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Understanding Acceleration and Center of Mass in Shock Absorption

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Correlating albedo with temperature?

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Calculating Forces on a Moved Body

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Deriving the Differential Position Vector in Cylindrical Coordinates

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Two Pulleys, two weights and a string

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Where am I going wrong with this vector addition?

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Stopping a Bullet: Calculate umin and xf

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Find the value of ##\theta## when the Vx and Vy components are the same

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What is the final angular displacement of a disk hit by two masses?

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Why does the battery lose more energy than the capacitor gains when charging?

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How Do Engineers Design AntiNoise to Effectively Reduce Ambient Noise?

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Finding spacetime interval for Mike's trip to Pluto at 0.82c

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Two Pulleys, Two Strings and Two Blocks

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Number of moles necessary to get piston back to initial position

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Propagation Wave Expressions and Wave Velocity

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Induced current in a wire loop embedded in a changing B-field

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Why does Faraday's law predict the magnet experiences an opposing force?

  • Marcin H
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Tangential velocity of rotating rod

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How to find coordinates of a system (I am taking cylinder now)?

  • Istiak
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Tension in rope wrapped around a rod

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Mass m sliding without friction inside a rotating tube

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Capacitors in parallel or series

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Finding the increase in entropy of the universe in gas expansion

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Block on a Spring, Nonconstant Net Force

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Current and resistance in the power loss of a transformer

  • songoku
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Centripetal Motion problem -- A bead sliding around a horizontal loop

  • Rubberduck2005
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Why does ½mu² = ½mv² + ½ms² in particle collisions?

  • Disputationem
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How Can We Solve the Connected Bodies Problem with a Resultant Force of 39N?

  • ayans2495
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Simple conceptual reference frame question

  • Rubberduck2005
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Entropy change and heat transferred with S=a/T

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Why does a relativistic proton collision have a different scattering angle?

  • mystreet123
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2 Dimensional Motion: Net force at an angle

  • ayans2495
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Is the RMS Mean Free Path Equal to the Mean Free Path?

  • warhammer
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Why position times mass is equal to 0 here (vanishes)?

  • Istiak
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What is the best shape for a soccer goal post?

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A slightly complex pully problem missing the final step

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Dog Grooming Services""Dog Grooming: Your Pup's Pampering & Happiness

  • ellieee
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Why is the unit vector φ̂ perpendicular in polar coordinates?

  • Istiak
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Vectors along different coordinate axes

  • Monsterboy
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Virtual displacement for a block sliding down a wedge

  • Kashmir
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To find total work done from multiple reversible processes

  • warhammer
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Graph of waveform across diode shown by CRO

  • songoku
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Force required to hold a fire hose

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Relationship between magnitude of current and magnetic field

  • ellieee
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How to find centroid of a hemisphere using Pappus's centroid theorem?

  • kshitij
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Solving a modified Kepler potential using a rotating reference frame

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Kinematics: two runners with different and non-constant accelerations

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Finding braking force on a car descending a slope

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Calculating Velocity when Stuntman Jumps from 1.25m Height

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Finding unknown amplitude and phase in sinusoidal equation

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Computing Errors when Data Sets are Given

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Flux of a non-uniform E field through the face of a cube

  • rudransh verma
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Where Is the Error in This Power Transmission Calculation?

  • songoku
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Why does the helicopter power equation depend on how you calculate energy?

  • phantomvommand
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Bead sliding on a Vertical Circular Loop versus in Free Fall

  • Rubberduck2005
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How much of the wooden timber was submerged in water?

  • Istiak
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Why used $\cos\theta$ for $\text{y}$ axis or, gravitational force?

  • Istiak
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How many walls can this battery-powered crane lift before recharging?

  • MichaelTam
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Electric Field on the surface of charged conducting spherical shell

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Motion of Rolling Cylinder in Fixed Cylinder: Confusing Constraint Condition

  • LCSphysicist
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Is w Constant in Damped Oscillations?

  • Shreya
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Angular momentum of a particles in the form of ##L = mr^2\omega##

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Maxwell's Distribution Law (Thermal Physics)

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How does antenna length L relate to EMF, Poynting vector, and power?

  • LCSphysicist
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Linear Motion and Linear Momentum

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What is the R^3 in Kepler's 3rd Law?

  • phantomvommand
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How to compute how much energy is released in nuclear fusion?

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Relationship between B and induced EMF using Faraday's Law

  • Einstein44
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IsaacPhysics - Climbing up a corner -

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Do water molecules move with the boat due to Newton's third law?

  • songoku
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Efficiency of an Electric motor pulling a truck up an inclined plane

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Comparison of Change in Entropy

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Equation connecting potential and potential energy of a distribution

  • Leo Liu
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Tricky conceptual Projectile motion question

  • Rubberduck2005
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Purcell EM textbook force integral on charged sphere

  • Leo Liu
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Projectiles Question -- Tiger Woods drives a golf ball on the Moon

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Reason for glass rod losing electrons

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ODE Methods for Physicists (related question)

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Question on First Law of Thermodynamics (Paramagnet)

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COVID-19: How to Stay Safe & Healthy

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How does mirror symmetry for resistance work?

  • phantomvommand
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Finding my error in the moment of inertia of a sphere

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Electric flux through ends of an imaginary cylinder

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Converting V from GeV to meters in M_p^2 = M_s^3 V

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How to picture a radial field around a 3d object?

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What are the Simplifying Assumptions for Calculating Eddy Current Forces?

  • Einstein44
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What do ∂V and ∂S mean in Maxwell's equations?

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2 Spheres of Charges and their Interaction

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Does a conducting sphere gain charge when rubbed against metal?

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Doppler shift between a moving ship on the ocean and a satellite in LEO

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Calculating Magnetic Field Strength and Force of Eddy Currents in a Solenoid

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Finding out the rotational speed of a mass

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What does negligible resistance mean?

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How to find the heat energy produced in a resistor?

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Find the unknown mass on a inclined rope pulley system.

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What does it mean for an object to act as the "ground"?

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Finding photon energy at 820 nm wavelength

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