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Can Duct Tape Really Hold a Person Against a Wall?

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Kirchhoff's Rule: Find Current in Resistors

  • phunphysics2
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Find forces acting on a combined beam with load.

  • dreamliner
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Why is it hard to discover new energy sources?

  • Miyz
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Finding ratio of smaller terminal velocity to larger terminal velocity

  • rockchalk1312
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Find Height of Ramp: H=1.0m, d=1.0m, θ=30°

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Projectile Motion highest point

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Minimum coefficient of friction to keep cars from sliding off the road

  • rockchalk1312
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Solving Thin Film Problem: Find Longest Wavelength Transmitted to Diver

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How much energy do we need to vapourize 1 liter of water?

  • charlie95
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Finding shot put release speed from distance and angle

  • Toranc3
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Power factor calculation: why subtract 0.65 from 1?

  • freshbox
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Two charged spheres are brought into physical contact with each other.

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Finding the magnitude and direction in a electric field.

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Equivalent Electri Force, Find the charge.

  • pmd28
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Special relativity relating 3 dimensions

  • Eats Dirt
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Finding distance and charge ratio from zero potential points

  • pmd28
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Finding magnitude and angle of A+B-C with given angles

  • Stanc
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What Is the Distance Between the Slits in Young's Double Slit Experiment?

  • idkgirl
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Net electrical flux on a cylindrical Gaussian Surface

  • Broem
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What is the difference between potential and potential difference?

  • Chase25
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Path difference in reflection grating constructive interference

  • Enthusiast94
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Question on Simple Harmonic Motion.

  • Wesc
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Projectile Motion distance problem

  • aaronfue
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Calculate evenly distributed force on a beam

  • dreamliner
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Balloon Thermo/buoyancy question

  • efekwulsemmay
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Question on aperture and magnitude.

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Find electric field strength between disks

  • johnnyboy53
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Calculating Time for Electron to Slow Down in Electric Field

  • Colts
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Finding unknown force P when particle is in equilibrium

  • FaraDazed
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Find Initial Velocity from Angle and Horizontal Distance

  • IcyDuck
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Conservation of Angular Momentum bicycle problem

  • pogo2065
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How Fast Must a Passenger Train Decelerate to Avoid a Crash?

  • Woolyabyss
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How Should Angles Be Used in Calculating Tension Forces?

  • cbchapm2
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Finding equilibrium force when two wires pull at 14 degrees below horizontal

  • cbchapm2
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Finding Wind Velocity for a Westward-Bound Airplane

  • Toranc3
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Calculating Energy and Momentum in Different Frames

  • PirateFan308
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Electric field at the semi-circle's center

  • Colts
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Electrostatics and Coulumb's law, potentials and test charges

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How does water rise to form clouds if oxygen is heavier than nitrogen?

  • channel1
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Velocity of cart after seperation

  • jimmyly
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Thermodynamics (final temperature, ice mixed with steam)

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Eliminate T to Show SHM of a Rectangular Plate

  • Avi1995
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Why electrons carry energy but not current in thermal conduction

  • heycoa
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How do you find the electric potential from force?

  • Mitocarta
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Determining Beam Diameter in Glass Using Index of Refraction

  • heycoa
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Electrostatic potential at a point outside a sphere

  • adam199
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Diodes in parallel with resistors and terminal PD

  • mrcotton
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Interferometer and Interference.

  • binbagsss
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Electromagnetic wave equation not invariant under galilean trans.

  • bfusco
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When is Electric Potential equal to 0?

  • dwk17
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Probability of finding a particle in a box

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Equation check: Dimensional analysis.

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Modifying an equation to plot a straight line.

  • thatguythere
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Fluid flow through a pipe - Conservation of mass and/or momentum?

  • theBEAST
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Sliding Ramp and Freefall problem

  • Shaku
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How many passages to enrich uranium-235 to 99% purity?

  • CAF123
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How does friction work on a smooth slope with rough contacts?

  • shalikadm
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Prove Period of a Rocking Hemisphere of Radius R is Equal to 4R/3

  • Karol
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Newton's Laws and Force Problem

  • Yosty22
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Police car catching speeding driver at constant velocity

  • chrisweikert
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How Does a Perturbed Electric Dipole Exhibit Simple Harmonic Motion?

  • CAF123
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Finding time period and minimum length of threads

  • Saitama
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Is Back EMF Always Equal to Battery EMF in Inductive Circuits?

  • harsh95
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Finding Electric Field from Long Filament

  • Bashyboy
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Calculating Tension in Multiple String Systems

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Finding Force of an electron in motion

  • mrye33
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Does the angle need dividing when inverting complex impedance?

  • freshbox
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Finding R and C values from impedance and angular frequency

  • freshbox
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What is the induced emf in one of the windings?

  • lizaliiu
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Charge on two suspended metal balls

  • crowdedscience
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How do I calculate watts for household appliances?

  • njuice8
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Entropy and Black Hole Temperature

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Complex circuits with Kirchoff's law

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Two negatively charged balloons on strings. Find tensions?

  • cvang24
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What Voltage Accelerates an Electron Over 0.350 m in 46.0 ns?

  • Shinster007
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What determines scattering angle in the Compton effect?

  • Opus_723
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Momentum in special relativity problem

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Finding acceleration of block A with friction on incline

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Matrix operations in a general physics problem

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Frequency of circuit with purely real impedance

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Electric field of ring causing oscillation

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Young's modulus of titanium alloy wire from stretching data

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Simple pendulum gravitational potential energy at 30°

  • marc_2094
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Does torque by gravity use cos theta instead of sin theta?

  • cmkc109
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How long does a projectile fired horizontally from 45m stay in the air?

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Basic Special Relativity (Time Dilation)

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Calculating v from v0, frictional coefficients, and angle

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Work done by spring and friction when 1.90 kg block hits horizontal spring

  • Nfinley1
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What Is the Speed of the Ball When Kicked Back in This Soccer Scenario?

  • OUstudent
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Physics Lab Question - High School

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