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Can heat flow into a body without increasing the mean kinetic energy?

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Problem with independent events in possibilities

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Does damping affect wave frequency, wavelength, or speed?

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Waves -- How does increasing tension affect frequency and period?

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Calculating Numerical Uncertainties in an Equation

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Motion of a particle in a magnetic field

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Pulling a sled across snow with a rope at an angle

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Background radiation sources question

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Forces on particle in complex motion relative to ground observer

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Which Radiation Type Has the Most Energy: Alpha, Beta, or Gamma?

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Speed of sled descending frictionless ramp from 12.2 m to 4.58 m

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Buoyant Force and Archimedes' Principle

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Finding the number of ballons needed to make a child fly away

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Can 96-Cm-247 Undergo Alpha Decay?

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Electrostatics: Coloumb's law and the Electric Field

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How can you solve soap bubble oscillations using an energy approach?

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Special relativity (length contraction, velocity composition) problem

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Time that a comet spends inside Earth's orbit

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General work of friction question

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Understanding Magnetic Field Direction from Two Wires at a Distance

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To calculate the centre of gravity of a spherical cap

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Circuits - AC circuits / phasor

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Can Tidal Force Unlock Unlimited Energy Potential?

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Understanding Forces and Acceleration on a Sliding Object on an Incline

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Angle on ramp with cart and weights on rope at end

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Ball launcher question - ENERGY

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Circuits - Transfer function of this LRC circuit

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Relationship between Launch height and range of a projectile

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Dynamics question -- 3 masses on a pulley-rope system on an inclined plane

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Work Done on A Proton in an Electric Field

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Transformer; make primary voltage x10 of the secondary voltage

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Point charges in a regular hexagon

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Ground state energy of 5 identical spin 1/2 particle

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Speed of a hanging rope sliding on a nail (using energy conservation)

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Conservation of mass: control volume approach question

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Calculating max acceleration of a Tesla car

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Determining g by free fall with light gates -- assumption analysis

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Where kinetic and potential energy are equal in spring oscillation

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Calculating the waste heat of Carnot engine

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Electromagnetic effects and Magnetic Fields Questions

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Hi determine the height of the mountain (using atmospheric pressure)

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Direction of velocity in slider crank mechanism

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Shape of graph of torque vs angular displacement of galvanometer

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Proper Time and Time Dilatation

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Root-mean squared values and a.c. emf

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Efficiency of heat engine question

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Inclined plane problem without mass or coefficient of friction given

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Velocity equation and distance problems

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Proof of Electromagnetic Identity: Puzzling Last Expression

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Hello - basic incline mass and energy question, thanks :)

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Finding I3: Resistance Ratio Calculation

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How Does 5% Scattered Light Affect Equivalent Width?

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How Do You Calculate Light Intensity in an Insulating Magnetic Material?

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Magnetic force on current-carrying rod with springs and doubled resistance

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Can Work-Energy Formula Be Used to Solve Ball-Spring Collision?

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Work, Energy, Power Problems: No Mass? No Speed?

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What is the expression for Compton scattering angle in terms of t?

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Determine horizontal separation of fabric from diffraction pattern

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Does the exhaust of a truck match the velocity of the truck?

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Trying to find HOW to get the velocity.

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Find the frictional force acting on a solid cylinder

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Force to withdraw dielectric from capacitor

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Power to keep helicopter hovering

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Moment of inertia of a regular triangle

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Momentum of Electron in a Box (IB Physics QM)

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Find the tension in the wire from this mass hanging at an angle

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Masses Moving Radially on a Rotating Disk

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What is the force equation for power from a trolley motor?

  • walking
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Finding temperature change, thermodynamics first law

  • JoeyBob
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Einstein velocity addition solving for v

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Finding change in height of fluid in U tube from change in T

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Find change in entropy for a system with a series of reservoirs

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Pulse Duration (PD), Pulse Repetition Period (PRP) and Duty Factor (DF)

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Elastic head-on collision problem

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Determining electric field using gauss's law--different distributions

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Trouble with units for Spring Constant

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Is Nonconservative work negative?

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Why Does the Pattern Blur When I Approach in Young's Double-Slit Experiment?

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Gauss Law general physics 2 question

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Constant acceleration in a rocket

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Car passing a truck — calculating the relative motions

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Can two variables in two different equations cancel each other?

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Velocity addition formula in X and Y axes (Relativity)

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Specific latent heat of fusion of ice question

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Why does the speed change at the bottom of the loop-the-loop?

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Mechanical energy- how to solve for v

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Finding the force on a camera window underwater

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Thrust of Jet Plane: Why Is -313m/s^2 Wrong?

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How does an elevator maintain a constant speed despite changes in load?

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Why 0.3m From Lens Is Optimal Focus?

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Calculating Signal to Noise due to thermal noise

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Finding area from work, pressure and volume

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Finding blood pressure from density and height difference

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Find the phase difference in terms of d, lambda, theta

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If I pull a pulley, what is the tension in the string around it?

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Getting the equations of motion for this SHM problem

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Find rate of temperature change using heat capacity, density and area

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