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Ball Drop and Projectile Motion: When Will They Meet?

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What Charge Does the Third Sphere Acquire?

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Time for Faraday disk brake to lose half its kinetic energy

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Electron diffraction - effect of electron wavelength

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Finding lens focal length to focus laser on 5 micron structures

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How many rotations does a baseball make traveling 60.5 ft at 113 rpm?

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Minimum Velocity of an object thrown directly up to never fall down?

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Relative difference between moment of inertia for the earth

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Potential Difference and Power in Resistor Circuit

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The total work in a Carnot cycle - checking some work

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Calculating Voltages Across Resistors Using Ohm's Law

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Does light intensity change with two polarizing sheets?

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Minimum thickness of MgF2 coating for zero reflection at 550 nm

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When does a two-block system start moving with static friction?

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Reactor fuel and waste: fission/fusion problem

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Wave pulse reflection at free vs fixed end

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Simple Way to Show Electron's Wave Properties?

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How Do You Calculate the Moment of Inertia for a Quarter Disc?

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How is heat supplied calculated for an adiabatic cylinder with a moving piston?

  • utkarshakash
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Find the increase in the length of the rod

  • utkarshakash
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Length change for a rod of two sections

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Resulting intensity of interference

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Conservation of energy and momentum Problem

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Physics impulse momentum problem

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Moment of inertia around displaced and rotated axis

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Speed of Stick's CM Just Before Impacting Ice

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Find potential inside spherical shell

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Find equation for thermodynamic process

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Resultant amplitude of two interfering waves

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Archimedes's principle of float

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Velocity of a particle with some condition

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Difficult Introductory Electricity Circuit Problem - Capacitors

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Understanding Work: Calculating Work in Different Scenarios

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Particles moving freely on a vertical/horizontal loop

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Why do insulators need 7-8 valence electrons instead of more?

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Calculate total energy from potential at equilibrium point

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Inclined throw - motorcycle jumps from the ramp

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Why Does Gauss's Law Use Cylinder Circumference Instead of Area?

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Acceleration relation in a step pulley system

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How Does Inductance Affect a DC Circuit?

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How Do You Derive the Energy Equation for a Rubber Band?

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Find molar mass and number of degrees of freedom from heat capacities.

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Magnetic Field Strength versus Coil Density

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Determine the magnitude of the force on each charge

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Work done of charger of a battery

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Miller indices for plane with non-orthogonal lattice vectors

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Calculating the Swing Height of a Thin Rod After a Collision with Putty

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How Fast Must a Pion Travel to Cover 9 Meters Before Decaying?

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Why does a positive lens focus two images at different lengths?

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How Do You Calculate the Damping Constant in a Sloped Car Scenario?

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Determine the Acceleration of the plate for which there is no Force

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Upward Moving Projectiles - determining change in time

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Max Distance Up Ramp for Rotating Sphere

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Finding the length of a steel bar pendulum with period 1.2 s

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A question of electricity regarding emf and voltage

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Minimum kinetic energy and force for javelin, discus, and shot put throws

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ANS: Perpendicular bisector of the line joining the two points.

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A question on work, power and energy

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Electric potential and field from three charges on the x-axis

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Define Force in a system of particles about point P

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Reaching the Moon in 0.9 Seconds: A Physics Challenge

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What Happens When a Hot Steel Ball is Dropped into Water or Ice?

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Can Magnetic Forces Propel a Model Boat on Water?

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How Many Turns Does a Proton Make in a Solenoid?

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Calculate how high balloon rises before stopping

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What Height is Needed for a Roller Coaster to Complete a Loop?

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Solving Heat Engine Questions: 156 Moles of Monatomic Ideal Gas

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Is the constant A = i in this hydrogen atom wave function correct?

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The Gibbs-Duhem equation - checking some work

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Planetary Motion with satellite

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Energy and basic math (proportionality)

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Angle to minimize work pulling an object with kinetic friction

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How Do Conservation Laws Apply to Colliding Space Shuttles?

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RC circuit with two resistors and 12V capacitor

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What is the velocity of a hot air balloon after sand leaks out?

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Diffraction angle with monochromatic light through a grating

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Why Does a Metal Bar Move in a Magnetic Field?

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How Do You Calculate Tension in a Cable and Force on a Hinge?

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Mass being pulled on flat ground

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Conservation of Energy-Two Blocks Sliding Down an Incline

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Spring with mass on horizontal surface

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Trying to find the amount of stretch of a spring for a launch

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Good luck, and let me know if you run into any more problems!

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Which forces affect the ball in A, B, C and D?

  • Jirya
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What Is the Length of the Box Based on Photon Emission Wavelengths?

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Simple electric field strength problem

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Conversion of Electrical Energy to Heat

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Find temperature change required

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What is the specific heat of the liquid?

  • utkarshakash
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I am new here, this is more of a conceptual confirmation than mathemab

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What is the Frequency of the Third Harmonic in a Heated, Stretched Yarn?

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