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Oscillation and Moment of inertia

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Calculating Kinetic Energy: Understanding the Equation and Common Errors

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Finding Velocity and Distance of a raised mass

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Equivalent Resistance: To Include or Not to Include r5 and r6?

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Proton moving in a magnetic field

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Waveform conversion of Analogue to Digital

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Buoyancy calculating unknown density

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Kinetic Energy and Angular Velocity of a Rolling Sphere on an Incline

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Newton’s cannon ball and the moon

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Calculating Time for Cannon Ball to Orbit Earth at 4000mi Radius

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Calculate the Distance of lightning

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Solving for Inches in an Angstrom

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Galileo's Acceleration Hypothesis

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Centripetal Acceleration with Tarzan

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Time required to raise Temperature knowing heat transfer rate

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Find tension between blocks 2 & 3

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Intermediate Physics Lab Analysis, Uncertainty and Linear Regression

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Find an expression for the sum of the series

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Proportion Problem Dealing with Moon's Period

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How Fast Can You Move 3.45 Meters on Tile with Different Footwear?

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Centripital Acceleration problem

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Oscillation damped oscillations ? how to calculate energy after t

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Magnetic Flux and Induced Voltage Interesing question

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Work done by friction on a skier and resulting distance the skier travels

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Revolutions of a tire and angle in radians thru warranty

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Work required to move charged particle traveling in a circle

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Particle detectors and Flemming LH rule

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Help with introductory Physics (I keep getting different answers)

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Calculating Wavelength in Young's Double-Slit Experiment

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Calculating Voltage Drop and Current Through a Voltmeter

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Satellite changing distance as θ changes how?

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Gravity car/module/contraption thingy

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Electric potential between two point charges

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How Does the Tension in a Cord Between Two Masses Compare to an Applied Force?

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What is the potential difference between two points in a uniform electric field?

  • Genericcoder
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How do I properly convert from km/h to m/s?

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Why Is the Magnetic Field Uniform in a Non-Coaxial Cylindrical Cavity?

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Gaussian cylinder in the finite case

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Newton's Second Law Concerning Net Force

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Cylindrical shell- electric potential problem

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How do I find the spacing(d) of a grating in a diffraction grating experiment.

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Question on Physics problem of time and distance

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Sloshing in a Rectangular Container: Finding Time Period

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Does a magnetic field occupy space?

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What is the Velocity of the Larger Cube as the Smaller Cube Melts?

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Isothermal Compression and Entropy Change

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Finding velocity as a function of time

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Kirchhoff's Rule and finding current with a system of equations

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Electric Potential of a hollow cylinder

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Can a vector be perpendicular to both skew lines?

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Time taken to reach 90% of terminal velocity

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Physics Current Problem (I1,I2,I3)

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Applications of Magnetic Fields

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Forces on symmetrical electrostatic charges

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What is a function that describes motion in a circular path?

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Solving trig problem for trajectory

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What is the pressure at 15 ft underwater?

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Calculating Work on a Stretched Spring

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What is the minimum work required to push a car up an incline with friction?

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Thermodynamics - Calculate the initial temperature of the iron.

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Voltage and Current in RC circuits

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What is the current through Resistor on RC circuit

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A few quick conceptual questions about capacitators and dielectrics

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Find the Voltage in This Circuit

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Work done by damping, harmonic oscillator, help?

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Capacitors - Conservation of Charge vs Conservation of Energy

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The Energy of a Multiparticle System

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Movement of Water - Increasing day length

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Solving Physics Problems: 2.00 kg Box Moving Right

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Moment of inertia for a hollow ball calculation

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A ball tied up at an angular plane: Forces and torque

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Coulomb's Law with 3 Point Charges

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Work Done by Gravity on 265kg Load: 6.24x10^4 J

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Calculating Energy Lost due to Friction

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Electric dipole in uniform electric field

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Theories on Series and Parallel capacitors

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Angular Momentum - Spherical Mass & Radius of Gyration

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Change in Grav PE with the change in origin.

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Adding a wrench to a series circuit ?

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Capacitor Charge within a time period

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Conceptual Question about Power

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Calculating angle with coefficient of static friction value

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Solving Resistance of a Wire: 21V Across 32m, 18m?

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What force opens a folding knife?

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Theories on Series and Parallel Resistors

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Finding largest angle - mechanics

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Change of kinetic energy problem

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Terminal Voltage Formula Doesn't Apply?

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Rocket Acceleration: Linear or Exponential?

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What is the Relationship Between Velocity and Distance for a Sprinter?

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Circuit with 2 Batteries and 6 Resistors

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Finding Constants Using Continuity Conditions

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of Object 2 After a Collision?

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Dimensional analysis and frustum of a cone

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What Are the Dynamics of a Bicycle Wheel with External Forces?

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Calculating Mass in an Elastic Collision

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Finding the Uncertainty of Vy in a Physics Equation

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