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Spherical Capacitor: Calculating Capacitance in pF

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Help with electricity, four wires that carry current

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Net Electric field and electric net force

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Constant electric field in the sphere

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Speed of a rope sliding off a peg?

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Which Coin Flies Off First from a Speeding Turntable?

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Solve Fusion & Einstein Homework: Energy Output & Mass Conversion

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Elastic glancing collision problem

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Finding impact speed of a high altitude free fall

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How Do You Calculate Kinetic Energy in Relativistic Dynamics?

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Calculating Wavelength of Longitudinal Wave in Water from Steel

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Problem with the weigth of the moment arm

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Vertical Rod with two masses attached falling over table.

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What have I done wrong? (torque and angular momentum)

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Electron being shot between two plates

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How Does a Head Crash Affect Hard Drive Spin Dynamics?

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A car travelling at 50km/h stops in 70.0m HELP

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Magnetic Field and the resulting force

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Largest resistor value such that BJT remains in active mode

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Which form of particle acceleration is safer?

  • dasitmane
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BJT Circuit Problem Find Vc Quickly

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Car moving up Inclined Plane question

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How to Determine Mass Flow Rate for Adiabatic Compression of Nitrogen?

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Direction of Compass Needle near a Solenoid

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Linear and circular accelerators

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Time taken by a balloon to deflate

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Non-uniform electric field and conducting spheres

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What is conserved in the system?

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Where does the friction come from?

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How to Solve a Friction Problem with Statics

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What Determines the Net Force on Each Box When They Are Slowing Down?

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Throwing a Rock Up a Hill: Finding Final Vertical Displacement

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Why Does Enthalpy Decrease on Isothermal Compression?

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Moment of inertia and angular velocity

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How Do You Find the Position of Antinodes on a String with Fixed Ends?

  • MasterPnut
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Circular motion and energy of a massless spring

  • nomorenomore
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How Do You Calculate the Magnetic Field at a Point Along the Axis of a Solenoid?

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Frictional Forces Physics 1 Problem

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Spring constant based on change in potential energy

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Spring Connected between 2 Masses

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Where is the electric field zero?

  • CatWhisperer
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Radians vs Degrees: Explaining to Cooper

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Motion of Object: Velocity & Acceleration Direction

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Two Conducting Spheres connected by a wire

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Physics 2, Three Infinite Straight Wires

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Electromagnetic Induction Problem

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How High Should a Street Lamp Be for Optimal Road Illumination?

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Solving a Head-on Collision: Qs 1-4

  • Jimmy87
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Thermodynamics problem - weight and piston connected by string

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How Does a Charged Bead Behave in a Capacitor?

  • Peetah
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Finding the terminal voltage across 16V and 8V batteries?

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Magnitude of acceleration given the orbit

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What Differentiates Simple Harmonic Motion from ψ = Amod(t) cos (wavt)?

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How to Calculate the Required Force to Move a Block Up an Incline

  • Almost935
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Chain and spinning disk problem

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Distance & Speed: How Many Times Can a Bee Fly?

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Finding electrical energy used by a light

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Kinetic energy of rocket explosion

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Trying to solve complex equation with 1 variable,

  • QuantumX
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Gas Expansion and Compression: Solving for Volume and Pressure Changes

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Sliding block with motion restricted by spring

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How Do You Determine the Correct Phase Constant for a Wave?

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Semi-infinite string with a mass on the free end

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How Long Does a Projectile Stay in Air When Launched Vertically at 10 m/s?

  • GoGoGadget
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Temperature at junction of gold and silver bars?

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Capacitor and reactance question

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Trouble with question - Catching a baseball & momentum

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Two methods for finding spring constant k

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Conservation of Energy: No Translational KE?

  • nomorenomore
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Finding velocity as a function of position, constant acceleration

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How to Show the E Field Outside a Long, Charged Conducting Cylinder?

  • Plaetean
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Electrodynamics question - Induced EMF

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Why is the Normal Force Neglected in Certain Scenarios?

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Change in temperature in the Gay-Loussac-Joule experiment

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Is Conservation of Energy Demonstrated in Particle Motion from A to P?

  • Dumbledore211
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Kinematics - particle acceleration and distance travelled

  • GoGoGadget
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Voltage of cylinder of radius R

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Ball attached to string attached to wall, find force against wall

  • melizabeth
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Electric field of a non uniform charge of a cylinder

  • TwinCamGTS
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Kinematics help - object is dropped from a height h

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Why Does Helicopter Velocity Affect Package Drop Time?

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Understanding Vector Addition and Magnitude Equality

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Neutral conductor has a hollow cavity within it

  • TwinCamGTS
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Deriving entropy change equation from Boltzmann's principle

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Solve Falling Chain (3.11) Length & Speed

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Centripetal Force String Tension

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Find energy of a lightning strike

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What is the force direction on a left wire in a parallel current setup?

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The energy of debris ejected from an asteroid impact

  • QuantumX
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Charge Distribution on Metal Sheet

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Solving Equations of Motion for Speed Traps, Sleds & Snakes

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Understanding Simple Kinematics: Graphing Speed and Distance Traveled

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Acceleration of a block with static & kinetic friction

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Thrust and acceleration of a launch vehicle

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Particle's path in magnetic field

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Calculate Currents Through Ideal Batteries with Kirchhoff's Loop Rule

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Effective Resistance Across Concentric Circuit

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