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Understanding Velocity Transformation

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Why calculate velocity at the top of a loop, not the bottom

  • annamal
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What Is the Best Method to Calculate Gas Flow Through an Orifice?

  • FranzS
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How Does Snell's Law Affect Wavelength?

  • diggadigga
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Potential difference of a ring rolling in magnetic field

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Velocity of two masses due to electric potential energy

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Tension in string pulling two carts

  • annamal
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What is the electric field inside an infinite cylinder?

  • Jaccobtw
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Calculating Magnetic Energy Between Plates

  • Roger Dalton
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Calculating Magnetic Induction of Moving Planar Condensator

  • Physworld
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Question About an F=ma Problem with a small ball impacting a ramp

  • mopit_011
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Electric Field Inside a Gaussian Surface with Point Charge q

  • Jaccobtw
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Physics homework help needed -- A mass sliding down a ramp with friction

  • pilot12
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Trouble with a Rocket Propulsion question (Variable Mass & Momentum)

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Specific heat in for the Otto cycle

  • dinoclaro
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Surface charge density of a plane

  • Guillem_dlc
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The occupation probabilities of electrons in different states

  • Neo Tran
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Friction on a box in the bed of a pickup truck accelerating up an incline

  • yesmale4
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Voltage Confusion: What Am I Missing?

  • Jaccobtw
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Forces applied to a block on a ramp

  • yesmale4
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How Does Projectile Angle Affect Asymptotic Behavior in Physics Graphs?

  • SayedD
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Forces on two different blocks with two pulleys

  • Amphibia
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Average speed question about a hovercraft

  • Triple take
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Pulling down on the string connected to a whirling block on a table

  • farfromdaijoubu
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Calculating Electric Field at Point P(0,0'03,0'04)

  • Guillem_dlc
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Pulley system to balance the weight of a person

  • lorenz0
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Potential on the axis of a uniformly charged ring

  • Guillem_dlc
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Flux of the electric field that crosses the faces of a cube

  • Guillem_dlc
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Ampere's Law -- What is the meaning behind each part?

  • np115
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Boundary Conditions for an infinite rectangular pipe

  • guyvsdcsniper
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Why is my calculation for a rocket's maximum range incorrect?

  • yesmale4
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Doubts about the electric field created by a ring

  • Guillem_dlc
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Minimum seperation of two electrons moving toward each other

  • physicks885
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Force on a particle of a linear charge distribution

  • Guillem_dlc
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Two conducting spheres a distance d away with charges +q and -q

  • Jaccobtw
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Solving Kirchoff's Laws: Are My Answers Correct?

  • NikitaMazepin
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Min Plane Height to Drop Bomb in Hollow: 335m

  • blue_eyes_88
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Making a Velocity vs Time graph for a bullet

  • Anmol Dubey
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Sliding resistance of eccentrically loaded block

  • hillbilly63
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Gauss' Law applied to this Charged Spherical Shell with a small hole

  • Jaccobtw
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Question about elastic limit and yield point

  • songoku
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[Ohm's law] Why does the answer key use the time after 5 seconds?

  • bluesteels
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Conservation of momentum of spacecraft and asteroid

  • songoku
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Acceleration of Mass m: Problem Solving

  • pizzamakeren
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Mechanism of mechanical transverse wave in solids

  • vcsharp2003
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Find the acceleration in circular motion

  • theerenwithther
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Method of images between parallel plate capacitor

  • guyvsdcsniper
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A mass sliding down the inclined plane -- Will it stop?

  • rudransh verma
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Method of Images for a single point charge in a capacitor

  • guyvsdcsniper
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How to Calculate Tilt for an AR-15 Simulator?

  • gutymaule98
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Potential energy in case of Atwood machine

  • rudransh verma
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Bastelanleitung für Stromlinienkörper

  • uztrewq3
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A boat being pulled by two other boats with cables

  • Lay1
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Calculating the theoretical force of repulsion between two magnets

  • B-RY
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Block pulled up the incline problem

  • rudransh verma
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Is Electric Flux Through a Half Sphere Zero According to Gauss' Law?

  • MatinSAR
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To find the reaction in a system at a ring

  • gnits
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A block coming down the incline

  • rudransh verma
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Find the electric field of a charged arc a distance R away

  • Jaccobtw
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Why does a traveling wave pulse get distorted?

  • vcsharp2003
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Entropy: Does Disorder Really Measure Order?

  • Jaccobtw
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To find the forces acting in a system in equilibrium

  • gnits
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Toroidal Inductor Flux Calculation

  • MadelineChoate
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Work done in moving a body up an incline

  • rudransh verma
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Understanding Fourier Transforms

  • P99
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Electrical flux passing through the cube

  • MatinSAR
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A block falling onto a spring (SHM related question)

  • Tea_Aficionado
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Finding the quantum number using Morse Potential

  • guyvsdcsniper
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Why don't we account for energy lost in collision here? SHM

  • Tea_Aficionado
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Electric Potential Difference -- Conceptual Question

  • anon1234
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Energy Conservation Spring Pulling Mass Up Incline Plane

  • Creepypunguy
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How do we calculate the desorption rate in this case?

  • Hananism
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Question on the Newtonian displacement of light

  • brpetrucci
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Find net velocity of charged particle in electric field (symbols only)

  • Jaccobtw
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Experiment with an Electroscope, a Charged Rod and my hand

  • MatinSAR
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Energy required to move an object to Earth's surface

  • songoku
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Can High Velocity Cause Hailstones to Melt?

  • dobbygenius
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Why is linear acceleration zero if angular acceleration is nonzero?

  • Fernando Rios
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Solving Part (b): Find F3, F4, F1 and F2

  • gnits
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Comparing Cube A & B's Temperature Change

  • pogochewy
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How Does Water Affect the Net Force on a Submerged Stone?

  • rudransh verma
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Evaluating the boundary conditions for a rectangular pipe

  • guyvsdcsniper
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A misconception I have about impulse formula interpretation

  • elElegido
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Why can the potential energy at any point be chosen to have any value?

  • rudransh verma
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Bomb explosion -- calculating the momentum of one of the fragments

  • rudransh verma
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How to Calculate Variable Force on a Particle with Varying Coordinates?

  • rudransh verma
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Could the Image from the First Mirror Be Real for the Second Mirror?

  • Father_Ing
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What Is Centripetal Acceleration?

  • I Tree
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How does Newton's 1st Law impact centrifugal force? Does it exist?

  • physicsfan101
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Ways to improve the washing of car rims

  • ttesss123
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Horizontal velocity of a basketball as it goes through the hoop

  • yesmale4
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Mass, density, volume: Find the volume of an alloy

  • dominicwild
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Finding the mass of two metals in an alloy

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Net Force of A: Diagram Analysis

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Is Bulb A Brighter in a Parallel Circuit Due to Potential Difference?

  • rokunanto
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Amount of work in displacing a brick

  • rudransh verma
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Power formula for circuit when another resistor is added in

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