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The percentage error in the Radioactive substance Population

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Calculating Chemical Potential from Energy Derivatives

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Is a point of inflection concave or convex? - Which answer is correct?

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Solving the SHM differential equation

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Why is it important to classify circuits as series or parallel?

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How Does a Moving Support Affect Pendulum Motion?

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What is the least time to get from point ##A## to point ##B##

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Morin classical mechanics differential equation problem

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Deriving position function for object in SHM

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Finding time difference between two arriving wave fronts

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What Is The Maximum Force The Locust Exerted on The Plate?

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Need Help to Understand an Equation for Air Resistance

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Describing Rolling Constraint for Rolling Disk With No Slipping

  • theshape89
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Calculate orbital angular momentum

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Density of cylinder that undergoes vertical oscillation

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How Does an Asteroid's Speed Change Upon Impact with Mars?

  • Tom4
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Understanding Periodic Motion: Proving and Explaining its Repeating Nature

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Angular deceleration of a washing machine spin cycle

  • Zoubayr
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Help Me Tackle This Question: How Do I Start?

  • dantetoledo
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Phase Transitions in the Van Der Waals Gas

  • GravityX
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How Does Pressure Change Affect Internal Energy in an Ideal Gas?

  • hockeyfan123
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What's wrong? Electric potential of a point on a ring

  • yucheng
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Describing motion of a particle qualitatively

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PV diagram, ranking heat transfer between 4 processes

  • HoboBones
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Understanding equations and their relationships (multiple equal signs)

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Angular velocity of an airplane

  • Zoubayr
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Motion with constant angular acceleration

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Finding Constants: Potential and Field Analysis

  • ermia
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Why is the Kinetic Energy of a Spring (1/6)mv²?

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Why do some physics textbooks say P = dK/dt and others say P = dE/dt?

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Bernoulli’s Equation for plugging finger into dike under water

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Pendulum Question (Matlab Coursework)

  • some bloke
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Friction and an object stopping

  • nav888
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Why Measure the Center of Mass from the Same Position After a Collision?

  • String theory guy
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Proving COM Moves 0.5(x_1 + x_2) in Δt

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Displacement and distance when particle is moving in curved trajectory

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Did I Miscalculate the Speed for a Leaking Cart Under Acceleration?

  • PhysicsRock
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Finding Area of Ring Segment to Find Electric Field of Disk

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Calculate the Speed of a Satellite Moving in a Stable Circular Orbit

  • Jade_lowe
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No Limits of Integration for Electric Field Integral?

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Elastic Collision Between Two Balls

  • susan_khan
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How to Calculate the Bounces of a Bouncy Ball

  • oobercharge
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Variable mass, uniform body, force -- pulling a massive rope

  • Spector989
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Work, Power and Energy — Lifting a coiled rope up off a surface

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Why Use Right-Handed Coordinates for Problem Solving?

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Does distance affect torque in hanging sign problem?

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Difference between scalar and cross product

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Why do we have a charge in the denominator of equation for voltage?

  • Callmelucky
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Explaining the Cross Product for Two Vectors

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Finding linear acceleration of a spool and cable

  • haven
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How to find Vmax squared for circular motion?

  • Jade_lowe
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Final velocity of a block on a spring pulled downhill

  • Elaren
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Two masses on a rotating platform

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Estimates of voltage drop with distance in weak electric field

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The Work of Friction: Explained in .32m

  • aqryus
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Why Is My Velocity Calculated Differently than the Solutions?

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Two black holes moving in a circular orbit around a point

  • slogals
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Why Does Positive Charge Exert Elec. Field Beyond Neg. Charge?

  • Callmelucky
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Solving for 'a' with Torque, Force, and Mass Moment of Inertia

  • haven
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Projectile motion problem – determining initial velocity of throw

  • Kaiser98
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Sign hanging from massless beam attached to hinge supported by string

  • hisiks
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Work done on a magnetic dipole (compass needle rotating)

  • Ugnius
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Surface Tension: Plate-Water Interface

  • vcsharp2003
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System of particles, impulse and conservation of angular momentum

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2 Capacitors and energy density

  • Shreya
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Why are the three different surface tensions in the directions shown?

  • vcsharp2003
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I am stuck on a calculation -- Entropy change for a compound system

  • Lambda96
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Solving Fluid Statics Problem: Accounting for Atmospheric Pressure

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Volumetric flow of a overflowing cone

  • jackkk_gatz
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How to Calculate Speed of Head of Driver After Collision?

  • susan_khan
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Understanding Destructive Interference in Radio Waves

  • jolly_math
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Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Elara04
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Can the positive direction be different for each particle in a system?

  • nav888
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Why can't I treat the disk as a point mass?

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Diatomic molecule at a constant temperature

  • LCSphysicist
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Find the acceleration of the system (2 blocks sliding on a table)

  • paulimerci
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Rotational motion magnitude question -- Rod mounted on a pivot

  • oddenforcer
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Work greater than heat given to colder reservoir -- impossible?

  • Callmelucky
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Energy/Power Question for pumping water out of a well

  • Physics_Amazing
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Troubleshooting F = q v B sin(theta) Calculation

  • MichaelTam
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A Guide to the Best Beaches in California

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Help Calculate Work Done in Adiabatic Process & Fill Table

  • Callmelucky
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Waves- sending a pulse across a weighted line

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How much force does the 20 kg block exert on the 10 kg block?

  • paulimerci
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Physics project confusion (effects of length on a pendulum)

  • dpatil
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Calculating Pressure in a Flowing Liquid

  • vcsharp2003
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What is the Correct Angle for Tension Force in Arm Mechanics?

  • Spocktastic
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Two Particles Connected by Massless Rod: Dynamics Analysis

  • Booze
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Maximum angle reached by a cube placed inside a spinning cylinder

  • Samuel N
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Two vectors forming right handed set?

  • Andrew Tom
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Help understanding this velocity-time question

  • sc8
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What is the angular acceleration of the rod?

  • Asad Raza
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Conservation of Momentum of Rocket Exploding after Takeoff

  • hisiks
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Why is cosine alpha needed in electric field integral over a sphere?

  • cwill53
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Specific volume and enthelpy of mercury

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Calculating how many revolutions it takes to reach the final speed

  • haven
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3 pulley problem with attached masses

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Net torque about an axis through point A in a massless rod

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How far will the bottom gate of a reservoir open?

  • jackkk_gatz
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