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Impulse and Momentum of a rocket

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Two charges and electric field?

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Calculate Final Speed of 58kg Skier on 25° Slope w/ 70N Friction

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Question on thermal equilibrium?

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Answer Work & Kinetic Energy for Mass m Whirling on Table

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Vertical energy of a pendulum - is there one?

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Solid Angle Rutherford Scattering

  • Purple Baron
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How Do You Calculate Elevator Cable Tension for Maximum Acceleration?

  • yandereni
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Dynamics: Newton's Second Law_Tension_1

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Determining the Acceleration (Inclined Plane Problem)

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Question about hydrostatic pressures

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What branch or branches of physics is the following?

  • saintrenz
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Determining the Acceleration (Two objects in contact)

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How Is Extra Energy Calculated in a Stretched Wire?

  • Tulatalu
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Tension Problems Given Two Weights

  • yandereni
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What is the Ideal Temperature for Cooling a Cup of Tea?

  • The28
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Calculating Acceleration and Force in a Racecar: A Newtonian Approach

  • yandereni
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Resulting force and velocity help

  • Sonny18n
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Sound waves in a closed pipe Problem

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Solve Box-Spring Problem: Setup Differential Equation

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Kirchhoff's and Ohm's law circuit diagram issue.

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Initial Velocity + Free Fall = Time

  • julianwitkowski
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[Optics] Concave-Convex lens radius

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How does a magnetic field perform no work?

  • mahrap
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Magnetism and Current Concept Query

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Latent Heat in Solid-->Liquid transitions (phase change)

  • thonwer
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Heat capacity ratio yields inconsistent results

  • uter
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Physics Report Help -- Simple Harmonic motion and Elastic force

  • Nancee_K
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Electric field and electric potential problem

  • ZARATHUSTRA
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Inverse Square Law HELP PLEASE

  • RichardGib
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Need 2D plot of plane wave, cylindrical & spherical wave

  • allamsetty
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Solving the Car Parking Lights Puzzle: Current, Resistance & Time Calculations

  • stephenranger
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Bernoulli Equation Simple derivation help

  • kashan123999
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What is the correct force on q1 and the electric dipole moment?

  • henrybrent
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Finding PE given mass, distance, and energy lost.

  • Adam Affagal
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Law of universal gravitation (am I doing it wrong)

  • Thegiver431
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How Do You Calculate Thevenin Equivalent Circuit Without a Load Resistor?

  • Alexander Max
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Help with deriving time, velocity, displacement

  • RachaelA
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Circular motion problem -- A ball rolling down an incline

  • bijou1
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What Is the Temperature of Compressed Air in a Diesel Cylinder?

  • Karol
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Fluids acceleration on inclined plane

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Calculating Buoyancy: Solving for the Height of a Boat in Salt Water

  • BrainMan
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Physics Problem with Spring Constant and Kinetic Friction

  • Q7heng
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Double Slit Help: 2nd Order Dark Fringe Location

  • chrisahn97
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Very basic form of the diffusion law for gasses

  • Coffee_
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Object is accelerated from rest , find KE

  • discosucks
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Increasing Gravity and Acceleration

  • kaikalii
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Calculating Initial Speed for a 45 Degree Angle Basketball Shot

  • oreo
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Perpendicular force with a spiral

  • Cri85
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How Do You Calculate the Net Force on an Accelerating Car?

  • discosucks
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Physics Problem with Lifting Force and Drag Coefficient

  • Q7heng
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Work done by the tension on a cable

  • discosucks
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What is the K.E. of the satellite?

  • starchaser2020
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Pump compresses air into a tank

  • Karol
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Adiabatic Process | Plotting V-P Diagram

  • Karol
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What Determines the Speed of Waves?

  • duran9987
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Calculating Delta V for Orbit Change

  • starchaser2020
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Vector Addition: Which Statement is True?

  • rasen58
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Radius relation to centripetal force

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Solving for final position with a negative work value

  • Selayna
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Levers & Torque: Moving Earth w/ Archimedes Lever?

  • wolfspirit
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Transverse waves oscillation direction

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Velocity is proportional to distance

  • nobahar
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Age of Sample: U-235 & U-238 Abundances

  • Purple Baron
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Three Springs in an Equilateral Triangle

  • agnishom
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Nuclear physics reaction, minimal energy to make it work

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How Does Angular Velocity Relate to the Angle in Nested Cylinders?

  • asdfghhjkl
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Mean value of graph - is my reasoning correct?

  • PhysicStud01
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Pendulum measuring acceleration of car

  • oreo
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Binary Stars and Apparent Magnitudes

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How Does Discharging a Capacitor Affect Its Internal Magnetic Field?

  • Ben Whelan
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Pedagogical machine problem (K&K 2.20)

  • wesson
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Torque seesaw problem- rotational equilibrium

  • bijou1
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Different angle in different frames, intro relativity

  • Coffee_
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Question regarding why an example In kolenkow mechanics

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Finding Acceleration in a Pulley and Slope System

  • Jazz
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Just a confusion -- A mass falling onto a pivoting rod

  • Satvik Pandey
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Water flows from a compressed tank

  • Karol
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Calculate Tension in Rope: Principle of Moments Homework

  • Marcus27
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How is Rocket Propulsion Affected by Gravity?

  • Lola Luck
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Time-energy uncertainty and derivative of an operator

  • peripatein
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The use of cross section in a particle collision exercise.

  • Coffee_
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Mass of Pion in Gev/c^2: Calculate and Convert

  • Abby D
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Where is North, given this current?

  • AAAA
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Electromagnetic emission lines for a hydrogen atom

  • Jdraper
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Constant horizontal force and friction

  • rasen58
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Does the Golf Ball Land Before, In, or After the Lake?

  • rasen58
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Atwood's machine with angular momentum

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Understanding Charge Transfer in C & 2C Circuit

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Normal Reaction in the following cases

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Calculating Tension in a String with Mass & Torsion

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Calculate acceleration due to gravity

  • rasen58
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What is the solution to the straw paradox?

  • Ansuman
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Kirchhoff's Loop Rule Problem.

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