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Magnetism of a bar magnet - maximum rate of change?

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Find the Focal Length Of a lens

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Slowest particle for decreasing acceleration

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Intensity of sound wave & energy passes into ear

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What is the potential difference in parallel plates?

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Ball rotating on axle which is rotating itself

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How Does Rotational Momentum Apply in a Combined Linear and Angular System?

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Starship special relativity problem

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Barometer of Mercury: Weight or Pressure?

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Newton law's - Finding acceleration

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How High Can a Nuclear Bomb Energy Lift a Mass of Water?

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Photon of intermediary energy - Spontaneous Emission

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Solving Solid Disk Rolling Up Incline: Find Height h

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Phyiscs- Beats and frequency problem

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Heat energy in a mixture to get final temperature

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Electricity problem, is high potential at

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What is the correct thickness of the foil based on the observed dark lines?

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Is Momentum Conserved in Both Axes During a Projectile Explosion?

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What is the gravitational acceleration on the surface of Moon B?

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Show that it is a energy eigenstate and find the corresponding energy

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Spring constant from torque on current loop in magnetic field

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Collisional excitation minimum velocity

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How do I solve for the angle in Newton's Second Law problem with two unknowns?

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Cubic and Linear Thermal Expansion.

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Find the Current and potential difference in a parallel/series circuit

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If you kick a rolling ball perpendicularly, what happens?

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Velocity and acceleration algorithm

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Speed of a moving laser due to refraction

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Skier coasting up a 9.3° hill with initial speed 4.2 m/s

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Why is the central fringe the brightest in diffraction patterns?

  • MarcL
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Find the Mass Moment of Inertia about the x,y,z axes

  • Northbysouth
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How Do You Calculate Current in a Complex Circuit?

  • Majikfreak
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Image Formed by a System of Lenses

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Calculate the wavelength of an electron for a certain energy

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Knowing Damping and Spring Constant Finding Time

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Skier coasting up a 9.3° hill with initial speed 4.2 m/s

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What is the Equilibrium of a Uniform Rod with Unknown Weight?

  • Yosty22
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Total linear momentum of swinging bat

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Can a Highly Charged Rod Strip All Electrons from Aluminum Foil?

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Rotational energy and flywheels

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Constructive Interference of Sound Waves

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Problem on Galilean transformation

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Finding initial acceleration with two masses and pulleys

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Monochromatic Light and a Prism

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Finding the temperature change of Earth's surface over 12 hours

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Writing impulse in vector notation

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Question Regarding Impulse and momentum

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Where does the wave number k come from in Schrödinger's equation?

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Minimum Velocity to become airbourne

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Finding the potential different across an un-parallel plate capacitor

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SHM velocity at t=1.35 s with 65 g mass and 18 cm amplitude

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Find the Maximum Angular Velocity of the Quarter Circle with Energy

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Find the induced magnetic current on the inner of two rings

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How Does Angular Acceleration Affect Motion in a Rotational System?

  • CollegeStudent
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Determine the Acceleration of point A

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Half life Tc-99m injected into a patient

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Are electrons constantly orbiting around the nucleus in an atom?

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Tensile stress, radius and Young's modulus

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Microwave Optics Lab Experiment - PSU Manual

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Find the velocity and strength of magnetic field from the given info

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Newton's laws for masses connected by a string over a pulley

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How Does Temperature Change Relate to Work Done by a Gas?

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Period and energy of a 10kg pendulum with 0.5J of extra work

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Using displacement, velocity and acceleration oscillation equation?

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Hydrogen atom probability of electron inside nucleus

  • FatPhysicsBoy
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Find the Angular Acceleration, acceleration and friction force extered

  • Northbysouth
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When to multiply flux by number of turns N in solenoid problems?

  • aimslin22
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Steel mass attached to the ceiling, maximum height gain if it is hit

  • needingtoknow
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Finding equivalent impedance in parallel RC and RL circuit

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Finding the velocity of a standing wave

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Heat & Melting Ice: Questions & Solutions

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Electron in one dimensional infinite square well

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Electricity contradiction? Which one is right

  • x86
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Calculate the minimum work to extract a body of the water

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A Dynamics Problem Regarding Friction.

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Electric field direction with an electron?

  • x86
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Static/Kinetic Friction Question. Is my reasoning correct?

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When to multiply magnetic flux by the number of turns in a coil?

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Period of meter stick suspended from rigid rod pivot

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Electric Potential in electric fields true/false

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Statics: Drawing Shear and Moment Diagram

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Electrostatics problem: Find charges on the surface of the dielectric

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Calculate mass loss in fission of Uranium-235

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Finding thermal conductivity from ice melting rate

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Find relative number of H atoms in n=1,2,3,4 energy levels

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Graph of Tension force vs. the square of the speed

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Three people are balanced on a uniform seesaw - Torque

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Finding Acceleration of Two blocks connected by a string.

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Calculating virtual temperature

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Wave superposition and Doppler effect.

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Two free standing pillars holding beam, moment of inertia problems.

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Why all m values work in single slit dark fringe equation

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Static mechanics problem with inclined plane and forces

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Length contraction of two spaceships

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Inclined plane (A ball rolling down a slope)

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Minimum energy to travel between two planets in a binary system

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