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A rectangle with Charges on Each Corner - Find Missing Charge?

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Integrating Radial Probability Densitiesd Explanation

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Which statements about the Hall Effect are true?

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Given acceleration graph, determine v vs. t and x vs. t graph?

  • timnswede
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Finding maximum and minimum values for error calculation

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Voltage in Circuit with Two Batteries and Six Resistors

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Conservation of Momentum (Ch 7-9, Q6)

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How is the position vector solved using arctan in the solution manual?

  • ThatDude
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How Do You Solve for Normal Force in Different Dynamics?

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What Is the Charge of q if the Net Force on the 1.0 mC Charge Is Zero?

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Path of a ball thrown radially from a satellite orbiting Earth

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Principle of Virtual Work and static equilibrium

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How do I simplify this circuit?

  • Crutchlow13
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Clear misconception: Angular Momentum of Merry Go Round vs Ice Skater

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Calories generated in brakes of a machine

  • Karol
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Express the moment (torque) as a function of theta

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Contact forces between four overlapping see-saws with 50 kg acrobats

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Find the electric potential V(r)

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Find the total electrostatic energy stored in the configuration

  • ghostfolk
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How Fast Does a Ball Travel When Dropped from 5 Meters?

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Equivalent resistance of the circuit

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Transverse velocity of a standing wave

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How Does Speed Affect Car Stopping Distance?

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Reference Frames: Up and Down a River

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Glancing angle vs deviation angle in X-ray diffraction

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Force and work on a sliding feraligatr on a 30° incline

  • Chillitsphysics
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Monkey and Hunter:Projectile Motion

  • TheDestroyer123
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Ball thrown upwards: Acceleration and Velocity

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Rotational Physics - Bead on spinning ring

  • AgentRedfield
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Representing distributed loads with singularity functions

  • princejan7
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What is the water speed as it leaves the nozzle?

  • hitemup
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Why does the del operator remove the exponential in a plane wave?

  • baby_1
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Why are there two answers to (b)?

  • hitemup
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Falling Dumbbell: Determine Force vs Angle

  • sergiokapone
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Why does the product nucleus have Z or Z+1 electrons in beta minus decay?

  • gxc9800
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Compare forces exerted between the Tennis Racquets

  • DanielC90
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Free Body Diagram of a Truck with a Box

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2D Momentum Question on pool balls

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What is the effective spring constant and velocity of a bungee jumper?

  • toad22
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Heating 200 liters of water from 10°C to 65°C with coal gas

  • Karol
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Using a prony brake to determine motor torque

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Friction Force of a rubber ball

  • I <3 Physic
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Newton's 2nd Law: Find Forces w/ Constant Speed, 38°

  • c2015cg
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Calculating Average Distance Diffused

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How can internal energy change if no heat flows in an adiabatic process?

  • Arun Raja
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Electric Flux through a sphere from a point charge

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Field due to point charges - extremely strange error

  • Ngineer
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Find Equilibrium Point of Large L Pendulum Suspended at Radius R

  • PeteSampras
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Longitudinal standing waves in gas

  • Karol
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Calculating Capillary Amount Given Aorta Blood Flow

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Circuit consists only of voltage source and current source

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Solving for Speed on a Roller Coaster's Top of Hill

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Energy released by condensing steam back to liquid water

  • corydm
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Spherical Charge Distribution - Electric Field Intensity

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Calculating Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge

  • camel-man
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Relativistic momentum conservation

  • Frank Einstein
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Why does potential rise equal potential drop in an ideal circuit?

  • AGGENGR
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Identify emission line spectrum

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Thermo physics (Phase diagram Phase changes)

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Solving Gauss' Law for Electric Field Around Spherical Shell

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Finding Unknown Currents in a Two-battery Complex Circuit

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What is the charge on the insulating sphere?

  • Maltesers123
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Calculating the Increase in Energy for a Capacitor with Concentric Spheres

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Differential equation for an LCR circuit

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How Does the Tension in a Child's Neck Muscles Change on a Water Slide?

  • nate9519
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Classic Waves Interference Problem with Wedges

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Is this the correct set up for the electric field?

  • ghostfolk
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How Do Horizontal and Vertical Movements Differ in Subducted Plates?

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What percentage of the bits on a CD is dedicated to error-correction?

  • hitemup
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Spherical Aberration Estimation

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Free body diagram for accelerating truck with sliding box

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Mass of a weight attached to a body

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Heisenberg momentum uncertainty

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Confusion over the reduction of force for pulleys

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Can Static Friction Keep a Child Safe on a Rotating Cone Ride?

  • nate9519
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Finding equivalent resistance using KVL and KCL with a 2.3Ω resistor

  • mikil100
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Sphere suspended in accelerating truck on a hill

  • nate9519
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Velocity of radio waves question

  • max1995
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Final temperature of 100g ice at -15°C mixed with 200g water at 25°C

  • jonan_evans
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Having trouble with significant figures

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When does a motorbike catch a car accelerating ahead?

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Conservation of Energy of a slide

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Time of Fall for a Pencil Dropped at an Angle

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Deriving Units for Current Density - J=I/A Length

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Newton's Laws of Motion (Is my theory correct?)

  • math989
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Equivalent Capacitance in a circuit

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Energy levels for mass confined to 1D box

  • SalfordPhysics
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This is about MOMENTUM (Practice Test #3 Question #1)

  • gcombina
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Does Swapping Linear and Non-Linear Springs in Series Change System Behavior?

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Kinetic energy and friction force?

  • Jessica Sweet
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Work needed to move opposite charges farther apart

  • mikil100
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Linearization of non linear systems

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