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Finding Kinetic Energy from graph of Power

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Level of ice dropped in water after it melts

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The Mysterious Collapse of Park Benches: Solving a Puzzling Mystery

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Question involving capacitance.

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What Are the Partials of a 16 ft Open Organ Pipe?

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Word Problem with Kinematics Equation

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Uncertainty Help: Homework Statement on Measuring a Projectile's Range

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What is the voltage across the capacitor?

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Vertical & Horizontal Components of Acceleration (Upward Force)

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Difficulty understanding formula and area under v-t graph

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Question about bistable multivibrator op amps

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What is the Electric Current Produced by Solar Wind Protons Near Earth?

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Silly question about Newton's laws of motion

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Finding Flux through a Disk due to Two Charges

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Hall Effect Lab (Germanium SC) Without Hall Effect Sensor

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Increase in doping concentrations resulting in a decrease in mobility?

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Find the angular speed of the cylinder

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Solve Mass Suspension by Component Method

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Calculating Car Mass with Constant Speed on a Bridge

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What are the units for angular velocity in this hydraulic piston mechanism?

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Solving for current between 2 nodes

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Basic DC Circuits - Kirchoff's Rules Lab questions

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Principle of Superposition in Circuits

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Projectile Motion Question To Find Unknown Variable (Initial Velocity)

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Calculate Gauge Pressure for Fire Hose Height of 25m w/ Bernoulli's Law

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Electric Field - 1/8 of Sphere

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Finding maximal total current for a system

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A proton and an positron (identical to an electron, except positivel

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Why conservation of energy here vs momentum?

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What Is the Work Done by a Perfect Gas During Compression?

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Angular momentum using unit-vector notation

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Does Recoiling Electrons Have 0 Energy When Photon is Scattered 180°?

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Calculating Sound Pressure Level As Distance Changes

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Boolean Algebra Question (Digital Logic Circuits)

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Finding the Zero Point of Electric Potential Between Two Point Charges

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Incident Angle Limitation Derivation in Optical Fibre

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Calculating Electron Trajectory in a Parallel Plate Conductor

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How do I solve for the position vector using 2-D vector analysis?

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What is the thread's length pulled and the variation factor of velocity?

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Friction and Energy Conservation in Ball Colliding with Wall

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Calculating the distance to the moon based on given parameters.

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Digital logic - Boolean algebra simplification problem

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Electrostatics - finding the work done

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Angular Acceleration (and other torque/angular problems)

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Caternary Problem: Solve for Tension & Angles

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Magnetic Field from Current Segments

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Hibbeler 12-210: Solving Constraint Equations

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Torque on a dipole in an electric field

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Why Does Turpentine Not Overflow When Heated in an Aluminum Cylinder?

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Electric flux through a hemisphere

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Calculating Temperature Increase From Hand Rubbing Work

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Calculating Thrust Needed for 200g Model Rocket Acceleration

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Two distinguishable particles in a box.

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Explosion mass and magnitude physics

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Mechanics question derivations terminal velocity (quadratic case)

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Collisions, Impulse, and Reference Frames

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Phys Static Friction Ramp Problem

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T/F Loop of a Wire Entering and exiting a field

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Capacitively coupled RLC circuits

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What is the force experienced by a wire in a magnetic field?

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Coefficient of Friction and Energy

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Finding the maximum velocity of an object rolling down an incline

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Charges on an equilateral triangle

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A rock is thrown with height, direction, and inital velocity provided

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Electric field strength and particle deflection

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Tom and Jerry push on the 3 m diameter merry-go-round

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What Is the Electric Field of a Coaxial Cable?

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Bouncing Ball and the Principle of Equal and Opposite Forces

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Thermodynamics / Q = mC⌂T equation in air application

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Calculating Horizontal Distance: Solving for Time and Velocity

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Finding voltage from the E field

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Astronomy: Explaining Why Stars on Top Left of Main Sequence Spend Less Time

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Fraction of ionized atoms in an intrinsic semiconductor

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Finding the magnitude of the force and direction.

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Measuring Speed of Sound with Resonance Tube Experiment

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Simple Circuits: Calculating Power in a Complex Circuit

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Circuits - Calculating resistance/conductance etc

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Draw the field for two concentric conducting spheres

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Electric Field Calculation given three point charges?

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Elevation of Sun above water surface

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Time for astronaut to reach the satellite

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How can uncertainties in measurement affect the estimation of g?

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Finding the distance traveled by a charged object

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Power Calculation for Ski-Elevator: Double Check My Work for Accuracy

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Satellite motion - determining planets' masses

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How does gravity and friction affect work on a slanted surface?

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Why does water take longer to heat up than milk?

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The direction of moments (no specific problem, just a confusion)

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Why Is Deceleration Expressed as a Positive Value in Physics Problems?

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How Can Radioactive Decay and Distance Formulas Be Combined in Physics?

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Finding the time when two stones cross paths

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Facing problem in a questions on Vectors

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How Does Temperature Change When Gas Expands in an Insulated System?

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Trajectories with Conserved Quantities

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How Do You Describe the Path of an Object Given Its Coordinates Over Time?

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Proving the dor product of 4-vectors is Lorentz invariant

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Gravitational force exerted by Jupiter on a baby

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1-D Quantum Mechanics Conceptual Problem

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