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Digital Technology - CDs and Storage Space

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Kinematics of Linear Motion: Solving Problems with Constant Acceleration

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How many helium balloons does it take to lift a person?

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Block released from compressed spring: speed and distance with friction

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Orientation of Magnetic Field and Coil

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Can I find time without knowing initial velocity?

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Maximum and Minimum EMF in a generator

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Friction and Newton's second law

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Finding final temperature of a mixture

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What is the rate of temperature change for a pizza floating in space?

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How Do You Count the Number of Waves in a Ripple Tank Experiment?

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Pressure, Volume and Temp Change WORK done?

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What Determines the Radial Acceleration of a Swinging Ball?

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Finding the angle for an electrostatic force

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Calculating Jeans mass for a hydrogen cloud with unit conversions

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What is the Initial Phase Angle and First Maximum Current in an AC Circuit?

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Cannot make any sense out of this one

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Two infinite sheets of different charge density

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Mechanics -projectile motion calculating angle

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Static and dynamic(kinetic) coefficients of friction

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Period of compound pendulum made from rod and metre stick

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Rocket in Deep Space: Momentum Maximization

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Simple Particle Motion (Dynamics)

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Isothermal, isovolumetric, and isobaric processes in ideal gases

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Finding the contact force in a hinge?

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Finding the Minimum Distance Between Two Points Using Graphing Calculator

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Calculate Spring Force on Car Impact Speed

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Why cant charge move in an insulator?

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Cutting edge introductory info re: field emission microscopy and imaging methods

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Marble around the loop-the-loop

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What Is the Meteor's Altitude Due to Length Contraction?

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How Does the Velocity of Two Colliding Balls Change After Impact?

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Heat Engine Carnot Efficiency question

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Finding frequency from peak wavelength in Wien's law

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Physics electrostatics question

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Why Does the Tube's Velocity Become Zero After Collisions?

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Projectile motion over angled edge

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Change in I.E. for a reversible process

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Uniformly Accelerated Motion: A Puzzling Problem?

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Deriving formula for Relativistic Kinetic Energy

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Translational Velocity Problem (Sphere)

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Thermal Physics: Dry Steam Heat 200g Water from 25°C to 95°C

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Finding the mass of gold in a crown of gold-copper alloy using buoyancy

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2D Collision : Glancing Collision

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Conservation of Momentum and Relative Velocity

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How to derive (m2v4)/m1 for car collision momentum

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Ring of radius R and uniform charge

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Solve Perfect Gas Homework: A to B Volume Ratio

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Time taken to charge capacitor to 2/3 V in

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How I can find time by this formula S=ut+1/2at^2

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Get Physics Lab Help: Find Theoretical Distance X

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Electron in infinite well equation

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Change in GPE of the moon as the radius increases. Getting extreme answers

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What is the work done by rocket motors in deep space?

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Mass of an electron lab discussion?

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Connecting oppositely charged capacitors in series

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Using e = hc/λ to find wavelength of light emitted

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Buoyancy - Maximum mass a styrofoam sphere can hold in water.

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Conserved Energy in a moving frame of reference

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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - find minimum uncertainty in position

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Compton scattering problem - how much did wavelength change by?

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Determining the Radius of the Moon (Ratio and shadow measurements)

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Electric field by infinite line of charge

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Commutators for functions of operators (momentum/position)

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Finding central charge for equilibrium of four corner charges in a square

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Uniform Circular Motion (free-body diagram)

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Number of collisions/sec for a gas atom

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Which General Physics Topics Are Considered Easier to Understand?

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Finding vector perpendicular to other vectors

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Pressure at the bottom of cylinder immersed in two liquids

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Displacement of an object in circular motion

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Solving SUVAT Questions: Find Time for a Ball's Descent

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Thermodynamics: Pouring Cream into Coffee

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Centripetal Force required to hold electron

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At What Distance Above the Ground Will the Mass First Come to Rest?

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Simple block kinematics problem

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Kinematics problem with constant acceleration

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Differentiate De Broglies Theorem

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SHM spring system, Tension direction confusion.

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Helium tank filling parts to a specific pressure?

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Why does a pendulum overshoot equilibrium

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Vector Perpendicular to Two Other Vectors

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The Doppler Shift Method for Calculating Recession Speed

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Uncertainty in spring constant from mass and extension measurements

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Fundamental Particles - Meson Decay Question

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Biomechanics Quadratic Equation problem

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What is the Velocity of Ozone Formed from Inelastic Collisions?

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Calculating the Number of loops in the solenoid

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Calculating Minimum Speed at Top of Vertical Loop

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Kinematics of Rotational Motion (Gears)

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Finding wavelength from photon energy

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How Much Force Does a Man Feel in a Train-Truck Collision?

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Work done on a gas as volume decreases

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Physical Science Question on Electrical Power and Energy

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