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Places electric potential is zero when 2 charges

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Calculate Acceleration of Automobile at t = 4s

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Does Time Dilation Affect Daily Airline Travel?

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Weird wording, can't understand what they want

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Tension and Friction with Acceleration

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Coloumbs law with inverse cubic

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Determine electric field at x=1m

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Finding resources for electricity and magnetism conceptual practice

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Calculating Voltage in an Electromagnet with Known Inductance and Current

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Position,velocity, speed, direction of travel of an electron

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Vector position, velocity, coordinates and speed

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Free-hanging string with 4 attached masses

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How Does a Uniform Electric Field Affect Charge Density Distribution?

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Question between friends - How long to travel 1 light year?

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Exponential Decay function in NMR

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How Does Relativity Affect Bullet Travel Time in a Moving Rocket?

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Calculating useful force or force at an angle

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Gravitational force on planet orbiting a star

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At what angle should I throw a snowball 20m horizontally?

  • GuN
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Electric field on a charge some height above the center of a disc

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Charge Volume Density To Charge Per Unit Length

  • Baumer8993
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Find Electric Field Around a Non-Conducting Sphere

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Stopping Potential and kinetic potential

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Double slit experiment intensity distribution

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What Are the Spring and Damping Constants for a Damped Oscillator?

  • jbrussell93
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Why do two opposing currents cancel each other out perfectly in Ampere's Law?

  • PsychonautQQ
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Why is my resultant displacement magnitude not matching my calculations?

  • kellyb1ll
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How Do You Calculate Particle 2's Velocity in Particle 1's Rest Frame?

  • sigma_
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Dielectric Charges: Polarization or Dielectricity?

  • Yosty22
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Trouble understanding aspect of SHM

  • PsychonautQQ
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How Does Illuminance Change With Distance in Physics Experiments?

  • garet122
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Average speed and acceleration for the first 5K of a marathon

  • physicsnobrain
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Pole Vaulting Kinematics Problem

  • physicsnobrain
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Motion Diagram of Galileo's Ball Drop from Leaning Tower of Pisa

  • Sylis
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Calculating Electric Field at Point P above Infinite Sheet

  • kopinator
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Finding coordinates after finding the acceleration of an object

  • nerdalert21
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Finding the Time: Kinetic Friction Lab Question

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Acceleration, constant velocity, deceleration

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How High and Far Does a Soccer Ball Travel When Kicked?

  • Psyguy22
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Cube of Resistor Problem - Nice one

  • luiseduardo
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Describing A Mathematical Result

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Maximum range of an object projected from a height h

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What Is the Weight Attached in a Pulley Traction System in Equilibrium?

  • Missnomer
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What is the uncertainty in area and volume for a right circular cone?

  • Panphobia
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Velocity when acceleration is half-Olympiad Problem

  • rajathjackson
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Problems with calculating the acceleration

  • PhyIsOhSoHard
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Projectile Motion (find theta)

  • bengavinb20
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What does rotation angle α mean in this vector problem?

  • Panphobia
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Calculating Maximum Range of a Catapulted Rock

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Minimum force to move a box along the x-axis with two given forces

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Photoelectric effect with 445 nm and 410 nm light

  • Turion
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Maximum Deviation Angle in Elastic Collision

  • Saitama
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How can I prove i = j = k = 1 in Peter's energy equation?

  • Panphobia
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Ranking changes in electric potential between pairs of points

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Force on an electron between opposite point charges 47.8 cm apart

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Finding the Minimum θ for Rock Thrown at Speed v_0

  • darksyesider
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What is the Direction of Force in a Falling Object's Free-Body Diagram?

  • Ascendant78
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Calculating Mass of a Structural I-beam

  • MattWakes
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Finding Tracy's position vector from two displacement legs

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How Long Will It Take Sam to Catch Up to John?

  • harujina
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When can you assume dynamic equilibrium?

  • Coop
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Finding an increase in depth, pressure and thrust

  • Woolyabyss
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Difference in Potential Energy between two Reservoirs

  • catsandtrees
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Why is my book using different equations to solve for velocity?

  • outxbreak
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Static Equilibrium Two Pulleys and Weights With Ring

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Finding x and y components of a vector in the fourth quadrant

  • Sylis
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Correct formula to use for potential difference?

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Classical block on inclined plane

  • cassinova
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Solve King Arthur's Rock Launching Problem

  • Sylis
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Block on incline with air resistance, no friction

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Car accelerating to 72 km/h, maintaining speed, then braking to stop

  • Xidike
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Question regarding basic dynamics and forces involved?

  • Ascendant78
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Finding the Velocity and Acceleration of a Car in Circular Motion

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Charged, Insulating Sheet question

  • StudentA1
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How to think about physics? / How to approach a difficult problem?

  • azukibean
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Diver jumping from 3.00 m board with 1.75 m/s initial velocity

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Approximate impact force upon landing with parachute

  • BCHurricane89
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How to find the distance of a satellite with respect to the moon

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Spring block system with friction

  • Saitama
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Bernoulli's equation help for online physics course

  • ttang94
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Constant radial and angular velocity; find magnitude of acceleration.

  • oddjobmj
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Lorentz Contraction of Moving Line of Charge

  • leonardthecow
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How does torque help us understand the motion of objects?

  • bloupo
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Calculating Spectral Range of Blackbody Radiation Intensity

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Finding Electric Field from an insulating sphere

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What is the charge density in a one-dimensional electric field?

  • PsychonautQQ
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Simple circuit - parallel resistors

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Find electric field on a point due to a charged arc.

  • cgar666
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What is the speed of the stone just before it hits the ocean?

  • DocDot
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Truck decelerating from 40 to 20 m/s over 100 m

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