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Calculate gravitational acceleration without mass of both objects

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Deleting a node from a linked list in C#

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Forces acting on a car on an incline

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Finding average force from puck impact time on wall in lab

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Does element x present a linear resistance?

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Using suvat to find time traveled by a cannonball

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Dimensional Analysis: Solving Confusing Steps

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Trouble with Part B of Physics Problem: Velocity

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Finding launch angle when vertical velocity changes during flight

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Working out steam velocity with only pressure difference

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Problem in evaluating the absolute error

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Is the force exerted by a pivot always towards the center of mass?

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What is the correct angle of displacement for a clock arm?

  • rudransh verma
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What is the definition of potential energy of a system?

  • engineeringstudnt
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How can two cylindrical lenses can be used to form a laser sheet?

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Gravitational force equals centrifugal force?

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Special relativity and simultaneity: Spacecraft and Target

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Different forms of Biot-Savart Law

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Fluid flow inside a cylindrical tank

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How does a mass moving up a ramp change its velocity?

  • phantomvommand
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The Net Electric Field Inside a Dielectric

  • Hamiltonian
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How to calculate differential work done by a force in circular motion?

  • zenterix
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To find the forces on a composite object

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Calculating magnetic field given dl, current, and radius vector

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What Mistake Was Made in Finding the Speed of the Boxes?

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Mass slipping on a moving inclined plane

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Free Body Diagram for a Piece of Gum on the Underside of a Desk

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Why Use bh/2 for the Area of a Non-Right Triangle?

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2 bodies spining and cut in the middle

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Are My Inductor Equations Correct?

  • PhysicsTest
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Calculate the dose rate in a drum of U3O8

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Electrodynamics for a rotating ring

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Speed/Velocity and Volume Flow Rate of Viscous Fluids

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Calculating the Number of Lines for a Diffraction Grating

  • LCSphysicist
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Minkowski diagram, where to put an event

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Choosing an Axis of Rotation for Equilibrium Analysis

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Pressure due to a Liquid on container Wall

  • SpectraPhy09
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What happens to a ball placed on a moving conveyor belt?

  • zenterix
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What kind of motion is this? (bicycle velocity vectors)

  • rudransh verma
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[HW question] Image size difference of two light emitting nanospheres

  • rinalai
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Gauss' law and flux concept issues

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Resolving power of a compound microscope

  • rinalai
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Inside glass, can I apply relativity of speed for light?

  • LCSphysicist
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Finding average acceleration from position and time data

  • Emily0203
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Rod colliding with the ground (Special relativity question)

  • LCSphysicist
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Error calculation in a measurement chain

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Is there any friction in this case?

  • LokLe
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Electric field problem -- Repulsive force between two charged spheres

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Two inclined beams supporting a pail of water

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Finding coefficient of kinetic friction on an inclined plane

  • DonutHole
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DC Motor Efficiency: Why Does Efficiency Plot Look Like Parabola?

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Resultant Frequency and Wavelength of Interfering Sound Waves

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Motional EMF with variable resistance: which force equation is correct?

  • SpectraPhy09
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Possible to use work-energy theorem from a non-inertial frame?

  • zenterix
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An expression for the vertical velocity as a function of time

  • Physil
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TIme needed for a capacitor to reach a fraction of its final charge

  • guyvsdcsniper
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Year 10 physics homework problem

  • Camden
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Notation in fluid dynamics: A circle with a horizontal bar inside

  • Leo Liu
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Earth's Accel.: Is 10^(-22)m/s^2 Correct?

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Electric field and potential at midpoint between two charged spheres

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Conductivity and Electric Field relationship

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Connection of two photovoltaic cells to produce larger current

  • songoku
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Bobsled Impulse and Force -- ELASTIC collision problem

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Trouble finding the current through this resistor in the circuit

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Problem involving interference and medium with index n

  • LCSphysicist
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I just wanted to know how to find error/uncertainties from the graph

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Acceleration between two frames

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Calculate force to open a door with a gas spring

  • Camiloae
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How Does the Definition of Work Affect the First Law of Thermodynamics Equation?

  • Nick tringali
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How Do You Calculate the New Density of Kr in a Balloon?

  • morechem28
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To calculate the forces on a composite body

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Derivation of single slit diffraction formula

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Speeds of the rolling ball at different points in this roller coaster track

  • Ineedhelpwithphysics
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Interpreting Weird Results: J_u, P_1 and T_1

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How to calculate the Coriolis force on a moving object

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Identifying external forces for a trolley with oscillating sphere

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Hinged rod rotating, falling and hitting a mass

  • Very_Unwise
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Compensating for Earth's Rotation With v = ωr

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Mass matters for standing waves on a string?

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Force acting on a charge across a hybrid medium

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Inverse-Square Law of Radiation

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Why is tension equal to weight in this pulley system?

  • Tapias5000
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Seemingly simple equilibrium problem - force balance

  • davidwinth
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How to determine the same moment of inertia in two different ways?

  • Tapias5000
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Proving that the incident intensity is not the same as the sum of others

  • LCSphysicist
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Dynamics problem about two-dimensional tug-of-war

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Using the sin function for a problem with a frictionless pulley and an incline

  • sentimentaltrooper
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Why is acceleration zero in this kinematics problem?

  • Alsfc
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Do Radio Transmitters cause diffraction?

  • phantomvommand
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What is the common error when discussing the photoelectric effect?

  • Aurora_b
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Finding acceleration of block with block on top, connected by rope

  • sentimentaltrooper
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How Does Current Behave Over Time in AC Circuits?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Speed and direction of proton after collision

  • songoku
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Why Does Fleming's Right Hand Rule Give an Upward Force on the Wire?

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How can I locate the coordinates of the centroid of a cone in Z?

  • Tapias5000
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