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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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Sources of error in thermal expansion

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Impact of rolling sphere with vertical rod

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Average acceleration and average force

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Find Pressure at Point A in the Manometer

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How Long Until a Heated Iron Handle Becomes Too Hot to Touch?

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Block on a rough plane Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

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Current in 20-ohm resistor with battery in parallel branch

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Two identical blocks suspended by rope with 30 N horizontal tension

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Spring constant for a block sliding PE and KE

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Balloon Physics: Impact of Punctured Balloon on Horizontal Balance

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Electric Field due to an Infinite Line

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Solving Tension on Slope w/ 2 Packages

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How Do You Solve a Combination Lens Problem in Optics?

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Frictionless puck goes up hill then falls. What's V0?

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Breaking static friction w/ a circle

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Two-lens system: image position with 80 mm and magnifying lens

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A Force and Potential-Energy Problem

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Egg drop device design for fastest descent and survival

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What Forces Act on a Car Negotiating a Bend at Constant Speed?

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How Does Elastic Collision Affect Thomas the Tank Engine and Diesel?

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Pulley Problem With Tension Direction

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Calculating lost mechanical energy

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Torque Switching and Directional Tension in Pulleys

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How Does a Seat Belt Protect You in a Crash?

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Straight line motion MCQ (Multiple choices)

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Time taken for an object to slide down a plane given μ, s and θ

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Two infinite lines of current in the same direction

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Series Circuit with two batteries

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Calculating Kinetic Energy of an Exploding Baseball

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Is My Calculation for Standard Error of a Stress Calculation Correct?

  • charlesltl
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Proving ω is real for circular motion under central force

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P-N Junction Diode - Charge question

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Why Doesn't an Object Submerged in Water Always Sink?

  • Bengo
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What Is the Minimum Speed for a Steel Ball to Complete a Vertical Circle?

  • CollegeStudent
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What is the shortest path a fly can take in a room with given dimensions?

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V=wr. Is v tangential or center of mass?

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Find the resolving power of a microscope in terms of its diameter

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Why does ray reflection phase change affect thin film interference?

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Tetherball angle with 3.8 m rope and 5.6 m/s velocity

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Lorentz transformation question,

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Current Density of water through a pipe

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A friction problem containing a frictionless pulley

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This magnet question confounds me

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One dimensional Schroedinger equation solution

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What is the Volume of Water Leaving a Tank Through a Rectangular Opening?

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Centripetal force. Radius is not given. Find tension in each support

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Calculating electric field strength, potential difference, and force.

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What Was the Force of Impact on My Mom During a Biking Accident?

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Conceptual question on the eddington limit

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What are the steps to solving a projectile motion problem?

  • CollegeStudent
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Specific Heat Capacity, Heat Energy, Thermodynamics Physics

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What Does the Scale Read When the Elevator Moves Downward?

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Voltage drop across capacitor in RC circuit

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Are My Free Body Diagrams Correct?

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Question on Elliptic Orbits. Difficult.

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Two Pendulums connected by a spring

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Wire loop placed in B field which is decreasing uniformly

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How Does Gauss' Law Apply to Electric Flux Through a Cube's Surface?

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Calculate the inductance of a coil of wire

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Centripetal force, enough information?

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Calculating Speed of a Block Pushed Across a Horizontal Surface

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Total current through two wires

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Problem with solving equation of motion

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Modeling a tossed turkey leg (angular momentum)

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Tension and acceleration problem

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Struggling with Questions 5, 7, & 8? Let me help!

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Error propagation in an average of two values

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Angular frequency of orbiting charge in electric and magnetic fields

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Proving the half-life of Potassium-40

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How Do You Calculate Qh for a Non-Carnot Heat Engine?

  • physics.stu
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White light refraction through a glass slab with dispersion

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How Do You Calculate Force Components on a Diagonal Path?

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Mutual Inductance of Two RC Circuits?

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Identify process in a heat engine

  • physics.stu
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How Do You Derive the Resultant Wave Using Superposition?

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Electric field between two spheres

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In which direction ball will move?

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Solving Magnetic Flux Through a Sphere in a Homogeneous Field

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Particle Motion on Rotating Rod: Derivation and Special Cases

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Upthrust: Weight of Object or Fluid?

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Continuity Equation - For a vertical pipe

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Barometric formula for pressure at height

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Can Mass Spectrometry be a difficult technique?

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Pipe Flow Q: Frictional Head Loss in Tank?

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Find the Initial Speed given Distance Traveled and Time Taken

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Youngs Modulus and Standing Waves combined question

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Gauss's law for a charged ring in AP Physics

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Electric field in parallel plate capacitor

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Calculating the direction of Earth's magnetic field

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Ball rolling without slipping down 36° incline

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Force on hydraulic brake caliper using lever and Pascal's law

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How can I properly use significant figures in scientific experiments?

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