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Effective Magnetic Field in Ground-State Hydrogen Atom?

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What is its rotational kinetic energy?

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Balloon Movement in Accelerating Truck: Solving with Newton's Laws

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Mastering Physics: Heat Engine Problem

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Waves and Sound: Find Moving Train Speed

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Depth using Work, Weight, Height

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Centripetal Force - My conclusions are correct?

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Period of A Pendulum With Moveable Mass

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Heat engines and finding efficiency

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Dark Matter, calculating missing mass

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What Is the Angular Speed of a Falling Ruler at 30 Degrees?

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How Does Observer Velocity Affect Sound Wavefront Frequency?

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What is the pressure in the middle of a vortex?

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What Determines the Initial Conditions in Spring-Mass System Problems?

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Voltage Used to Fire an Electron

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Kinematic Equations for Projectile Motion

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Angular Acceleration due to Light Waves

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Solve Efficiency Problem: Heat Water in 1000 W Electric Kettle

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Two Blocks on an Incline(picture)

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Help with shear stress and angle of twist

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Rotating Falling Object: Calculating Force and Energy at Impact

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How do you calculate the magnetic moment of the ground state of Calciu

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Waves and Sound - Bat Chirp/Echo?

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Solving for Time and Height of Sphere Meeting | 1 D Motion Problem

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Spin 1 Particle in a time dependant magnetic field

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Projectile hits rod hanging from pivot.

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Parallel Axis Theorem problem help

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Matrix of Hamiltonian, system's state - quantum

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Rotational Dynamics of a Motor-Driven Drum System

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Moment of Inertia of a Thin Rod about its Center

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Special Relativity: Doppler Effect?

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Solving Yo-Yo Force Problem: Find Acceleration & Friction Force

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Interference of Light - Thin Film

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Two liquids are inside of a U-tube, which

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Impact of a Fluid Jet Experiment

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Gravitational force and normal force.

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Finding time given constant acceleration, initial velocity, & distance

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Conceptual: two positive point charges value of E

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P=Fv=1*42*vHomework: Calculating Momentum, Speed, and Power

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Determining the direction of magnetic vector potential

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Moment of inertia of circular flywheel

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Gravity and uniform circular motion involving a loop?

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Find the magnetic field of a uniformly magnetized sphere.

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Spring Constants and Conservation?

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Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Hoop - Physics Forum

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The Doppler Effect - Finding Velocity of Source

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Is this a misprint in my SR homework?

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The Magnetic Field in a Charging Capacitor

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The Yo-yo problem: Please help.

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Calculating Volume of Firecracker Explosion at 100m Above Ground

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Rocket Velocity and Acceleration Calculation

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Did i rearrange this equation correctly? (circular motion)

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Final velocity and total mass of train car below hopper

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Rotational Inertias of Different Shapes

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Rotational Inertia about Rotation Axis Through COM

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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

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Water Flow in Free Fall: Observing the Equivalence Principle

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Calculus Problem: Braking Distance for Initial Speed 4v

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How Is Torque Equilibrium Applied to a Sphere Tethered to a Wall?

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Help finding direction of area vector on curved surfaces

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What is the maximum compression of the spring xmax during the collisio

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Bullet hits cylinder angular speed

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Simple frequency quantum question

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Can the bullet be much heavier than the string?

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How Do You Calculate Young's Modulus from Tensile Stress and Strain Data?

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Bullet passes through block - conservation of momentum

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Linear Polarizers and Light Intensity

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Acceleration question (circular motion)

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How do I know which Lorentz trasnform equations to use?

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Speed Up to Catch Leader in 10km Race

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Calculating the Velocity and Time of a Freely Falling Rock

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Quantum mechanics probability detection

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Calculating Stopping Potential with a Filtered Light Source

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Particle rolling around inside of hemispherical bowl

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Extreme situations in physics problems

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AC circuit and standing wave questions

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Reducing Stopping Time with Antilock Brakes

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Experimentally determining if g depends on mass

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Period of the pulley-spring system

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Elastic Neutron Collision (Conservation of Momentum and Energy?)

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The Photoelectric effect, Part 2

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Center of Mass problem: 40kg child on a boat catching a turtle

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Maximum Velocity of a Falling Ball on a Spring

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How far will the trampoline compress when a person jumps on it?

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Cherry Pie Entropy: Find Final Temp from Heat & Entropy Increase

  • suchjoe
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Heat transfer from cooling lava

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How many argon molecules have velocities between 250 m/s and 500 m/s?

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Mechanical Energy:Potential, kinect, etc.

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Spring potential energy comparison

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Rotational Dynamics Problem - Rod slipping against Block

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