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College Physics Problem Genesis Mission

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Adiabatic, isobaric & isothermal expansions

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Necessity to discharge capacitors in circuits

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What Are the Key Questions About Quantum Mechanics Fundamentals?

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Velocity of points on a moving wheel relative to the ground

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Calculating Force of a Nail Stopping a Hammer with Constant Acceleration

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Electric field inside a parallel plate capacitor

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Current in a hollowed nichrome wire

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Uncertainties of Dimensionless Units

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Two radii pulley lifting a pack

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How Do Charge Distributions Affect Electric Fields in Capacitors?

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Why Is My Homemade Pan Flute Not Producing Sound?

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Balls dropped and thrown at the same time

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Kinetic energy and collision involving a spring

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What Experiments Can Demonstrate Shock Waves and Supersonic Flow?

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Is the F Pointing to the Right Friction or Force of the Truck Accelerating?

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Solving Physics Homework: Stopping Force & Momentum

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Air Resistance effect on different masses

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Dependent motion with ropes question

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Friction with two stacked blocks and friction

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How do we find the molar mass of dry air?

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Calculating Kinetic Energy for Diffracted Particles

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What is the Momentum Change in an Elastic Collision?

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Net Force at the Bottom of Circular Motion

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Solve Torque & Magnetism: Find Magnetic Field Strength

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Impulse Word Problem: Find Momentum & Impulse

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Does an object at rest have inertia?

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Inelastic Collision with friction

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Why Does Work Equal Zero in Some Situations?

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Bullet trajectories and Newton's Principia

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Clarification of homework question meaning

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Work by Tension for Mass Moving Down w/ Constant Acc.: WT

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How Does a Spring Affect the Motion of a Rocket?

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How Do You Calculate Acceleration from a Hanging Die's Deflection?

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Spring energy to kinetic energy

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How Loud is a Rock Band in Terms of Power Output?

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Moments about a point (statics)

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A problem involving Force in terms of time?

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Solve Mechanics Question: Hanging Thread, Gravity, Angle @

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Insulation Most Relevant for a Fridge

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How Do You Calculate the Kinetic Energy of a Flywheel?

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Comparing moment of inertia to mass in linear motion

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Finding the Stretch of a Hanging Mass on a Spring

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How does a parallel plate capacitor work (conceptually)?

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Free vibrations of stretched strings

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Showing the Terminal Velocity equation is dimensionally correct.

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What is required to just barely avoid a collision.

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A steel rod and an iron rod is placed inside an ac current soleoid

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Equipotential lines and electric field lines

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Dynamics Question: What is the velocity of a car traveling on a known curvature

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Understanding Work Done in a Bfield on an Electron

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How many wavelengths of sound are between the two animals?

  • physicsguy101
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Solving Sliding Blocks Down an Inclined Surface

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Thermodynamic heat power problem

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Compressed spring, doubling speed of impact

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Dependent motion problem with ropes

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Thermodynamic- Internal energy of dry air

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1D oscillator solving for Amplitude

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Energy and Entropy from P-V Diagram

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What is the Magnitude of the Electric Field?

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Gravitational pull on asteroid/Period it takes for one orbit

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Simple lab with two blocks and pulley

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Ratio Problem Dealing with Radius and Centripetal Acceleration

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Tension in Cables of Differing Angles

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Non-elastic collision without outside influence

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Analyzing Racquet Ball Collision: Momentum, Time & Kinetic Energy

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Electromagnetic Induction and an electric generator

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Does Newton's third law apply to Atwood's machine?

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How do I slove this quadratic equation?

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Calculating Center of Mass, 1988 Physics C Mechanics MC

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Weight in an Elevator and Normal Force

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One Dimensional Collision dealing with Reference Frames

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What is the Capacitance of a Capacitor with Two Different Dielectrics?

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Finding electrostatic potential energy

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Calculate current in one resistor in RC circuit

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Does it matter if a charge (unknown) placed at infinity

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Gravitational Potential Energy, Elastic Potential Energy, and Kinetic Energy

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Find Tension: Solve Homework on Frictionless Slope w/m1=3kg & m2=0.86kg

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Facts I need to learn in Physics besides the formula

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Elliptical Orbit Homework: Momentum, Direction & d/dt

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Coefficient of Static Friction with Acceleration

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Entropy of Objects and the Universe

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Parachute- acceleration due to gravity

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Analyze beats using complex exponentials

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Projectile Motion: Shooting over a hill

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Centripetal Force/Changing direction on ice - Turn length

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Determining Velocity of Ball Fired Horizontally from Ballistic Pendulum

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Calculating Velocity Change to Change Satellite Orientation

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Relativistic rod moving in two directions.

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Moment of Inertia and kinetic energy question

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What fraction of the distance do the block move?

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