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Orbit of Geostationary Satellites

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Orientation of Image Produced by Double Convex Lens

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Doppler Effect/Projectile Motion

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Equivalence principle - light beam through a rocket

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Finding the frequency of small oscillations given potential energy U

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Gravitational force between objects

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Calculating Velocity in Two Dimensions: A Real-Life Swimming Challenge

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Bernoulli, Fluid Dynamics, and ships

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How Does a Thin Film Alter the Optical Path Length?

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Taking the average of a formula

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Molar heat capacity for diatomic gas through two-step heating process

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Finding ocean depth from compressed air in closed tube

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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?

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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?

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

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Negative time in equations of motion

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Hydrogen energy levels question

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

  • Glenboro
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Conceptual Uniform Circular motion problem?

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Calculating momentum of soccer ball.

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Final translational and spin velocities of spinning disc?

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

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Spring Constant to Bring a Car to Rest

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RL Parallel Circuit Behavior Upon Switch Closure

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What is the final voltage that a capacitor charges towards?

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Protons along a magnetic field line

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

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Resistors in parallel with a capacitor, total resistance?

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Temperature and Pressure Differences in Identical Rooms

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Capacitance of four metal plates

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Transverse Doppler Effect for a Moving Star

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Conservation of momentum of a photon

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Capacitor negative charge question

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

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

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

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Point and circle on sphere probability

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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?

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Electric Fields: Oscillating point charge

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Acceleration of a rod due to magnetic force

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Potential energy of an electric dipole in electric field

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Grade 11 Energy Transformation with External Forces

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

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Retarded Green's Function for D'Alembertian

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Collision question -- 2 balls colliding elastically

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Calculate linear momentum of earth

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

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A disc in space will rotate or not?

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How Is Energy Calculated in a Capacitor?

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Compressing ideal gas, show no heat exchange

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Self and mutual inductance of a solenoid

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Catching up to object moving away

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Deceleration necessary to prevent a train collision

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Normal incidence on 2 dielectric boundaries

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The greatest angle at which a ladder won't slip

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Calculating half power frequency/cutoff frequency

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Pendulum involving Spring and Rotating plank

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

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A ball with some energy and yes a string

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Gravitational Force and Density on a Planet with a Digging Experiment

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Compressed Spring Between Two Boxes

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

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Circuits with two sources of Emf

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"Diffraction: Why Bass Music is Easier to Hear

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Thin film interference with 200nm oil film on water

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

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Angular Velocity Of A Sphere Rotating Under Gravity

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Derivation of self inductance formula in an LC circuit

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Angle of Deflection of Laser Given Tilted Mirror

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Mechanics. Gravitation and gravity

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Special relativity and really fast trains

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

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Finding fish apparent position and length through spherical glass fishtank

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Focal length of lens at border of two liquids

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Conducting slidewire see system-Faraday's Law

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Electric potential, Can Someone Check This?

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

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How to Derive the ABCD Matrix for a Transmission Line?

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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

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Finding speed of two electrons initially at rest

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How much charge inside a Gaussian surface?

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+ charged sphere and - charged sphere touch and separate

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Work done by line integral in electrostatics

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Why does charge on a pointy conductor not uniformly spread?

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Object sliding down a block on a scale

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Dielectric Cylinder Polarization (Electrostatics)

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Converting 200 MeV per uranium-235 fission to joules

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Reason for the obvious movement of a block

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