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Calculating pressure in high altitude?

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Center of Mass Velocity in Elastic Collision

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How Does Rotating a Wire in a Magnetic Field Affect Force and Current?

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Electrostatic potential energy of a cubical configuration

  • Lamp Guy
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Finding Magnetic Field using Lorentz Force

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What is the stiffness of the spring in a child's pogo stick?

  • Charles Stark
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Node Method Problem: Identifying Errors

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What Is the Net Electric Force in a DNA Hydrogen Bond?

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What does "sum of voltage x1 due to v1" mean?

  • LongApple
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A speck of dust that carries charge in a electric field?

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How do + and - polarity markings on resistors affect power calculations?

  • LongApple
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Relating Volume Charge Density and Linear Charge Density

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Momentum/Impulse- Calculating Average Force of Raindrops

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Tennis Ball Dropped: Will It Ever Come to Rest?

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Does the ball clear the fence?

  • keithcuda
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Is the Circular Orbit in a Multi-Electron Atom Stable?

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Spring Angular Momentum Problem

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Lunar lander velocity before hitting ground

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Three Charges in a Triangle problem

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What does "power entering the source" mean?

  • LongApple
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Vertical distance of water inside an downward vessel

  • Tulatalu
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2 Cubic Blocks on a Right Triangle

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Determining the Angle of Velocity in Uniform Circular Motion

  • Nousher Ahmed
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Electric potential of a cube of 8 point charges

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How Much Force Is Needed to Accelerate a Rolling Cylinder?

  • jon4444
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Will Current Pass Through a Resistor in Parallel with a Wire?

  • joel amos
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Voltage required for penetration of an unknown element

  • grantaere
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Saturn's Rings: Part of the Planet or Satellites?

  • postfan
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Coefficient of friction; rod slipping off edge of table

  • Nathanael
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Can blowing on liquids actually cool them down?

  • duran9987
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Why doesn't constant velocity equation apply to braking kinematics?

  • postfan
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Finding time and velocity on two connected incline planes

  • G. Coder
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Normal force inside a hollow cone

  • squirrelschaser
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Finding final speed given acceleration and distance

  • roinujo1
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Eigenvectors of exponential matrix (pauli matrix)

  • Punctualchappo
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Rotational kinetic energy(flywheel) problem

  • orangeincup
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Gram-Schmidt Orthonormal Functions

  • Robsta
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Force of Friction on Boat w/ Thrust

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Two indentical beads w/ mass m and charge q in hemispherical

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How Can I Linearize a Velocity vs Force Graph in Circular Motion Analysis?

  • Bryan Tran
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Why are velocities equal at minimum separation of two charged pucks?

  • EgpYo
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Sending a satellite to Jupiter?

  • 21joanna12
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Finding speed -- A child on his toboggan

  • Jeanclaud
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Acceleration of a system due to gravity

  • Sheepwall
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Projectile motion of cannonball fired from 45m cliff

  • zesi
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Radioactive Decay to a Non-radioactive Isotope

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Two blocks with kinetic friction: which accelerates faster?

  • arpon
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Trying to understand the solution given

  • issacnewton
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Does Dumping Coal into a Moving Train Affect Its Velocity?

  • Brob
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Photoelectric effect with retarding potential at 600 nm

  • DarkKnight911
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Calculating Capacitance for Optimal Light-Bulb Performance

  • EzequielSeattle
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Are you not supposed consider sig digs for mass?

  • EgpYo
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Find the original speed of the car

  • hgducharme
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How Can You Determine the Sun’s Absolute Magnitude?

  • scoopaloop
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Understanding Statics Analysis for a Simple Square Truss Design

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Bullet embedded in suspended block reaches 40° angle

  • StonedPhysicist
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Which situations involve forced frequency oscillations

  • Redjakk1
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Free body diagrams for boxes on an inclined plank

  • Misiu
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Calculating Power Transferred in a 2-Pulley System

  • stackemup
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Compass Behavior Near Parallel Current-Carrying Wires

  • Samurai44
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Velocity in a gravitational field

  • PWiz
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Signal processing in matlab, what is signal length ?

  • bert2002
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Aluminium covered with gold submerged into water

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Finding tension in a string when force accelerates the mass

  • PhysicStud01
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Momentum conservation in collision problems

  • kenny243
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Finding work from an inclined plane, basic question

  • Curious&TheNon
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Finding Time when given velocity, distance, and mass

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Superposition of 3 point masses

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Ballistic Spring System Problem

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What is the diameter of the bicycle tire?

  • keithcuda
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Final velocity of a ball down a ramp.

  • HHH
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Force on a shrinking circular loop in a constant B field

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Piece of quartz mixed with gold

  • Arcany
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Tension in two strings supporting 2.5N weight at 30° and 40°

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Struggling to find a way to measure rotary torque

  • madgorillaz15
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Kinetics/Motion in 2D/Energy question

  • Curious&TheNon
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First Year Forced Oscillator Problem

  • Eugene Kelly
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How Should Forces Be Calculated in a Truck-Trailer System?

  • MaxKempar
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Find Net Electric Field Between Two Point Charges

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Equation of state of a rubber band

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Size of a cube for a molecule of ideal gas

  • Karol
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Special Relativity rocket’s speed

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Why does initial velocity not affect horizontal range?

  • Sonny18n
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Reaction forces and moments for cylinder with two fixed rods

  • physicsdumby
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Supposedly easy physics problem =( [projectile]

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Single-slit diffraction: why do I get a calculator error for the second minimum?

  • Quantum Fizzics
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Calculating Net Force results in a final velocity

  • Diego Fernandez
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Question on Surface Integral and Flux

  • Loppyfoot
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Projectile launched at 30° hits target at 0.4 m horizontal distance

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What is the N2/O2 Ratio at 3255m Using Laplace's Law?

  • Wolfmannm
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Wave Problem -- Total amplitude of fundamental and first three harmonics

  • PhysicsMan999
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First post, Electrostatics Questions

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Determining voltage across resistor and current direction

  • LongApple
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Gravitational Potential Energy and Oscillations of a Bead Attracted by Spheres

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Cyclotron Resonance: Lower Limit for Electron Scattering Time

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Parachuting inside bales of hay

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