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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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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

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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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Light ray refraction at 30° to normal in glass block using Snell's law

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Questions on photoelectric effect, black-body radiation, and atomic models

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

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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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Why is the friction coefficient tan(α) for a body at rest on a slope?

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Calculate energy lost to a rough surface

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Using Bernoulli's equation to find siphon flow velocity

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Work done by a gas during an adiabatic process involving a state chang

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What method should I use to solve variable mass problems in physics?

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Taylor 4.34 - Energy of a Pendulum

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How Do You Calculate Net Resistance and Current Flow in These DC Circuits?

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Why is R_c short-circuited in circuit (a) but not in (b)?

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Forced SHM with damping problem

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What is the result of mixing 10g of ice at -10 deg celcius?

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Electron [N] moving in a magnetic field [up]

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A resistor, an inductor, and a capacitor are connected in series?

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Optics: Solving for Slit Size Missing Fringes

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What is the Ratio of Slit Distance to Wavelength in Laser Diffraction?

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Light ray at 400nm entering crystal perpendicular to bottom face

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What was the velocity of the apple before it hit Newton?

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Linear speed of car coasting on two tracks

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Optics aperture modeling rect functions

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Does the Wave Function Approach Zero at Infinity?

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Find Mass of Rope Given Horizontal Force of 20N

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Why is flux through the flat base negative in Gauss's law?

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Torque problem (man standing on a deck)

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Electromagnetic induction (production of emf)

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Electromagnetic induction graph of E versus I

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What is the correct answer for the electric charge question?

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Capacitor is charged then connected to a capacitor and battery

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Average energy mass on a spring

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How Does Force Angle Affect Book Acceleration with Friction?

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Struggling with parts b and c of a Carnot cycle problem

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Distance travelled in n time when a body is thrown upwards

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Young's Double Slit: Find Min. Plexiglas Thickness for Dark Spot

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Tension and Acceleration with a Pulley and Two Masses

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Wave on two strings with different mass densities

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What is the Minimum Time for Acceleration in an Auto Engine Power Problem?

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Transmission Line (simple Prob)

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Maximum Compression of Spring in Block Collision

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Simple Pendulum Amplitude Investigation: Graph and Uncertainty Analysis

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Population Inversion: Pumping Wavelength for 3.5 eV Energy Difference

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Calculating Quanta Emitted by a Blackbody at 500 C

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How Can We Determine if Someone is Farsighted?

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Ideal Gas/Work Done by Water Problemq

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Moments about two points of an object

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Biehle's Nova Physics page 3 error with volume calculation?

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Simple Harmonic Motion Pendulum

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Spring potential Problem Reference Point

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Thermodynamics essay topics on entropy and the second law

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Maximum velocity of a mass undergoing SHM

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Which would be faster: A ball rolling down a ramp with no groove

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Momentum Formula for Alpha Decay

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Reaction Forces on a Frame With Roller Joint and Pin Joint

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How come water in a cup won't shoot out of a straw placed inside it?

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No. of possible electron transitions in hydrogen in magnetic field

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How Do You Calculate the Input Power of a Series RLC Circuit?

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Ball thrown from 35m building at 30° lands 80m away

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Spring amplitude when glued balls separate at lowest point

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Throwing a ball against a wall for projectile motion

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Why does dV/V equal ln(Vd/Va)?

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Internal and center of mass energies

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Firing cannons projectile motion

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Finding electric field of charges in a rectangle

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How Do You Calculate A at Vo1 and Vo2 in OP-AMP Circuits?

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Finding Maximum Speed of Bottom Cylinder in a Cylinder-Wall System

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What is the Maximum Angle for a Crutch to Not Slip on the Ground?

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Thermal Equilibrium With Insulated Liquid And Gas Containers

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Solving for the Kinetic Energy of a Uniform Disk

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Coefficient of kinetic friction forces

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Jones matrix with phase factor e^(iπ/2) vs quarter wave plate

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What is the Formula for Calculating Torque While Digging?

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Conducting rod is free to move over a loop under influence of B field?

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Finding normal force when an elevator accelerates

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Solid pivoted pendulum attached to a spring - oscillation period?

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A problem on rotational mechanics

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How Do You Derive Euler's Equation of Motion for a Rigid Body?

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Does Galileo's argument against Aristotle contain a logical flaw?

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Deriving radius from frequency for circular motion

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How Long Does It Take a Diver to Reach Maximum Height?

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Change in energy in orbiting satellite.

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Impulse-momentum with time-dependent force integral

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Velocity of Separation in Special Relativity

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Combined linear and rotational motion question

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Regarding Kittel's solid state physics 167 page

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Moment of inertia of an ellipse

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