question involving a skier and a snowdrift....

  • Serella_Madole
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Finding Voltage from capacitance, current and time

  • Weightofananvil
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How can an increase in area cause a decrease in drift speed?

  • MBBphys
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Mechanics, First year university Physics

  • Isaac Pepper
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Faraday's law with loop of wire and resistor

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Loop-de-Loop with function of angle

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Calculating Fringe Positions in Two-Slit Interference Patterns

  • Barry Melby
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Finding the electron drift speed

  • MBBphys
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Finding the H Field from the E Field

  • lcr2139
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Angular velocity of a rod - translational KE?

  • Alettix
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What is the magnitude of the force exerted by friction?

  • CStudy
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Mastering Physics Work for Tackling Complex Problems

  • planetking25
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What Is the Smallest Angular Separation the Human Eye Can Resolve?

  • Barry Melby
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Need help with an Electric Field Question

  • KenG3586
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Potential in case of concentric shells program

  • gracy
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Understand Field Lines: Positive & Negative Atoms

  • Drizzy
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Thermodynamics of Sealed Cylinder with Piston

  • beetlejuice
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What is the velocity at the midway point of projectile motion?

  • rasen58
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Error Propagation - Reconciling Two Approaches

  • cjc0117
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Force Tension and Force Resistance

  • SherlockIsReal
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Elastic collision between 2 different masses

  • Yeldarb
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Finding the friction before slipping

  • Jack.525
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Momentum, Force, and Impulse: help with balance pan problem

  • toboldlygo
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Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal acceleration

  • suyashr99
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Calculate Current: Voltage/Resistance

  • Meezus
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Thermodynamics- conservation of heat and energy

  • PhysicsInNJ
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Lab experiment on moment of inertia dynamic

  • tj Cho
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Transverse Oscillation of horizontal Mass-Springs system

  • omegasquared
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Really with lab derivation -- Rolling objects down an incline

  • Dusty912
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Centrifugal and centripetal forces on a half pipe

  • galadriel3562
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A shell explodes into two identical fragments; find v

  • toboldlygo
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Magnetic field of a bent wire and Biot Savart law

  • whatisreality
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Physics Olympiad question Electric circuit

  • Hashiramasenju
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Total forces acting downward on the plane

  • goldfish9776
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Effective Resistance of Circuit: 4.4 Ohm

  • Icy98
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How can I find the velocity of the combined cars after collision?

  • lola2000
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Basic kinematics: projectile motion

  • Ryaners
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Tension of a rope over a pulley

  • goldfish9776
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Laplace equation in spherical coordinates

  • Fgard
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Understanding the Voltage Across a Broken Lamp

  • Icy98
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Making a crude radio (Difficult/Long)

  • Euclid4
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Direction of current in a magnetic field when loop is square

  • vizakenjack
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Power loss when fan is connected; finding current

  • vizakenjack
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Physics concept questions (electric field & potential diff.)

  • catch22
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How Can the Acceleration of a Crate on a Truck Be Determined?

  • Jonski
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Time and time intervals when using kinematic equations

  • nerf225
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Static Equilibrium: Solving Homework Questions

  • Meezus
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Intro to Uniform Circular Motion/Centripetal Acceleration

  • a lone fishy
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Working out kinetic energy and speed

  • Meezus
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Envelope function for two sine curves

  • kmsiva
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How does Band Gap and Refractive index relate to Wavelength?

  • Nyfinscyf
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Values of ##k## for which ##A_{ij}A_{ij} = |\vec a|^2##?

  • Incand
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Equilibrium and find static friction

  • PAstudent
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Momentum and Speed Relativity in a Moving Reference Frame

  • Yousufshad
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How Does Replacing a Sphere Affect Water Level in a Bowl?

  • ScrubTier
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A rocket going up with acceleration =

  • David112234
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Mutual Inductance Homework: What Happens?

  • Grim Arrow
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Ground state energy eigenvalue of particle in 1D potential

  • upender singh
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Calculating the Radius of a Charged Spherical Water Drop

  • gracy
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Potential V at point P on the axis of the ring.

  • gracy
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A small misunderstanding about waves

  • NooDota
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Find the position of the lens between two holes and screen

  • moenste
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Electric field and potential problem

  • gracy
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Is Tensile Force the Same as Tension in Physics Calculations?

  • jbrandon
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What rules governs the mutual induction

  • Harrison G
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Solving a Moment Equation: Understanding the Relationship with AD

  • goldfish9776
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Load Acting on Robot Arm Driven by Electric Motor

  • Anto Ronson
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Working out speed, kinetic energy and resistive force

  • Meezus
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System of lenses with a light source at first focal point

  • alivedude
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Projectile Motion - Center of Mass

  • annastewert
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Force to stabilize a door - torque

  • r26h
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Power dissipated by resistor -- Right answer, but need insight

  • kostoglotov
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Potential energy negative, force & displacement co-linear?

  • CivilSigma
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How Much Work Is Done Pulling a Wagon at an Angle?

  • Valenti
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The speed which a ball must be thrown to reach 8m.

  • Meezus
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How do I sketch waves at a boundary with a fixed and free end?

  • Nicknacks
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Finding volume ratio between 2 vessels using ideal gases

  • Jamessamuel
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Calculating Current Using Thévenin's Theorem

  • Gbox
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Tension problem with 2 strings, 1 mass

  • jay1194
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Percentage of Electrons Tunneling Through?

  • Miley
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How Does Hammer Impact Affect Pole Penetration and Energy Dissipation?

  • notsoclever
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How Do You Calculate Terminal Velocity of a Metal Ring in a Magnetic Field?

  • accountdracula
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Electric Field Inside a Dielectric-Filled Spherical Capacitor

  • BOAS
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Does turning a spoon in water raises the temperature?

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Energy of 2 spherical shells filled with dielectric

  • phys-student
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Maximum Velocity= 4.8 m/s2Deceleration= -1.2m/s2

  • alsy
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