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Simple circuit - parallel resistors

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

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

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

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Calculate attractive force between Cu2+ and O2- ions.

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Checking homogeneity of energy-momentum and current equations

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Finding the energy of an electron from n=4 to n=2?

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Two Charged Masses Suspended From Strings

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Computing energy in the electron of Li 2+?

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'Eyeballing' non-zero divergence and curl from vector field diagrams

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Shortest collision time that will leave engine block intact?

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Total distance and average speed for two-segment trip at 30 m/s and 10 m/s

  • dgsigala
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Fraction of a distance (1D Kinematics)

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Final Temperature of Ideal Gas in Constant Pressure and Volume Compression

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Finding number of atoms per cm^3 of zinc?

  • robertjordan
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Calculate flux through face of a cube

  • mindarson
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Deriving a forumla for the gradient in cylindrical coordinates

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Vector Components: Equal Force of Two Wires Suspending 500N Sign

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Vehicle to tow objects across 30ft fishing line

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Will the passenger train collide with the freight train?

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Vectors - Driving a car between time zones

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Calculating Internal Resistance of a Worn-Out Battery

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Can current through a resistor be negative and what does it mean?

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Circuit Problem with diodes and resistors with sine wave input

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Is \( x_0 \cos(\theta) \) Misinterpreted in Radial Coordinates?

  • SlowProgress
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How Is Impulse Calculated in a Two-Cart Collision?

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Electric Field- Infinite Plane Charge Infinite Line Charge

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Tangential and centripetal acceleration for bike on curved hill

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Charge On A Infinite Conductor Slab From An Infinite Sheet Of Charge

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Find V3 to Make I in 10Ω Resistor Zero

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One Dimentional Relative Motion

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Block sliding down ramp with friction after static limit exceeded

  • Engineering101
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Theoretical Curve Graph vs Straight Line

  • Richard Ros
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Gravitational force between two touching iron spheres

  • PsychonautQQ
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Finding electric field of a bent uniform charged rod.

  • freshcoast
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Tidal disruption of a star-planet system near a black hole

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Finding R2 current using Kirchoff's loop rule

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Solving the Mystery of the Rock's Velocity

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Resultant Velocity & Time for Crossing Stream: Vectors Comp. HW

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Component resolution of g on an inclined plane

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Find the Wavelengths of Red and Blue Light in a Grating Spectrometer

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Find the direction in which slope is the steepest

  • wifi
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Resultant displacement of vectors

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Possible Rectangular Potential Barrier Transmission Problem

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Do images move faster than objects?

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How Many Electrons Are Needed to Accelerate Two Charged Spheres at 25g?

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Evaluating an exponential function that models a real-world situation

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Finding v of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field

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A 10g mass suspended from a string is immersed into a liquid

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Magnetic moment of a solid, uniformly charged ball

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Find acceleration from distance and time, with a twist

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Acceleration in Two Dimensions (Vector)

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How do you solve the d(λmu) equation in relativistic energy?

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Breaking Bad Pizza Throw Physics Calculation.

  • bala_phy
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What is the speed of the ball when it leaves Sarah's hand?

  • Alcubierre
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Integral on the surface of a sphere - course notes

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Finding the Angle of Trajectory

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What is the Index of Refraction in a Crystal Sphere Focusing Light?

  • Aelo
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Electric force in an electric field.

  • MostlyHarmless
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Determining charge of q and the spring coated with metal?

  • Richard Ros
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Finding velocity of gas molecule

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Will submerged objects on a balanced lever stay in equilibrium?

  • PsychonautQQ
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Find the magnitude and the direction of the electric field at the thir

  • Richard Ros
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The ratio of the gravitational force between electron and proton

  • Richard Ros
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Frictional talk - mass suspended from a flywheel

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Hooke's law and the Coulomb force

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Problem from physics teacher newsletter

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How would one approach such problem?

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Rayleigh scattering: finding wavelength for 2% of visible light intensity

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Motion Problem with two moving masses

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Solving one-dimensional Motion Problems

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How to find magnetic dipole force?

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Does the Volume of Water in a Tube Affect Net Force on a Barrel?

  • PsychonautQQ
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How Do You Determine the Angle β for Light Traveling Parallel Inside a Prism?

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Critically Damped Bathroom Scale

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How Does Lorentz Transformation Affect Muon Decay Observations?

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What Determines the Direction of Potential Gradient?

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Minimum velocity and angle to clear a 3m fence 6m away

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How Fast Must a Laser Move to Exceed Light Speed on the Moon's Surface?

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BALL DROP EXPERIMENT: calculation of the magnitude of G

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What is the magnitude of force vector?

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What is the magnitude of Electric Field at r=R/2

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How to make a mathematica code with vectors and magnitude

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Uniform line of charge and point charge

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Calculating Momentum with Constant Force

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How Do You Calculate Velocity from a Graph with Two Points?

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How Does Height Influence Torque in Static Equilibrium?

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Find the net electric field these charges produce

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What is the tension at point A below the x-z plane?

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Interpreting Velocity vs Time Graphs

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3D kinematics problem with horizontal range

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Finding acceleration magnitude from position vector at t = 2.00 s

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Shooting Rifles from Platforms - Projectile question

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