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Power Supplied to a vibrating string

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Find friction from stopping distance and initial speed.

  • Sneakatone
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Questions about finding position, velocity, acceleration related

  • Ryukouki
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Sound waves travelling different paths

  • PhizKid
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Can Someone Review My Lab's Theory Section?

  • Bashyboy
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Why assume same wavelength when string tension changes after submersion

  • ricmacas
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Proving the Motion of Point P: Vertical or Elliptical?

  • nohkie
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EV vs V, Cutoff Potential Question

  • uberclay
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Help with projectile motion and linear kinematics problems

  • coconut62
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How Long Does It Take for a Father to Catch His Son if He Accelerates from Rest?

  • kencamarador
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Kinetic energy of a block sliding down a ramp

  • GoGoGadget
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Optimizing Physical Pendulum Oscillation: Finding d for Shortest Period

  • oreosama
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Calculating Area Density of Steel Discs

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Force Of Gas In Liquid And Gravity

  • hotdogski
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Electrical charge problem (need assurance on an answer)

  • AyooNisto
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Mountain climber 2d forces question.

  • boognish
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Why is a conductor an equipotential if it has charge density?

  • anban
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Basic formula for diffraction grating

  • Outrageous
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Comparison of direction of forces

  • gullyb
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How Much Fluid Was Injected Into the Capillary?

  • nayanm
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Thermal Expansion of a metal ring

  • SiriusAboutAstronomy
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Terminal Velocity: Solving for D

  • student34
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How Do You Solve a Frictionless Pulley System Problem?

  • Yosty22
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Newton's law to find acceleration

  • Mangoes
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Where is the particle most likely to be found?

  • Levi Tate
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Rearranging formulas. Accelerations

  • kencamarador
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Optics question - coin at the bottom of a swimming pool

  • Genericcoder
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Static Friction Coefficient Problems

  • jklops686
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Conducting Spheres and Their Charge

  • Nathew
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Where in a wineglass does the standing wave forms?

  • 06mangro
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How to find Qmax of a capacitor in parallel RC circuit?

  • woaname
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Finding tension forces in a system at equilibrium

  • RunningBack
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Calculating Electric Field and Potential of a Charged Ring Segment

  • Octavius1287
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Young's fringes experiment, interference fringes

  • question dude
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K is the proportionality constant (Hooke's law)

  • InvalidID
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Capacitator Circuit and determining unknown charges voltages

  • liliacam
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Velocity and Acceleration together problem?

  • kencamarador
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How Do You Calculate the Moment of Inertia?

  • abcde149149
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Train Question? Uniform acceleration

  • kencamarador
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Distance travelled during braking from 96 km/h in 3.0 seconds

  • kencamarador
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A strange electrical circuit - resistance calculation

  • KayEl9
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Physics question involving vectors and force (from Calc II)

  • Sooneroo
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Time between sound wave displacements

  • PhizKid
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Statics, beam attached to a wall, reaction forces

  • jonjacson
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Electric Dipole as x l, how do I simplify this correctly?

  • Yapper
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Boat heading angle to reach upstream destination in river

  • Dalkiel
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Finding ball rebound speed given contact time with surface

  • KayEl9
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Bernoulli's equation does not always work?

  • theBEAST
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Find Distance from Screen to Slits in Double Slit Experiment

  • rocapp
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How Does Adiabatic Compression Affect Steam and Water Mixtures?

  • zircons
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Bug crawling outward on spinning CD before slipping

  • Voltrical
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How Do You Calculate Force from Acceleration and Change in Direction?

  • RobinsoKo
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Find Moment About Point A Due to Distributed Load

  • United
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Two blocks touching on a table, one with friction and the other w/out

  • codytanner16
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Question regarding Rutherford's atomic model

  • daselocution
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What is the value of the dampening constant?

  • HiggsBrozon
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When input voltage is high, capacitor is charging

  • lavindev
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Applying KVL to loop A in a multi-loop circuit

  • charlies1902
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Kinetic energy of ball sliding down slope with electric field?

  • asdf12312
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Alternative methods to solve a circuit using mesh analysis

  • nchin
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Why Does Gravity Affect Work Done in a Simple Pulley System?

  • leehufford
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Average and instantaneous velocity

  • physicsernaw
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How to find force of a spring given force constant and length

  • Sneakatone
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Why Does My Circuit Calculation Not Match the Given Solution?

  • pyroknife
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Calculating the magnetic field inside a field coil

  • newageanubis
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Woman standing on a rope problem.

  • itchy
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How to find distance using sound waves

  • PhizKid
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Mechanical Energy of a system: Conceptual Problem

  • Yosty22
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Isolating time from the displacement equation

  • kencamarador
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Acceleration, a kid, a sled and frictionless surface

  • Trigulus
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Finding max force at bottom of a 2.8m decline swinging on a vine?

  • rockchalk1312
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Plummer Sphere, Density from Potential

  • SHISHKABOB
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Voltage on a point charge from a stick of charge

  • Colts
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How Is Work Calculated When Moving a Charge in an Electric Field?

  • smartdesk
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How to derive pv^gamma=constant

  • milan talaviya
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Solving for the Height of a Toy Car on an Inclined Loop-the-Loop

  • Joshb60796
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Projectile Motion 2.0- Drag in RL

  • ultrapowerpie
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Force to break one, two and three white pine boards

  • Howlin
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Calculating Total Internal Energy of a System in Thermal Equilibrium

  • CAF123
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Why Doesn't the Centering Ring Shift Immediately When Angles Change?

  • swm06
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Calculate the voltage at a point

  • Colts
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How Far Does the Second Fragment Travel from Point A After Explosion?

  • Toranc3
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Does Tarzan's Vine Hold During His Daring Swing?

  • matt57017
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Catching Football (Projectile Motion)

  • Toranc3
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Finding angle of billiard ball after collision

  • luffy3san
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Momentum of ball bouncing off crossbar

  • luffy3san
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Find the reactions the pin A and roller D exert on the truss

  • pb23me
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Calculating Changes in Earth-Sun Distance with Varying Sun Mass

  • Numeriprimi
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How is the Refracting Angle of a Prism Calculated Using θ and θ/2?

  • Outrageous
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Does the monkey always get hit if it drops when shot at?

  • MattWakes
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Is My Redrawn Resistor Circuit Correct?

  • moto30
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