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Polarizing Filters Fraction of Light Passing Through

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Reducing Negative Heat Loss in the Lab: Qfinal vs. Qinitial

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Elastic Collision with objects of equal masses

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Image distance of light in parallel mirrors question

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Direction of magnetic field and physics principle?

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Terminal Velocity of a skydiver

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Task1: Vector Triangle: Calculate Resulting Speed

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Altitude of Satellites above the Surface of the Earth

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Average speed question: forwards then backwards

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Car Accelerating Down Hill: Friction & Energy Homework

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Kinetic Energy and Displacement of a 2 piece system

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Calculate a vector potential of a simple loop

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Centripital Force and Springs Combined

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Measuring the depth of a lake using a bottle

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Electric field of a long round bar

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Blocks, Collisions, and Friction

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Maximum Jump Height of a 12-kg Dog: A Physics Problem

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How Fast Can a Car Hit a Spring Bumper Without Damage?

  • Smartgurl
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Finding the Dipole Moment of a Cylinder

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How Do Crash Dummies Help Us Understand Car Safety Physics?

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Finding Spring Constant w/ Conservation of Energy

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How long can x m/s^2 reach a certain point?

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Centripetal force involved with a pulley system

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Boiling Water Temp: Celsius vs. Fahrenheit

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Electrostatic Self-Energy of a uniform charged sphere

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Find load to create equilibrium on a bar.

  • ChemValleyOP
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Two beams hanging in equilibrium

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Centripetal Force on a banked road

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Potential Divider Equation (Rearranging)

  • rindishy
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How Does a Laser's Resonant Cavity Create Multiple Wavelengths?

  • Demroz
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The electric field on the axis of a charged disk

  • Karol
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Car Coming to a Stop w/ Kinetic Energy and Friction

  • logan3
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Kinetic to Elastic Potential Energy

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Density, buoyancy, and volume in static fluids

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Initial Velocity of Second Rail Car in Inelastic Collision

  • Jay G.
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Friction problem -- 2 Blocks Sliding on a Surface

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Construction Worker Lifting Uniform Beam

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Rotational motion- potential and kinetic energy

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Circular Motion -- Swinging keys on a string in a vertical circle

  • dylanjames
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Average force between baseball and bat

  • Rachelbot12
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Young's Double Slit Experiment refraction

  • Prashasti
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Charge & Current in a Circuit: V, R, C, & t

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Asteroid Orbits: Finding r with Kepler's Laws

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Using Moseley's Law to Calculate Kalpha2 for Lead with Z=82

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Air Drag & No Drag on a Ball Projected Vertically

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Understanding the Role of Convex Lenses in Fraunhofer Diffraction

  • Prashasti
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Planck's Constant and the size of the atom

  • kirsten_2009
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How Fast Must a Ball Swing to Complete a Circle?

  • james t
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What Is the Potential of the Combined Water Drop?

  • Abel I Daniel
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Physics homework -- balancing a see-saw

  • Julia Darko
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Conservation of linear, angular momentum and energy in a collision

  • paalfis
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Impulse of person jumping on a force platform

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Solving Faraday's Law: Circular Loop with Resistance 0.380Ω

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Electron Diffraction: Calculate Crystal Plane Spacing

  • throneoo
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Rope Through a Hole in a Frictionless Table

  • sarthak sharma
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Conservation of energy, potential energy function

  • blair chiasson
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I have a problem with variable forces

  • blair chiasson
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Resistance temperature coefficient

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Relative distances (motion problem) --

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Optics Lab: Combined Lens Systems

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Calculating Emitted Photon Properties for Excited Atoms | Homework Help

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Understanding Angular Velocity and Torque: Solving for Final Angular Velocity

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Solving Circuits: A Nodal Analysis Approach

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Block attached to spring on slope

  • ethan123
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Coupled Oscillator: Solve 4.35 Homework

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Force required to keep arm in position

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Graphical method to calculate power

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Statics Friction problem -- A 500lb box is being pushed up a ramp

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Energy transition (bohrs model)

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How Does Charge Distribution Affect Electric Field Calculations?

  • chongkuan123
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Understanding the Equation of Motion for Simple Harmonic Motion

  • ZARATHUSTRA
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Help with coupled spring and pendulum system

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Simplify the expression -- Electric field in a capacitor

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Pulley problem: Does the third pulley move up or down?

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Particle Entanglement and the Rarity-Tapster Experiment

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Photoelectric effect formula question

  • mss90
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Finding the mass of iron using the heat equations

  • math989
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Are These Photon Wavelength and Linear Momentum Calculations Correct?

  • mss90
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Interference of Sound Waves in a Circular Tube

  • JeanDucreaux
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Projectile Motion: Method of finding initial velocity in a lab

  • Yme
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How Can You Throw a Baseball into Orbit from the Top of Mt. Chimborazo?

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How Do You Calculate IV Drip Rates for Medications?

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Calculating Tarzan's Max Swing Speed

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Calculate the moment of inertia for the system

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Finding potential U from sum of forces F

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Direction of Current between nodes

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How Far Does Dave Johnson's Center of Mass Move Up During the High Jump?

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Oil Drop Electric Field Problem

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Pressure Volume graph finding total mole of gas

  • cycrups
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Rotating Bar in uniform B Field

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Spring and weight, acceleration

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Application of one dimensional force - Dynamics

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Archived The Interdisciplinary Nature of Teaching Chemistry and Physics

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How Does Friction Affect Acceleration in a Pushed Box?

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Calculating Time and Distance for a Tram with Sinusoidal Velocity

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