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How Is Terminal Velocity Calculated in a Submerged Block System?

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How Does Density Affect the Lifting Power of Helium Balloons?

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Why are the normal forces for the legs pointing downwards?

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How Is the Force on a Helium Ion Calculated in a Magnetic Field?

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Quantum Theory of Earth Satellite Analogy to Bohr Model

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Electron-positron creation from colliding photons

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What is the Relationship Between Force Magnitude and Length in a Scale?

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Linear velocity equation for a object trown vertically up

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Force on table/chair rolling back

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Calculating velocity and position from time variating force

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How Does a Michelson Interferometer Measure Distances?

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Average Acceleration and Speed

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Electric Field due to Charged Washer

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Calculating magnitude of electric field at center of square

  • Physics2341313
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Speed of bowling ball involving speed of sound

  • Entr0py
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What equation do i use to find the acceleration?

  • rgold
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Thermodynamics relating to temperature and phase changes V.2

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Potential of a spherical shell (non-uniform charge density)

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Using couette flow/viscosity to find force

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Finding the distance between two charges

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How many electrons does the atom have?

  • pandamonium786
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What would the final charge on the rod be?

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Choosing Integrating constants for Electric Field

  • Jen2114
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Calculate speed and acceleration

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What happens when we connect 2 batteries + with +, - with -?

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What Is the Electric Dipole Moment of the Given System?

  • gracy
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A juggler throws a bowling pin straight up in the air....

  • Anama Skout
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How Does a Cricket Bat Affect the Force on a Ball?

  • Littlej4me
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Finding the neutral point of two charges

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Finding the magnitude of a vector B given vector C

  • Cadawallader
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Thermodynamics relating to temperature and phase changes

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Change in pressure of a gas inside a tube

  • lorele
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Discover All Permutations of "Dinner" or "Diner

  • #neutrino
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Determine the output voltage ripple

  • ToonBlue
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Calculating Heat Transfer: Specific Heat Homework"

  • appdulrahman
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Currents through a circuit (junctions/series/parallel)

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How Does Electric Flux Calculation Apply to Complex Fields and Geometries?

  • psysicsfeet
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What Is the Skater's Acceleration on the Rough Ice?

  • Ashkon
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Magnitude of the Initial Velocity

  • Rose1996
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Engineering Dynamics: Solving Train Decel on Slope

  • JaredPM
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What Defines a Closed System Free from External Forces?

  • Drizzy
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Help me determine a vector that's perpendicular (with work)

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Three vectors lie in an xy plane

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Diffusion vs Osmosis: What’s the Difference?

  • Drizzy
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How Do You Solve a Kinematics Tennis Ball Problem Using d-v-a-t Formulas?

  • dragonx47
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How Long Does It Take for a Cop to Catch a Speeder?

  • Rectifier
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Finding the Distance of a Balanced Seesaw: A Question in Moments

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Direction and Average Acceleration

  • Manh
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Need help w/ understanding electric potential

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A semicircular loop of radius a carries positive charge Q....

  • robren
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What Does the Variable T Represent in Cable Tension Problems?

  • whitejac
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Weight of object in outer space away from galaxies

  • Entr0py
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Calculating Time and Acceleration in Constantly Accelerating Cars

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Electric field strength from x=-a to x = a

  • physiccool78
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What Are the Tensions in Each Cable of a Suspension Bridge?

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A boat travels down stream, then travels up stream

  • Kingyou123
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'Monk and the Monastery' problem

  • Kingyou123
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Coulombs's law problem, asked to find an unknown charge.

  • J-dizzal
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Two fixed charges, find (x,y) coords of third particle.

  • kspabo
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Find the final velocity of the block

  • MARK STRETERS
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How Do You Calculate Angular Velocity at Half the Radius?

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Charles' Law Math Problem: Volume Change at Constant Pressure

  • SnakeDoc
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Calc Speed of Parabolic Arc for Zero-Gravity: NASA's Vomit Comet

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Finding the electric field at point P between two charges

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Solve m2 & v2' Elastic Collision: Ball A & B Velocity/Mass

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Frictional force acting between 2 stacked blocks

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Electric Field Inside a Charged Insulating Sphere

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Hydrostatic pressure - barrel vs. small cylinder of water

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Entropy change for reversible and cyclic process

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How to solve for distance give average velocity of magnitude

  • bthebiologist
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What Does Find the Charge on the Outer Surface of Sphere 2 Mean?

  • Antonius
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Electric field at a point from an insulating shell

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Calculating Net Charge Inside a Cube in an Electric Field

  • Antonius
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Finding the smallest resistance on a I-V graph

  • Janiceleong26
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What Is the Velocity After Two Cars Collide?

  • Entr0py
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What is the Gauge Pressure Inside a Hot Gas-Filled Incandescent Light Bulb?

  • MidgetDwarf
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Calculating Velocity Using P-t Graph | Homework Help for Physics

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Motion in two dimensions: Launching up an incline

  • prelon
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How Long Does a Pitch Take to Reach Home Plate?

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Why Is the Angle 5.6° in Young's Double Slit Experiment?

  • libbytam
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How Long Until the Arrow Hits the Rock in Helm's Deep?

  • LeHotDoge
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Dimensional Analysis: Solving E = (1/2) mv Equation

  • Michele Nunes
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What is the displacement and velocity of a falling object after 1.0 s?

  • Lana Elcic
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Finding the Equilibrium Position for Three Charges

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Net force on rectangular circuit

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Y component of electric field due to line of charge

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Force exerted on Earth by accelerating ball

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Finding the charge of a particle given the charge of another

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Work Done by Gas w/ Pressure & Volume Relationship

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Find Mag of Charges for 50 cm, 0.2g & 37 Degrees

  • pawlist
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When is the force of gravity 0?

  • Alameen Damer
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Where Will the Candlelight Go?: Investigating Centrifugal Force

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Using relative motion to find direction and time of a boat

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Electrostatics (four equal point charges)

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Horizontal and vertical component for electric field

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