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What is the Torque on a Crane Bar in a Fatal Accident Investigation?

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Sinusoidial waves: Frequency is not dependant on speed?

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How Do You Derive Particle Distributions Using the Boltzmann Factor?

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Mass on Bridge, Find Force of Friction when bridge is barely inclined

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Finding the Resonant frequency in an LC circuit

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Finding speed at half the height given initial velocity and mass

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Finding the ratio ω/ωo of an underdamped oscillator

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Conservation of energy up a ramp.

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Cylinder rolling onto frictionless surface and yoyo with cut string

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Frictional Forces and Stopping Distance in Physics

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True or False Questions on the Photoelectric Effect

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Given electric field, find surface or charge density

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Capacititive Circuit - discharging through lamp and resistor

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Two Oppositely Charged Parallel Planes, Infinite In Extent

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What is the Correct Angle for the Net Magnetic Force?

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Calculating Acceleration = what?

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Vibration problem given Force,length and mass

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Capacitors are charged, disconnected from battery, and had plates swit

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Kinetic energy from plate A to plate B

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Horizontal force exerted by an engine

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Ranking currents and voltages in circuit with LED and two resistors

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Torque question need explaination

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Work done on a spring by an ideal gas

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Velocity to Distance Time Graph?

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H-shaped rigid body rotating about one leg with parallel axis theorem

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Conservation of Energy in Orbits

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How does friction affect the middle box in a double tension problem?

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How far is the ray displaced as a result of traveling through the gla

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Calculate the speed of the Cylinder in the pulley system

  • Northbysouth
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Electric Fields Cancelling Out?

  • Bashyboy
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What is the total horizontal force on a constricted pipe with water flow?

  • danielakkerma
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Calculate the energy spread of the Fe-57 first excited state

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Find the current in each resistor.

  • whynot314
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Mercury manometer height using Bernoulli's equation

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Levitating wire in magnetic field.

  • SherlockOhms
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When landing after a spectacular somersault

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Gravitational field strength (ratios)

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How High Can a Pebble Flung from a Car Tire Reach?

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Electric Flux and Charge Distribution in a Cube with Uniform Electric Fields

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Calculating Copper Volume for Hollow Spherical Shell

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Angular momentum of excited electron in hydrogen

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Integration Intuition for work between x1 and x2

  • Joshb60796
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Determining on what type of Motion to use on a Position Time Graph?

  • kencamarador
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Why does right-hand rule give different torque than cross product?

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Net electric force on charge from three other charges on a line

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Elastic energy and force on an object

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How Is the Proton's Radius of Curvature Determined in a Magnetic Field?

  • Gee Wiz
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Displacement v Time graph for a wave

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How can potential energy functions be used to model a system's motion?

  • LovePhys
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How Do Potential Differences Distribute Across Series Capacitors?

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What is the steady state voltage across the capacitor in this open circuit?

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Acceleration of a Falling Object from Average Velocities

  • ErinSK
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Transistors and boolean expression

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Are three capacitors connected in series, parallel, or mixed?

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Does ideal mean forward biased for a diode in a circuit?

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Variations of electrostatic potential energy

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Is Voltage Across Always a Magnitude?

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Constant acceleration kinematics: stopping distance and uniform acceleration

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Using gradient values of a graph to determine angular acceleration

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Find the constant c given quadratic equation F=

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Calculating work done by helicopter/gravity, kinetic energy and speed?

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Uniformly charged distributions (Electricity)

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Work done by a spring on a block when released from 14cm?

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Relation between a photon's energy and momentum

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Relative Velocity of Balls: Solving for t=1 sec

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Falling elevator energy conservation

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Calculating Work with Vector Notation

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How Is Charge Calculated in a Two Loop RC Circuit After the Switch Opens?

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Impulse and momentum change during bungee cord braking

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How would water vapor contamination affect PV=nRT

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Find the maximum deflection of the spring

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Is the 'Method' written in present or past tense?

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Ice block sliding distance after pushing force stops

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Centripetal force, this is confusing. Why?

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Find the point where the eletrostatic force is maximum. (With drawing)

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Particle motion in a Magnetic Field 1

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Supposly simple balistic motion prob

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Understanding Spring Length in the Center-of-Mass Frame

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Find angle at which the projectile hits

  • CollegeStudent
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Amplitude in a simple pendulum - angle or distance?

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Three rescuers pulling horizontally on a safety net to keep it taut

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How Is Light Intensity Affected by Multiple Polarizing Filters?

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Calculate the moment when the pedal

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How Do Relative Velocities Determine Collision Courses?

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Electric Field On A Point Charge Due To A Uniformly Charged Rod

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Heat needed to maintain temperature in scaled rectangular houses

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River canoe and bottle relative velocity problem

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Is Momentum and Kinetic Energy Conserved in Collisions?

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How Does Inserting a Dielectric Affect a Charged Capacitor?

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Electric Field due to a charged conducting sheet

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Does adding a test charge disrupt the existing electric field?

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Calculating Force for Spark Plug Installation

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Positive pion decay and kinetic energy

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How to find acceleration from given 2 masses and acceleration?

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