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Mass on inclined plane, string has mass

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What does the angular momentum quantum number l represent?

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How Do Friction and Normal Force Act on a Rod at an Angle?

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Velocity and drainage time for liquid escaping tank hole

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Why do smaller animals survive larger falls better than larger animals?

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Object on circular path with constant angular acceleration

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Physics 3-D Force Vector Question

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What is the average speed of a car on a trip with varying speeds and distances?

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2D Moments confusion, does d have to be perpendicular?

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How high does a block on a ramp go, with friction?

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One dimension kinematics, what am I doing wrong?

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How to increase 3-Dimensional thinking?

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What Is the Frequency of Combined Motion?

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What is the electric field at a point midway between two point charges?

  • spark693
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Flux across a plane with varying electric field

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Calculating Coefficient of Kinetic Friction for a Hockey Puck

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Minimum distance to hang weight on rod supported by cable and friction

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Particle moves in one dimension given potential funct find maximum x

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Uncertainty principle for electron in nucleus

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Electric force between charged balls after contact

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Solving LC-Circuit Problem: Q & I as Func. of Time

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Acceleration of an electron in both a magnetic and an electric field

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Determine the magnitudes and directions of the currents in each R's.

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Buoyancy of a piece of wood floating in water

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Can you resolve two lights 3 m apart by the Rayleigh criterion?

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Magnitude of the electric force?

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Determine the magnitude of the minimum acceleration

  • tristanmagnum
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Throwing a ball and calculating the speed

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What is the normal force between two stacked boxes?

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What is the Average Force During a Collision?

  • FrostyMan
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A particle is moving in a circle

  • mrknowknow
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Accelerated Motion in [2]- initial speed and launch angle

  • hsphysics2
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The angular velocity of a process control motor is (21−(1/2t^2)) rad/s

  • zapzapper
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Electric field at a radius outside of a hollow cylinder w/ a rod in it

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Magnitude and direction of electric field with nonconducting sheets

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Ratio of charges in thomson expt

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Heat Capacity and Temperature Change

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How old is Jacob when Maggie returns from her trip to Barnard's Star?

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Problem related to pulley system and velocity

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How Much Farther Would a Car Skid on Wet Concrete?

  • marmadmit
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How to find Mass of an object when given Force and an angle

  • physics120bsu
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Pushing crates up a frictionless ramp

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Solving 100W Lightbulb Filament Surface Area Problem

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Two conducting cables - Gauss' Law

  • kbwelch17
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A Charged Sphere with a Cavity

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3-Pulley / 3-Weight system; Find Tension

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Determine the thickness of aluminium using γ-rays

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How Does Gauss's Law Apply to Nonuniform Spherical Charge Distributions?

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Group Velocity of Waves in Gas Problem

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Number of standing waves in a potential barrier

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Potential at a point in a circuit

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Effect of speed on horizontal displacement in projectile motion

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Placement of an object and magnification

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How Do You Calculate Bullet Trajectory in Projectile Motion?

  • Sylis
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How to Calculate Javelin Throw Dynamics in Projectile Motion?

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How Do You Calculate Vector Addition and Subtraction?

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Solve 2-Mass Pulley System Homework for Moving Blocks

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Minimum dot diameter visible to the human eye at near point distance

  • Violagirl
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Express the following in the form of a Complex Number

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Pulley and cords tension physics

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How does variable mass affect Newton's Second Law?

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Equivalent capacitance between points a and c in five-capacitor circuit

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I'm not sure what my teacher means by resolution limit?

  • Astronomer1
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Estimating R value from home heating oil consumption

  • courtneywetts
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Flux through a cube with field F = r/r²

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Change in momentum when a ball bounces off a wall at different angles

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Linear fit for exponential decay with Poisson uncertainty

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Absolute pressure, hydraulic lift, and object density problems

  • MelissaJL
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Rotating cylinder on inclined surface

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Simplifying a circuit with series and parallel definitions

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Equivalent resistance of simple circuit

  • nil1996
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Lasing experiment and the measurement of intensity

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Displacement as Function of Time Graph Question

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Calculating Image Position and Height Using Two Lenses?

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How to relate force to the z-axis

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How long will it take for Sam to catch up to John?

  • harujina
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Electric Potential, and Potential Difference

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Find the maximum speed of the elevato

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The velocity of transverse waves on a string

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Finding the angle given positive x component and negative y component

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Finding Electric Field of Exponential Charge Distribution

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Solve Sphere Charge: Find Electric Field 2.5m from Center

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Coulomb's Law And Electric Field between 2 Parallel Plates

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What Was the Initial Speed of the Bicycle Going Downhill?

  • harujina
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Solve Kinematics Problems Before Wednesday

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When can initial velocity be assumed as zero?

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How Many 1W Bulbs Can I Use with 10.2W Power Source?

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What is the velocity of a 90kg astronaut traveling in outer space?

  • eddiedowen
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Determining the maximum number of minority electrons in semiconductor

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Trying to find displacement using velocity and acceleration

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Total charge from charge density (spherical coordinates)

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What is the approximate uncertainty in the area of a circle

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Finding the resultant of two vectors

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Find the time required for an airplane flight

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