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Is Indoor Pressure the Same as Outdoor Pressure?

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How to Determine the Range of r for a Non-Sliding Mass on a Rotating Turntable?

  • Cliff Bryant
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Working out power loss in power lines: Multiple wires

  • Roynish
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Wedge and block initial momentum

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Where to place Gaussian surface

  • henry3369
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Conservation of Energy: work done by air resistance on rock

  • Honey Bee
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Heating a ring in a magnetic field

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How to tell when to use Cos vs sin in physics

  • Smith96
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How Much Work Is Involved in Climbing Stairs for a 60kg Person?

  • Mr Davis 97
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Speed parameter β and Lorentz factor γ

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Max Velocity of Wedge: When Block Reaches Height h

  • gracy
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Help with free body diagram for a pendulum

  • theone
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Coefficient of friction of a flat belt and of a vee belt

  • chickenmcnugget
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Find the Magnitude of the Magnetic Field in a moving loop

  • Shinwasha
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Kinematics One Dimensional help

  • toesockshoe
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Escape Velocity, with varying acceleration as a(y)

  • Chris T.
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Finding Magnetic Field from a Box

  • Shinwasha
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Conservation of momentum and concept of center of mass.

  • Satvik Pandey
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When will the fishing boat and the speedboat meet?

  • kitsh
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What is the Binding Energy of an Oxygen Atom Given its Mass Defect?

  • brake4country
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Differential equations: applying force to projectile

  • gnumoe
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Rotational inertia of a rod that has mass on one end

  • xd14
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How Long Does It Take for a Drone to Fall From 400ft?

  • Flying Monkey
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Earth's Rotational Velocity: Find Linear Velocity

  • physics123456
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Conservation of Angular Momentum in a Rotating System

  • physics123456
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Collapsing sun, new average rotation

  • physics123456
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Why does Newton's law of gravitation involve a cube on the bottom?

  • Calpalned
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Spring problem: compressed and pushed down with a velocity

  • ayjakk
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Is it a good idea to fire a shotgun against a tree?

  • Westin
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Projectiles and Newtons law help?

  • FenzyFee
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How Do Velocity and Acceleration Change Under Unbalanced Forces?

  • sparklegemini
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How Large Must a Helium Balloon Be to Achieve Neutral Buoyancy?

  • TR1
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How Does Cooling Bricks Affect the Entropy Change of the Universe?

  • piston
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Centripetal Force of swung keys Problem

  • MiniOreo1998
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What is the direction of rolling friction?

  • Raymond Zheng
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How to control velocity in a conical pendulum

  • May
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Velocity of a planet around the sun

  • hs764
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Hooke's Law: Find x (How much will the spring stretch)?

  • Alice Saka
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Tangental Velocity and Bicycle Wheel Radii

  • sciencegem
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Find the equivalent resistance (Req) of the simple circuit.

  • sugz
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How do I determine the resultant vector R from R = A + B ?

  • osob
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Moment of Inertia for Composite Object

  • theone
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C is incorrect. Work and Friction: A, B, & D True

  • brake4country
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Power Problem regarding elavator

  • Ethan_Tab
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Magnetic field produced by a current

  • carl binney
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Work, Force, Energy and power question about moving car.

  • Ethan_Tab
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Net flux through a cylinder from a point charge

  • henry3369
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How to Obtain a Magnification of -2 from a Convex Lens?

  • Sylvia
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An electron moving through a uniform magnetic field

  • Destroxia
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Confusion regarding signs in SHM problem

  • Tanya Sharma
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Solving Simple Work Problem: 515J

  • Mr Davis 97
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Introductory problem about force (N)

  • SamuelVictor
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Hydrostatics on plane surface (basic fluid mechanic Q)

  • uzman1243
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Astronomy: Sun azimuth from altitude, hour angle, and declination

  • Frank Einstein
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Statistical Physics: Cubic lattice of two molecules

  • Matt atkinson
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Angular motion-centrifuge problem .

  • Prashant91
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Calculating Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Grinding Wheel

  • physaru86
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A homemade capacitor question, Vf/2

  • skepticwulf
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A 3500-pF air-gap capacitor question

  • skepticwulf
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Mechanical advantage ideal systems

  • brake4country
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What is the normal force on a block at the top of a loop?

  • AionTelos
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Finding Magnitude Homework: Inequality for Moving Blocks Together

  • Physicsnoob90
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Circuit analysis complex numbers

  • x86
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Conservation of Energy for Parallel Wires

  • Essence
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Ping-Pong Ball Submerged in Water and then Released

  • ColtonCM
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De Broglie wavelength of nitrogen molecules

  • Kavorka
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Equations for total internal reflection

  • MathewsMD
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Find the magnitudes of all of the forces acting on the sled

  • NkaujHelp
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Electron revolutions in Bohr model

  • Kavorka
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My temperature after dropping ice in tea isn't adding up

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Astronomy: Speed at the edge of the galaxy

  • razidan
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Flux of Circuit made from Metal Bar on Parallel Rails

  • LunaFly
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Using force vector to integrate work in xy-plane

  • whatdoido
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Calculate the magnitude of the induced EMF in the loop

  • Shinwasha
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Find angle required for total internal reflection of a beam of light

  • MrMoose
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Average Dose Rate of 1.11x108 Bq 131I in Thyroid

  • xamy
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Thermodynamics: finding work done

  • Frozen
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How do I find the specific heat of a hot object in water?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Frequency difference to find a 20m whale

  • bananabandana
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One dimensional Kinematics help

  • toesockshoe
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How much the gas has increased the speed of the plug?

  • kaspis245
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Thomson and Rutherford's experiments

  • Westin
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Time it takes for electron to travel through a solenoid.

  • Shinwasha
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Plotting Kinetic Energy of Mass Against Time and Distance

  • rikiki
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Procedure for an Inclined Plane Lab

  • Connie Lewis
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Conservation of momentum question - elastic collisions

  • Valerie Prowse
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How Are Proton Energies Quantized in a Nano-Scale Box?

  • Kavorka
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Scale Reading in Elevator: Mass, Acceleration, and Velocity Calculations

  • Prashant91
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Question about work, energy and the work energy theorem.

  • Ethan_Tab
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How to know when to relate the tangents (Divide components)

  • Cake
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How Does Energy Transfer Affect Entropy in a Water-Ice System?

  • Lisa Marie
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How can the momentum of a thrown rock be calculated with given parameters?

  • Kikakaru212
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