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Solving a Student's Experiment on an Ideal Gas: Molar Specific Heat Capacity

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Acceleration vs. mass (kg) graph

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Can Quantum Physics Calculations Be Troublesome?

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Gravitational field due to a cylinder

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Magnetic field in coaxial cables

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Electric field inside the bulb

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What Are the Energy Levels of a Quantum Object with Three Bound States?

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To Find The Height Of a Room by an Experiment using Simple Pendulum

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Density of a solid and Clapeyron equation

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Building a Strong Popsicle Stick Bridge: Tips and Tricks

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Problems on engineering mechanics

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Series circuit problem - am I correct?

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Dirac delta function (DE problem) solved

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How Do You Measure Thermal Conductivity and Dimensions of a Boiling Tube?

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Distance between atoms based on density

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Why are certain procedures necessary in a potentiometer experiment?

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Best way to measure period of a pendulum.

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Finding the velocity for a given centripetal acceleration

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Determine the change in the kinetic energy

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Why is copper diamagnetic without a prefix?

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Magnetic field at a point due to current carrying wires

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Electromagnetic waves [simple one]

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Find the charge of 2 point charges, given Uelec and total charge

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Speed of Tsunamis: 650 km in 4.9 hrs = m/s

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Rotational analysis of chain and sprockets system

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Air Conditioner: Refrigerator or Heat Pump?

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Using Kinematic equations to describe a falling object

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Archimedes' Principle - Submerged object in a fluid

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Calculating Atomic Bomb Shockwave and Blast Radius Formula

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Calculating Tension in a Two Pulley Atwood Machine

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How long does it take the sun to melt a block of ice?

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Electric field and electric forces

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Electric Field Vector for point charge

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Solving Two Speaker Intensity Problem: f1, f2, f3

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Ray Diagram: Small Bulb & Convex Lens

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Charge-to-mass ratio of electron/proton

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Single Phase Transformer Tutorial: Get Help & Answers!

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Evaluating Magnetic Field Measurements on a Cylinder

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Potential Energy and Conservation Energy.

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A few faraday law questions and emf,

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Resistor, capacitor, and inductor in series

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Electric Field Strength Inside Concentric Uniformly Charged Spheres

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Relationship between wavelength and voltage?

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Order-of-magnitude analysis HW help

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How Does Kinetic Energy Change in a Partially Inelastic Collision?

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Snell's Law Question: Fish in a Fish Tank

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Optical Path Length: Calculate w/ Refractive Index & Length

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Theoretical Resistance Vs Experimental

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How Do You Find Frequency in an RC Circuit?

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Kinetic friction, pulley, inclined plane

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Derivation of torsion equations

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Collision, spring and impulse

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Change in density of water with depth

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Calculating Mass of Helium in a Balloon

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The Mouse Trap Car Thread Again

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Finding the Optimal Mirror for Your Dressing Room

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Help with building the brake a car for a physics project

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Wire & Compass Homework: Effects of Distance & Series Batteries

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A weight supported by two ropes

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Thermodynamic Cycle -- Work done as a function of Heat absorbed

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Electric field strength at a point due to 3 charges

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Fluid velocity and pipe diameter using the continuity equation

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When do these two moving particles come together?

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Image position and magnification for underwater spherical lens

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Maximum charge on the plates of a capacitor

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Motion Under Gravity: Physics Basics

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Graph Reading: Get it Right the First Time!

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How does the accuracy of the clock change when the spring stretches?

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Potential energy of a sphere in the field of itself

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Projectile motion when kicking a ball that lands on an upward slope

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Knowing when to decompose weight vector vs. normal vector

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(Introductory SR) Light sent from a spaceship received by Earth

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Electric Field Inside a Conducting Sphere: Is it Always Zero?

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Flux of Electric field through sphere

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Interference of light in thin films

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Lens Calculations using Refractive Index

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The relationship between physical and perceptual quantities

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Internal Energy of Gas and Work done

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Electric Potential Field Calculation

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Colorimeter transmittance and reflectance questions

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Solving Heat Transfer Equations for Rtot: Understanding Units and Formulas

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How Is Delta_h Calculated in Physics Problems?

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Is the Answer Sheet Wrong? A Closer Look at Velocity-Time Graphs

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Deviation of Plumb Bob In Uniform Circular Motion

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Virtual Work and Static Equilibrium

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Leg suspended in a traction system

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EMF induced in a wire loop rotating in a magnetic field

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Degree of Freedom: Definition & Examples - Confused? Ask Here!

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Conservation of momentum problem (sand-spraying locomotive)

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Two metallic bars moving on rails enclosing a vertical B-field

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Number of collisions by a bullet

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