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Why do electronic devices need constant DC voltage instead of AC?

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Charge outside and inside a hollow ball

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Thermal physics final temperature of mixture

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Concentration and diffusion of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere

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Simple harmonic motion on an incline

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What is the principle of moments?

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Horizontal spring with friction

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Longest sound wave in a 4m room and its frequency

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Potential of Infinite Sheets of Charge and Conducting Slab

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Calculate the flux through a cube of size 1.0 m

  • junglebobo
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Calculating Angular and Linear Speed and period of revolution

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How Do You Calculate Projectile Velocity at Different Times?

  • mgerman63016
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Clay falling onto a pan attached to a vertical spring

  • ultimateman
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Calculating Charges of Identical Tiny Conducting Spheres

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Flux through far away disc and potential Q.

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Need a Double Check / Verification

  • Inferior Mind
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Struggling with finding the mass req'd when velocity is doubled

  • Harrison01
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Understanding Free Body Diagrams for Cantilevered Structures

  • pyroknife
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Find equivalent resistance in this circuit

  • Hyperfluxe
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Work, Net work, Work done by friction

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Cart on frictionless track pulled by hanging weight

  • Habibrobert
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Infinite number of turns in finite time

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When does car 2 catch up to car 1 on a velocity-time graph?

  • Nirupt
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Projectile fired horizontally from 55 m height

  • _physics_noob_
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Beta decay of deuterium and triterium

  • pbonnie
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Finding the angle between two magnitudes.

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Electric Field Between Two Infinite Sheets of Charge

  • BRuss9807
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String tension between two masses on inclined planes

  • Inferior Mind
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The number of kg needed to pull apart Magdeburg Hemispheres

  • ShelbyMcD
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Find magnitude of acceleration on a Ca ion, given electric field.

  • monnapomona
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Finding the final velocity of a proton

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Difficult optimal cable cost analysis

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Find how far the spring will be stretched

  • ShelbyMcD
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Centripetal acceleration of a vehicle on banked circular arc

  • Zatman
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Calculating Energy Needed for Change of Phase: Do I Need One More 'mCΔT'?

  • AbsoluteZer0
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Determing unknown weight of an hanging object in a systen

  • GoGoGadget
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Electric Field Problem-Balancing Forces

  • tyreal
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Thermodynamic Properties; Isentropic Expansion

  • FlyingSpartan
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Isothermal exapansion, work done

  • Saxby
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Calculating Capacitor Charge and Energy: A Quick Guide

  • CharlieBewn
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Calculating Friction Force on a Rotating Disk

  • 5Mystery
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Equivalent Capacitance of Complex Circuit

  • megaspazz
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Designing an Effective Egg Catcher: Materials and Strategies

  • Zanmar
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Electric potential of tiny spheres question

  • lodovico
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Voltage output for ideal diode (solutions wrong?)

  • pyroknife
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Vertical hydrostatic force acting upwards on a curved surface?

  • theBEAST
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Finding Velocity and Acceleration for a Moving Particle

  • tcc88
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How is the electric field formula for a charged rod derived?

  • Bashyboy
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Force exerted by a 1 kg nut on a 45° screw thread

  • IsaacFigNewton
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How Does Tension Vary in a Multi-Block Pulley System?

  • wcase
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Understanding Electric Flux and Field Lines in a Uniform Electric Field

  • aaronfue
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Compute Ratio for Luminosity to Mass: Compare to Sun

  • oldspice1212
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Finding potential between identical spheres

  • flip290
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Resultant Vectors and Equilibriant Vectors

  • ME_student
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Do sound waves get bigger when they bounce off a wall?

  • JazzyJones
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Thermal Stress Problem- not sure how to attack this one

  • RoKr93
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Are my answers about waves and light correct?

  • chipM
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Determining the possible time interval between two sine waves

  • randoreds
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Why acceleration is not 9.8m/s^2?

  • cmkc109
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Finding loss of sun's mass given the energy density delivered.

  • texan14
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Carnot Engine ~ Electric Generating station

  • Coti1002
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Write Vector Expression in n-t and x-y coordinates of Acceleration

  • Northbysouth
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Quantam Mechanic - Particle in a rigid one-d box (PDF)

  • MPKU
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How do you derive the correct projectile motion formula?

  • gmy5011
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Why does air pressure decrease with altitude?

  • salma17
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Determine the Velocity and Magnitude of Acceleration on the Wheel

  • Northbysouth
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Change in thermal energy and Temperature problem

  • laser123
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Volume of Silo bin with Cone top

  • zeshkani1985
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Finding The Effect of Several Electrics Fields

  • Bashyboy
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Where Do Electric Fields Cancel Out Between Two Charged Particles?

  • Bashyboy
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Finding when two particles fired at different times reach the same height

  • Taylor_1989
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Equation for displacement in damped harmonic motion.

  • Craptola
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Projectile Motion Angle Problem

  • TRobison
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How are magnets able to attract each other?

  • sgstudent
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Comparison of T, E and V in different states?

  • theBEAST
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Velocity of satellite at specific altitude

  • Biosyn
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Electric field - Finding the charges

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Max velocity for simple pendulum oscillation

  • PhizKid
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What types of energies can be generated from fire

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Do electrons in a neutral metal rod experience net force from a charged rod?

  • sgstudent
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Rocket travels into space, emits sound - intensity/time question

  • fuzzy361
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Downward acceleration in an elevator

  • racecar12
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Distance and speed word problem. Introduction to vectors.

  • Nirupt
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Equation for speed of charges (electrostatics)?

  • devil0150
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Δt=6.7 s, Δx= .25 miles what is speed?

  • burton95
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How Do Charges Affect Electrostatic Force?

  • Bashyboy
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Space Dependence of Electric potential

  • PhysicsRob
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Difference between fluorescent strip and compact fluorescent lamp

  • moimoi24
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Calculating Thermal Expansion in a Steel Cable

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Rearrange 0.05=(2.88/4*1*0.018)(0.05^2-r^2) for r^2

  • rad10k
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Using Projectile motion to find the distance above a wall

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