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A positive test charge q is released near a positive fixed charge Q.

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Point Charges Composing A Sphere

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Kicking a Rugby Ball to Clear 3m Crossbar

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Can electric field lines intersect in free space?

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Two capcitors connect in parallel, calculate V

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Finding Q1 and Q2 in coulombs law

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Derivation of the Kinematic Equations

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Proving Conservation of Momentum

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Special relativity abduction from earth question

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The lowest pressure on the balloon

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Temperature coefficient of resistance calculation

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Speed dropping to zero when landing during a fall

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What is the force of the spring constant?

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Calculating Rafter Size for Douglas Fir-Larch

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How does electrostatic spray painting work?

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What distance does a canoe move when a woman walks across it?

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Newton's third law when moving our body

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What Is the Angular Velocity of a Spinning Disk?

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Find the total displacement on a velocity-time graph

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What is the Tension in a Rotating String?

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Tarzan Physics Question with Kinematics, Energy, Forces

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Bifilar Pendulum: Can't justify/create a hypothesis + analyze results

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Static Equilibrium Door Problem

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Rotational Motion- Parallel Axis Theorem?

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Converting 3.60 × 10⁵ to standard notation while preserving sig figs

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Parallel plate conductors question

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Calculating Power of Outdoor Heater: A Puzzling Problem

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An alpha particle is fired at a uranium atom

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Action and reaction forces in Newton's third law

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Solving for the Mass of M2 in an Equilibrium System?

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Finding accleration of object after collision

  • Adam17
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Physics Final Exam Sample Question

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Centroid of a right angle triangle

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Resonant frequency of a child on a swing with changing pivot distance

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Mass of used hydrogen in an isothermal process

  • Uku
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Question related to SHM and free body diagrams

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Kinetic Energy Loss of Colliding Billiard Balls

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Charge distribution on a conductor in an external field

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Real height and apparent height

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How Does Air Resistance Affect Theoretical vs Actual Projectile Range?

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To find out the compression of the spring

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Why Doesn't the Water Level Decrease When an Ice Cube Melts?

  • Sam2847
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Refraction - when can you see past the label?

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Mass Hanging in Center of Chain Problem

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Solve md²x/dt² + c(dx/dt) - kx = 0 using characteristic equation

  • phys2
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Two masses falling at different heights from H to h

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Finding the magnitude of an electric field with 5 charges.

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Calculating Pressure Change in Gases: Hand Pump and Container Setup

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Calculating Acceleration in a Rifle-Bullet System

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A.: Finding Center of Mass for a Rectangular Surface with a Hole

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Velocities after totally elastic collision

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Special Relativity and Kinematics Problem

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Distance traveled by buses and acceleration concepts

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Universal gravitation 11- determine the gravitational force of attraction

  • dani123
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Universal gravitation 5- determine which satellite has smaller period

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Universal gravitation 9- determine the mass of planet Jupiter

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Universal gravitation 8- determine the speed of a satellite

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Universal gravitation 7- determine the gravitational force of attraction

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Universal gravitation 6-determine strength of gravitational field

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Model a rigid body made of two points linked by a rigid bar

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What is the Modulus of the Complex Number exp(√i)?

  • unscientific
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Compute the force the a coloumn of water exerts on an object.

  • IsomDan
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Calculate ball velocities after slope bounce

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Force on frame walls from ants using kinetic theory

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Variation of Kinetic Energy with temperature

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Universal gravitation 3- determine the mass of the Earth

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Expansion and contraction of a gas

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EMF v time graph vs change in flux v time

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Problem of torque transmission and determining how to achieve a velocity

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Calculating Fission Energy from Uranium Fuel

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Unit Conversion: Astronomical Units, Parsecs and Light Years

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How Is Work Calculated in a Friction Scenario with Constant Velocity?

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Complicated path question - 2D vectors

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Question on spring constant w/potential energy

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Spring constant and energy with 500g mass stretched 8.0 cm

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Solving a Momentum Conservation Problem

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DeBroglie matter waves and double-slit

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Mass of 100 trillion uranium-238 atoms

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Does the Spring Continue to Stretch Indefinitely Beyond the Elastic Limit?

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Calculate F given m, d, and v should be easy.

  • TrpnBils
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Probability of finding particle in 1D finite potential well

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Finding height and time for a dropped wrench

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Calculating Electric Potential in a Uniformly Charged Spherical Shell

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How Do I Calculate the Rebound Heights of a Dropped Golf Ball?

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Magnitude and direction of electric field at point P

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Light, Wavelength, Space, and the color of Stars

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Year 12: Cambridge Physics Problem (Gas and Pressure)

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How Does Temperature Influence Current Flow in Semiconductors?

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Finding Total momentum of a system

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Radio wave interference with ground reflection

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Does light reflect at the water-flint glass boundary?

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A 1600 kg object is initially at rest 400 km above the earth’s surface.

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Projectile Motion in Combination with Energy Problem

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Calculating half life (Decay Constant)

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Five kinematics and force problems with rope tension and projectiles

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Conceptual question concerning work and nonconservative forces

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Finding diameter, extension and thickness from stress and strain

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