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Capacitors, Capacitance and Dielectrics

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What Defines the Practice of Science?

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Finding the couple vector of this ice boat

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Can someone help me understand Bernoulli's Equation?

  • 06mangro
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Finding the Overall heat transfer coefficient

  • 5carola5
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Flow of water in a venturimeter

  • Karol
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Find the distance x using Coulomb's law.

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Reaction Forces at A, B, & C in Beam ABC

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How long does a moun live during a measurement

  • DODGEVIPER13
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How much does Newtons 3rd Law account for Lift in %?

  • 06mangro
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Unit Conversion: SI to British Units with Real-Life Consequences

  • Moninder
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How to Make a Lead Ball Float: Finding the Optimal Thickness of the Wall

  • JuliusDarius
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Basic thermo question: heat engine efficiency

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Kinematics: Constant Acceleration

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Mass vs. weight with a falling rock and a spring scale

  • physicswhiz
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Making Inferences From Motion Graphs

  • Bashyboy
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Electric field inside a solid sphere

  • roam
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Conservation of Energy in Satellite Motion

  • Bennigan88
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What is the radius of the track

  • DOA_Kasumi22
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Buoyancy to find mass, density and force to submerge

  • garrigues
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The classic car-passing train problem ( really bad)

  • simster571
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Electric Field in a Square Problem

  • Kirasagi
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Magnitude of the electrostatic force

  • slk011
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One-D Kinematic Question w/ rising hot air balloon

  • millergc
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How correct is deriving Coulomb's Law from Gauss's Law

  • Steenrod
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Find Distance Traveled From 40m Height for 20m/s Velocity at 0° Angle

  • Gliese123
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What is the Electric Force in Equilibrium?

  • SIUnitConvert
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Grade 11 Physics: Motion project help/ideas?

  • SydDF
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Calculating the Tension in Cables for Elevator Movement

  • hayley123
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Finding Propagation of Uncertainty?

  • Monkey618
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Find the currents i1 and i2 in the circuits

  • Firben
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Electromagnetics Question Circuits

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Calculating kilowatt hours concerning a toaster

  • PeachBanana
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Equipartition Theorem and Microscopic Motion

  • ghoultree
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Friction force on an inclined plane

  • husker11
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Compression of a spring with friction

  • Scorpy
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How to calculate the efficiency of a trebuchet?

  • physical..O.o
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Momentum of a free falling object

  • nebbione
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Electric Potential - Work: Negative or Positive

  • Peter G.
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Springs and Impulse (how can I relate them)

  • miniradman
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Average velocity of a falling object problem

  • Violagirl
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Finding the angle of a dive bomber droping a bomb.

  • LVanderlinden
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How Does Coulomb's Law Apply to Non-Point Charged Particles?

  • mather
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How Fast Does the Elevator Reach Its Top Speed?

  • Lastone1
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Tricky Charge/Net Force Problem

  • jamesbiomed
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What Force is Needed to Push a 40kg Sled on Ice with μk = 0.05?

  • Shinster007
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Free falling particle with air resistance

  • carlosbgois
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Motion of a particle on a rotating frictionless turntable

  • Tanya Sharma
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Make a rough estimate of the volume of your body (in cm3).

  • Potential123
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Advanced physics probelm involving conservation, from six ideas Unit C textbook

  • physicshard11
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Solving Vector Cross Product Homework

  • oreosama
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Heat Transfer Rate of 2 Heating Coils on Aluminium Plate

  • exec
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Projectile problem: throwing something off a tower

  • sunshine1228
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Physics of Flight - From where does lift come?

  • TheOldDog
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Finding the Current in a circuit, with series opposing voltage sources.

  • Killstudy
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2-D Kinematics: Distance of Rocket from Launch Pad

  • JohnSwine
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Roller Coaster Friction Problem

  • alexcc17
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Displacement & Average Velocity

  • Violagirl
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Fluid mechanics gage pressure - did I do it right?

  • charlies1902
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Avg Velocity Avg speed question

  • vysero
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Equivalent angles and Trig Fucntions

  • TheCammen
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Finding various currents around the circuit

  • captjackAV
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Magnitude of momentum between each pair of adjacent locations

  • Axking
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How to find Instantaneous acceleration with points from a graph

  • adamgriffis
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Ohm's Law and its Physical Consequences

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Gauss's Law - point charge and charged sphere.

  • Katana750
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Special Theory of Relativity question

  • Government$
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Motion with Constant Acceleration problem

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Potential Energy problem (i think)

  • nebbione
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How Long Does It Take for an Aluminum Cube to Warm from 10°C to 20°C?

  • digipony
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30º above the horizontal with initial velocity problem

  • Nexion21
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Current, Power dissipation in a cord

  • PeachBanana
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Super congfused about finding distance with constant acceleration

  • Butterfly30
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The Sun, on average, is 93 million miles from Earth. How many meters is this?

  • Potential123
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Spherical Percent Uncertainty and Violent Storm Question

  • berenmacbowma
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Integrate Plancks Function to find Stefans Law

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[Non-uniform Air Density] Pressure problem

  • Gr33nMachine
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Question about doubling speed of object

  • Butterfly30
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Hubble's law and the age of the universe

  • Orcinus
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Capacitor directly connected to a DC battery.

  • vissh
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Quest assignment question 17 (for my hw)

  • ArcherofScience
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Basic conversion question physics 101

  • vysero
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Require help understanding small angle approximation

  • Kaldanis
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Simple Vector Question Related to Conservation of Momentum

  • SHISHKABOB
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Finding the acceleration of a car based on a velocity vs time plot

  • LOLItsAJ
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Homework question needed because physics teacher doesnt want to help me

  • ArcherofScience
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Flow of fluid out of vertical tube

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Acceleration and weight question

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Displacement Vectors finding magnitude of R and theta

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Can Police Catch the Speeding Motorist?

  • aflowernamedu
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Vertical Jump Time Calculation for Basketball Player

  • Fox_Hound
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Thermo, Temperature profile of rod

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Calculate the Period of a Planet.

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