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Three Disks Coupled by Two Belts

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Physics Lab - Electrical Circuits with Resistors and Capacitors

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Electrons bombard gaseous hydrogen - photon energies emitted?

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How Do Skaters' Velocities Change After Grabbing a Pole?

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I=5.805 kgm^2San Francisco YoYo Acceleration and Tension Calculations

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What is the order of magnitude for squared units like μm²?

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Calculating the Equation of a Transverse Wave

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Derivations - What's Acceptable?

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Kepler's Law to Determine Period of Asteroid

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What do the I's stand for in attenuation and power loss equations?

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How Much Can Block A Weigh Without Block C Slipping Off?

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Who Will Win In a Downhill Race?

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Why didn't we need to calculate the x-component in our pulley system lab?

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Magnetic forces and particle of mass

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Speed of cricket ball after 20m with air drag

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How to find weight moving from the Earth's core up?

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Infinitely Long Wire with Loop (Magnetic Field)

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Does Pulling or Pushing Reduce Friction More When Moving a Crate?

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Does Heat Affect Friction in Tires?

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Angular acceleration of a falling arm

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Block-on-Block attached by String to Block in Pulley on Incline

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Testifying in a case involving an accident

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Finding coefficient of kinetic friction without mass

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Weight in an elevator? Free body diagrams

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Thermodynamics - reversible isothermal cycle

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Current and voltage across resistor connected to ideal current source

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Calculating Efficiency of a Solar Cell Indirectly

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Astrophysics Project: Data Collection

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Two particles connected by a spring

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How to Calculate Image Position and Magnification for a Camera Lens?

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Length of cooling including latent heat

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Find the power of the light bulb

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Solving a convex mirror problem

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Does entropy increase in this process

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Ball rolling down slope (with wedge-shaped groove)

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How do I estimate hours of use and find power for appliances?

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Maximum angular velocity from a swing carousel

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Photon collides with stationary electron

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Thermodynamics - Adiabatic Compression

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How Does Phasor Simplification Apply to wLT /_ theta?

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Entropy Change from Sun to Earth: 1000 J Radiation Transfer Calculation

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Magnetic flux through a rectangular loop near a current-carrying wire

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Force between two parallel current-carrying wires

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What is the frictional force between two objects on an incline plane?

  • endaman95
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Conservation of energy for a collision

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Hydrogen Gas Transparency With Visible Light

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RPM required to simulate Earth's gravity (Centrifugal acceleration)

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How Does Decreasing Wire Current Affect a Nearby Metal Rectangle?

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What Does a Thermionic Cloud Look Like?

  • Kincaid K.
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Height of elevator when marble is dropped from floor

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Why Does an Electron Move from High to Low Electric Potential Energy?

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Relationship between Induced Current and Current in a Wire

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Eye Resolution: Calculating the Limit and Overcoming Obstacles

  • physiks
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Pressure drop across an orifice (orific drop in meters?)

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Blocks and Strings, Force Analysis

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Pressure drop across an orifice (Orifice pressure drop in meters?)

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Focal length of convex mirror facing a plane mirror with candle

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Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Force

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Longest wavelength of hydrogen light from 13.14 eV electrons

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Vertical spring (trampoline) compresion.

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Corrected.Finding the Energy and Work in a Carnot Cycle

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Integral of voltage time means?

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What is the Y-component of T1 and T2?

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Diffraction gratings and young's double slit experiment

  • physiks
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Energy Question - Chain sliding off frictionless table

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How much force is required to stop a space ship?

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Laws of Motion-magnitude/accel-Gerry has mass issues

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Kinematics: Find Displacement in 2x Time w/ Constant Acceleration

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Finding current through resistor (Kirchhoff's Laws)

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Grade 11 Intro to Physics question - distance a football travels

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Normal Reaction Forces on a Moving Car

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Why does free fall cause weightlessness?

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Momentum of a particle, I have x and y componants of momentum

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Calculating Acceleration of Hanging Mass System

  • physicos
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Net impulse and what objects exerts force

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Thin film interference: when is reflected light eliminated?

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Doppler shift of 516 MHz radio signal from space probe

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Does the Normal Force Do Work on an Inclined Plane?

  • endaman95
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Intensity in double slit interference

  • physiks
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How many currents are in a circuit with this configuration?

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The amplitude of sound waves from two nearby speakers

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A photon and electron collision

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Earth's Magnetic Dipole Moment

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How to Choose Prefix for Physics Exam

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Single bead on a vertical circle.

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Finding the volume of air in a box when it's lowered into water?

  • PhyIsOhSoHard
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Calculating Final Velocity with Given Work and Mass

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Determine potential difference (circuits)

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How to memorize the Raman effect essay using mnemonics

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Should optical cables be water tight? Geometric optics

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Potential and Kinetic Energy on a swing as well as Tension in the rope

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How Much Power Does a Trimmer Motor Deliver During Acceleration?

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Observing M87's spectral of light

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How Does a Rower's Speed and River Current Affect Crossing Time?

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