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What is the moment of inertia of a disc and rectangular plate system?

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Electric Field inside a nonconducting sheet

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Calculating Young's Modulus of Elasticity for 0.1% Carbon Steel

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Special Relativity (1-dimensional Lorentz Transformation)

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Linearising compound pendulum equation

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Constant potential inside spherical shell

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What is the Length of a Tensioned String?

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Find the size of Driving couple, if given the power?

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Vectors angle: arctan(4/0) = error?

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Does a balloon's temperature increase when a balloon is popped?

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What is the torque if the rope is attached

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Comparing the Heights of Water and Gasoline Columns in an Open U-Tube

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How Is Induced Current Calculated in a Moving Bar Near a Wire?

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Kinetic Theory and Elastic Collisions

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Help with lens selection and arrangement for maginification

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Differentiating Vector Products

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Momentum of spring between two objects

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Motion questions and a mass one.

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Moments and the line of action of the resultant force

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Calculating Electric Flux Through a Cone

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Waves Unit- Angle of Incidence

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Electrostatics - point charges and work

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Center of Mass Rowboat Question

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Kinematics: acceleration and speed

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Center of Mass bounded by Equations

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Understanding Algebra: The Mystery of the Middle Term Explained

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Elliptical motion about the origin

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Induced emf in a loop from time-dependent current in a wire

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Schrodinger equation, normalizing

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AC circuit steady state expression

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Average Force using Newton's Laws of Motion

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Angle between B-Field and X-axis

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Optical Path Length Problem in Astrophysics & Interstellar Medium

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Object placed in a fluid, both fluid and object are different densities

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Circular motion: Car driving along a circular hill

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Differential Equation - Springs

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Planck constant V in E=qV question

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Detemining the mass of water vapour in air (Ideal gas law)

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Orientation of Receiver Antennas given orientation of transmitter

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Special Relativity and Decaying Particles

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Coefficient of friction of a Skateboard on a ramp

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Electron Motion in a Long Solenoid

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Center of Mass, Man, Woman, and Frictionless Ice

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Magnetic field in asymmetric hollow cylinder

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How Fast Must a Plane Fly to Overcome Wind from London to Rome?

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Understanding the Effects of Dielectrics on Capacitors

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Change in potential energy/work formula for electric charges.

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Electromagnetic Induction Lab. Magnet through a coil

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Impact of Adding Resistor on DC Circuit Current

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Center of Mass of an Object A After Breaking

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Is this right?, conservation of energy

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Lifetime of CO2 in Mars atmosphere

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What is the ratio of oxygen in the atmosphere at different heights?

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Magnetic field along a current-carrying wire (conceptual question)?

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What is the Energy Ratio of Two Photons with Different Wavelengths?

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Combination Problem: Work and Conservation of Momentum

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Determine the unknown property of a perfect gas

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Differentiation tricks/shortcuts

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A Mechanics tries to remove an engine from a car by attaching a chain

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How Do You Calculate Angle and Velocity in Particle Motion Analysis?

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How Do You Calculate Tire Contact Area Using Pascal's Law?

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What is the electric potential derivative when x=2 and y=1?

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What is the charge of a point at the center of a ring

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Simple Harmonic Motion with Spring

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Conservation of Momentum in an Elastic Collision

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Linear drag in a liquid and terminal velocity

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Calculate Speed of Hawk's Shadow on Ground

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Momentums, Ladder against a wall force

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Specific Heat Capacity and Energy

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Help finding minimum Tension that a rope can withstand without breaking

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How Do I Calculate Air Resistance Force with Vertical Acceleration?

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Vertical Circular Motion involving centripetal force

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Why Does My Power Calculation Yield Half the Expected Result?

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Is there a word for the Group with metals, metalloids and non-metals

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Dielectric Influence on Series and Parallel Capacitors

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Gravity on Moon: How Much Weight Can a Person Lift?

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How Does the Electric Field of a Quadrupole Decrease with Distance?

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How Does a Hollow Conducting Sphere Affect Internal and External Charges?

  • IWantToLearn
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Finding temperature of 270g argon at 160kPa and 1.3m³

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Kirchoff Rules: Solving Current for Two Batteries in Parallel

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Calculus based physics - Energy

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Speed of EM waves in a baseball park setting

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Elastic Collision with a Softball

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Nodal analysis with parallel resistors

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Resistive ladder of infinite height

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How Does Power Balance in a Driven RLC Circuit?

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Velocity required to increase friction?

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Acceleration and Friction of a Rolling Cylinder

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How Fast Did My Friend Travel to Alpha Centauri and Back?

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Special Relativity. How to use the Lorentz Transformation?

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Calculating gradient with distance and speed

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Weight on a Scale Down an Incline vs. True Weight

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Compare centripetal acceleration of Mars and Earth

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