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How Can I Solve This Newton's Forces Problem for My Homework?

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Circular Motion Help: Solving a Chemistry Lab Centrifuge Problem

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Reactor fuel and waste: fission/fusion problem

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Wave Pulse on a String: Free End at Point O

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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

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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

  • utkarshakash
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Find equation for thermodynamic process

  • utkarshakash
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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

  • CAF123
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Question about the atomic structure of insulators

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Calculate total energy from potential at equilibrium point

  • EliteCodexer
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Inclined throw - motorcycle jumps from the ramp

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

  • CollegeStudent
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Solve Step Pulley System Homework: Acceleration Relation

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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

  • meme177
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Work done of charger of a battery

  • FaroukYasser
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Question about miller indicies.

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

  • toothpaste666
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How Fast Must a Pion Travel to Cover 9 Meters Before Decaying?

  • Herjo345
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Why does a positive lens focus two images at different lengths?

  • MechEngrStdnt
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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

  • Northbysouth
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Upward Moving Projectiles - determining change in time

  • Kingfisher1
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Max Distance Up Ramp for Rotating Sphere

  • physicos
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Solve SHM of a Pendulum: Calculate Length with T=1.2s & g=9.8

  • LunaTech
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A question of electricity regarding emf and voltage

  • FaroukYasser
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Conservation of mechanical energy problem

  • BrainMan
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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 & Electric Field

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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

  • iPhysics
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Parallel RLC Circuits - Help please

  • edd83
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What Happens When a Hot Steel Ball is Dropped into Water or Ice?

  • navm1
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Can Magnetic Forces Propel a Model Boat on Water?

  • nate205
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How Many Turns Does a Proton Make in a Solenoid?

  • nordik
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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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Interpreting Hydrogen Atom Wave Functions: A Question of Correctness?

  • gfxroad
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The Gibbs-Duhem equation - checking some work

  • Emspak
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Planetary Motion with satellite

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Energy and basic math (proportionality)

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What is the Optimal Angle for Minimizing Work in Kinetic Friction?

  • patrickmoloney
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How Do Conservation Laws Apply to Colliding Space Shuttles?

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Help understanding rc circuits?

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

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Symbol help - Mirrors & units question

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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

  • Ace.
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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?

  • wompkins
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Simple electric field strength problem

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Conversion of Electrical Energy to Heat

  • ALLIRIX
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Find temperature change required

  • utkarshakash
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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

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

  • utkarshakash
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Analyzing Rotational Motion of a Spinning Disk on a Horizontal Surface

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Calculating the Velocity of a Baseball Hit at 300° Angle

  • Karol
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First order RC Circuit Table problem

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Cylinder submerged in salt water (Ideal gas law, pressure)

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Electrostatics: Finding possible value of charge

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Help Understanding Light/Atom Thoeries

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How Long Does It Take for a Dropped Ball to Hit the Ground?

  • Govind_Balaji
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How Do I Calculate Uncertainty in My Physics Lab Report?

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How Hot Must the Balloon Air Be for a 1000kg Lift?

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Decelerating distance and magnitude of impulse of a car

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Electrical conductivity of a semiconductor

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Friction Coefficient for Slope Equilibrium: tan(a)

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Calculate energy lost to a rough surface

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A Siphon at the Bar: Jane's DIY Drink Mixing Trick

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