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Gamma radiation decay question.

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How long is discus in the air and the horizontal distance traveled

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Calculating Speed of a Snowball Thrown Horizontally

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Fluid mechanics,interesting problem

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Calculating Potential Difference for a Bird on a Power Line

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Induced current due to rotating coil

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Finding Angular Velocity of Man with Gun in Physics Textbook

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Finding Object Distance and Image Distance

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Time period of oscillation and displacement from O

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Finding Potential Energy of a Swing When the Ropes Are Horizontal?

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Weight/Satellite Above Earth's Surface

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Topic for Introductory physics project/case study

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Deriving frequency equation from centripetal force data

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Why do two textbooks give different critical speed formulas?

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The slope of a kinetic energy vs. potential energy graph

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Probably a very novice question

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Calculating Charge Density and Total Charge Using Gauss's Law

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Eigenvalue Question (p2.14 in Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy)

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Maths - a proof question on the nature of roots of quadratic equations

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Diffraction Grating and Maximums

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What Is the Average Acceleration of a Baseball Hit by a Bat?

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Acceleration in a Weight Machine

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How to Solve Angular Kinetics Problem with Inclined Plane and Hoop Release

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Rms Electric Field of a light bulb

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Confused about how inductors work and produce a back EMF?

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How to know when to break up equilibrium problems into components, vs torque

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Relating charge to potential difference

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Relating Sink Time to Hole Diametre- Water Bowls

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Understanding Beats: The Interplay of Air Pressure in Sound Waves

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Equation for Final velocity: Projectile Fired from Earth

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What Equation Calculates the Deceleration Time for an F1 Car?

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Newton's Laws/ Tension Forces Problem

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Acceleration in an Atwood's Machine

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Changing Velocities: Acceleration or Deceleration?

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Force on an iron ball due to a dipole magnet

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Force on a charge on magnetic field

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How much thermal energy it takes to raise the temperature

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Understanding Electron Capture and the Emission of X-rays

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Height of pier above water- projectile motion

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Time to take for water to cool down.

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What stress needs to be exerted to turn a quart of water into a pint?

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Proper time for clock with constant acceleration arriving simultaneously

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Conservation of Momentum - Elastic Collision

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Velocity of a ladybug relative to the ground

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Calculating 'g' Variation on Earth's Surface

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Inertia of a solid vertical disk about it's diameter

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Spherical capacitor with epoxy dielectric and battery voltage

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(Air Resistance) Distance with respect to time

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How Fast Must Air Be Blown Downward to Lift a 1000kg Flying Car?

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Calculating Coefficient of Friction for a Truck on an Incline

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Charge and mass of a singly ionized benzene molecule

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Kicking a ball ( optimal angle)

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Finding total angular momentum qnumber for 3d4d

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What is the electric field at the point x = 3.5 m, y = 2.0 m?

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Parametric equations motion problem

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Solving a problem using energy and conservative forces concepts

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Calculating Forces and Acceleration in a Two-Block System

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Conservation of Energy of a rolling sphere

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Line integral to calculate work

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Curve Fitting Data: Motion Analysis, Bouncing Ball, Excel Graph

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Induced Voltage created on a loop entering a magnetic field

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Statics: a hinge held up by a string with a mass

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Solving a Problem Using Conservation of Energy

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What is the Angular Momentum of Jogger 1?

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Acceleration Due to Gravity on earth

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Electric Field Strength and Potential

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Pulleys: Why would my calculated work output be higher than my work input?

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Battery with internal resistance: terminal voltage and current vs load

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Resistance of CuSO4 solution with electrode distance and depth

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Find a waves length given the electric field?

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Conservation of Angular Momentum - Two ants on a massless rod

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How do I find intial acceleration?

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Calculating the Minimum Ramp Length for a Fairground Ride

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How to Insert Wavenumber Symbol and Draw Triple Bonds in Word?

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Intensity of Light With a Given Power of Through a Polarizer

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Finding unknown mass in 2D inelastic collision using momentum conservation

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How Is the Total Energy Inside a Cylindrical Wire Calculated?

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Why Does a Pendulum's Period Change with Angle?

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Electromagnetism - Cross Product of length and Magnetic Field

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Why can't a satellite in a non-equatorial orbit be geostationary?

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Transport theorem, final integral

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Monochromatic Light and a 30-60-90 Prism Problem

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Relativistic momentum and gamma factor - differential equation

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Couloumb's Law 3 charges on a line

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The Kepler Orbits (algebra manipulation)

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Suspended Charged Object in Uniform Electric Field

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Continous charge or mass distributions

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Current and Voltage in a transformer

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Solving Manometer Height: Oil & Water

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Charged particle within an electric field

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Ampere's Law for current carrying wire

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Physics behind a fan based flying car concept

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Simple Pendulum: Amplitude, velocity, and angular position.

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Net force on three collinear charges using Coulomb's law

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