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Calculating Charge on a Spherical Surface with Varying Density

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Capacitors and charge on them Question

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The time span for which insect can see its image?

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How does static vs kinetic friction affect skate velocity?

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Car starting to move, friction and forces

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Why is max water height h/10 = 3 m for a 0.1mm hole by surface tension?

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Centripetal Acceleration of rocket car

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Electric Field of Point Charges in Equilateral Triangle

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How does the separation between block and spring affect the time period?

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Time to rotate system 20 degrees

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Phase space diagram for a spring in simple harmonic motion

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Potential energy of an arrangement of point charges

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Charge of q5 in Electric Field Map with q4 and q6

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Given voltage, solve for unknown resistor in a circuit

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Electric Field and charge location

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Kinematics Projectile Motion Problem

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Calculate the stress in the duralumin rod

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Determining Wave Parameters for Interference Pattern

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Work done by Air resistance on ball?

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Calculating final temperature in insulated container

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How Does Pushing Force Affect Contact Force Between Two Boxes?

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Why is C the correct radioactive emitter for this decay problem?

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Calculating Final Velocity of a Car Using Uniform Acceleration

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Velocity graph of an object speeding up

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Gear ratio requirement (RPM --> km/h)

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Triangle Ladder equilibrium problem

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Finding Distance d for Infinity Image: Diverging and Converging Lens Problem

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Matter/Electron Waves and the Davisson-Germer Experiment

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Finding Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

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Finding bounce angle when a body hits a sphere

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How long does it take for the batter to lose its charge?

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What is the angle between the two emerging beams of light?

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Finding Initial Velocity with Given Distance and Angle?

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Iron Bar Thermal Radiation Calculation

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Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation equation(s) ?

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Minima of a diffraction grating

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The height at which the gravity acceleration is 5x smaller

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Finding the Potential of a Charged Rod on the x-axis

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Power dissipated by a resistor in a circuit

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Mass on a Spring: Determine Periodic Time, Frequency & Acceleration

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What is the Charge on a Uniformly Charged Sphere Based on Gauss' Law?

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Where between two charges does voltage = 0?

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Rotation period of a space station

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Log thrown off Grand Canyon: finding velocity and distance fallen

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Driven harmonic oscillator problem

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The acceleration of a ramp and and mass on the ramp

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Centripal Force - Friction needed to keep a car tracking a curve

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Is the Velocity negative or positive?

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Why is the electric field normal to a conductor surface?

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Gravitational potential and kinetic energy equations

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Finding the center of mass of a system

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Two beads connected by a taut thread on friction-less wire ring Proof

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Calculating Properties of a 2.2 eV Electron

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Finding revolution time at surface

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Time derivatives of sin and cos phi

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Plane velocity with tailwind using velocity addition equation

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Find the gravitational force between then sun and the earth

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Finding scuba tank interior volume from standard cubic feet

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Find moment of inertia via torque and acceleration parameter

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How Do You Properly Round in Error Analysis?

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Charge on insulating sphere and conducting shell using Gauss' law

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Distance traveled by the boat during acceleration

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Magnetic field of infinite wire

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Will the man catch the bus if he starts 10 meters away from the door?

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The acceleration of a ramp and mass

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Applying law of momentum conservation

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Man pulling a cube on a rough surface

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Electric Field inside concentric spherical shells

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Centripetal Acceleration for non uniform speed

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Relative Velocity of Ball Tossed on Moving Train

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How Does Relative Motion Affect Perceived Speeds in a Police Chase?

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Girl on platform pulls rope to accelerate upward

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Finding Voltages in a Circuit with Nodal Analysis

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What is the distance covered by a robotic bug moving along the x-axis?

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Thermodynamics Question Calculating change in temperature

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Projectile Motion: How tall is the building?

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Current required in a long wire

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Tension in a string between two blocks

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Point Charge and Charged Sphere

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Electric potential and field of a charged ring at a point on the axis

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Flux through various Gauss' surfaces

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Calculating Work by Friction using Integrals

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Tension of a string attached to an instrument inside rocket

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Calculating Reactions in Balance: A Student's Question

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How much does a spring compress with 100 N force?

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Subscripts and superscripts in four vectors

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How did we get the formula for torque?

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How to find Best Efficiency Point for pumps in series?

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Solving for the Height of a Slope with Unknown Mass

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What is the voltage across C2 in this circuit?

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DC current -- Find the 3 currents in this Battery + Resistor circuit

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Find the acceleration of the system and the maximum force

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Maximum separation between blocks on spring

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Maximum compression of spring when book drops from 0.5 m

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