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What is the most efficient way to solve a wheel and axle system problem?

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Why Is Friction Opposite to Wheel Acceleration in Rolling Motion?

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Why Does Heat Stop Flowing When Q=TS in Thermal Equilibrium?

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How far the aircraft slides before it comes to rest ?

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Physics Finding Total Distance?

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How is the Time Constant Calculated in an RC Circuit?

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System under matrix addition (+) and matrix multiplication (.) is a field

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Two cups are filled with the same level of Water - one has ice cubes.

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Calculate Height of Building from Velocity-Time Graph

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Resonant frequency and capacitive reactance in LC circuit

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Heat exchange between ice and water reaching equilibrium

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Block moving on a frictionless loop

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Forces On A Ramp Finding Acceleration Question?

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2 Parallel connected cables resistance.Going from Diamater (mm) to m^2?

  • Totter
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Force on electron outside solenoid with changing current

  • Simon777
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Have manometer given density and mass

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Conservative/ Non conservative forces problem

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Calculate the Motor Efficiency when?

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Electromagnetism problem-ΣE on a point

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Describe how to show charge is proportional to pd on a capacitor

  • jsmith613
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What is the Radius of Bohr Atom Orbitals?

  • aisha1929
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Mass spectrometer - no deflection

  • jsmith613
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Having Trouble Calculating Moments in Physics?

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Accelaration in a vertical circle

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Proving T=H+q*h in a Catenary Spanned Cable

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Potential Differences on an Electrical Circuit

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Why Is Some Energy Wasted in a Boiler System?

  • MuhammadIslam
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Calorie to Heat Conversion: Cheese Food Experiment

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Angular Momentum(Turntable and blob collision)

  • MRMooneyham
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Gravitational Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy

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Error Calculation: 1/a with Error

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Calculating Average Force Exerted on Child Swing

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Safety Valve/Pressure System question

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Calculating Power with Constant Velocity

  • zaddyzad
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Find the minimum velocity for bucket in circular motion

  • Tui
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Acceleration of atwood machine with angled mass and friction

  • huzjm
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Double-Slit Experiment using water

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Info hunt \ maximum frictional force

  • Colin19
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How to Simplify Resistor Networks: Parallel and Series Connections

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What Is the Acceleration of the Metal Bar After Closing the Switch?

  • kimberlyann9
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What is the Resistance R for 295 Watts Dissipation in a Network of Resistors?

  • QuarkCharmer
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Two hockey players colliding and locking skates

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What Is the Force Between Plates of a Parallel-Plate Capacitor?

  • jean28
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What is the angular size of the moon as viewed from Earth's surface?

  • monke
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Find wavelength of a quantum of electromagnetic radiation

  • trivk96
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Trying to verify these work relations

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Angular velocity, acceleration. and moment of inertia

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Conservation of energy involving a spring

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Place a 3rd charge so net force is 0

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How Fast Should a Centrifuge Spin to Achieve Specific Acceleration?

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Calculating Particle Momentum in High Energy Physics Experiments

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Work required to assemble eight identical charged particles

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Show that the total relativistic energy of a proton

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Kinematics - marbles rolling down a ramp and into sand

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How Is v=rω Derived in the Context of Rotational Motion?

  • slimnexus
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Travelling towards a traffic light and doppler effect.

  • Lengalicious
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Gravitational Forces Question Tricky

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Question (body immersed in fluid)

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A rod hanging by two strings find theta

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SHM pendulum: different answers from energy vs geometry method

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What is the Origin of the Friction Force in Surfer's Motion on a Wave?

  • Hernaner28
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Which of the following is vector and which is scalat

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Calculating Forces and Friction in a Two-Block System with a Spring

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Moment of a rod of varying thickness

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Achieve a state of static equilibrium

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Angular Velocity and Inertia in a Collision

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The rate at which a damped, driven oscillator does work

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Calculating Acceleration of a System with Two Crates on a Horizontal Surface

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Why Does Replacing 3.0 Ω Resistor Affect Current Through 6.0 Ω?

  • Miike012
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Electric Potential, Capacitance and charge of a Geiger Counter

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Calculate the angle between the displacement vector and the force vector

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Why is P=IV giving the wrong answer for circuit question C?

  • Miike012
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A Very, Very Interesting Problem

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Momentum and impulse question # 2

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Electric Potential of three concentric spheres

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Solving non-series (L)RC problems?

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Speed of light in glass from critical angle for total internal reflection

  • NickP89
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Prove that if A⊆B then C-B⊆C-A

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The Electric Field of a Uniformly Charged Disk

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Bullets, block, and conservation of linear momentum

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Finding the Angular Velocity of a Merry-Go-Round

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Avogadro's Principle and number of moles + thermodynamics problem

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Deriving density formula for hollow cylinder

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Refrigerator cycle entropy and minimum work required

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Thermal energy to be dissipated in an hour

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Physics Forces Problem: Helicopter lifting a truck

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Are the 3 Resistors in Parallel? Check Here!

  • Miike012
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Book dropped on spring conservation of energy

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Collision between two balls, determine the speed of other ball

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Centripetal force/motion experiment

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Linearization of Inverse Proportionality

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What are the conclusions you can make from this graph?

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Oscillation and Rotation: Can You Solve These Equilibrium and Motion Problems?

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Find velocity of gun and bullet on frictionless surface

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