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How Do You Calculate the Tension in a Cable Supporting a Boom at an Angle?

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Potential of a finite line of charge

  • Mathoholic!
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Tension in cable supporting plank with wall pivot

  • katiegerster
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Electric motor(calc. angular velocity

  • antoman
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How Do You Calculate Motion and Forces in Physics Problems?

  • katiegerster
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Solid sphere rolling without slipping down 1.35 m incline

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Star rotation period after shrinkage and pulley system with two masses

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Mass of an accelerated electron by 31 kV

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Star rotation period after contraction and pulley system forces

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How Do Voltage Arrows Indicate Polarity?

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Explaining friction in a rotational velocity apparatus lab

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How Does A Ship Float on A Glass Of Water

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Calculating tension on 3 wires/strings

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Bypass time of satelite arround Mars

  • antoman
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I want to know about electricity.i am facing a huge difficulty in it.

  • Shashank tekri
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Why there are so many positive and negative ions in N and P types?

  • anhnha
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Faraday's Law - very tricky question

  • assaftolko
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Electric field inside PN junction in equilibrium

  • anhnha
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Calculating Electric Potential Difference for Machinery Operation

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Puck sliding accross ice W/ friction and incline

  • Evolution17
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Velocity Vector in Polar Coordinates (Kleppner p.30)

  • Von Neumann
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Solving for n in a Summation Series

  • mattyh3
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Whic topic can I study to solve the following mechanics problem?

  • Ein Krieger
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Relativity along an axis in an inertial frame

  • ZanyCat
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Why is my amplifier not working with my speaker?

  • MacDaddio
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Voltage-current graph gradient with voltmeter across battery

  • Steve12345
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Electric field inside a wire in a closed circuit

  • anhnha
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Finding fmax in Thin Lens Refraction Problem

  • icedragon
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What is the Concept of Drift Velocity in Electrons?

  • anhnha
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Potential at centre of cylinder

  • Saitama
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Prove this result Electrostatics

  • utkarshakash
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Current reference direction confusion

  • cytochrome
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Show how gravitational potential varies between the earth and the moon

  • question dude
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Basic physics confusion in my structure

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How does earthing affect the distribution of charges on metal plates?

  • Tanya Sharma
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Heat pump equilibrium temperature calculation

  • Saitama
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Finding the force at which a box tips over on a frictional surface

  • zeralda21
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Explosive separation with conservation of momentum and energy

  • bkraabel
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Finding the direction and velocity of wind using vectors question

  • shy9488
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Calculating Work and Potential Energy in a System of Point Charges

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Equations of motion ( vectors )

  • sambarbarian
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Magnetic field strength in two wires

  • swim-student
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3 dimensional cube finding an angle

  • Toranc3
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Tough motion question with acceleration, time and distance

  • incogserv
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Magnetic Force on a Power Line - Calculating Magnitude and Direction

  • Annette123
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Bungy-jumper SHM: finding phase constant φ

  • mexqwerty
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Brakes on a car-Energy related question

  • alingy1
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Calculating Maximum Voltage in a circuit.

  • QuickSkope
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Doppler shift for police radar reflecting off moving ambulance

  • Roaku
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Magnetic field problem with two wires -

  • Annette123
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Baseball projectile motion with fence height

  • Animalgirl27
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Torque on a gymnast rotating around a high bar

  • linds43
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Transforming momentum between inertial reference frames

  • bkraabel
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Damped Electromagnetic Oscillations

  • anthonych414
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I really deriving the equation for this?

  • fitnessdaisy
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Bernoulli's equation and water pipe

  • squires80
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Can Conservative Forces Be Neglected During Collision Analysis?

  • Tanya Sharma
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Friction question, maximum incline

  • Kinhew93
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Floating Iceberg Displacing 723m³ of Water

  • Felafel
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Induced EMF in Rotating Magnetic Field with B=0.5B0z^

  • assaftolko
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Why Does the Mass Take 3.54s to Reach the Floor in This Torque Problem?

  • AMacias2008
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Physical interpretations of Schrodingers equation

  • Quantum_man
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Calculating the height of the water column

  • taeyeong14
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How to Calculate the Volume of a Cylinder Using Ideal Gas Equation?

  • marcio
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Force on foot when kicking a 0.5kg ball with 50N

  • Superteemo
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Friction and Kinematics: Solving for Minimum Time on a Bridge

  • RandomGuy1
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Projectile motion equations with initial speed and angle

  • rakeru
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Why does the dot product formula give a scalar if we sum vectors?

  • Von Neumann
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Change in u and h is for a piston cylinder device.

  • nothingkwt
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How Do You Calculate the Final Speeds of Pool Balls After Collision?

  • Kennedy111
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Which Ramp is Easier to Raise a 2kg Object? Find Out!

  • adjacent
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Bucket being lowered vertically by a rope

  • e-zero
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What Does a Magnet Period of 10cm Mean?

  • clarinethero
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Required force to stop a moving object.

  • aziiri
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Energy stored in capacitor when connected or disconnected from battery

  • FollowTheFez
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Length of time to burn fuel in a fusion reactor

  • clarinethero
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How do I calculate g-forces on a roller coaster?

  • blackojacko
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Electromagnetism, finding magnetic field strength

  • physics604
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Magnetic Fields from Two Infinite Sheets of Current

  • pbstriker38
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Electromagnetism, current in coil

  • physics604
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Solving for Mirror Displacement in a Michelson Interferometer

  • Ryoblck
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Electromagnetism, finding velocity and acceleration

  • physics604
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Intensity after different polarizers

  • 567179551
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Finding acceleration in a kinematics problem

  • shin777
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Very Vague Graphing Motion Problem

  • rakeru
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How Are Eigenstates Determined for a Given Hamiltonian Matrix?

  • Denver Dang
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2 Questions - Heating room air, and fuel combustion efficiency

  • skrelt
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What is the weight and scale reading during elevator acceleration?

  • e-zero
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How do you calculate the energy delivered by a capacitor

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Final velocity with air resistance

  • enanthate
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Beam splitter with single photons

  • physmatics
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Why is 1124.999... wrong if it equals 1125?

  • Dante69x
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Can Energy Truly Displace Bodies in Motion?

  • susskind99
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Kinetic Energy and Moment of Inertia

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Single photons traversing a beam splitter

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