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How to keep circuit wiring cool so not to distort results

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Resistive Forces on Objects on an Incline

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Physics Practical: Check proportionality

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Ball rolling and bouncing from a wall

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How Should Mass Be Distributed Between Two Scale-Pans to Achieve Desired Motion?

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Match on water sustained by surface tension

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Does force of falling object include its own weight?

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Impulse applied to an elastic pendulum

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Graphical or calculation solution. Which is better? Ohms law

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Vector Question Analysis: Did My Lecturer Make a Mistake?

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[E&M] Concentrical metalic spheres

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A Closer Look at Bungee Jumping Physics

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Average acceleration of impact of ball.

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Constraint Equations Homework: v0, v1, v2

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Cylindrical Gaussian Surface around charged rod

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How High Must a Rocket Travel for Gravity to Halve?

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Basic constant velocity graph question

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How many square centimeters are in 2.5 ft^2 ?

  • Beanie
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Identifying Increasing Speed from Position vs. Time Graphs

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Who Wins the Drag Race Based on Constant Acceleration?

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How to differentiate this potential energy function?

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Magnetic field representation in Octave

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Magnetic field at the centre of a circular current loop

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It's a question of what to assume......

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Finding the Center of Mass of a Uniform Disc: A Non-Calculus Approach

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Projectile Motion on Inclined Surface Question

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How to verify the Energy delivered by Lithium ion battery?

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Electric field at point between two finite charged wires

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Capacitance per unit length - two cylindrical conductors

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Capacitance per length unit of coaxial cable

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Transformer and potential difference

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Solving potentiometer problem with addition of resistor

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How to find combined velocity after impact in a mallet and stake collision?

  • Depasquale97
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Cylinder pulled by rope on a rough surface

  • Karol
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Table for signs of position, displacement, and velocity

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How Does the Center of Mass Move in the Two Body Spring Problem?

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Half pipe with friction in the middle

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Calculate the current between point A and B

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How to Determine the Upward Acceleration of M in the Pulley System?

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Classical Mechanics: Two Body Problem

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Thermally Isolated System Equilibrium Properties

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Confused with circuit that has two opposing emf

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Analyzing Forces on a Car Attached to a Wall with a Rope

  • John_tawil
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Vector Questions: Solve & Learn

  • Dawid
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Height of Water in two conical tanks

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Instantaneous Speed of Wheel Chair 5m from Exam Room

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Improving the Efficiency of Light Bulbs: Possible Solutions?

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Calculating Distance Traveled: Airplane Acceleration Equation Explained

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Energy changes of a stretched string

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Ball hitting a hanging rod: Velocity and Energy Loss Analysis

  • Karol
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What Was the Speed of the SUV Before the Collision in Phystown?

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Solving Curvilinear Motion Problem - Physics Forums

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Electric field in the center of uniformly polarized cylinder

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Motion on an inclined plane against a resisting force

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Calculate Magnetic field using Ampère's law

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Which Program is Best for Creating Tables and Graphs with Large Numbers?

  • Crush1986
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Banked Curve - Minimum Turn Radius

  • Devtycoon
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How Does Projectile Velocity Change Before and After Maximum Height?

  • hiineko
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Calculate speed of object given g-force

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Calculating Electric Field due to two point charges.

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Finding Capacitor Voltage Time Dependencies

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Gravitation and Gravitational Fields

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What Happens to Energy When a Balloon Deflates?

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Finding Normal Reaction between Wedge and Block

  • Titan97
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How to Calculate Forces in a Train System?

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Finding lens diameter - German physics task

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Calculating Displacement: Magnitude & Direction of a Car's Motion

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Electric field strength between two disks?

  • Corey Bacon
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Relatively simple mechanics problem

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Maximum mechanical energy in the spring-block system

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"Solving Masses Accelerating Homework Statement

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Solving Parts E & F of Math Problem: Step-by-Step Guide

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How Far Do Colliding Blocks Slide on a Spring?

  • naianator
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How is Kepler's Third Law Applied to Uranus' Moons?

  • Mary1910
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Ideal gas process internal energy change

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Block collision attached to spring

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I with this MCQ question pleae

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Hi i want to derive the 2nd equation of motion using the 1st

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Charging a Capacitor: Find Rate of Charge & Energy

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Diagram for Wooden Block Friction Problem

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How Does Kinetic Energy Affect Needle Penetration in Medical Procedures?

  • Zynoakib
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Dropping ball into spring (inelastic collision)

  • Samei
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Physics Forces Question with mass

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Force of a bar to stop a rotating cylinder

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How Does an Impulse Affect the Angular Momentum of a Spinning Wheel in Space?

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How Fast Does the Lighter Block Travel When the Spring Relaxes?

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Another Kinematics Problem (I have solution)

  • hiineko
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Kinematics Car velocity Problem

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Mass spring system - unknown spring constant

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Force and momentum in gymnastics position

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The formulas for parallel and series connections

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Force of Falling Objects at a Height

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