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What is the Junction Equation for this Circuit?

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Find resistance of inductor in series RLC circuit

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Gold Electrodes and Capacitance

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Why does a coil's EMF graph differ from a Hall probe graph at constant speed?

  • Jamessamuel
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Understanding Vector Fields and Their Relationships to Circles

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What is the frequency of oscillation for a human leg as a pivoting rod?

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Gyroscope precession period and speed

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Total sound intensity from sources

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Finding the Magnitude and Direction of the Displacement Vector for a Ship's Trip

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What is the charge on each capacitor in a circuit with capacitors in parallel?

  • toothpaste666
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What Are the Most Challenging Questions in Grade 11 Nuclear Physics?

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Derive an expression for the potential

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Physics principle(s) to explain how to stack spherical items

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Electric Potential Energy Inside a Charged Sphere

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Heat Transfer and Capacity: Understanding Specific Heat and Latent Heat

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Find the amplitude of the resulting simple harmonic motions

  • Okazaki
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Is My Biot-Savart Law Solution Method Correct?

  • toothpaste666
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How Much Work Does an Archer Do When Drawing a Bow?

  • Mr Davis 97
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How far up the ladder can you climb before it begins to slip?

  • liquidheineken
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Electric and Magnetic Field Parallel

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Calculating strain from wave speed and tension in a wire

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What is the Ideal Gas Force on a Container at Temperature T?

  • Raghav Gupta
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Specific heat capacity of gases

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Application of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • Raghav Gupta
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Free Body Diagram of a ice skater?

  • Celina
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Pipes, resonating frequencies and yeah some gases

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Can a Diffraction Pattern be Solved Without Complete Information?

  • David Truong
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Work required to remove a metal sheet from a capacitor

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Brownian motion, Boyle's law, and gas kinetic theory homework

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What are the equations for tension in a massive rope under acceleration?

  • bartersnarter
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Electric Potential for an infinity line of charge

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Beat frequency and nodes for a runner between two speakers

  • Yoonique
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What would affect horsepower more: speed or mass?

  • Min
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Finding final velocities in an elastic collision

  • goonking
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Solve Currents Homework: Kirchhoff's Laws

  • Angie K.
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How to Solve for Terminal Voltage in a Circuit with an Unknown Battery

  • Angie K.
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Resistance of Light Bulbs in Parallel

  • Angie K.
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What happens to 's' if mass changes in this situation

  • Alice Saka
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Firework explosion into 3 pieces: finding velocity direction

  • mcapuchin
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Which equation should be used to calculate electric potential?

  • henry3369
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How do angular frequency and phase shift affect the SHM displacement graph?

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Relationship between harmonic and circular motions

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Reduced oscillation on higher altitudes

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Mover Pushes 700 kg Piano up 9° Ramp - Force Calculation

  • Mr Davis 97
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SOLVED: Equipotential surfaces for finite line of charge

  • homer
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Capacitor Discharge: A Simple Explanation

  • Rohan1997
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Intensity of elliptically polarized light through polarizers

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Center of mass of an inclined triangle

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How to calculate the distance travelled in work and energy?

  • red1312
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Why Can't a Conical Pendulum's String Be Horizontal?

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Is the Motion of a Pendulum Simple Harmonic?

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Why does constant power give mv³/3 instead of mv²/2 for kinetic energy?

  • elitewarr
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How does tension affect the frequency of a standing wave on a string?

  • sushichan
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Projectile Motion: Minimum Velocity for Overcoming an Obstacle

  • Jerry Smith
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Projected Area of a Cone in Electric Field Calculation

  • Tanya Sharma
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Interesting Equilibrium Question

  • anton717
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Calculating Total Resistance Without Prefix

  • Angie K.
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What Is the Speed of a Mass at Equilibrium in Simple Harmonic Motion?

  • Soniteflash
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A simple Fluid Dynamics/Pressure HW question

  • SnakeDoc
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Pucks colliding at right angles

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Direction of Magnetic Field of a Parallel Conducting Wire

  • sugz
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Finding Maximum Voltage of Resistors

  • Angie K.
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Force in Varying Places in a Swimming Pool

  • Okazaki
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Relative Motion - Elevator Problem

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A mass oscillating at the end of a spring

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Two people in a boat and one person throws a ball

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Torsion pendulum in Cavendish experiment

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Water velocity through a 1 cm boat hole using Bernoulli's principle

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Equilibrium Temperature of Gases in Partitioned Container

  • Raghav Gupta
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Entropy change of van der Waals gas expansion

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Mean energy of system with ## E = \alpha |x|^n ##

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How do I post a question on this forum?

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Is It Safe to Assume Gamma Rays Consist of Only One Photon?

  • Ngineer
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Angular separation between moons

  • Scott Yuill
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Calculating Initial Energy of a Spring-Connected Mass

  • Raghav Gupta
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Motion, Energy balance, momentum question

  • Raghav Gupta
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How to predict how far a spinning ball will bounce?

  • mousemat
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How do I calculate the phase difference for this?

  • Daniel Pinto
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How Many Photons Are Produced from a Falling Mass?

  • NRip897
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Speed through the Center of the Earth

  • Okazaki
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Derivation of a cinematic formula

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Energy Conservation and Spring Compression

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How to make successful helmet from scratch

  • Madmace10
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A quarterback throws a football to a stationary receiver

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Magnetic field at the center of a square conducting loop

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Electric Potential Difference diagram

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Volume of a Cavity in an Iron Casting

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Finding mass on a balanced see-saw with torque

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Spring with weight question / Potential energy of the spring

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Bernoulli's equation and fluid movement

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Ferris Wheel Problem using Mathematica

  • Bakir
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Finding tension in a chain attached to a rod

  • goonking
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A wavy problem what will happen?

  • mooncrater
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What Is the Speed of an Oscillating Particle at Equilibrium?

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