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Potential difference between three capacitors in series

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Harmonics Question: How Can Harmonics Be Present?

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Air Track Elastic Collision: Solving for Final Velocities

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Calculating Work in a Thermally Insulated Cylinder

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Flow Through Orifice Homework: Bernoulli's & Motion Eqs

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Rank Wave Functions by Speed: IV, I, II=III, III

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Why Gauss's law works when charge enclosed is not uniform?

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How does a rotating pulley affect acceleration and tension?

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Calculating the Force of a Kangaroo's Legs

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Calculating Tangential Force for Grindstone Rotation

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Charge density in cylinder with uniform charge

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Conveyor belt speed and burger production rate

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Maximum Torque Calculation for a Given Force and Angle

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Can force or displacement be negative in the work equation?

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Natural Frequencies and Harmonics

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Force of declerating object losing mass

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How to calculate the change in kinetic energy on a plane?

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Finding a time-dependent vector

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What causes drag on a stationary car?

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What is the Minimum Distance Between Moving Identical Particles in Vacuum?

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Which person exerted a force perpendicular to displacement?

  • Westin
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Vertical Simple Harmonic Motion

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Solid Insulator Sphere Inside Hollow Sphere Conductor

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Egg Drop Project: Creative Designs with Limited Materials

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Instantaneous Acceleration from a Velocity-Time graph

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Problem with Centripetal velocity on a banked corner

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Tension in two strings with 67 kg mass suspended by them

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Understanding Momentum and Impulse

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Static equilibrium and resultant velocity problems

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What is the magnitude of the average velocity v of the car?

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Collision with two cars (momentum and impulse)

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Electric Potential V inside nonconducting sphere with cavity

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WJEC GCSE Physics 2 Higher Tier Q5(c)(ii) Help

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Equation of motion for a rotational mass and spring system

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Force needed to make a 15 ft ladder slide at its base

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Calculate Wavelength Three Different Ways

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Finding the maximum compression of a spring

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What is the final speed of the boat?

  • Westin
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Final Speed of Object After Constant Force Applied - 31.358m/s

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Choose the correct snapshot graph longitudinal waves

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Electric Field and Surface Charge Density of Concentric Dielectric Shell

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Two charged balls approach, touch, then repel—find initial charge

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Self-locking condition for a flat piece pushed between two walls

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Diagram for Charge Directions-Electron Path-Magnetic Fields

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Deep Inelastic Scattering, peak of cross section, width?

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Spring-block system with angled spring and tension

  • Suraj M
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Velocity dropped and thrown meet at what height

  • Mathias
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What is the orbital period of positronium in the far future?

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Calculate mass from acceleration and radius

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Potential energy, and use of datum line

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How Deep Would the Mariana Trench Need to Be for Ice VII to Form?

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Gravitational force on a particle from line of mass

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Temperature increase in water question

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Water equivalent of calorimeter

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Standing Waves Under Boundary Conditions

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Velocity of pions after moving far away from each other?

  • physicslove22
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Simple Pulley Problem With Acceleration

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Laminar Flow : shear force on walls

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Wire coil in decreasing magnetic field

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What is the resultant vector electric field at the point P?

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Relationship between electric energy and force

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Frictional forces and the angle for minimum frictional force

  • Yam
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Understanding Electric Fields and Voltage: How Do They Relate?

  • RobertArvanitis
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Calculating the center of gravity (hard version)

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Why must a photogate be perpendicular to an air track?

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Power required to generate a wave

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How Does Adding a Steamer Trunk Affect the Plane's Center of Gravity?

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Calculating Frequency of Siren Heard by Truck After Police Passes

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Balancing weights (simpler version)

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De Broglie wavelength of an ant

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Potential energy. What is the spring constant?

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Special Relativity WS#2 -- Earth-Pluto SuperShuttle line time dilation

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What is the angular velocity of a rolling disc after displacement?

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Muon decay and time dilation from cosmic rays

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Can Conservation of angular momentum be used?

  • PhysicsKid703
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Car stopping with passenger: will they slip off the seat?

  • Yam
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Calculating the Height of a Block Launched from a Compressed Spring

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Finding frequency of moving sources with beats

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Vertical motion Velocity and Acceleration dot products

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Measuring resistance using potentiometer

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How Much Charge Can a Capacitor Hold Before Failure?

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Boat crossing a stream time taken

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What P Value Causes Sliding or Tipping of a Box?

  • NGamer
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What is the electrostatic force on the Y charge?

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Two unknown charges accelerating an object

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Finding the mass on a balanced 47 cm beam with torques

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A string over a pulley, same tension?

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Right Hand rule-Why is it possible

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Calculate focal length of lens by diffraction.

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Rate of precession caused by mountain on spherical earth

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What is the equivalent capacitance of this formation?

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Sound intensity/Ear drum problem

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How Does Gravity Affect the Velocity of a Block on a Spring?

  • Yam
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Imperial 2015 Application Question

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