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Rise in temperature after a collision

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Relative Velocity: How Far Will the Boat Move Downstream Without Correction?

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Uniform circular motion particle problem

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What is the maximum speed of the bob in a simple pendulum?

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Deriving the banked road angle with no friction

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What is the magnetic flux through the desk?

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Momentum physics using vectors.

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Coulomb's Law involving triangle

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Finding V(out) of Operational Amplifier

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Quadratic functions: [Diagram Included] Football game scenario

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Decoding 40-bit alien binary message from Alpha Centauri

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Colliding hydrogen atoms find velocity to raise to N=2

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Thermo, heat transfer rate, power plant

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Finding Terminal Velocity given Mass and magnitude

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Δt and Limit of Δx/Δt as Δt -> 0 at t=3?

  • ACSC
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How Does Physics Ensure a Safe Water Skier Stunt Over a Shark Tank?

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F=BIL Relationship with coils Explanation?

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Magnetic Fields from Two Infinite Sheets of Current Problem

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Electric potential at the center of a insulating sphere

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Issue with an aspect of moments and reactionary force

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Electrostatics problem with pith balls hung using threads

  • Sunil Simha
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Voltage Across Resistors In Parallel

  • Bashyboy
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Find the distance at which the peacock will catch the snake

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Motion - Overtaking Vehicles question

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Finding mass of Moon with Pendulum Bob

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Two Batteries In Series-Total EMF and Internal Resistance

  • Bashyboy
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What does it mean if something is rated as 40W?

  • CivilSigma
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How do you draw a net force graph for constant velocity?

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Understanding head and NPSH in pumps

  • theBEAST
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A flat, square surface with side length

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A bushranger hanging out of a hotel window

  • PG222
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Water Rocket Parachute Deployment Ideas

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Photon with negative energy, Compton Scattering

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Also, what is your question? What do you want to know?

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Max Wavelength of Sodium Ionization

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Two battery hooked up in series, energy conversion

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How many electrons would transfer 1 J of energy to a screen?

  • CivilSigma
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Rotational motion inelastic collision

  • kirafreedom
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RLC Circuit Second Order Differential Equation

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How to find displacement in vector diagram?

  • karis scherer
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Electromagnetic waves, doppler effect

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Incomplete Momentum bar chart for collision

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Confusion Regarding Most Probable Kinetic Energy of an Ideal gas

  • Sunil Simha
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Magnetic field at (z) axis of square loop

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Problem related to Newton's Laws

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How to determine if capacitors are in series or parallel

  • devilaudy
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Understanding centrifugal pumps

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Young modulus (deriving formula)

  • coconut62
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What is the moment of inertia of the yo-yo?

  • kirafreedom
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How Do I Solve This Inelastic Collision Equation?

  • karis scherer
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Interpreting and converting an acceleration-time graph

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Force distribution on stacked 45° planks with wedges

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Continuity and measuring resistance.

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Forces, marble on side of spinning bowl

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Effects of Dielectric on capacitors

  • Donnyboy
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Slip condition for a pulled cylinder

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Electric Flux Through a Face of a Cube

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Circular conductor with changing T effecting power and magnetic field

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Conceptual question on floating

  • kevinnn
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Why Does the Shuttle-Ball Experiment Graph Show Only Straight Lines?

  • superconduct
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How is Frequency related to Energy in a Wine Glass?

  • 06mangro
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Why do all wine glass have four nodes (4th harmonic)?

  • 06mangro
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Are decay rate R and activity A the same in radioactive decay equations?

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Relative Velocity with plane and wind

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Moving a loop of wire away from a current carrying wire

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Three Charges Problem: Sketching the Motion of Charges Released from Rest

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How thick is the atmosphere in the rest frame of a high-energy muon?

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Projectile motion of car hitting the ground

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Simple parallel circuit question

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A Penny Falling of a Staionary/Fixed Position Sphere

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Why Does the Exponential Calculation in My RC Circuit Equation Return 1?

  • physics=world
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How Is the Moment Calculated for a Tensioned Cable on a Telephone Pole?

  • wilson11
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Bungee Jumping Spring Constat/Work-Energy

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Discrepancy in force of friction in a problem

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Spring Constants, Work, and Force

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How Do Electrostatic Speakers Use Voltage to Create Pressure?

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Lagrangian and lagrange equations of a system of two masses

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Creating Circuits with equivalent resistances

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What is the force of contact between the two blocks?

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Calculating Initial Acceleration

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Rotational motion problem, half solved, can't figure out other half.

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Work on a plane with angles forces

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How do I calculate arc length using the arc length equation?

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Question Involving Fluid Speed.

  • kevinnn
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Solving Torque on a Pulley: 0.5Nm, 4kg Block, 12cm Diameter

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Physics Coursework: Oblique Collisions. Tips needed

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Thermal Expansion-how much has the ocean expanded

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Using energy concepts and possibly work bunjee jump problem

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Energy needed to evaporate all Earth's oceans

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Double Pendulum (One pendulum hanging from the other)

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Essay on what materials are best at shielding electromagnetic pulses

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How High Must a Rod Fall to Hit a Table Elastically at Both Ends?

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Centre-of-mass Energy of Colliding protons

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Energy dissipated in RC circuits

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Distinguishing a binary star system from two unrelated stars

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Calculating Activity of proton beam

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Finding time constant and charge equation for parallel RC with switch

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