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Time required to build enough charge for an electric arc

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Why can force components be negative if they're scalars?

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Newtons law Dynamics Question 4

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Significant figures with multiplication

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Grade 12 Physics: When Equation = 0

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RL circuit with 24 V battery, 5 mH coil and 6 Ω resistor

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High temperatures, nucleons, early universe

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Newtons laws, dynamics questions

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Worded Problem, Probability Density, quantum mechanics

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Net displacement with 3 figures

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Showing work is path independent

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Why Is My Calculation of i1 Using KCL and Ohm's Law Incorrect?

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Finding currents using Kirchhoff's current law in the circuit

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Net displacement problem with two triangles

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Circuit analysis is this correct?

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Force and acceleration in object at rest

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Can you guys check these calculations for me

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Why Do the Calculated Mesh Currents Not Balance Power in Each Loop?

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Electric Potential and Electric Energy

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Find the percentage uncertainty of a wooden block

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How to Solve Circuit Nodal Analysis for Vx?

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Lenz's law and conservation of energy

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Height of fluid and Bernoullis equation

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Turning effects, moments, levers, determing the magnitude of the force

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Kinematics of three runners in a race

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Two objects accelerate from rest with the acceleration of Object A twi

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Why is power delivered negative while power absorbed is positive?

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Error in my textbook? scientific notation conversion

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How Much Energy is Stored in a 1.5 V Battery with a Rating of 1,800 mAh?

  • aChordate
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Change in watts and power dissipated

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Finding internal resistance from 2 circuits

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Velocity-Dependent Resistive forces

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Circuit analysis is this correct?

  • Questions999
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Energy Needed to Evaporate Water at 289.1 torr: Table of Pressures

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Magnetic field at centre and inside the toroid

  • Saitama
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Speed of wave from wave equation.

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Lightbulbs and power/resistance

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Charge on Capacitors in Series with 24V Potential Difference

  • gralla55
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Finding catapult arm velocity using conservation of energy

  • kervyn
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Increase in Internal Energy of a gas during compression

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Is Radiation the Primary Method of Heat Transfer in a Brick Oven?

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Confirming Faraday's Law - interference in measurement.

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How Does String Length and Tension Affect Wave Frequency and Harmonics?

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How does resistance change with temperature for Ohmic conductors and filaments?

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Why are the bass notes of a car radio heard by people on the street an

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What is the Path of a Cricket Ball During a Bowler's Run Up?

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Circuit Analysis: Solving for i Using Nodal Potential Method

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Commutator of position and derivative operators

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Where Do I Begin? Overcoming Fear and Building Foundations in Physics

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Finding current density given B-field

  • Saitama
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How to subject the PR2 from a given equation?

  • PA3040
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Ray diagrams for an astronomical telescope

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Ampere's Law-cylindrical shell

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A Beam of rectangular cross section 200mm deep and 100mm wide

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Currents in a Wire and a Cylindrical Shell

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Capacitance value between two conducting plates.

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Find various voltages for the following circuit

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Doppler Effect (Sound) - Source moving away from the Observer

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Coefficient of friction for 3 kg block on 30° incline

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Simple temperature conversion problem

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How Far Can a Piston Fall Down a 100-Foot Cylinder?

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Uniform Circular Motion Question (Mechanics/Physics I)

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Solving for distance with frictionless inclined plane

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Nissan Leaf charging current and cost calculation

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Newtons third law question- Action reaction pair

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Free body diagram of a person in an accelerating elevator

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Solving Work and Force of Wagon and Child

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Solving for inertia and angular speed

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How Does Weight Impact Momentum and Kinetic Energy in Air Track Experiments?

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Do magnets attract all metals, and is the speed of light in a water

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Calculating Energy of Two Masses on a Spring

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Electron entering a magnetic field

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Calculate Capillary Depression of Mercury in Glass Tube

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Potential Energy and Work done to lift object distance h

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Calculating Gravity with Pendulum - Factors of influence

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Finding direction angles α, β, γ for a 3D vector

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Baseball change of direction Force and Impulse

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Determining which wing tip is positive in an aeroplane's induced EMF

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When Magnetic field is suddenly switched off

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2 questions about waves (interference, resonance)

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Finding tensions and forces in rotational equilibrium problem

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Solving for Vr and VL in an RLC Circuit

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Two particles moving in x-y plane with vector velocities

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A farsighted man with eyeglasses problem

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What is the correct orientation for calculating emf using Faraday's law?

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What is the magnitude and difrection of the acceleration?

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Car rolling through vertical loop on track

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Potential Differences and Currents in a Diamond Circuit

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Graphs of Frequency for Car Moving in a Circle

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Induced Current Problem(Electromagnetism)

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What is the Magnetic Field Inside a Cylindrical Cavity in a Conductor?

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Can the Impedance of Series RC and Parallel RL Circuits be Equal with Same R?

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Nonuniform Circular Motion - Find Maximum Total Acceleration

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Find the photoelectric work function for this metal

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RLC series circuit resonance problem: frequency, reactance, impedance

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Mechanics Problem with I/J vectors

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Practice Finals Multiple Choice

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