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What is the volume of air swept out by a moving plywood sheet on a track?

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Resistance, wire thickness, fuses, current -- Confusion

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Derivations of specific values in Physics

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Wavelength, period of vibration in seconds

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Thermistor cooled in water and effect of temperature

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Ratio between electron to proton

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Finding the Height of a Dropped Flower Pot

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Vessel with liquids having different refractive index

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Rotation period of electron orbiting a proton

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Sinusoidal alternating current/Homework

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Solution to Force & Friction: Find Time for 4kg Block to Drop 7m

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How Do You Calculate the Shortest Flight Path Between Two Points on the Globe?

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Electric Potential Energy and micro-joules

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Velocity/Acceleration relation w/ constants

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What Happens When ω²LC=1 in an RLC Circuit?

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Rollercoaster normal force question

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Cylinder over a step -- Is the normal force radial?

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Work and Energy of carnival dinner

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Calculate the velocity of the system After the collision

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Acceleration Equation - Two Objects Moving Forward; Meeting Point?

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Work needed to move alpha particle

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Amount of force a motor can make in 35s

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Calculating Force Table Vector Equilibrium

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Calculating Pluto's velocity (angular momentum)

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Cylinder & Torque: Find Maximum Force w/o Rotation

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Use superposition to solve for vs in the circuit

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Two cans rolling down a ramp with the same mass

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Clarification on different kinds of acceleration

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Finding the Unknown Force: Acceleration and Net Force Calculation

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Sound: Stones falling from cliffs

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Mirror 4-Momentum: Find Frequency Change on Reflection

  • SHawking01
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Finding electric field of spherical shell

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What Is the Lorentz Boost Speed for Time Dilation and Spatial Separation?

  • leonmate
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An investigation on the factors affecting skiing

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Knudson Effusion between two gasses

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Stones Meet: Dropped & Thrown from Bridge

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What Angle Should the Ball Strike to Initiate Pure Rolling in the Sphere?

  • Satvik Pandey
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Projectile Motion Equation Problem

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Work and Energy of wrecking ball

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Uniformly Charge on a Wire - Electric Field

  • Aristotle
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Sled pulled at angle: how does 62° affect kinetic energy increase?

  • kaspis245
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Finding Acceleration and Tension

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[Thermal Physics] Calculating Energy Removal

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What is the index of refraction of the glass in this reflection problem?

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Solving for height and gravity

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Review Forces Homework: 3 Boxes, F=ma, Drawings & Equations

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How to find magnitude of two forces

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1D-kinematics with constant acceleration

  • Elvis 123456789
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Fraction of heat energy used to do expansion work of a gas?

  • JustinLiang
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Dot product in uniform circular motion question -- Finding angle?

  • ColtonCM
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Capacitor and Switch Potential Difference Calculations

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Energy in a shrinking spherical capacitor

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Find the height of a free falling object

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Two skaters of equal mass grab hands and spin

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Kinetic friction and lost mechanical energy

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Principle of Equivalence and Acceleration in Deep Space

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How Do a Car and Truck Meet When Starting at Different Times?

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Electron acceleration in its lowest orbit

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How Long Does a Box Slide Up a Ramp?

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What is the Average Speed of an Object Traveling 12 Meters in 9 Seconds?

  • erandall
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Calculating Net Force for Motor and Driver Acceleration

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Carbon-14 Half-Life: Calculating Decays After 50,000 Years

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Electric field of line charge with non uniform charge densit

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Inductive Circuit and Frequency

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Finding mass of a meter stick using torque

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Lightbulb brightness in a circuit

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Methods for calculating average velocity

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Electric Potential Over Non-Uniform Rod

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration in a Double Atwood Machine?

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Conservation of momentum: throwing bricks

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Trajectory of Centre of Mass: Sphere on Plank with Burnt String

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How Much Air Mass for a Hovering Helicopter?

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Shoe weight effect on pedaling force?

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Magnetic field and parallel current-carrying wires

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Lost energy when capacitor discharges

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Given potential, ask plane charge distribution

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Points of destructive interference of sound waves?

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Why the voltage acrossWheatstone's bridge isn't always zero?

  • jack58
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Black Body Radiation at a Distance from Emitter

  • DanD
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Inserting Dielectric into a capacitor in parallel

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Determining the oscillations of an electron within a sphere

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Angular momentum of a thin spherical shell

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Calculating the Electric Field inside an insulating shell

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Moment of inertia of a solid sphere

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Solve Block Pulled Upward: Find Velocity in Terms of m, g, b

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Solve Work & Energy Problem: Urgent Help Needed by 11:59PM

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How to Find Angular Velocity from Linear Speed?

  • shania
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Can Symmetry Simplify a Hard Resistor Network?

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Using Superposition and Linearity to Find Current?

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Electromagnetism: Magnetic Fields

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Whether impulses passing to brain have any relation with current in physics?

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Solving for Initial Velocity of a Ball on a String | Physics

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Power in a simple electric circuit

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Optimizing Swimming Across a River: Upstream, Downstream, or Directly Across?

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Superposition Principle to Solve Circuit

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