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Satellite orbiting the Earth (heat radiation)

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Substended angle, rotational kinematics

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How Is the Semimajor Axis Calculated for a Distant Planet's Orbit?

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Understanding Spark Production in Dissectable Glass Capacitors

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Boundary conditions for 2 ropes fixed to a massless ring with a damper

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Moment of Inertia of a 4 rod system

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Boats in a triangle colliding after some time

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Can Temperature Alone Affect the Volume of Air in a Room?

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Solving a Rod-Particle System: Troubles with Forces

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Understanding the electric force felt by the charges on a sphere

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Limiting radius ratio for tetrahedral

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What Causes Angular Acceleration and Torque in a Free Body Diagram?

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How to interpret a passage in Purcell's Electricity and Magnetism

  • zenterix
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Effect on net torque and net force on spools

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The angular acceleration and period of a pulsar

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How Do Electromagnets Repel Each Other in a Zero-Resistance Environment?

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What is the meaning of work done for non-uniform circular motion?

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Solving a Problem: Forces Acting on P

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Comparing Energy and Movement on a Swing and Water Slide

  • ABCM12
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Confusion with force components

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Tension and Angle Analysis for Traction in a Broken Leg

  • defaultusername
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Magnitude and average value of energy intensity of light beam

  • dl447342
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About work done through exercise (push ups)

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Momentum of Cube: Magnitude and In-Between Speed

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What is the maximum spring displacement?

  • leafy
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Kinematics and One Dimensional Motion

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On which objects can we apply Gauss' Law to find the electric field?

  • zenterix
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How Does Increasing Resistance Affect Current Flow in a Circuit?

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About Kinetic Energy of a ball falling vertically and bouncing up

  • Iwanttolearnphysics
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Find the maximum KE of a charged Disc

  • Hamiltonian
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Electric field is constant around charged infinite plane. Why?

  • zenterix
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Shooting an arrow through the spokes of a turning wheel

  • Ursa
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Diving airplane as a projectile

  • rudransh verma
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Flat Belt and Pullies with different Coefficients

  • Spencer25
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Two Mass Three Rope Tension Problem

  • HS21
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How do I accurately calculate optical cycles in a femtosecond laser pulse?

  • rinalai
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When it states "in terms of a, b, c" do you need to use all variables?

  • Solweak
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Relative Motion problem involving a moving person and a moving bus

  • rasofia77
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What is the relationship between particles and waves in QED?

  • Shreya
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Velocity vector addition problem

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Bernoulli’s Equation and External Forces

  • Khalid Qasim
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Complex collision with masses and Velcro

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Linear speed of sphere as it passes through lowest point

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About steel balls of different masses and net force

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Angular velocity of rod and bug

  • p37
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Help with 2D mass-spring-damper system

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Calculate the time to reach the floor in seconds

  • LokLe
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Gravitational Forces between two masses

  • SpectraPhy09
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Understanding the Use of the Long Jump Formula R=9.21m and Its Derivation

  • rudransh verma
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At what frequency can Planck's law be used to determine the temperature?

  • Lambda96
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Newton's second law -- Crate sliding in the back of an accelerating truck

  • Franklie001
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When will the particles collide?

  • rudransh verma
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Solving for Distance, Velocity and Acceleration

  • jenny121
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The relationship between angle and static coefficient

  • Solweak
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Help finding the magnetic field of a current loop

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Induced Current Direction in a Changing Magnetic Field

  • guyvsdcsniper
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Spring potential and kinetic energy

  • san12345
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Verifying properties of Van der Waals Gas

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Relative Velocity of a Passenger Hitting the Dashboard in a Car Crash

  • brochesspro
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Total work done while pushing a wheelchair

  • TheBigDig
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Projectile negative vertical displacement

  • rudransh verma
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The binding energy per nucleon of tritium

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Circuit Design Help: Progress & Resources

  • Aisu01
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Find Final Kinetic Energy of a particle subject to two forces

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Peak of the amplitude resonance curve

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Applying Newton's 3rd Law to Tension in a Tug of War

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Forces and laws of motion -- Big gorilla hanging from two vines

  • HiReinhardt
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Electric field created by two charged circular arcs?

  • zenterix
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Phase factor in quantum mechanics

  • Shreya
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Buoyancy: Will the Object float or sink or remain at a depth?

  • SpectraPhy09
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Motion in 1D-Graphs: Is Option D Correct?

  • SpectraPhy09
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How to choose the correct function to use for a Taylor expansion?

  • zenterix
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(Movement Homework) What is the speed of a marble falling on the moon?

  • sigurdfromnor
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Newton's laws — Two stacked blocks sliding on a frictionless floor

  • nirlalush
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Impulse-momentum theorem problem

  • Haorong Wu
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Spring deflection problem using energy equations

  • ago01
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Progressive wave, wavelength moving in the opposite direction

  • Redwaves
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Newton's laws of motion -- Force of gravity on a skydiver

  • kara123
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A particle motion problem in the x-y plane with constant acceleration

  • rudransh verma
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A stone projectile hitting the target

  • rudransh verma
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Designing an orifice plate to increase the pressure in a pipe

  • shekarharsha
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MIT OCW 8.02 Electromagnetism: how were these two limits calculated?

  • zenterix
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Angle observed in rest frame related to relativity

  • songoku
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Why is time = ct and not t in special relativty?

  • rgtr
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I'm Stuck on Solving This - R2 Confuses Me

  • Bookdigger
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Solving for Time Given Acceleration & Initial Velocity

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It seems like it's simple math but I'm not sure?

  • lesdayy
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Help with unit vector for a magnetic field

  • guyvsdcsniper
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Why doesn't any coloured body get infinitely hot?

  • Shreya
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Calculate gravitational acceleration without mass of both objects

  • IAmBadAtMath
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Computer Science Help C# or Java

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Forces acting on a car on an incline

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Lab Experiment - Puck Impact on Wall, Analyzing Force

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Does element x present a linear resistance?

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Using suvat to find time traveled by a cannonball

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