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Acceleration of a Block Sliding Down a Wedge

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Calculating velocity of a particle if distances are constant

  • anthraxiom
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How to find motional emf w/o an equation for mag field?

  • sequoiasprout
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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

  • zenterix
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Acceleration of the midpoint of a light rod

  • Bling Fizikst
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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

  • zenterix
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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

  • mathisrad
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Which pairs of these diagrams represent equivalent circuits?

  • syllll_213
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Catenary cable with balloon: finding horizontal tension and height

  • mcastillo356
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Capacitor with dielectric material exercise

  • Voidness
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Direction and magnitude of electric field produced by current change

  • songoku
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Average battery current in battery charger

  • Antoha1
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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

  • Antoha1
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Motion puzzle: Bird flying between a train and a platform

  • anthraxiom
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Debugging a Kelvin Water Dropper

  • Silloky
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Electric displacement field density equation

  • lys04
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Calculating of currents in a circuit

  • Antoha1
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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

  • palaphys
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How do you calculate the pull of this piston?

  • vdance
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Coin sliding on a table slides across an expanding fabric tape

  • yo yo
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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'

  • John1704
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A particle's momentum in a magnetic field

  • Antoha1
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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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Drone dragging a hose behind it

  • ethanesh
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Torque biomechanics

  • Naucus
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(Answer check) for a work problem

  • helloword365
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Question related two different ways to do solution

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CO₂-powered metric racer car design for maximum speed

  • sophiasxxn_134
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Force acting on one side of a fluid

  • palaphys
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Confusion regarding surface tension direction and force balance

  • palaphys
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Convert to Center of Mass Reference Frame

  • rdemyan
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How far from the point of release will the ball hit the ground?

  • Mohammad Ishmas
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What is force? How can we interpret the full definition of force?

  • wondu12345ABCD
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Calculate velocities in COM reference frame for 2D collision

  • rdemyan
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Inclined plane problem

  • Vidrinho
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AP physics 2: Phase change in thin film interference

  • AAONA
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Calculate the speed and angle of the center of mass before a collision

  • rdemyan
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Mass oscillating on a vertical spring

  • BadAtPhysic
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Friction direction change in a inclined circular bend (car on a road)

  • pgirl1729
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Induced current and force on circular loop in varying magnetic field

  • songoku
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Problem on Radiation Pressure

  • Mohammad Ishmas
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Quick Physics Questions I found online and need explanations solving

  • Candice123
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Calculate the energy transferred given the voltage, current and time

  • GARV ARORA
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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

  • Remusco
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Ball on a string thrown around a spool

  • kekpillangok
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Network Analysis, Kirchhoff's Laws, changing current source to voltage

  • Emo_Jesus
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Graphs of RC Circuit Responses

  • stunner5000pt
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The problem of one tube and two balls on a plane

  • crazy lee
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Calculating the Forces on a Charge

  • GodlessStar
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Ambiguous Problem Statement on Determining Speed of Aircraft

  • vcsharp2003
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How does a transistor act as an amplifier?

  • Aurelius120
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How do I find the intersection of the wrench's LOA?

  • daisy7777
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Momentum: why don't the two carts become one?

  • paulb203
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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

  • psandadi
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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

  • palaphys
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Surface current of superconducting sphere in magnetic field

  • Jan05
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Force of car pushing on a truck

  • syllll_213
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Force needed to raise a backpack

  • syllll_213
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Uniform circular motion angle relationship

  • syllll_213
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Simulating a Rotary Inverted Pendulum in Python

  • Remusco
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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?

  • ulrichburke
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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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Can a rest frame be chosen for a system of two photons?

  • sHimprinten
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1-dimensional kinematics - final velocity of 2 trains in opposing direction

  • syllll_213
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Total energy of a wave on a string

  • Brian_D
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