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Node-voltage method to find current

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Reversible Clapeyron cycle efficiency

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Rayleigh Criterion or Resolving Power?

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How Do You Calculate the Landing Point of a Projectile Thrown from a Height?

  • Darth Frodo
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Mesh Current Analysis with Dependent Voltage Source

  • grekin
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Is this even solvable? Kinematics.

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Derive length contraction formula given a two system experiment.

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How Do You Convert Acceleration from m/s^2 to km/h^2?

  • Henrybar
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Car Coasting Down a Circular Hill: Which Free-Body Diagram is Correct?

  • BrownBoi7
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Projectile being launched off a table at an angle?

  • megmar95
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How Does Human Luminosity Compare to Skin Surface Area?

  • Sastronaut
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How Do You Calculate Moments in Complex Physics Problems?

  • yugeci
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Understanding Double Slit Interference: Finding Distance to Screen

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How Do You Calculate the Impact Force in a Two-Car Collision?

  • get_physical
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Pascual Jordan - The Forgotten QFT Physicist?

  • Larry Gopnik
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How Is Enthalpy Change Calculated for Heated Argon at Constant Volume?

  • sitting_duck
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Regarding r and sign convention for Position vectors for moments

  • 7Lions
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Temperature at the tip of a fin

  • theBEAST
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Push out solenoid force-distance problem

  • MadaraUchiha
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Equivalent Circuit: Re-Draw OK?

  • princejan7
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What is the Binding Energy of Carbon 12?

  • Typhon4ever
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Why do positive and negative charges repel each other?

  • xtrubambinoxpr
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Three hanging masses and two pulleys, why does m3 accelerate?

  • goraemon
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The ideal gas law for an adiabatic process

  • garyd
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How to Use Nodal Analysis to Find Voltages in a Circuit?

  • grekin
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Electric Field due to a charged line; With y as function of theta

  • Molderish
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Power dissipated and current of a battery in a particular circuit

  • PullingOutHair
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Finding Projectile Motion range at an angle?

  • Kavorka
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Standing waves on a fixed string

  • BOAS
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Calculate Probability of Decay Using Decay Constant ##\lambda##

  • Saitama
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What Is the Stretch of a Cable Under Load?

  • verisimilitude
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Potential Difference and Current

  • bbuilder
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How do I calculate mass of pulley and force of friction on AtwoodMach.

  • francisco300
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Rubber ball colliding with steel ball of equal mass

  • goraemon
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Impulse and maximum height of a particle

  • thaalescosta
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Graph and Questions: Solve Motion of 500.0 g Cart

  • BrownBoi7
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Momentum question involving two objects of varying mass

  • goraemon
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How Does an Object Behave on a 30° Slope After an Initial Upward Force?

  • bjarnidk
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Simplification of a Force and couple system Wrench Problem

  • 7Lions
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Conservation of Mechanical Energy and Kinetic Friction

  • martepartay
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Kinematics problem - Bullet in block of wood

  • paytona
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Wave Function Sketch for Particle at Rest with Given Potential and Energy

  • allenh98
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Nuclear Excitation: Find Energy of Incoming Photon

  • stumpoman
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Uniform circular motion and angular momentum?

  • PhyIsOhSoHard
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Should the 3A Current Source Be Included in KCL Equations for Nodes a and c?

  • princejan7
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What Are the Conservation Laws in a Pendulum Collision Problem?

  • Hanuda
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What Are the Steps to Analyzing a Position vs Time Graph?

  • BrownBoi7
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How to Determine the Minimum Heat Extraction from a Furnace?

  • gfd43tg
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University physics - conducting concentric spheres

  • SunSmellsLoud
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Black body radiation, Plancks' Law question?

  • applestrudle
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How Does Mercury Movement Affect Pressure in a U-Shaped Tube?

  • Emspak
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What is the difference between Vrrm and Vrm

  • yugeci
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Serway 9th ed - sliding friction and problem

  • GreyNoise
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Calculating the Distance Between Two Bubbles in Contact

  • transparent
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Solving Fluid Dynamics Pressure at Different Speeds

  • narutoish
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Net force on a charge in a square

  • paytona
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Simple Combination Circuit, Find Current

  • blue_lilly
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University physics, waves, multiple choice.

  • thinktoohard
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Calculating Force & Torque from Submersible Well Pump

  • aladinlamp
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Why doesn't my result yield 9.8 m/s^2?

  • Henrybar
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How Do You Calculate Friction and Energy Loss on a Slope?

  • bjarnidk
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Moment & Distance Homework: Steel Beam & 80 kg Person

  • Attis
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Calculating Max Height of Water Squirted from Garden Hose

  • narutoish
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Standard deviation is wrong whatever I do?

  • santoki
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Energy conservation - maximun height and equilibrium height

  • david1111
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Conservation of momentum & energy

  • downtime91
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Need help for computer science coursework - motion and gravity

  • gutti
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How Do Coupled Pendulums Behave When Connected by a Spring?

  • ggilvar99
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Calculating Spring Compression for Stone Sliding Down Hill

  • s.dyseman
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Force on Electron Due to Two Charged Objects in an Electric Field

  • blue_lilly
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How Does River Flow Impact Boat Speed Calculations?

  • BrownBoi7
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Accounting for momentum in a collision

  • mstachowsky
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Projectile Motion Problem: Solving for Time and Velocity | Homework Help

  • david1111
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Potential Difference problem with sphere and capacitor

  • MAC5494
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What factors affect the heat transfer coefficient?

  • theBEAST
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Measuring Voltage Across Two Points In A Series Circuit

  • declan.B
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Calculating Tension for a Box on a Horizontal Surface with Friction

  • fixedglare
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What is the relationship between ramp height and final velocity of a marble?

  • 16Candles
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Find the trajectory of a boat that moves in a river

  • david22
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Magnitude of the current flowing around the nucleus in the Bohr mode

  • munkhuu94
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How do I find the speed of this train?

  • jesseeeeee
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Help finding the work done given 3 different distances?

  • fixedglare
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Find charge and radius of conducting spheres given voltage and electr

  • g-racer
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Did I solve this correctly? (Calculating forces at rest)

  • PhyIsOhSoHard
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Power difference when calculated from Force and Energy

  • AGNuke
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Deriving expressions for total capacitance

  • BOAS
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Calculating the Magnitude of the force

  • kkingkong
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How Do You Calculate Equilibrium for a Rod Subjected to Multiple Forces?

  • piisexactly3
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Is My Comparator Circuit Textbook Explanation Incorrect?

  • Jimmy87
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Attenuation finding distace and amplitude

  • Nettes
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Dynamics of circular motion. Particle on the top of a circle

  • Zipi Damn
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Circular motion question - finding rpm

  • jgray
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Can a Monkey Outsmart Physics to Reach the Bananas?

  • Glemming
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Energy/power A levels physics

  • yan_plusheartz
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Deformation of Solids: Solving Question 18 from 9702_s13_qp_13

  • yan_plusheartz
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Astronaut in space, calculating velocity etc

  • Attis
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Compute the distance x and tension of each cable

  • MrMechanic
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Direction of Friction in Rolling Objects

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