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Factors affecting sound intensity

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Does an Electromagnet Create Charge?

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Optics: Find n for Proportionality of Concave Mirror Image to R^n

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How Does a Woman Walking on a Turntable Affect Its Rotation?

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Relativity of Orientation & Origin

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Angular acceleration of pulley with two masses

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Find EMF - Loop inside a loop generating a magnetic field

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Solving for Angular Velocity in Trapeze Performance

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Disk conservation of momentum problem

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Tension particle between two strings

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Find Net Couple with P=0 | Magnitude & Direction of Axis

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2014 F = MA #15 Torque Output Engine

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How Do You Calculate Applied Force with Mass and Friction Coefficients?

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Understanding Perpendicular Vector Components

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Static Slope Problem: Find Downward Force at Fulcrum

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Relationship between linear and rotational kinetic energy

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Non uniform surface charge density

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Angular Acceleration and torque problem

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Moment of Inertia for Half Disk

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Question Interpretation: "Describe the energy conversions in spring"

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Solving Heat Added to Gas + Mass Density of a Gas

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A student holding weights angular momentum problem

  • BrainMan
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A Spider on a rotating disk conservation of momentum

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Torque and angular acceleration pulley problem

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What is the tension in a rope with mass?

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Electric Fields -- Charges at corners of equilateral triangle

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Reflection laws applied on mirrors

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Calculating Distance: Particle's Travel with Fixed Charge at 55cm

  • Myr73
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What is the emf of the ideal battery in this circuit?

  • STEMucator
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Field in the region of the image charge

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Res-Monster Maze: Find Current Through R

  • STEMucator
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Basketball player dunk - impulse, net force, GRF

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Basic RC Circuit Homework: Calculate Time Constant & Charge Decay

  • STEMucator
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Design a Circuit: Solve Homework Statement

  • STEMucator
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What is the Velocity of a Bullet Reflected by a Plane Mirror?

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Grpah of l versus 1/f (sound wave)

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Conservation of Angular and Linear Momentum

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Distance of closest approach of like charge

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Imparting Linear Momentum: Examining a Train Car Example

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Acceleration vs Force graphWhat am I doing wrong?

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Compensating for Doppler Effect in Moving Car: Formula and Graphing

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(E&M) Don't understand why terminals of battery are switched

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Question: "A child on a sled (m=47.0 kg) slides down a long hill "

  • Jaimie
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Obtaining potential from Lorentz Force

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What Is the Minimum Deceleration to Prevent Two Trains from Colliding?

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Electric Field at Center of Equilateral Triangle

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Inductance and Instantaneous Current

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What are some challenging physics questions on motion and acceleration?

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Finding the Mass from an Acceleration vs Force graph

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What is the peak strength of the Electric Field

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Single slit diffraction pattern in 2D

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Fleming's left and Right hand rule

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Minimizing tension in the cables

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Rotational Motion and Torque: Solving for Angular Acceleration

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Calculating Maximum Air Cooling Capacity for Room w/ 2 Computers

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How Does Coulomb's Law Explain Forces and Fields Between Charges?

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Partial pressure ratio of gases at different altitudes

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How Should Electric Potential Energy Be Ranked at Point P?

  • STEMucator
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Capacitors in series with dielectrics

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What is the Efficiency of the system?

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Isolated and non isolated conductors

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Practice with series & parallel

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Moment of Inertia - Find Area Around Y-Axis

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Is a thermoscope a reliable instrument for measuring temperature?

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Physics-electric charge(coulomb's law)

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Solving Acceleration Problem: Find Initial Accel & Vel @ 5100m

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Which Average Velocity Formula Should I Use?

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Finding the Potential at a specific point in this Circuit

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How Does a Pendulum Behave When Its Support Accelerates Horizontally?

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Modified Harmonic Oscillator probabilities

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Need some help finding applied force & coefficient of static friction

  • summerchambers
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Circuit with multiple batteries finding the current through each one

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Which of the following changes would result in the greatest deltatime?

  • needingtoknow
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Resistors: Questions & Answers Explained

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Wall Cavity Insulation Question?

  • jake96
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Derivation of Planck's constant

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How Do You Resolve Negative Indices in Convolution Calculations?

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Find magnitude of current of 2 wires separated by an angle

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Conceptual issue with average acceleration problem in Giancoli

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Conceptual question about rolling on a moving floor

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How Does Glass Thickness Affect Fringe Shift in a Double-Slit Experiment?

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How Can You Calculate the Distance AB in This Projectile and Wedge Problem?

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Radius of Mercury (celestial body)

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Perfectly elastic collision, both velocities unknown

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What Speed Do Electrons Reach in a TV Tube?

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Conservation in Dynamite Explosion

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Final velocity after distance given acceleration with respect to time

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Pendulum pulled through hole adiabatically

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The energy needed to keep charges in place

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Calculate Distance of Lightning Strike with Temperature and Time | Homework Help

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Rolling hoop hit with impulse. Find angle of deflection and max force.

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Help with Einstein and Planck's Views Question

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Looking for capacitive reactance but missing "C"

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