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Power in a simple electric circuit

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Should you aim upstream or downstream to cross a river fastest?

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Superposition Principle to Solve Circuit

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What is faster the cannon ball or its shadow?

  • Liam Teevens
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Young's modulus of a hanging wire

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Velocity and Position with Friction

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Two different springs in parallel

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Back EMF and inductance in RL circuits

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Spaceship launching instrument package

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Calculating Heat Generated in a Coil due to Changing Current and Resistance

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Inductor Role in Time Constant of a DC Circuit

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Simple collision between rocks in outer space. Webassign

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Electric Flux Through a Hole in a Sphere?

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Finding gravitron rotational frequency

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Calculating Work Done by Expanding Gas in an Automobile Engine

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Electric Field above a cylindrical shell w/ charge density

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Can a Rope Held by Macho Man Stay Perfectly Horizontal with a Weight?

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Electric potential at center of semicircle

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Angular and linear velocity propeller

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Twin paradox: why does Joe's trip take less time in his frame?

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Find phase angle of RLC network

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Why doesn't upthrust increase when a solid is pushed deeper in liquid?

  • Suraj M
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Determining average acceleration during point of impact

  • miles davis
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Mass hung from middle of steel wire sagging 2 cm

  • gracy
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Velocity vectors in different directions for momentum

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Calculating Pressure at Point A Using Excess Pressure Formula

  • Suraj M
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What is the work needed to move a charge

  • Karol
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Potentiometer and galvanometer experiment

  • gracy
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Solving initial velocity for falling object

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Force on fulcrum for balanced seesaw with girl and boy

  • R Sarwar
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Calculating Work Done by Expanding Gas in Spherical Bubble

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Why is the friction greater on rear wheels than front wheels in a car?

  • lavankohsa
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Doppler effect problem (observer is moving away)

  • Emmanuelle
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Force required to change direction

  • rasen58
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Cross Section for Asteroid Impact

  • ebjessee
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Cannon Muzzle Velocity Question ( Solved )

  • ChiHawksFan
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Integration of an arc of charge

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Amplitude of 2 waves at a point

  • Potatochip911
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Calculating Current in a Wire with a Moving Charged Particle

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Expression for magnitude of magnetic force

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What materials are best for creating fiber optics from seaweed or jelly?

  • Roihan Yahya
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Solving for velocity in a variable mass system

  • samjohnny
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Bungee cord design to stop a jump into Jello from 45 m

  • Somoan
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Electric field and positive and a negative charge

  • John Marow
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How to find initial velocity without being given time

  • Qwerty123!
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Average Speed Over Given Distance - Driving me Nuts

  • Sarlacc
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Electric field, potential, work and force

  • vysero
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Pendulum clock loses 30 minutes in 12 hours

  • Potatochip911
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Kinematics question -- 2 runners racing with different acceleration rates

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What distinguishes ΔPE, PE, and PEaverage in oscillating systems?

  • romantichero7
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How Much Energy Hits Each Eardrum from a 2500W Sound Source 20m Away?

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Problem Check: Equilibrium of Particles

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Uranium and radium blocks separating from compressed spring

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A woman throws a ball at a vertical wall d = 5.0 m away.

  • cbking1306
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Would you -- drawing of wood blocks and a ruler to measure a lens

  • Syndy
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Kinematics playgound slide problem

  • professor97
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Dropping two balls, one with twice the mass

  • rasen58
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Multiple Power Source Circuit Analysis

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Sand transferring between coaxial rotating drums

  • geoffrey159
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Projectile motion Q3 (A)

  • Aaron Curran
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Acceleration of a triple Atwood Machine

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What is the man's upward acceleration when hoisting himself into a tree?

  • kaspis245
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How do you make Zener diode connections for different types of diodes?

  • gracy
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De Broglie Wavelength at Relativistic velocity

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Determination of moment of inertia of a hollow cylinder

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Finding coeffiecient of friction

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Force on base person in 30-person human pyramid

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Distance to traveled to reach 0m/s not matter in impulse?

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Diffraction Grating and Dispersion

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Charge on a capacitor in a series

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U-Tube (Pv=nRT, Pascals) Problem

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How to get the magnitude and direction?

  • Ika_10
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How Do Collision Types Affect Momentum and Energy Transfer?

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Design voltage divider for 5V output with variable 0-5mA load

  • sugz
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Newton's cradle with 50 g balls: why isn't the final ball's height used?

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Calculate Force Needed to Stretch Spring 48cm: 270 N/m

  • ross moldvoer
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Net Force Direction for 10kg Mass: How to Determine?

  • Amberly C
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Is the CO amount I found correct?

  • chemman218
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River Boat Question That's Throwing Me Off

  • Ben B.
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Man swimming across river with velocity relative to water

  • Aaron Curran
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Why do the two decay problems give contradicting answers?

  • PhysicStud01
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Quarter circle and electric field

  • holdmyhand
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Why voltage drops exceed supply voltage in multi-loop circuit

  • sugz
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How does acceleration affect the period of a pendulum in an elevator?

  • ThatDude
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Capacitor needed for phase angle change (RLC network)

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Calculating Density of High Altitude Air Using Ideal Gas Law

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Displacement of deflected puck on ice

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A rocket fires two engines simultaneously

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Does Initial Spring Tension Affect SHM Frequency?

  • stannard97
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Newton's Laws - finding acceleration of block on sled

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Ball hitting an inclined plane

  • terryds
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Can't get correct sign for a simple force problem

  • Mr Davis 97
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Probability of finding a particle in a 1D box

  • Lily Wright
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How Does Riding in a Cart at the Bottom of a Valley Affect Apparent Weight?

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