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Can a Thermometer Be Calibrated Without Using the Formula Provided?

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Equivalent circuit for a battery.

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Using nuclear shell model to determine parity and spin

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Finding cliff height from horizontal throw and fall time

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How Can You Create Standing Waves from a Given Transverse Wave Equation?

  • Okazaki
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Can x=8sin2t+6cos2t be proven as S.H.M. using a second derivative?

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Finding time required via force equation

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Find force required to move pole with static friction

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Tension in vine as Tarzan swings past intercepting branch

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Area under force vs displacement graph :D?

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Conservation of Energy - Max height WITH Air resistance

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Statics problem: man lowering himself from tree w/ friction

  • bkw2694
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Statics Problem Tipping Refrigerator

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Object sliding into spring with friction on surface

  • BrianSauce
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What forces would act upon any general egg drop device?

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Moment of Inertia of a Disk and Pulley System

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Gauss Law for finite line/plate

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Forces in Two Dimensions: Net Force and Components

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How Is the Scale Factor R(t)/R(0) Calculated in Cosmology?

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Amplitude and Velocity of Component Waves

  • Okazaki
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Velocity of neutron using uncertainty principle

  • Avatrin
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Problem with signs in the Lorentz Transformation equations

  • spaghetti3451
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Refrigerator- thermodynamics: how do i start?

  • WoIfgang
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How Fast Is the Large Hoop's Center Moving When Aligned Vertically?

  • Yoonique
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Focal length of convex lens with object at 49.4 cm and image at 70.5 cm

  • JayFish231
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Time of a falling object when the force of gravity isn't constant

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How Do You Calculate the Efficiency of a Heat-Transfer Process?

  • Dhooy7
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Does Acceleration Affect the Stability of an Atwood Machine in an Elevator?

  • bananabandana
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Essay question about aerodynamics and projectiles in sports

  • iamthememe
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Rotational motion-why are torques not in opposite directions

  • Epiclightning
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Find the force function for a particle subject to a central

  • Futurestar33
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A particle of mass m moves in a one dimensional potential

  • AdityaDev
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Double Slit Diffraction:Finding Greatest Angle for Minimum

  • Zach Hughes
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Kinetic, total, and binding energy of a 100kg satellite at 620km altitude

  • Vlad137
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Finding spring constant and energy in oscillating mass system

  • supahhclayron
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Relative weights in air and water

  • ScifiGen
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Difference between kinetic friction and static friction

  • *.*.*AnUm*.*.*
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Newtons' Second Law with Kinetic Friction Problem

  • SpacemanRich
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Checking kirchhoff's laws and magnetic induction problems

  • Dhooy7
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Finding the phase of a particle in SHM at a specific time

  • Chrisemo
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Why does the magnetic flux change if the loop area stays the same?

  • ZARATHUSTRA
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Scalar triple product invariance under circular shift proof

  • pastoreerrante
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Gravitational Potential of Hanging Cord

  • NotZakalwe
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Pressure of a fluid contained in a steel container

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Equilibrium Process for Calculating Tension in a Tight-Rope Walker's Wire

  • barbiegirl42
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Electric field at the origin of a quarter-circle

  • henry3369
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How to find the total acceleration (magnitude and direction) of a rotating disk?

  • Physicsnoob90
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A wheel rolling on a horizontal flat or inclined surface

  • Yam
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Gauss' Law: Calculating charge enclosed

  • henry3369
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Initial and Final Energy problem

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Need to sketch the potential energy of the spring system

  • Louverson
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Power Factor of an L-C-R curcuit

  • whitejac
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How to Solve a Basic Sliding Box Problem on a Frictionless Ramp?

  • Brendan Webb
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The moment of inertia for one spoke+ball would be 0.92kg*m^2.

  • Westin
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The acceleration may be related to the distance travelled?

  • Gizmo91
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Finding net resistance between specific points in a resistor network

  • Angie K.
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Difference between Tangential and CoM acceleration

  • prettydumbguy
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Parallel and Series circuits and current

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Path of an object at the vertex of an equilateral triangle

  • chaoseverlasting
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Factors affecting drift velocity?

  • LotusTK
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Calculating the E-Field inside and outside a sphere.

  • Alex_Neof
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Longitudinal Wave Equation from Transverse One

  • bananabandana
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Finding maximum of a wavefunction?

  • smileandbehappy
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Concept of Moment of Inertia and its limits of integration

  • Yam
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Transformation from Body-frame to ECEF-frame

  • Kuu
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Thermodynamics First Law Question

  • BoanviaFx
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Fluids, mass of object floating over oil above water

  • Xenon
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Speed of wind and speed with respect to wind

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What is the acceleration and tension in this inclined pulley system?

  • Brynhildur
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Addition of Velocities Special Relativity Problem

  • Jared Austin
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Watts accelerating mass in a frictionless environment

  • jFlower
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How to determine rectangular and polar radii of gyration?

  • sagarbhathwar
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What's in the center (at r=0) of the sun?

  • elif
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Heat Exchange and Efficiency in a Fridge

  • C.Orio
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How Do You Calculate Net Resistance in a Triangular Network?

  • GoldWing
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Difference between frame of reference and coordinate system?

  • toesockshoe
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Resistance between two junctions in a 2D mesh

  • AdityaDev
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Constant power, resistance, work, energy

  • Demonfruzz
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How do electrons know that there are other resistors?

  • matilda
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Total potential difference of an electron

  • Dancing_Queen
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What are the units of Lz and L^2?

  • smileandbehappy
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Simple classical physics inquiry

  • shanepitts
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Average shear rate of of particle sureface

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Absolute pressure, buoyant force, tension problem

  • jenn91890
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Converting Matter to Power: Calculating Mass for 3200W of Energy for 3 Days

  • Ethan_Tab
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Finding I1, I2, I3 with Kirchhoff's laws and 2.48Ω internal resistance

  • Angie K.
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What is the Relationship between Arc Length and Angle Phi on a Helix?

  • sitzpillow
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Magnetic interaction between moving and stationary charge

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What Is the Oscillation Frequency of a Weight Hung on a Spring?

  • goonking
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Direction of Electric Field in an Electromagnetic Wave

  • spaghetti3451
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Conceptual question about torque

  • prettydumbguy
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Thermodynamics - Calculating Work/Heat, Piston/Cylinder

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How Do You Calculate Electrostatic Potential in a Decaying Electric Field?

  • Alex_Neof
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Euler's Method and Planetary Motion

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How Does Electric Force Affect Acceleration in Charged Objects?

  • HaLAA
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Angular Velocity and Acceleration for Elevator Mechanism

  • YamiBustamante
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Bandwidth Theorem: Find Min Angular Freq in Propagating Wavepacket

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