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Where did I go wrong in my solution?

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Bungee jump height/spring energy

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Expressing Newton's 2nd law in terms of momentum

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A Child throws a ball vertically upwards, then catches it

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Magnetic Interaction: parallel rods, cross bar free to slide

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Moment of Inertia of ceiling fan

  • Colleen Walsh
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How many electrons make up a charge of -90.0μC ?

  • Orhan
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Parallel-plate capacitor with 2 dielectrics?

  • Destroxia
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Calculating Electric Field and Force Between Charged Rings

  • littlejon
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How Is the Net Electric Field Calculated at a Point in a Square of Charges?

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Force between polar molecule and an ion

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Resultant acceleration Question

  • Steelers72
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Why does conservation of momentum work but not energy for this collision?

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Applying Bernouilli to calculate pressures

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Asteroid colliding with a planet

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How can there be work due to torque?

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How Do You Calculate Angular Acceleration of a Salad Spinner?

  • Steelers72
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Finding Power Ratio of Two Pulley Systems

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Which Direction Does the Force on the Electrons Act in a TV Tube?

  • mshiddensecret
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Resistivity mean free path and scattering time of copper

  • SMC
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Angular speed of rotating hoop

  • henry3369
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Using moon's rotational energy on earth

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Hunter's Recoil Speed from Rifle Shot

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How Does Force Distribution Affect Tension in an Elastic Plank?

  • andyrk
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Energy stored in parallel plate capacitor

  • xamy
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Potential and work done by the charge

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Rolling without slipping and coefficient of friction

  • henry3369
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Coulomb's law vs. Newton's law of gravitation?

  • Brian S.
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Diffraction Gratings and Incident Light

  • Dgray101
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Calculating standard deviation for average force

  • jb007
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Simple kinematics with friction

  • fishinsea
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Inf. Parallel Plate Capacitors and Potential Energy

  • kevtimc25
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Is there something as instanteneous intensity of a wave?

  • Coffee_
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Semicircular rod and Electric Potential Question

  • kevtimc25
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Problem of manometry. Is it resolved correctly?

  • Queren Suriano
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Parallel wires carrying current out of the page, find B

  • Dextrine
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Problem with understanding Babinet's principle

  • Coffee_
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1-D elastic collision between proton and nucleus

  • kingsmaug
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Rotational Period of Large Body

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Sliding down the curved/straight slide

  • cloveryeah
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Resistor Network Circuit Analysis

  • Dhooy7
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Force to stop a rotating object

  • Phys185Help
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Magenetic field due to wire and cyllinder

  • samjohnny
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Magnetic Field inside plate

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Calculating Net Charge in a Parallelepiped at Inclined Faces

  • Ozmahn
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How Do You Calculate the Final Temperature of a Glass Pot and Oil?

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Girl grabbing a box mid-air: when is momentum conserved?

  • henry3369
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Moment of Inertia of 4 Balls on Square Side

  • erisedk
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Calculating Power Output of an Automobile Engine

  • Abid Rizvi
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Find Velocity: Confirm Calculation Solution

  • goonking
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Electric Potential Energy and Sign

  • always_tired
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Understanding Work and Energy: Solving a Physics Problem with a Spring

  • jared bernstein
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Minimum Speed for Balsa Cube Tipping Problem

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Height and horizontal distance of a projectile

  • theaman
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Object and Incline Colliding: Velocity and Height at Highest Point

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Why won't any electrons flow through the resistor R2?

  • Plutonium88
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Newton's Second Law. Involving an airplane.

  • Trevor Mock
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Unsure where g term comes from? in this equation

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Find the force of friction provided by the floor

  • MadMcB
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Charge inside of Conducting Shell

  • Jzhang27143
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What is the tension in the right cable?

  • MadMcB
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Find Velocity and Position of Mass on Frictionless Table

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Drawing up a liquid by forward motion of a tanker

  • annnoyyying
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Energy conservation in Special Relativity

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Tension in string and oscillation

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Induced Voltage of a Magnetic Field passing through a loop

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Help with high school dynamics assignment?

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2D Collision of 3 Billiard Balls

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Calculating Electric Force: Coulomb's Law Example and Solution

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Determine the magnitude of force on a suspended object

  • MadMcB
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Location of object that forms an image in 2 lens system

  • Phynos
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System in static equilibrium given a nudge. What happens?

  • Blythe
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Heat Transfer-How long will it take for a material to heat up

  • Matthias85
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Vertical pressure on soft drink can

  • reshald
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Spherical capacitor with 51.8 mm and 55.0 mm radii

  • Destroxia
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Finding the equivalent resistance of an RL cct & step input

  • sugz
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Derivation of Ee in Inverse Compton Scattering

  • Alkass
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Induced Magnetic Fields and Force Between Two Opposing Current Loops Explained

  • friendbobbiny
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Linear Collisions: Find Max Compression of Spring

  • Merms
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Coulomb's Law, finding acceleration direction

  • loukiz
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Determining the forces in three cables.

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How Much Air Does a 600W Hair Dryer Circulate Per Second?

  • YarnJunior
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Does the refractive index law change according to the medium

  • Syndy
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Simple application of Coulomb's Law/Equation

  • kostoglotov
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Galilei and Speed: Solving a Cat and Object Problem

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Induced EMF, bar moving through magnetic field

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Work done by monoatomic ideal gas

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Equivalent resistance in a complex circuit

  • PhysicsMan999
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Mirroring using a concave mirror

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Solve Depth of Pool w/ Snell's Law

  • BadatPhysicsguy
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Wheatstone bridge, only one R value known

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Optimizing Coulomb's Law: Finding Maximum and Minimum Charges

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Thermal efficiency of a heat engine

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Charge on spherical conducting shells

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RC Circuits, how do you solve for V(infinity)?

  • sugz
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