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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?

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Charge & Energy Stored in Charged Capacitor (14V, 113pF)

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Projectile Motion fired from a cannon

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Electrostatics: Finding Equilibrium with Three Charges

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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

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The Electric field between two charges

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My Physics Teacher is Obsessed with Elevators

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Calculating the Distance of a Sonar Echo

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Centripetal Acceleration Problem

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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?

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

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

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

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

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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

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Find the Electric field due to two curved rods

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Elevator going up with constant velocity but changing acceleration

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Difficult problem on Angular Kinetics

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Household currents physics homework

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Acceleration of the particle at t = 1s

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Finding the Angular Inertia of a Pulley/Block system.

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Height of Peak in M-Slit Experiments

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Average velocity in two dimension with given functions?

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Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

  • 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?

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Determining Acceleration of Object on x-Axis

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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

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Deriving Ideal Gas Law through partition function

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Finding the number of microstates

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Derivation of Lorentz Transformation for Acceleration

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1 dimensional heat transfer question

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Can Heat Engines Be Built? An Exploration

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What Altitude Should a Geosynchronous Satellite Orbit Mars?

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Understanding Tension in a Block and Tackle System

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Where are the Nodes Located in a Circuit?

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Projected component of F along a line in cartesian question.

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Finding the angle of the total acceleration of a point?

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Calculating Collision Time for Two Objects with Different Initial Velocities

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Tension and Newton's Second Law

  • 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?

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Finding Magnetic Flux Through a Wire Frame

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Maximum height of a projectile thrown from a rooftop

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Solving Energy Work Problems: Examples #1 & #2

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

  • Jbreezy
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Finding resultant electric field

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

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Conservation Of Angular Momentum

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

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Deriving the Cyclic Rule in Thermodynamics

  • Nikitin
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How to calculate R thevenin (Circuits)

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How many external forces act on each dipole and why?

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Understanding Tension and Acceleration: A Helpful Explanation

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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

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How far apart are the stop signs?

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Statics. Equilibrium With Springs and Tension Question.

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Two blocks stacked centripetal motion

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Constant Acceleration; answer not correct for some reason?

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Significant Figures when Converting from DMS to Decimal Degrees

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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?

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Interesting harmonic motion lab

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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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Clarifying Gauss's Law & Electric Field Permeation

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Electronics: Plot Vout of RC circuit

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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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Electric field of a spherical metal shell

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F=ma 2011 #24: Effects of Increasing Bearing Width & Radius

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Just a simple thought experiment

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Differentiating thermodynamic coefficients

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Motion of Objects: Physics Exercise Explanation

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Work & Energy: Lifiting Water from a Well

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