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Measuring distances with diffraction experiment

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What Factors Affect the Natural Frequency of a Wineglass?

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How Do You Solve Electric Circuit Problems with Multiple Voltage Sources?

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Moment calculation on angled axis and free vectors

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Coefficient of friction for connected masses on inclined plane with pulley

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How Do You Calculate Entropy Change in Thermodynamics Problems?

  • physninj
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Refractive index of different colors

  • MrEinstein
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How Fast Does Water Cool in a Polystyrene Box?

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Find wavelength, Phase Difference, and amplitude from min and max

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Truss - ned someone to look through my calculations.

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Relative population density of stars and galaxies

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Calculating changes in stored energy of a capacitor

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How Far Does a Baseball Travel with Zero Acceleration?

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How Does A.H. Pfund's Method Determine the Refractive Index of Glass?

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Wave function at origin on transverse wave

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Calculation of the velocity of a Spaceship moving Relativistically

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Energy transfer between two coupled masses

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Optimal Flight Path for Eastward Destination with Wind Speed and Direction

  • CollegeStudent
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Challenging High School Planetary Mechanics Problem

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Momentum Theory question Gr.12

  • elmosworld403
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Find the Exit Temperature of the Air in the Compressor

  • Northbysouth
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Does wave speed on a spring depend on tension and pulse size?

  • ksuh
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How Do You Determine Position as a Function of Time from Acceleration?

  • MotoPayton
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Matter wave - relationship between broglie wavelength, wavelength

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FBD representing a bird feeder.

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Fourier Series Convergence for Square Wave Function

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How far away from its location when the string breaks

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Elastic Collision Between Two Masses

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Work done on ideal gas: isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric compression

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Find the Mass Flow Rate Through the Nozzle

  • Northbysouth
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How Fast Can an Insect Travel on a CD Without Slipping Off?

  • Inferior Mind
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What is the equivalent resistance of this circuit?

  • Saitama
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Finding acceleration and tension using Newton's laws

  • Mangoes
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Potential energy( electron moving away form proton)

  • whynot314
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Double Check My Answers: Calculating Projectile Motion with Initial Velocity

  • silentcoder
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Calculating Charge in a Concentric Spherical Region

  • Pruddy
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Center of Mass with Circle that has a Cut Out

  • SerhanFT9
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How Does the Incline Plane Affect Potential Energy in a Two-Mass System?

  • Larrytsai
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How Does Accretion Impact Galaxy Formation According to the IMF?

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Relative velocity of river flowing

  • Toranc3
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How Fast Do the Spheres Move When Far Apart?

  • asheik234
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Uniform circular motion with constant upward velocity.

  • Toranc3
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What is the Vertical Velocity of a Rope Sliding off a Peg?

  • NewbieofPhysic
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Non-flow process with steam (Constant Pressure) Part II

  • freshbox
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How to Find the Y Component of the Electric Field Ey?

  • Triathlete
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Car and truck velocity question

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Intensity through each power source

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Particle in plane, find position vector

  • jklops686
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Projectile Motion: Solving for Velocity Components | Tower Launch

  • jklops686
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Kinematics, Newton's Laws, Fun With Engineers

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If you toss a tennis ball straight upward, shouldn't there be in horiz

  • cmkc109
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Fluid Mechanics: Compressible Fluids, density function

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Ranking Voltages and Currents in a Circuit with 1 Capacitor

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Determining charge from electric potential

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Non-flow process with steam (Constant Pressure)

  • freshbox
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Task with spring, energy, velocity and angle

  • DrOnline
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Why does the incline friction calculation give μ = 0.466?

  • hoges
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Calculate moment of a special wrench

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Flux due to infinite long wires

  • Saitama
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Applying Newton's laws to find forces

  • Mangoes
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Optics - Refraction and a transparent sphere

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Using entry level physics to calculate minimum velocity required.

  • QuickSkope
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Deriving an expression from geometry

  • Levi Tate
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How Do You Calculate the Final Speed of a Rocket Car on an Inclined Ramp?

  • canucks81
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What Angle Does the Rocket Appear to Move at After the Second Stage Ignites?

  • student34
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Circuit with 2 batteries and 6 resistors

  • riane
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Circuits with two voltage sources

  • Chaso
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What is the average drag force on a softball pitched at 99.6 km/hr?

  • kopinator
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Equivalent electrical resistance

  • TheDoctor46
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How Do You Solve Spring and Force Calculations in Physics?

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Calculating Period of Rotation for Mars-Bound Weight at 3.8 m/s2

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Velocity in relation to position

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Deriving x(t) from work-energy theorem

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Energy of a block on a frictionless ramp

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Projectile Motion - confirmation on answer(s) needed

  • Element1674
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Force on air column in a solar updraft tower

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Calculate forces on beam with hook

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FBDs for Box and Magnet Lifting by a Rope Attached to Ceiling

  • cmkc109
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Finding the Tension in terms of weight and the angle of incline

  • Yosty22
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Problems from statistical mechanics

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How Do You Calculate the Total Distance Traveled by a Car with Changing Speeds?

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Work done by E field to move electron from negative plate to postive.

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Four 100 kg people are holding a 1200 kg inflated balloon

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Linear acceleration with letters instead of numbers

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Adding the vectors ijk notation

  • CollegeStudent
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Thin rod symbolic questions based on Image.

  • Christian121
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Finding member forces in truss ABC with horizontal load at C

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Are There Deficiencies in Newton's Laws?

  • Questions999
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Different equations for Electric Energy, me understand

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Conservation of energy in standing wave

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Centripetal force and acceleration for circular motion

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Total energy stored in the electric fields, exess energy

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Solve Kirchoff's Problem: Find Current Across Resistor Network

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Kinetic energy gain from potential difference with different mass and charge

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Determine the potential energy of the configuration

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Block sliding down ramp with friction, finding exit speed

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Calculating Centrifugal Force for a Bug on a Spinning Compact Disc

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