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Loop-the-loop track, connection height with time?

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How Does Charge Distribution Affect Electric Field and Potential at Point P?

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Special Relativity with 2 light beams moving towards each other

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Formulating an Eigenvector Equation

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What is Upiter's speed when closest to the sun?

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Equivalent Resistance of Circuit System

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Why does my energy go negative with friction, spring, and kinetic energy?

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Why Is Electrostatic Potential Independent of Path in a Field?

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Pulleys: One mass hanging between two other masses

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What is the Displacement of the Wedge When the Smaller Block Reaches the Bottom?

  • utkarshakash
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Understanding Diode Current Flow

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Electric flux through surface with uniform field at angle

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Toppling of cylinder containing fluid

  • Tanya Sharma
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Particle collision producing C* with gamma decay

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How are moments defined and used in physics?

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Finding the tension force and torque

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Ideal voltmeter readings when meters are swapped in two-supply circuit

  • Saitama
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Normalizing a State Function for an Infinite Square Well

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Solving the Node Equation for I_2 in a Circuit

  • Lee33
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Confusion to the solution of a MIT ocw problem

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Motion of Two Bodies Orbiting the Sun

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Excess Electrons, Milikan Oil Drop

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Lagrangian of conic pendulum-rod

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Displacement of Oscillating Block: y=A cos(ωt+ø)

  • paulzhen
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Finding Center of Mass of Disc with Hole

  • Aliasa
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Inelastic Collision - 2D, find mass, theta, x-component

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How fast is wave travelling from graph

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Metal bar struck by ball: finding angular speed after collision

  • bjarnidk
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What are the pin reactions at A and D?

  • MrMechanic
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Coefficient of static friction of a sliding box

  • DB91
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Show the relative difference in clock time between plane/ground is

  • akennedy
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What Direction is C? Apply the Right Hand Rule

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Energy and force in a solenoid with multiple wirings

  • fogvajarash
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How does air resistance change with weight and surface area?

  • scioly
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Calculating charge on capacitor.

  • Miike012
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How Does a Frog's Jump Affect Disk Rotation Time?

  • Chase11
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Feynman's box and tennis balls problem

  • vhbelvadi
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Find tme constant for discharging capacitor

  • UselessLadder
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Why does block C have three cord tensions in its free body diagram?

  • princejan7
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Cycloidal Path of Charged Particle

  • theQmechanic
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Find electric potential and field from Electric Quadrupole

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Understanding Polarization at Different Phases?

  • Srv C
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Calculating Short Circuit Current with Node Equations

  • princejan7
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What is the Relationship Between Spring Length and Mass Density?

  • mkarydas
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A car is heading 43 m/s east. Find momentum, velocity

  • Medgirl314
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Finding the momentum after a collision

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Rolling a ball off a roof (ramp)

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Diffraction Grating problem (waves and optics)

  • pondzo
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Finding potential of a cone using Laplaces Equation

  • Miike012
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Ant's image is 4.43 cm tall when standing 4.90 cm from mirror

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What Defines the Periodicity of a Driving Force in Harmonic Motion?

  • cpburris
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How Much Heat is Added or Removed in the Reaction of TiCl4 with O2?

  • sero2000
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Find relative speed of fast moving partical with dilated time

  • akennedy
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Does the bottom book accelerate faster when another book is on top of it?

  • ViolentCorpse
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Why Do Capacitors in Parallel Share the Same Voltage?

  • oneplusone
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Finding Forces and Masses in a Hanging Weight System

  • BearMan
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Solve Orbital Period for Two Identical Planets Around Star

  • char808
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Using Relativisitic Units (where c = 1)

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Analysis of Billiards Ball Motion Following a Horizontal Queue Impact

  • besnik93
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Is my answer for this work done problem correct?

  • warpedfart
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Position-time graph made with info from a velocity time graph

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Calculate Average Emf in Rectangular Coil

  • theshonen8899
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Why Is the Voltage the Same Across C1 and C2?

  • oneplusone
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Two force systems have the same resultant

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Work Done on a Block on an Inclined Plane

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Calculating Solar Rotation Using Sunspot Observations

  • magnanimousto
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What is the equation for simple harmonic motion with A=14cm and ω=3.0Hz?

  • negation
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How Do You Calculate Sun's Gravitational Acceleration at an Asteroid's Orbit?

  • pumpernickel
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How does a spring-driven piston affect air flow through a nozzle?

  • Havaren
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Calculating torque when force is perpendicular to the lever arm

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Electric Field and charged plane

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Finding parallel resistors in a series-parallel circuit from measurements

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Magnetic Field at Center of Loop

  • tomizzo
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What Angle Will a Hydrogen Spectral Line Appear in 2nd Order?

  • smaan
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What are the velocities of the balls after the collision?

  • lozah
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Why does a hole appear larger to a moving rod in special relativity?

  • Icaro Amorim
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Finding displacement and velocity for Darryl's tomato delivery route

  • jesstryin
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Volcano model using springs and mechanical parts instead of chemicals

  • DChalo
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Finding Equation for Linearly Changing Density

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Acceleration of a cart being pulled by a falling mass

  • jumbogala
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Solving Critical Damping Circuit: Find R, i, di/dt, v_C(t)

  • zealeth
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Why Do Different Paths in a Diode Circuit Show Different Voltages?

  • Saitama
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Which Phase Can Withstand a Force?

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Force Calculation for Box on Ramp

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SDOF system with spring, damper and base motion

  • lupinpooter
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Average Acceleration of a Motorboat

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How Is Energy Lost in Elastic vs. Inelastic Collisions?

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Finding muscle force and elbow reaction for forearm holding 50N dumbbell

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What is the Relationship Between Pressure and Height in Fluid Mechanics?

  • Tekneek
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Solving for Time of Intersection in Vertical Kinematic Problem

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What is the critical angle for light traveling through glass?

  • narendra
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Net force direction for a box moving in circular motion with friction

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Deriving angular frequency from mass-spring acceleration equation

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Answer:Solve Relativistic Effects: Who Wins the Race?

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How can a resistor supply power in a circuit?

  • kexanie
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Electrostatics problem involving infinite sheet

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