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How Fast Must a Block Slide to Circle a Loop After Inelastic Collision?

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Finding Intensity from an Electric Dipole

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A force F is exerted on the top right corner of a rectangular plate at

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Finding resonance frequency of a hanging mass on a spring

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What is the Total Energy of a System with Given Values of Mass and Length?

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What happens to stress and strain beyond the ultimate tensile stress?

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Collision between two particles.

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Find the distance that a force stretches a spring.

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Capacitors - m having problem calculating the potential difference

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Relativity, time difference from two planets

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Will the spoon fall on the earth?

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Conservation of momentum, Elastic car collision.

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Finding air speed exiting rough and smooth pipes in a wind tunnel

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Deflection of electron beam in cathode ray tube

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Conservation of Momentum- Elastic collision

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What Determines the Electric Field Inside a Spherical Conductor?

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Transition of Calcium Hydrogen-like Ion

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Could Paul Revere discern if there were one or two lanterns?

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Doubling the energy of an oscillating mass on a spring

  • Turion
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What is the Minimum Speed Needed for a Motorcyclist in the Globe of Death?

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A projectile is shot straight up from the Earth's surface

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Can a spy satellite read the house number on your mailbox?

  • Plasmosis1
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How is hall voltage ΔV = Ed derived?

  • Turion
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How is Work Done Calculated for a Car Accelerating Uphill?

  • MMCS
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Suppose in the previous problem m3 balances the see-saw by pulling now

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Finding Velocity and Impulse using Energy Considerations.

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Attempt to combine Charles and Boyles laws

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Electric field in special relativity

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Given 2 indexes of refraction, how do I figure out thickness of oil

  • riseofphoenix
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. Suppose you are pushing a 60 N uniform crate at rest with a horizont

  • cmkc109
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Are capacitors with shared plates but separate charge paths in parallel?

  • CAF123
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Photons per Unit Volume (Quantum)

  • trevor51590
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A problem involving Newton's second law.

  • Clever_name
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How Does a Voltmeter Respond to Induced EMF in a Circular Wire Loop?

  • NaOH
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Finding Work Done, Acceleration, Force and Time

  • FaraDazed
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Work done by a gas with only pressure and volume

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Package falling through a planet via straight tube

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Energy conversion with constant velocity

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Magnetic Flux through a Rectangular Loop Due to a Straight Wire

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Inertia of Momentum: Initial CG Y Coordinate

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Air pressure/atmosphere problem

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Centre of mass, collision, momentum

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Conservation of energy problem

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Calculate I1, V Drop R1, V Drop R2, I2 for Circuit w/Diode

  • pyroknife
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Spring force and the period of it's ocilation

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Plucked string, potential energy

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Rolling down a ramp - find acceleration

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How to Find i2 in Complex Circuit?

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To find out if the ball goes over the wall, you need to

  • KP725
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Question on Radioactivity, Activity and Age Estimations.

  • Wesc
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Rotational Mechanics - Question

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Calculating net force on four masses around a center mass?

  • rockchalk1312
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How to find height of original hill (roller coaster loop problem)

  • Mikhowl
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Maximum Velocity for Elliptical Orbit

  • BBAI BBAI
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Force required to keep a wooden block from sliding on a rough incline

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Find charge field within coaxial cables

  • physninj
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Finding short circuit current for Thevenin equivalent

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Increasing resistance and the effect on voltage

  • dr2453
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The Temperature Profile of a Spherical Cloud of Ideal Gas

  • Saitama
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How to evaluate the work integral with dot product

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Conservation of Angular Momentum sun problem

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Analytical method of vector addition

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Ferris wheel angular acceleration with radial and tangential components

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Static equillibrum problem (FBD)

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Person falls on mattress: draw speed-time graph

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Finding which car caused a four-way stop crash

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Momentum and Impulse separation question

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Mechanics Problem - Power, Finding The Resistance and Acceleration

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How Much Work Does a Child Do Pulling a Toboggan Up a Hill?

  • x86
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Percentage error and significant figure

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The Rate at which kinetic energy changes to thermal energy

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The rate at which the energy in the wire is transformed into kinetic

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Speed of a pendulum at lowest point

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Determining fundemental frequency from experiment

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Conservation of Momentum in Skating Question

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Finding the distance between 2 charges in electric equilibrium.

  • Ram012593
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Magnitude of the Force of friction

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CIRCUIT ANALYSIS: Use source transformation to find the Voltage Vo

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How Close Can You Get to a Pulsar Without Being Torn Apart?

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AC Circuits - peak to peak voltage

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Simple Harmonic motion : Is energy conserved

  • hms.tech
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Why is T2 removed in low signal circuit analysis?

  • Drao92
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Why is D the correct answer for this thermistor question?

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Solving Transformer Problems: Primary and Secondary Coils

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How Can You Determine Component Values in an RLC Circuit Lab?

  • WoodyHD
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Electricity question on the power generated by power stations.

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How Do You Determine the Physics Behind a Fairground Slingshot?

  • PhysicsThrow
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Finding potential energy from force graph at x=0 to 1.1

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Maximum Capacity of a Flat-Bottomed Rowboat

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How did we come about dicovering energy and why is Joule its unit?

  • Melac12
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Apparent weight in an elevator intuition

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How do I calculate capacitance on an LC circuit?

  • jim the duke
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Confusion about physics vectors in question

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A book is pushed against a vertical wall at an angle

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