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Overall Force Acting on a Submerged Cube (in water)

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Kinetic Energy of bullet fired from gun

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A person walks to the top of the hill

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Calculating Angle and Distance of Separation for Repelling Charged Spheres

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Calculating Torque for Lever with Weight

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Liquifying Nitrogen: How Much Heat Energy?

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Solve Gold Density Problem: Area & Length of Gold Leaf & Fiber

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Which is correct: r1 and r2 should have different signs or be the same?

  • somecelxis
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On a basic level why can't monopoles exist?

  • needingtoknow
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Optimizing Boat Angle for Hitting a Target Across a River

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Relative Velocity - Canoe vs. River

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Calculating Nuclear Cross Section for Materials

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Moving Charges and Magnetism Problem

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Roller Coaster Loop: Solve for Height and Motion

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Photoelectric effect experiment

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Two Spring System Homework: Find Distance & Max Velocity

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How does a dielectric increase maximum electric field strength?

  • needingtoknow
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What Force Is Needed to Hold a Cut Charged Sphere Together?

  • Dinheiro
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Change in Electric potential, potential energy, and work problem.

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Calorimetry quantifying sources of error

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Electric field inside at points on a conductive box

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Thunderstorm Discharge modeled as Electric Dipole

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Formula of refraction at spherical surface

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Sinusoidal Current of .5 Amps (rms) & 5 kHz

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Challenging problem involving special relativity

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Angle of Repose: What is it & How Does It Relate to the Body?

  • Sagar98
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Angular momentum free particle problem

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Radius of curvature of partially cut glass surface

  • desmond iking
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Induced current and torque in a rectangular metal loop

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The Pressure at the Bottom of a Container

  • mlb2358
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Require clarification on how charging a capacitor works

  • needingtoknow
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Deriving work-kinetic energy theorem for rotational motion

  • gimak
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Max Velocity of Truck on Banked Track: Spider at Rest

  • stateofdogma
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Lennard-Jones Potential: Derive an expression for equilibrium constant

  • Flucky
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Fission or Fussion on Lead to release energy?

  • Phycisists
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Ray Tracing and Combination of Lenses

  • alingy1
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Focal length of converging meniscus lens filled with a liquid

  • Edge Of Pain
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Refraction at spherical surface

  • desmond iking
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Three properties that all numerical answers must have

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How to find the initial velocity of a projectile, knowing only these?

  • charlotteyip
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Dropping Marbles in Different viscous liquids

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Geometrical optics- position of image

  • desmond iking
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Bernoulli's equation misunderstanding

  • hongiddong
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Understanding Freeze-Drying: IR Radiations, Sublimation & Phase Transitions

  • Himanshu_6174
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Find the period of the space shuttle in alternate universe

  • hanburger
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Rotating rod - potential difference between the ends

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Projectile motion - bullet shot from a rifle

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Ray-Tracing vs. Depending on Formulas

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Can Graphite Be Used as a Vibration Sensor?

  • Jayden
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Force and acceleration question

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What will happen if the middle bulb burns out?

  • needingtoknow
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Why formula for internal resistance for charging battery v = e + Ir

  • needingtoknow
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How do i find the current in this circuit?

  • max1020
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Entropy change of melting ice cube initially at -5°C

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Charge distribution on spheres with varying radii

  • jackw
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Flying squirrel intercepting nut midair

  • Ubrasaur
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Calculating Load Capacity for a Linear Servo: Is My Math Correct?

  • fitz_calc
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Work done by a constant force/ The elevator (ch6, p2,pg 188)

  • gcombina
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How much does the temperature of a river rise in going over 30 m?

  • kingdomxiii
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Melting Ice in Lemonade: Calculating Heat Transfer

  • kingdomxiii
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Kinda tricky item in a question about an electrical circuit

  • ksio89
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Is thermal energy a renewable or non-renewable energy?

  • max1020
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Two conductors connected by a thin wire

  • amjad-sh
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How Is Force Applied to an Inclined Plane?

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What is the maximum height of the square's center-of-mass?

  • hanburger
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External Work done by a tank containing air

  • Idris Sayyad
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Surface tension and force on water between glasses

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Solar Neutrino Flux: Understanding Variables in Equation

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Finding the Time of Contact using Laws of Motion?

  • idontknow101
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What is Projectile Kinetic Energy?

  • slaw155
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How Do Relative Velocity Changes Impact Object Motion Analysis?

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Relative velocity in inertial frame

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Electrostatic induction - rod and sphere

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Kinematics problem on Tetrahedron

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Potential -- Find the potential at node 3

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A electric charge question for two spheres

  • bennyq
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Determining Displacement Using Vector Components

  • killaI9BI
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Calculating change in Magnetic Dipole Moment

  • iScience
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Gravity: signs of the equations?

  • 21joanna12
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What will happen with this scale and submerged objects

  • warfreak131
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RC Circuit: How Does Current Flow?

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Problem With Nodal Analysis Question

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Electric field decelerating electron

  • Daltohn
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Why is a pendulum only simple harmonic motion for small angles?

  • 21joanna12
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How Does Angular Momentum Affect a Ball Rolling Up an Incline?

  • myko
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Find the speed of the alpha particle after the reaction

  • student34
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Elastic vs Inelastic Collision: Mass & Kinetic Energy

  • KurtWagner
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Magnetic Flux through 1 loop due to current on the other

  • lion_
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Classical Relativity and the Speed of Light

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Frequency of the sound heard by the passanger in the car

  • desmond iking
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An electric dipole consists of a pair of equal but opposite charges

  • needingtoknow
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What is the tension in a pendulum string?

  • 21joanna12
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Fundamental note vs fundamental frequency of string

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Why do 2nd-order linear ODEs have at most two independent solutions?

  • LFCFAN
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Electric field strength at the center of an equilateral triangle

  • Alexander2357
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Regarding electric potential with respect to a negative charge

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