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Capacitor. Find thickness of polystyrene

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Qualitative Explanation of Range

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Radius of hellical chain (radius of path of electron)?

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Kinetic Energy of Rotating Solid disk or cylinder about symmetry axis

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How Does Gear Size Affect Torque in a Truck Transmission?

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Issue finding change in voltage across a resistor

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Ice Cubes and Drink Equilibrium

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Mechanics- Dynamics of particle moving in a straight line questions

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Max Acceleration from Friction w/ Coeff 0.95: 9.3 m/s2

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Electrostatic fields- What defines an electrostatic field?

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How Does Light Intensity Change When Two Laser Beams Cross?

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Questions about course of Energy conservation

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Dog jumping off cliff with energy conservation

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Electric Potential between two charges of equal magnitude

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How Many Bananas to Power a Light Bulb?

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Block on 30° incline: is static friction enough to prevent motion?

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Block sliding on 45 degree wedge with constant acceleration

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Magnetic Field due to Time Dependent Current

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Calculating Potential Energy Change on a Sliding Playground

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Why Does a Rolling Disk Have No Translational Kinetic Energy?

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What is the frequency of a vibrating steel cable in its third harmonic?

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Maximum radius given rps, static and kinetic friction coefficients

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Finding charge on sphere using energy

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Strain energy in a beam with applied moment

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Mass Colliding With a Spring (Fixed Speed)

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Elastic collision conceptual problem

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What is the slope of the graph for F versus I?

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Deriving E of a charged spherical shell from V

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Hinged Valve Submerged in Water

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Reaction forces in a Static system

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Damped Oscillation Equation: Finding Amplitude and Phase Angle

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Magnetic field at a point above a metal strip.

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Fletcher's Trolley (Hanging Mass Problem)

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Calculate Magnetic Field through Angular Velocity

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Why is friction on the car pointing left if it's moving left?

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Position of spot in oscilloscope

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Problem with drawing velocity vectors

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Beta and alpha decay sequence of Bi-213

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What´s the temperature at a given distance from a heat source?

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Two blocks on 50° inclines connected by pulley, constant velocity

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Moment of inertia of a cylinder with a drilled hole

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Tricky circuit calculating the total capacitance

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Acceleration of Two Disks Welded Together

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Calculating the net force exerted on an electron

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Calculating Kinetic Energy of a Positron from Gamma Photon Interaction

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Magnetic field and magnetic force

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Multi-Wavelength Observations of Cluster

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Optics: How much light required to heat water?

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Working out the initial velocity

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Basic dynamics/acceleration question

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What time do simultaneous events in rest frame occur in moving frame?

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Why is Ix/Iy used instead of Iz for the mass moment of inertia?

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How to deal with non fixed springs?

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What does cross section area mean when dealing with stress/strain?

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How the speed of particles is affected

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Conservation of energy - spring

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Vertical jump height from force plate

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Calculating Total Antenna Power for Modulated Carrier Wave

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Cross-products and the right-hand rule

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Where Do Falling and Projected Stones Meet?

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Induced current in a coil around a solenoid

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Radius of helical motion in a magetic field

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DIfference between a rolling and a spinning wheel

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Universal gravitation previous exam problem

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Fringes from Different Interfering Wavelengths

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Train Velocity: Calculating Midpoint Velocity at Instant

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Gravity and Angular acceleration

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Unbalanced Force Components and Acceleration

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Calculating Number Density of Gas Molecules

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Finding internal energy of helium and oxygen at 100K

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Momentum and impulse in a two-cart collision

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Find the minimum separation between 2 pucks

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Why is radon in houses still dangerous?

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Solve Air Pressure Problem: 500m Skyscraper, 1.3 kg/m3

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Magnetic field lines of earth

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Radioactive Decay - working out activity

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Rectangular Plate SHM Time Period

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Electric filed of each plate of capacitor

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The electric field in the dielectric is wasted?

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What is the moment of inertia of the flywheel?

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EM , magnetic field at centre of a carrying circular loop

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[Statistical Physics] Probability of finding # photons in the mode

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Spin Angular Momentum - Bullet hitting bottom of a thin rod?

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Find Current at Point T in Circuit

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Convert Joules to Calories - 1 cal = 4.184 J

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Magnetic field halfway between inner and outer edges of toroid

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Finding the Normal Force on the Rod of a Paper Roll

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Calculating lattice spacing of silver from density

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What is the role of torque in rotational motion?

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Newton's first law and projectiles questions

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Negative sign in voltage equation

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Ratio of work done using pulley

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Temperature rise after collision

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Rotational Energy, Moment of Inertia Problem

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