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Solving a Truss: Methodial of Joints

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How Does Collision Time Affect Impulse and Momentum Change?

  • Sylis
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Need some advice on uncertainties

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Finding orbital velocity, period, and energy of a planet around a star

  • Psyguy22
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Finding light paths in a mirrored square room using virtual images

  • PintoCorreia
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Virtual cells created by repeated mirror reflections

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How Do You Calculate Coulomb's Law in 3-D?

  • nadiaz
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Finding braking force needed to stop a 1500kg car in 50m

  • Apothem
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Using SUVAT and Newton's Second Law

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Bead sliding down a frictionless spiral: energy and angular momentum

  • PhysicsKid0123
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Angular distance when hand moves twice the radius on steering wheel

  • randomjunebug
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Are these statements always true for LCR circuits?

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Finding the Magnitude and Placement of Force F for a Loading System

  • bigu01
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Which virtual cells look the same as the basic cell?

  • PintoCorreia
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How Is Angular Momentum Calculated in a Pulley System?

  • fogvajarash
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Virtual source at the back of the mirror

  • PintoCorreia
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Find mass of black hole in center of galaxy given eccentricity+

  • oddjobmj
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Relation between mirror angle and light ray deflection angle

  • PintoCorreia
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Acceleration of a hanging mass

  • chillpenguin
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Torque on disk with three forces at different positions

  • Zeus5966
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Atwood machine with two ropes on one of the blocks

  • physiccs
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Mass shot into orbit; find max distance from Earth

  • oddjobmj
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Why doesn't the car speed up when rocks fall through a hole in the floor?

  • sinclair18
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Calculating the friction on a curved path

  • PhyIsOhSoHard
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Projectile Kinetic Energy Calculation

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Spring stiffness for garage door to stop at vertical position

  • naynaitmus
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Solving Frequency of Harmonic Wave Problem

  • zhartman
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What is the Height at Which a Falling Ball Reaches a Velocity of 5.2 m/s?

  • maddief
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Finding heat gained by water when hot metal is placed in it.

  • astru025
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Can light rays pass through a bird in a mirror reflection setup?

  • PintoCorreia
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Independent system displacement variables

  • princejan7
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Question in (Conduction ) A steel plate 2 cm thick

  • manal950
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Suppose a human could live for two hours (120 minutes ) unclothes in a

  • manal950
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Question combined mode radiation and convection ?

  • manal950
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Deriving diffraction grating equation for light at oblique incidence

  • Dgray101
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A radiator in a domestic heating system operates at a surface temperat

  • manal950
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Simple problem involving pulley with mass

  • Saitama
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Conservation of angular momentum in an inelastic collision?

  • mot
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How Is the Net Gravity Force Calculated Between Earth, Moon, and a Rocket?

  • The Subject
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Capacitors, potential difference, electric displacement

  • izzy93
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Can Momentum Save an Astronaut 200m Away from the ISS?

  • MathewsMD
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Solving Kepler's Third Law for Period - 6.7E6m

  • KVat390
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Why period is half ? Spring problem

  • k31453
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Electric flux passing through a plane

  • ViolentCorpse
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Can you use the mirror image of either object to find the light path?

  • PintoCorreia
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Internal vs external force - conservation of momentum in one dimension

  • letoiledemer
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Deriving Equation of Reduced Mass W/ Angular Momentum

  • Dgray101
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Waterfall Question Work and Energy

  • Arythmatic
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Interpreting a banked circular motion question

  • BOAS
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Computing flux through a sphere with cylindrical coordinates

  • bowlbase
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How Much Pressure Is Needed to Launch a Marble at 5 m/s?

  • Fifty
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Two boats and passenger speed problem check

  • YummyPotato
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EMF induced in coil by magnetic field

  • iRaid
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How much work is done when carrying a load up a set of stairs?

  • Blonde1551
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How Does a Grapefruit Affect Spring Compression?

  • physicsdb
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Surface Tenstion in Water (Needle resting on water)

  • FaraDazed
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Accelerating Beaker containing liquid

  • andyrk
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How Can I Prove This Complex Fraction Equation?

  • spiruel
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Circular Motion with static friction

  • NickyQT
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Estimating convergence of GRACE twin-satellites due to gravitational mass

  • jacmacg
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Why is this line of reasoning wrong?

  • mjordan2nd
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Optic fibers atenuation problem

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Solving Fresnel Coefficient Equations

  • Dassinia
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How Much Water Can a Freezer Turn to Ice in One Hour?

  • soccer4life
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Deducing Number of Molecules in a Scuba Tank

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Transition in magnetic refrigeration

  • CAF123
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Drawing position, velocity and acceleration vectors for circular motion

  • toljin123
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Directions of (electro)magnetic fields/application of right hand rule

  • chris69
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Is momentum conserved when a woman throws a rock on ice?

  • overtak3n
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What is the speed of a mass on a spring at a displacement of 0.2 m?

  • CabalGroupie
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Greatest Force without causing the rod to slip

  • frownifdown
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Energy content of gasoline and hydrogen comparative math question

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Wavefunction with specific values

  • Gringema
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Two Transformers, voltage before and after on two different coils

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Computing net Moment of Intertia

  • Nicolaus
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Period of Oscillation for vertical spring

  • conniebear14
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Drag force increasing as square of velocity for a car

  • dizweld
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Kinematics: when will the two cars meet?

  • get_physical
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Graphing the Curl of -Cx\vec{z} on the xz plane

  • scorpius1782
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Calculating Uncertainties of Measured quantities (Physics)

  • Joystar77
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What is the average force of gravity between Earth and the moon?

  • snakeboy91
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What is the Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Square Mass-Spring System?

  • proximaankit
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Bond energy between two water molecules

  • FaraDazed
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How Is the Temperature of an Asteroid Between Mars and Jupiter Calculated?

  • courtneywetts
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Electrical Field around Spherical Ball at origin

  • Philosophaie
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Finding specific heat capacity of a non-monatomic (ideal gas)

  • BOAS
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Rotational Kinematics: Slowing Down Turntable

  • hb20007
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Electronics, Wheatstone bridge, with a twist.

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Calculating Work for a Bead on a Square Loop in an Electric Field

  • scorpius1782
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Finding change in internal energy

  • BOAS
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What Happens to Primary Voltage if 8V is Applied to Secondary Coil?

  • vroomba03
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Multiloop circuit analysis with Kirchhoff's rules gives wrong currents

  • PhizKid
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Dynamics question regarding moment of inertia

  • chicagobears34
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Constant power acceleration: speed and position at 6.0s

  • sofiasherwood
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Block falling from pulley: finding speed after 0.43 m

  • frownifdown
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Distance travelled of block, friction, forces

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