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[Electrical force] 2 balls hanging from ceiling, angled

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Understanding Spherical Symmetry of Electron Clouds in External Fields

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[Electrical force] 2 balls hanging from ceiling

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What is the Role of Torque in Holding a Sphere Against a Wall?

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Input Resistance of this BJT Amplifier

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[Electrical force] Electrical charge in equilateral triangle

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Swinging a hanging copper ring with a bar magnet

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Where Did I Go Wrong in Calculating the Charge's Movement?

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Force Diagrams for a Combined Mass

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Gauss's Law application in Electrostatics

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Magnitude of electric field E on a concentric spherical shell

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How to Derive the Range of a Projectile on an Inclined Plane?

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What Causes Overcharging and Excess Voltage in Car Batteries?

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Force on a dipole in a non uniform electric field

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Converting Units: A Beginner's Guide

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Flux density and Divergence of Electric field

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Unanswered: Unraveling the Mystery of Extended Thinking

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Electron motion after collision in a magnetic field

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How Is Ampere's Law Applied to Calculate Magnetic Fields?

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Integrating from R to r: Potential Contribution & Reasoning

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Hiking the Appalachian Trail: A Beginner's Guide

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Kinetic and potential energy of a particle attracted by charged sphere

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Signs of the voltage drops in this LC Circuit

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Why Does the Trigonometric Function in the FEM Calculation Differ?

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Rear Clock Ahead Effect (Special Relativity)

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Cutoff frequency for this RLC circuit

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Maintaining Component Temperature with Water Bath

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Speed of train car when sand spilling out from it

  • songoku
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The work that is necessary to pull a hanging chain

  • Rikudo
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Finding Specific Heat of a solid

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Design a linear phase low pass filter

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Measuring the length of a moving Beam in two different directions

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I to start with this Rotations problem

  • Sarah2325
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Speed and apparent weight of person in reverse bungee jumping

  • songoku
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Tension of string acting on stone moving in horizontal circular motion

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Kinematics problem -- Calculating where a dropped stone will hit a car

  • physicslover12
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Why Does Momenergy Have a Magnitude Equal to Mass?

  • Ashshahril
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Finding the period of pulley system

  • songoku
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How to Visualize a 4 vector (e.g. a velocity)?

  • Ashshahril
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Quality of an oscillating electron

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River Boat Problem: Minimizing Travel Time

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Question about the inertia of logs in a pickup truck that stops suddenly

  • ellieee
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Passengers in Sudden Plane Vertical Drop: Effects

  • ellieee
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Need Help Understanding Electric Flux and Electric Flux Density

  • Shreya
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Is my interpretation of the Atwood's Machine problem correct?

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Halliday, Resnick & Krane Chapter 5: Force on Pulley

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Finding frequency of microwaves

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Help Plotting Phase Difference using LTSpice please

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Degeneracy of the energy level

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Finding the voltage of the circuit (resistor ladder)

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Opposite Induced Currents in Circuit Explanation

  • ellieee
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Finding path difference of EM waves received by radio telecopes

  • songoku
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Solid angle in an optics problem (artificial irradiance of the Earth)

  • baseballfan_ny
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Understanding E=F/q: Solving for E at a Specific Point q_p

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Please help me find what 't' is (Plane flying across the Atlantic Ocean)

  • Thickmax
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Centripetal Acceleration grade 12 (forces on a bird pulling out of a dive)

  • Physicsstudent2
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Trouble with FBD: Is There an Upward Force?

  • Physicsstudent2
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Please check my solutions -- Mass being pulled with an angled rope

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Explain the Schrodinger equation

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Expression for the magnitude of an electric field

  • mousey
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Am I overthinking this? (Noise cancelling headphones for airplane noise)

  • Thickmax
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Magnetic field - General current in a cube

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Struggling to find solution to 1D wave equation in the following form:

  • Ibidy
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Relation between Electric field and Magnetic field?

  • Gaurav
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Equilibrium of a stiff plate on inclined planes

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Is Fgy the Same as FN in a System with Two Masses and Friction?

  • danielsmith123123
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A.C. generator -> why does the current reverse?

  • ellieee
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Time Dependence of Wave Function

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Infinite Square Well with Multiple Particles

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Equilibrium of rectangular plate on two inclines at 90° angle

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Mean Free Path (Introductory Thermal Physics)

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Eddy currents in electromagnetic train

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Current in RLC Series Circuit: Need Help

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Rail Car with a Sail in the Wind

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Help with Coulomb's law: Net electrostatic force

  • mousey
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Average acceleration of an arrow by a bow

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Trouble with Plasma Frequency Calculation

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Number of ways for total spin-1

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Gr. 12 Dynamics -- A performer being lifted up by two ropes

  • danielsmith123123
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Determine the direction of a spin state given the state

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Difference between N/m^2 and N/m^-2

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Average acceleration of a car changing speed and direction

  • danielsmith123123
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Can you use speed and velocity interchangeably?

  • ellieee
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When an object is accelerating, does speed, velocity, or force change?

  • ellieee
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Calculate number of photons absorbed

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Identifying which region in the conductor experiences a greater force

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Projectile motion problem (moving ships firing a projectile)

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A mass collides with an inclined plane

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How Does Vorticity Relate to Blood Flow Dynamics?

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Standing waves between two speakers in phase

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How long does it take for the disk to stop rotating?

  • Istiak
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Find the center of mass of an arc

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How Does a Ping Pong Ball Behave in Zero Gravity?

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Identifying which region of a conductor experiences the greater force

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Sketch the Electric Field at point "A" due to the two point charges

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Why a lamp with X PD passes Y current

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