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Finding oscillation of SHM of this rod, mass and spring

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Upside Down Paper-Glass Water Experiment

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How to read spacetime (Minkowski) diagram for proper length

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Velocity required to escape the solar system

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How do you calculate the margin of error in Physics?

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Energy equation for SHM after collision

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Gauss' Law for Non-Uniform electric fields

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If closed integral of E.dS is zero over a surface, then...?

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Gauss' law: Cause and effect relationship on the flux

  • Zayan
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No Electric Charges if No Electric Field in Region

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Least Square Method to fit a line to a set of datapoints

  • MatinSAR
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How to Calculate Center of Pressure (hf) for a Tank?

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Maximum electric field from a blob

  • Rob2024
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Maximum tension in thread connecting loads

  • Bling Fizikst
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What frequency will the bat hear?

  • Lotto
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Work done by gravity on a hanging chain?

  • Manish_529
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Tension in a supporting thread after a second supporting thread is cut

  • Bling Fizikst
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Entropy Change Confusion

  • laser1
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Hot air balloon question with bouyancy

  • Fadel_K
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Pulley Problem on an Inclined Surface Using Energy Methods

  • Tygra
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What is the tension in a charged ring?

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Pseudo Forces on a Mass in a Groove on a Rotating Disc

  • Manish_529
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Vertical Wall approaching Man - Impulse and Momentum Conservation

  • Null_Void
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How to calculate the moment of inertia of a rectangular cuboid?

  • Lotto
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Potential energy of an electrostatic system in equilibrium

  • Rob2024
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Gauss' Law: Conductor, Insulator, Electric Field

  • JoeyGoh
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Ball bouncing off wall: can momentum magnitude change?

  • jeff einstein
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Find the work done by a spring using potential energy considerations

  • good jelly
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Relationship between pressure and temperature for liquids

  • sss1
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Archived Displacement and Momentum, particle in cathode ray tube with variables

  • physics1311
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Calculating Oscillation Period and Spring Energy in a Three-Mass System

  • lenna_kay
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Electric Field of a Toroid carrying a changing current I = kt on axis

  • PhDeezNutz
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Pulley system problem: 6 Pulleys and 1 Mass

  • david3305
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Signs in torque - different analyses using different sign notations?

  • mancity
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Why is the slope steeper in the given diagram?

  • NTesla
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Mirror placed horizontally between two half convex lenses

  • Null_Void
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Billiard Ball, Conservation of Angular Momentum, Force below CM point

  • mancity
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Moving metal bar between vertical resistors with induced EMF

  • PhDeezNutz
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What average power does the boy need to produce?

  • chwala
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Projectile motion of two balls off a cliff

  • tellmesomething
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Focussing a collimated beam using a diffraction grating

  • kekpillangok
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Finding maximum stretch of a vertical spring using energy conservation

  • stunner5000pt
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Lens Maker's Formula - Confusion in the derivation

  • Null_Void
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Energy of particle in simple harmonic motion

  • Brian_D
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Springs and Pulleys - Force analysis

  • Null_Void
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Confusion Calculating Young's Modulus

  • AndrewsRT_16
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Looking at the color vs line spectrum

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How to show 400 neutrinos are present?

  • hraghav
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Change in apparent magnitude of a star after exploding

  • MatinSAR
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How do I correctly analyze the mass balance of a tractor seat?

  • Sunwoo Bae
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Just looking for confirmation for a torque calculation

  • pete94857
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I solved few questions on kinematics -- Is my working correct?

  • Aichuk
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Tension Question for Ship Container and Wind Gust

  • physicsengineering72
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Pressure and temperature phase diagrams

  • laser1
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Solving for Work Done When Accelerating a Mass

  • Jay529
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Rod pivoted on compressed spring: finding CM speed and spring constant

  • neel400
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Rutherford experiment: which conclusion cannot be drawn?

  • songoku
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Freefall chord through the Earth -- calculus proof

  • achap01
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Friction of a sliding mass on a slope

  • raspberrypienjoyer
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Is it possible to measure SQRT(2) kg with a scale?

  • littlemathquark
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What would the voltmeters measure?

  • JACKR
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Siren frequency heard by observer when an ambulance passes

  • songoku
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How to solve this kind of problem? (Mechanics Theory)

  • nightsailor833
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Energy in simple harmonic motion--car problem

  • Brian_D
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Why am I calculating the unknown mass of ice incorrectly?

  • gabe99
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Why don't photons re-emitted in all directions restore absorption lines?

  • songoku
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Newton's 3rd Law of Motion: Is the Punching Bag punching back?

  • paulb203
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Oscillatory motion problem: Bicycle wheel rotation oscillation

  • Brian_D
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Pressure versus stress in uniformly charged sphere

  • Rob2024
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Why does a diode's I-V curve shift by 0.7V?

  • Bling Fizikst
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Finding velocity at perigee using angular momentum conservation

  • I_Try_Math
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Circuit with time varying current

  • MatinSAR
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Determining the Change in Bulb Brightness by Changing Circuit

  • NCanine_1932
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What does the middle of a chain on a pulley mean?

  • misu
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Constant acceleration problem: Dog chasing a surprised cat

  • abdol83
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Two bars connected by a spring on a floor with friction

  • Null_Void
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The derivative of the dot product "distributes" over each vector

  • brotherbobby
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Calculating the sum of displacement vectors

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Force on a point charge near a uniformly charged rod

  • athenad07
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Two rods with fixed angle, find the velocity of the crossing point

  • mancity
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Stumped on mathematical proof

  • laser1
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A 50 cubic foot tank contains saturated 134a at 100F and a quality of 50%

  • joejoe121
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How can "work" done by a force be negative?

  • Manish_529
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Torque that a grounded infinite sheet exerts on a dipole

  • PhDeezNutz
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Two tanks are connected by a valve and line

  • joejoe121
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Spring launcher firing steel balls

  • carmenmaki
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Circular motion question: Mass on a rod rotating in a vertical circle

  • yusungmagic
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Finding motor force and torque lifting a 10,000 kg load

  • gawlicbread
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Bead on a rod which is being pulled by an ideal string with velocity v

  • Null_Void
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Appliance plug connected wrongly: live neutral earth

  • shirozack
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Finding the direction of forces

  • grade11studentgoaat
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