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Capacitors - Finding the charges and potential at junction

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Deriving viscosity from particle collisions between moving plates

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Tire pressure changing due to temperature

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How Does Finesse Influence the Performance of a Fabry-Perot Interferometer?

  • ayesha203
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Finding the angle beta for vector <60,-50,40>

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Calculating Change in Electric Potential Energy

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Can a converging lens become a diverging lens in liquid?

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How Do You Calculate Car Speed When Dodging a Water Balloon?

  • jim_ringo
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Charge and energy stored in a 14V, 113pF capacitor

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Projectile Motion fired from a cannon

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Electrostatics: Finding Equilibrium with Three Charges

  • PsychonautQQ
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Line Charge and Charged Cylindrical Shell (Gauss law)

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Sketch the graph of the wave-function.

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Solve for Focal Length of Convex Mirror: 1/50 + 1/20 = 1/-f

  • Aoiumi
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The Electric field between two charges

  • K.QMUL
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My Physics Teacher is Obsessed with Elevators

  • Medgirl314
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Calculating the Distance of a Sonar Echo

  • rootdawg56
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Centripetal acceleration for a 12000 rpm centrifuge

  • Kieran12
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Spring, weight and potential energy

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Beam of particles shot through slits

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When carring the nonpolar compound

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Does an object make tons of micro movements while moving?

  • Bonaparte
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Force exerted by one disc on the other in a capacitor?

  • mot
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What Angle Should a Basketball Player Aim to Score from 15 Feet Away?

  • negation
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What is the Young's modulus of a nylon rope used for climbing?

  • pietro18
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What is the Maximum Height and Time of a Rocket's Flight?

  • Garrett21
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Engineering Statics (Vector Questions)

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Find work of an object at constant velocity

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Reaction time of dollar falling between fingers

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Projectile Motion with a Moving Observer

  • ichivictus
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Find the Electric field due to two curved rods

  • LeFerret
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Elevator going up with constant velocity but changing acceleration

  • alexs2jennisha
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Difficult problem on Angular Kinetics

  • Strontium90
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Finding charge from current and time in household appliance

  • jimmyboykun
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Acceleration of the particle at t = 1s

  • patelneel1994
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Finding the Angular Inertia of a Pulley/Block system.

  • GodPlaysDice
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Height of Peak in M-Slit Experiments

  • baubletop
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Average velocity in two dimension with given functions?

  • JessicaJ283782
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Finding coefficient of kinetic friction for sliding crate of bananas

  • Medgirl314
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USAPhO 2011 F=ma exam #12, (gravitational force, 3 body)

  • Agrasin
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Mass subject to a time varying force, find acceleration/speed.

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Yes, 86.2 N sounds like a more accurate answer. Great job on your solution!

  • Medgirl314
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How Do I Calculate Sliding Distance with Unknown Mass?

  • djalle12
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Determining Acceleration of Object on x-Axis

  • patelneel1994
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My Physics Teacher Must Really Hate Pianos

  • Medgirl314
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Stone is thrown from the top of the building.

  • patelneel1994
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Thermal conductivity between sheets of two different metals

  • castrodisastro
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Deriving Ideal Gas Law through partition function

  • Mangoes
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Finding the number of microstates

  • Dassinia
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Derivation of Lorentz Transformation for Acceleration

  • MostlyHarmless
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1 dimensional heat transfer question

  • theBEAST
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Can Heat Engines Be Built? An Exploration

  • Cwhitlatch32
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What Altitude Should a Geosynchronous Satellite Orbit Mars?

  • yiyi
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Understanding Tension in a Block and Tackle System

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Where are the Nodes Located in a Circuit?

  • princejan7
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Projected component of F along a line in cartesian question.

  • 7Lions
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Finding the angle of the total acceleration of a point?

  • JessicaJ283782
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Calculating Collision Time for Two Objects with Different Initial Velocities

  • Speedking96
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Maximum upward acceleration of a piano lifted by cable

  • Medgirl314
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Electric Field and Dipole Moment from Line Charges?

  • NATURE.M
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2011 Physics Olympiad Problem 25

  • Thundagere
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Drag Force Equation: Sphere vs 1/2pv^2C_dA

  • xphysics
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Change in Vrms, given initial P and V, find energy added.

  • MattRob
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Average shear stress in going between a spliced rod?

  • kal854
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How to solve multiple choice questions?

  • meisterluv
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Finding Magnetic Flux Through a Wire Frame

  • VishalChauhan
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Maximum height of a projectile thrown from a rooftop

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Work done at constant velocity with no acceleration

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What potential difference is required to bring the proton to rest?

  • Jbreezy
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Finding resultant electric field

  • cwbullivant
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Show that the horizontal range is 4h/tan(theta)

  • negation
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Why is torque zero for Earth's orbit around the sun?

  • BOAS
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USAPhO 2008 F=ma exam #18, (gravitational potential)

  • Agrasin
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Deriving the Cyclic Rule in Thermodynamics

  • Nikitin
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How to calculate R thevenin (Circuits)

  • Miike012
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How many external forces act on each dipole and why?

  • Lee33
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How do you find acceleration without knowing the tension?

  • tdreceiver17
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Given time, distance and weight, how do I calculate work?

  • fixedglare
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Horizontal range of 2 different angles

  • negation
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How far apart are the stop signs?

  • Abdul.119
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Statics. Equilibrium With Springs and Tension Question.

  • Dieinhell100
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Two blocks stacked centripetal motion

  • thatoneguy6531
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Constant Acceleration; answer not correct for some reason?

  • dudenamedscott
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Significant Figures when Converting from DMS to Decimal Degrees

  • deedsy
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Where did the water balloon fall?

  • Medgirl314
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The force between charged parallel disks, when distance isn't given?

  • Allenlbq
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Interesting harmonic motion lab

  • rhino1000
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Find angle with pith ball and vertical wall

  • britt
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Parallel Plate Capacitor Diameter

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How Long Does an Arrow Fly When Fired from a Cliff?

  • Medgirl314
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Physics 11 Final exams Practice

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Why does the electric field from a charged sheet have factor z/(z²+r²)^½?

  • MathewsMD
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Plot Vout for RC circuit with step input

  • oddjobmj
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Ratio of flight times at angles 45degree +/- alpha

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A dust particle through an electric field

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