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Finding ocean depth from compressed air in closed tube

  • MMONISM
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Haidinger fringe (interferometer at zero path difference)

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What Determines the Amount of Work Done in a Marble Ramp Experiment?

  • Jimmy87
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Velocity of an asteroid from an infinite distance

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Why does one person get shocked and the other not?

  • feihong47
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Calculating Work Done by Gas in a Mercury-Filled U-Tube with Right Angle Bends"

  • sankalpmittal
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Negative time in equations of motion

  • beck blackfire
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Hydrogen energy levels question

  • Robsta
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What is the initial momentum of the sled-person system?

  • Glenboro
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Conceptual Uniform Circular motion problem?

  • toesockshoe
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Calculating momentum of soccer ball.

  • Glenboro
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Final translational and spin velocities of spinning disc?

  • barns
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What Are the Calculations for the Orbit of Vanguard 1 Satellite?

  • Longee
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Spring Constant to Bring a Car to Rest

  • kieth89
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RL Parallel Circuit Behavior Upon Switch Closure

  • Jzhang27143
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What is the final voltage that a capacitor charges towards?

  • VaishnaviRam
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Protons along a magnetic field line

  • AndrewC1994
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How Does Kinetic Energy Change in a Baseball After Being Hit?

  • Glenboro
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Resistors in parallel with a capacitor, total resistance?

  • Tangeton
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Temperature and Pressure Differences in Identical Rooms

  • shrutiphysics
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Capacitance of four metal plates

  • Patrikp
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Transverse Doppler Effect for a Moving Star

  • Dazed&Confused
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Conservation of momentum of a photon

  • SU403RUNFAST
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Capacitor negative charge question

  • Jamessamuel
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What do l1, l2 and m mean in the equation l2 - l1 = m lambda?

  • clum
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How do I determine the age of a sample using radiocarbon dating?

  • mss90
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How Does Planet X's Gravity Affect Rocket Escape Velocity?

  • 15ongm
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Point and circle on sphere probability

  • BedrockGeometry
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Struggling to Invent? Need Ideas for Your Physics Project?

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Final angular velocity of a merry-go-round?

  • nickr96
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Electric Fields: Oscillating point charge

  • abrianna
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Acceleration of a rod due to magnetic force

  • Ozmahn
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Potential energy of an electric dipole in electric field

  • Sleepycoaster
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Grade 11 Energy Transformation with External Forces

  • Wajeeha
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How Do You Calculate the Moon's Speed and Acceleration in Its Orbit?

  • Glenboro
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Retarded Green's Function for D'Alembertian

  • leonardthecow
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Collision question -- 2 balls colliding elastically

  • SteveS
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Calculate linear momentum of earth

  • **Mariam**
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How High and Fast Does a Bullet Travel When Shot Vertically?

  • Glenboro
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A disc in space will rotate or not?

  • mooncrater
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How Is Energy Calculated in a Capacitor?

  • Cal124
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Compressing ideal gas, show no heat exchange

  • Dazed&Confused
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Self and mutual inductance of a solenoid

  • toothpaste666
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Catching up to object moving away

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Deceleration necessary to prevent a train collision

  • rezal
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Normal incidence on 2 dielectric boundaries

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The greatest angle at which a ladder won't slip

  • Addem
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Calculating half power frequency/cutoff frequency

  • vishwesh
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Pendulum involving Spring and Rotating plank

  • kspabo
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Angular momentum about the contact point when a rolling cylinder hits a wall

  • mooncrater
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A ball with some energy and yes a string

  • mooncrater
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Gravitational Force and Density on a Planet with a Digging Experiment

  • Raghav Gupta
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Compressed Spring Between Two Boxes

  • Soniteflash
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Tension on Rope, greater then, less than, or equal to

  • isaac206
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Circuits with two sources of Emf

  • Jimmy87
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"Diffraction: Why Bass Music is Easier to Hear

  • student07
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Thin film interference with 200nm oil film on water

  • JJK1503
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Finding max speed and corresponding angle for a semi-circular path

  • Juke
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Angular Velocity Of A Sphere Rotating Under Gravity

  • Woolyabyss
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Derivation of self inductance formula in an LC circuit

  • PratyashAstro
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Angle of Deflection of Laser Given Tilted Mirror

  • Kumo
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Mechanics. Gravitation and gravity

  • moenste
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Special relativity and really fast trains

  • JJK1503
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Thermodynamic Query: Calculating Heat Transfer for Monoatomic Gas at S.T.P.

  • shrutiphysics
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Finding fish apparent position and length through spherical glass fishtank

  • whatisreality
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Focal length of lens at border of two liquids

  • matej1408
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Conducting slidewire see system-Faraday's Law

  • Gemma95
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Electric potential, Can Someone Check This?

  • whitejac
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A ball is thrown upward direction , is it a -ve displacement

  • md abul hasan
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How to Derive the ABCD Matrix for a Transmission Line?

  • baby_1
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Destructive interference with optical path difference λ/2

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Looking For (Academic) References About How the LHC Works

  • ChaosLokoInc
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Finding speed of two electrons initially at rest

  • ozbii
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How much charge inside a Gaussian surface?

  • physicslove22
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+ charged sphere and - charged sphere touch and separate

  • Soniteflash
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Work done by line integral in electrostatics

  • smileandbehappy
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Why does charge on a pointy conductor not uniformly spread?

  • friendbobbiny
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Object sliding down a block on a scale

  • Lord Anoobis
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Dielectric Cylinder Polarization (Electrostatics)

  • roam
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Converting 200 MeV per uranium-235 fission to joules

  • nima rahmani
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Reason for the obvious movement of a block

  • mooncrater
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Mechanics. Circular motion and rotation

  • moenste
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Finding height of revolving body at speed ##\sqrt{2gR}##

  • AakashPandita
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Double slit interference SQA 2009 AH physics

  • ah4p
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Oscillation of a mass connected to a spring displaced

  • vishwesh
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Bra-Ket Notation, Wave Equation, Particle States

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Static equilibrium - man on a ladder

  • aweeeezy
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Interpreting Bernoulli Equation

  • cj
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Understanding Discharge: Where Does Capacitor Charge Go?

  • HeidiF
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Reviewing five physics assignments on magnetism and electric fields

  • physicslady
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