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Circuit analysis - two sources of emf

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Stirling Approximation for a thermodynamic system

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How Do You Model a Spring/Mass/Damper System with No Friction?

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Uniform Circular Motion of a Spherical Earth

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Energy problem (compression of a spring)

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Power required to drive up a hill

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Torque and static equilibrium beam with weights

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How Do You Calculate the Maximum Angle of Inclination After a Collision?

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Electrodynamics, multipolar development doubt

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Direction of E-Field in 3d space

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Complex Moment of Inertia Calculation

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Locating a Fault in an Underground Cable: A Voltage-Based Approach

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Extended essay ideas for physics -- help needed please

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Calculating Air Density and Temperature in a Hot Air Balloon

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What is the change in the internal energy of the water?

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What is the tension of the string needed for a 440 Hz fundamental frequency?

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Faraday's & Ampere's Laws: Conditions of Independence

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Calculating Pendulum Angle and Amplitude: Homework Question and Equations

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Four bodies connected through a sheave

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What is the energy loss of damped oscillator

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What is the minimum frequency to keep the mass moving?

  • Smartgurl
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Cube sliding down with frictionless slide

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Center of Mass Calculation for a Club-Axe: How Far from the Handle is the COM?

  • michaeltozer13
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How Is Power Calculated for a TIR Moving at Constant Velocity?

  • AlexPilk
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Insolation, efficiency, and area

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Oscillation Problem: Find Period and Potential Energy

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Exam question that I have no idea how to solve (regarding forces and mass)

  • kiloNewton
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Plank problem/Center of Gravity/Torque/Level Arm(p.26)

  • gcombina
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Snell's Law: Dispersion Light Angle Refraction

  • camel-man
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Find Max Mass B for Mass A to Move on Slope of 30°

  • Mary O'Donovzn
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Gravitation above and below the earth's surface

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Empty Box with Plumb Bob Sliding Down a Plane

  • Karina
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How does friction affect the acceleration of a moving box?

  • hacker804
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Energy efficiency, Transformer?

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Kinetic Enegry and Hydrogen Atoms

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Calculate the tension in a tube

  • Quantum Fizzics
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Linear Momentum Algebraic interpretation

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What is the correct formula for solving time in free fall?

  • ammora313
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Friction force : determining coefficient of friction

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Verifying Solutions to Newton's Equation for a Harmonic Oscillator

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How Much Hydrogen Is Needed for a Balloon to Float at 10km Altitude?

  • cycrups
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Perpendicular wires carrying current, torque

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Kinetic Energy -- when a moving lorry breaks to avoid a collision?

  • Charlotte2014
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Parallel Resistors (special cases formula)

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What Angle Causes a Block to Topple on an Inclined Plane?

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Magnetic Force on Wire 2: Verification Needed

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Exploring Oscillatory Motion of Two Connected Masses on a Frictionless Track

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Vector description of motion around a bend

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Is it possible to find the tension force without mass?

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Finding the distance between two points in terms of variables

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Energy of a car going up a hill

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Biot-Savart and a Rectangular Loop

  • mathguy831
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How much power is delivered to a circuit by a battery?

  • squelch
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Finding the electric field at a point in between 3 electrodes

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De Broglie Wavelength Calculation for an Electron with 120 eV Energy

  • bennyq
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Water flow in pipe with two open vertical offshoots

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Electric field on surface of the Earth due to solar radiation

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Gravitational Acceleration Question

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Airplane pilot in a dive, net force, minimum speed, and normal force.

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What Is the Maximum Height Achieved by Mass M1 After Elastic Collision?

  • mshiddensecret
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What is the Force Between Links in a Falling Chain?

  • PhysicsKid99
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Molar heat capacity and Degrees of freedom

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Satellite in Space: Why Freely Falling?

  • sarthak sharma
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Finding Final Velocity of Mass 1 After Collision

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MasteringPhysics 8.82: Conservation of Energy/Momentum Problem

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Answer: Energy of Rocket in Uniform Gravity Field

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Drop in pressure, what volume is left?

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Weightlessness in Space: Understanding the Concept and Its Effects on Astronauts

  • sarthak sharma
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Frictional Forces -- Skier trying 2 different skis on a gentle slope

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Potential drop across capacitor after very long time

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How Do You Determine the Components of a Vector Perpendicular to Another?

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Ideal Gas Expansion - Finding final pressure and work done by gas

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Conservation of matter, mass, rest mass and energy

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Light angles measured in a moving reference frame

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Finding the Critical Angle for Shelf Gliding: A Statics Problem

  • NathalieSweden
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Velma and Mort's ice cream is melting special relativity problem. Help please.

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Rigid Walled Box (Quantum Mechanics)

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Solve Bragg Diffraction: n(λ)/2sinθ

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Radioactive Decay: P to Q vs. S to R?

  • desmond iking
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Will the trains ever be at the same distance from the origin?

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Finding center of mass of three disks

  • CaptainOfSmug
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Calculating E/M for Helmholtz Coils -- help please

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Special relativity question: space travel and relativity of time

  • kirsten_2009
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How Far Apart Are a Proton and an Alpha Particle at Their Closest Approach?

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Bernoulli equation - pitot tubes

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Frictionless Multiple Body Problem with Inclined planes

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How to find cord tension and hinge force?

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Inertia of a Giraffe in Terms of a Monkey (I'm serious)

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Relative Speed of Two Masses Connected by a Rod

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How Far Does a Car Travel When Slowing Down?

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How Fast Did Klaus Spinka Accelerate on Grass Skis?

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Launching a Probe to the Sun: Aim Against Earth's Velocity?

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Relationship Between Acceleration on a ramp and Acceleration due to gravity

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Total Impulse: Solving the Equation

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Motion along a curved path -- introductory

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Kinetic energy of a rotating and translating body?

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