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How to find motional emf w/o an equation for mag field?
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Calculating the voltage across capacitors and resistors with switches
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Find V-I characteristic for this circuit with ideal diode
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Purcell Electromagnetism p.301-303: "the longitudinal current I flows, in effect, on the cylinder itself"?
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Acceleration of the midpoint of a light rod
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Work Done in slowly pulling a thread
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Field of contact forces
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Determine the Thevenin equivalent circuit
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Angular Momentum Problem: Mouse walking on a rotating turntable
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Earthing of two parallel conducting plates
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Purcell 1.77 Electron jelly
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How can voltage between unlike charges decrease with proximity?
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Wave interference, "beats" problem
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Aerodynamics of a helicopter blade
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Which pairs of these diagrams represent equivalent circuits?
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I want to know if the sketch I've drawn of the catenary suits the exercise
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Trying to study for my exam but got stuck on exercise
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Direction and magnitude of electric field produced by current change
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Average battery current in battery charger
  • Antoha1
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Electrostatics: Gauss' Law Problem Finding the Flux through a Conducting Spherical Shell
  • Dev
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Questions about a capacitor with 4 parallel plates
  • palaphys
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Drop of voltage between terminals while conductive rod is rotating
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Motion puzzle: Bird flying between a train and a platform
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Debugging a Kelvin Water Dropper
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Electric displacement field density equation
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Calculating of currents in a circuit
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Force to move a 24 tonne truck one foot in one second
  • Rev. Cheeseman
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Why does the propagation constant in the Helmholtz equation include j?
  • baby_1
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Record Player Physics
  • OutdoorInnovator
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Dielectric boundary value problems
  • lys04
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Polarisation of dielectric materials
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Capacitors, equipotentials, and electric fields
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How do you calculate the pull of this piston?
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Coin sliding on a table slides across an expanding fabric tape
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Combined tensions of an RLC series circuit with AC current
  • Thai777
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Terminal velocity and acceleration
  • physicals
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Clarifying the Definition Total/Stagnation Pressure (p₀) in Bernoulli'
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A particle's momentum in a magnetic field
  • Antoha1
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The energy needed to construct a charged hollow spherical shell with finite thickness
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Calculation of charge flowing through a loop
  • Antoha1
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Height of the image of my friend on the film
  • syllll_213
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Why Was My Answer of 63 cm for the Focal Length of a Converging Lens Incorrect?
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Drone dragging a hose behind it
  • ethanesh
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Torque biomechanics
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(Answer check) for a work problem
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Question related two different ways to do solution
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CO2-powered metric racer car competition | help please?
  • sophiasxxn_134
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Force acting on one side of a fluid
  • palaphys
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Coefficient of Restitution for a Hypothetical Collision where masses are not equal after the collision compared to before the collision
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Confusion regarding surface tension direction and force balance
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Convert to Center of Mass Reference Frame
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How far from the point of release will the ball hit the ground?
  • Mohammad Ishmas
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Irodov 1.23 confusion: Calculate distance traveled and time elapsed for this decelerating particle
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What is force? How can we interpret the full definition of force?
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Calculate velocities in COM reference frame for 2D collision
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Inclined plane problem
  • Vidrinho
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AP physics 2: Phase change in thin film interference
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Calculate the speed and angle of the center of mass before a collision
  • rdemyan
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Mastering physics homework: Mass oscillating on a vertical spring
  • BadAtPhysic
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Friction direction change in a inclined circular bend (car on a road)
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Induced current and force on circular loop in varying magnetic field
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Problem on Radiation Pressure
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Quick Physics Questions I found online and need explanations solving
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Calculate the energy transferred given the voltage, current and time
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This 3 mass atwood problem is confusing me
  • Thai777
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Left-to-Right Wave — How Does Particle X Move?
  • Physical_Fire
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Computing the moment of inertia for a rotary inverted pendulum
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Ball on a string thrown around a spool
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Network Analysis, Kirchhoff's Laws, changing current source to voltage
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Graphs of RC Circuit Responses
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The problem of one tube and two balls on a plane
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Calculating the Forces on a Charge
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Ambiguous Problem Statement on Determining Speed of Aircraft
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How does a transistor act as an amplifier?
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How do I find the intersection of the wrench's LOA?
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Momentum: why don't the two carts become one?
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How to calculate the errors in the measured period of a pendulum?
  • Lotto
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Series and Parallel Circuits using symmetry
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How is the slider connected to the switch?
  • Physical_Fire
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Thermal expansion of a glass rod and a metal ruler
  • Brightly
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A problem from a physics national competition
  • Jim Alexandridis
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Change in entropy of the surroundings in an irreversible process
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Surface current of superconducting sphere in magnetic field
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Force of car pushing on a truck
  • syllll_213
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Force needed to raise a backpack
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Uniform circular motion angle relationship
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Simulating a Rotary Inverted Pendulum in Python
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Pressure of water coming out of a hose nozzle
  • mr_sparxx
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Focal length of the eyepiece lens in a compound microscope
  • tellmesomething
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Find the magnitude of the child's acceleration
  • chwala
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Why are these forces not included in the solution? (Torque Problem)
  • mathandphysics
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Why do compasses always point in the wrong direction?
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Charge on disk with non uniform surface charge density
  • songoku
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Optics problem with a glass lens immersed in water
  • tellmesomething
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Homework: Can a rest frame be chosen for the center of momentum for a system of two photons?
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1-dimensional kinematics - final velocity of 2 trains in opposing direction
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Total energy of a wave on a string
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What happens to the position of two attracting charges when a conductor is inserted between them?
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Spring force required to overcome friction between two blocks
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Rolling without slipping problem
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