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What is the 30° angle used for in electromagnetic induction?

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No Work Done on a Textbook: Explanation of Concept

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Dipole moment of quadrupole charge distribution on a ring

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The period for small oscillations of a system

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Kinematics Questions: Acceleration, Velocity, and the Speed of Light

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Capacitor Energy with a Dielectric

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Motion of a Particle in a Plane: A Quiz

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Parallel Plate Capacitor and Battery

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Electric Fields of Cylinders and Cylindrical Shells

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Work done by force with angled pulley system

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Need Help w/ Massachusetts Physics Standards

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Why is EMF equal to Bvl when velocity is not constant?

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Boat recoiling after firing 75 bullets at 600 m/s

  • BrainMan
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Conservation of momentum uranium atom problem

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Why negligible vibration in diatomic gas heat capacity

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Calculating pipe diameter for half-flow condition/mannings equation

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Is Gravity Involved in the Motion of a Pendulum After a Collision?

  • Maxo
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Understanding Torque for car rollover

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Electric field in and around an infinite sheet of charge.

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Poisson distribution (radioactive decay)

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Refraction and Magnification of a Coin in a Glass Cylinder

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Velocity of uniform circular motion

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Need free program to plot expressions in polar coordinates

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Should I use 10log or 20log for electric field in decibels?

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How does pressure energy influence fluid flow in a tube with varying heights?

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Finding Vout/Vin of an RL filter

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Find maximum velocity in Acceleration-Time Graph

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What is the Solution to a Perfectly Inelastic Collision Problem?

  • BrainMan
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Phase difference of damped oscillations

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Induced voltage in rectangular loop

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Q vs q in Coulomb's Law: Understanding Notation for Charges

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Why isn't the phase difference pi/2 in part ii?

  • kelvin macks
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Which Material Exerts Greater Impulse When Jumping Off a Dock?

  • Maxo
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How Do I Calculate the Coefficient of Friction in a Ramp Experiment?

  • HappyScientist
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Finding initial wavelength of photo given angle of deflection

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Understanding Work and Energy in a Trampoline Jump

  • Maxo
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I'm trying to simulate moon orbit around earth, my moon is broken.

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Static Equilibrium with a beam and cable

  • Juniper7
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Maximum diffraction order for periodic slit array

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Find the mean number density of particles in the stellar atmosphere.

  • Jon.G
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Capacitor circuit for energy-harvesting shoe prototype

  • jufo2014
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Velocity of train if it passes 2km bridge in 110sec and a point in 10s

  • Govind_Balaji
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Static Equilibrium and tension of cables

  • Juniper7
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Constant Breaking force for roller coaster

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Angular acceleration and speed of falling rod pivoted at base

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Electromagnetics density of Toroid

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Solving Second Order Nonhomogeneous DEs with Initial Conditions

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Rotational Energy/Speed of a System?

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Torque and Newton third's law applied to rotatory motion.

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Does induction lose electrons or gain them?

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Force between two boxes pushed across a frictionless surface

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Behavior of the air when the angle of attack increases

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Collision of thermal neutrons and Cobalt

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Force and acceleration on sodium atom if laser bundle shines on atom

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Could someone look over the data of my SHM Lab?

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Question in dynamics projectile motion

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Finding current and voltages in an RLC series circuit

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LCR circuit oscillatory current with L<4CR²

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Area of a Triangle Using Vectors.

  • smakhtar
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Points close to the source not behaving like inverse-square

  • steamyoshi
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Find Potential Difference Across AB: Capacitance Problem Solved

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What is the solar constant in certain area of earth per day?

  • viniterranova
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Calculating average force - momentum problem

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Free-body diagrams and equilibrium for two-point string system

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Rearranging capacitor charge/discharge equation

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How Do You Calculate θ_dot in Polar Coordinates?

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Special Relativity: Rocket Signal Reception Time and Frequency Shift

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Neutrons scattering on Silver plate

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Electron momentum uncertainty with 10^-15m position uncertainty

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What is the amount of work done in moving the box from the bottom to t

  • TheLetterDex
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Acceleration at constant velocity?

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Simple Calculation of Astronomical Unit Problem

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Which Rope Sustains Greater Tension: Tree or Tug-of-War?

  • Maxo
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Jumping box with a spring and mass inside

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Plank on sawhorses: why is the center of gravity not at the plank's center?

  • TheRedDevil18
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Modeling the Motion of a Car Against Constant Frictional Resistance

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Hooke's law and circular motion.

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Power supplied holding a mass suspended in air

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Transformers and inverse square law

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Shoot the moon - differential equation for motion in earth - moon syst

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Solve Induction Slider Homework: Find AB Voltage & Current

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What was the angle of deflection?

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Differential form of Gauss' theorem with dielectrics

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Speed of a rocket using energy methods

  • BrainMan
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Which slide will have a higher speed at the end of the slide?

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Rotational Dynamics and string Tension

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Max Shortening of Spring for Elastic Collision 3

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Load Voltage Problem - Find the Fault!

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Calculating Power: Answer to Quads @ 180 deg/s

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Linear velocity of foot from angular velocity at knee joint

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Cube tipping on horizontal surface

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Direct circuit homework problem

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Angular Acceleration: 0.29 rad/s/s

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What Pin Position Ensures Rigid Body Rotation Upon Impact?

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