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Calculating Internal Pressure in Glass Tubes and Spherical Flasks

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What is the magnitude of vector C in a balanced vector equation?

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Calculating Acceleration on a Flat Surface

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How to Determine if a Particle Has Returned to the Origin?

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Calculating Final Speed and Direction of a Moving Object in a Collision

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Finding time and initial velocity of a vertically displaced launch

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How Does a Hole in a Spherical Shell Affect the Electric Field at Its Center?

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What is the mass and direction of the third piece?

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Electric Potential Vs. Electric Potential Energy Concepts

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How Much Force is Needed?-Part Two.

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Projectile Motion Unusual Problem

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Biasing: Explained in Electronics

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Two-box spring system with applied force acceleration

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How Much Force is Needed?-Part One.

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How Do You Calculate Work Done by a Changing Force?

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What does the period of a normal pendulum depend on?

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Overhanging Beam Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams Tutorial

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Considering the Axis of a Straight Wire: Are There Other Considerations?

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Thermal Physics Adiabatic Heating Problem

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Maximizing Spring Elongation in Charged Object System

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How Do You Calculate Current Flowing in a Wire Given Electron Count and Time?

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Kinematics Problem: Sprinter Acceleration and Velocity

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Understanding The Electric Flux of A Cube Rotated by an Angle Theta

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Determing location where electric field is zero?

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Solving Equilibrium: 80N Ladder on Wall & Ground

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Pinned massless stick with a concentrated mass at the other end.

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Speed of Water Coming out of Vertical Cylinder

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How Fast Does the Racecar Driver Have to Drive?

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Equivalent Resistance of Infinite Resistor Chain

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What is the role of friction in Newton's Laws?

  • KiNGGeexD
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Why is There No Flux Through the Left Surface of a Discharging Capacitor?

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Why Is Pressure in Fluids Considered Perpendicular to Surfaces?

  • sumit saurav
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Calculating the root mean square speed from pressure and density.

  • Jamesey162
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What is the displacement of an ion in a mass spectrometer?

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Why is understanding refraction crucial for studying light waves?

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Sphere Slipping Against Blocks: Solving for the Speed of the Sphere's Center

  • Tanya Sharma
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Analyzing 2D Elastic Collisions with Varying Masses and Velocities

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Displacement and electric field

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How to Determine Forces on Ropes in a Suspended L-Shaped Beam?

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Optical components - lens and mirror

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Elastic collision with moderators

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Integrating a vector (Electromagnetism)

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Magnetic scalar and vector potential

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Mixture of hydrogen and oxygen in container

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Equivalence of Lagrangians through modified g field.

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Horizontal force outward inclined plan.

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Understanding Velocity Ratio and its Impact on Lever Orders

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Calculating Frequencies and Lengths of Hinged Wires in a Harmonic System

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Calculate the direction of the current using Lenz Law/Other

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Understanding and Solving Electrostatics Problems: Tips and Techniques

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How Do Magnetic Field Lines Behave Around a Long Current-Carrying Wire?

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Constructive and Destructive Interference

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Calculating the Age of 1.4g of Charcoal Using Beta Decay

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Angular Momentum Homework: Ratio of ω0 to V0 for Zeroed Values

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Can anyone help me check my free body diagram for mobile crane

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Accelerating system with hanging mass and friction lab

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Why do passengers in a car that stops abruptly experience different speeds?

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Energy of a system-a box moving in a circle

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Change of speed of a car turning in circles

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Calculating Projectile Motion of a Civil War Cannonball

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Hooks Law, did I think correctly?

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How Is the Retarding Force on a Meteor Calculated Using Newton's Laws?

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Impulse that redirects a hockey puck 90°

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Hookes Law, Finding A Springs Constant

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Solving Telescope Optics Homework Question Involving Five Lenses

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How Does Changing String Length Affect Its Resonance Frequency?

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Help finding velocity using data table

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Absolute pressure at the bottom of a container

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Testing momentum conservation in collisions with varying elasticity

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How Is Absolute Pressure Calculated at Depth in Hydrostatics?

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Is My Approach to the Spring with 2 Masses in Free Fall Correct?

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Kinematics of a dipole - Wopho Problem

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What am I doing wrong in my calculation for the final CM velocity of a yoyo?

  • Ascendant78
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Really with this Free Response question for AP Physics

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Calculating Initial Velocity in Elastic Collision of Two Balls on a String

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Moments of Inertia of non-uniform rod

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How Is Angular Speed Calculated in a Falling Bucket Physics Problem?

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Can Algebra Solve String Wave Problems?

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Does Temperature Affect the Time to Reach Thermal Equilibrium?

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Displaced Axes Theorem- quick question.

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Question regarding the ''cross'' and ''circle'' signs in magnetism

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Angular velocity after ball disconnects from rotating system

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Direction of force on circular loop.

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Force on a Nail: Solving with Trig & Forces

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Gravitational Acceleration of Pendulum

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Uncertainty Analysis Homework: Vel Calc from Line of Best Fit

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Swing velocity at highest point

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Special Relativity, Train, Ball

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Simple equivalent resistance question

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How to Calculate Tension in a Rotating Disk System?

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Energy of a system-two colliding balls

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Time it takes to achieve terminal velocity?

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Rotational Dynamics: Pulley and mass system

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Rotational Dynamics: Net Torques

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One of Boris Korunsky's brain twisters

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Question regarding calculating the time it takes for an object to fall

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3 Pinned Frame - Produce Calcs, BMD & SFD

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Easy center of mass/toppling question?

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