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Foucault Speed of Light Experiment

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Electric field between two large sheets

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Determine Charge with Spring between Particles

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Surface charge densities on two conducting plates.

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Finding the Polar Form of a Complex Number Using Euler's Relation

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Three objects on a hanging pulley system

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Solve Stopping Potential when 250 nm Light Hits Zinc Plate

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Finding the electric potential energy

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Variable Acceleration - Clueless

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Force on point charge C between two charges on a line

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Capacitors Problem: find potential differences

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Car Collision Problem: Determining Location and Speed at Collision

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Thermo cycles with only T and mol

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Can Calculus Prove Average Solar Irradiance is a Quarter of Total?

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What type of integral is this and how do I solve it?

  • Sekonda
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Uncertainty in Energy-Time Relation for Atomic Transitions

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Why Is Voltage Not Zero at Infinity in This Electrostatic Scenario?

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Decay of Electric Field between two plates

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A quick expectant value question

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Forces of a Hammer Acting On a Nail With constant acceleration

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Distance of Electrons with Electrostatic Force

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Projectile Motion Homework: Finding Initial Speed and Flight Time

  • kinslow31
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Ball falls in a truck loaded with sand

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Solving 2nd Order ODE with x(0)=0, x'(0)=0

  • S_Flaherty
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Finding Optimal Angle to Hit Target 600m Away with 30m Hedge

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Proton release inside a parallel capacitor Find velocity

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What are the expressions for radiation and convection heat transfer?

  • moatasim23
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Suitcase on tilted baggage carousel with friction

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Calculate Speed for Motorbike Crossing a 40m Wide River Using a 53 Degree Ramp

  • PonderingMick
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Ball thrown to reach max height at barn roof 11m high

  • archcos
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Applying conservation of mass to a falling plywood

  • polka129
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What is the Maximum Error in Predicting Solar Eclipse Times on Jupiter?

  • sparkle123
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Can Ray Diagrams Explain Refraction through a Slab?

  • sparkle123
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Electric Field of a Straight Wire (now with the attachment)

  • The Head
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Apocentre and Eccentricity of a Comet's Orbit

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Conservation of momentum in an inelastic collision with friction

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Are my KVLs incorrect for this circuit?

  • pyroknife
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Electric Field of a Straight Wire at a Particular Distance from Wire

  • The Head
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Electric field inside a slab of with constant charge density.

  • theBEAST
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How does the Electric Potential change when -q goes to -2q?

  • durhamisnuts
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Projectile motion of two bullets on inclined plane

  • drawar
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Can a window washer survive a 47-floor fall?

  • piggyxchu
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Finding tension and acceleration in a 3 weight, 3 pulley system

  • SovXietday
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A screen for detecting electrons

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Is C the Correct Choice for Electroscope Question?

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Thermodynamics problem-using PV=nrt

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Finding instantaneous velocity from a drag racer position-time graph

  • chinnie15
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Calculating Final Velocity of a Truck Under Braking

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Guass' Law (Conducting Cylinder)

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Relationship Between Angular Velocity and the Spring Constant

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Electric field strength for a radial field.

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Find mag. of net electric field at the center

  • mdawg467
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Why use positive 40° for downward force on a block's normal force

  • Supernejihh
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Find Electric Flux through cube's side, point charge on corner

  • DieCommie
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Projectile motion and initial speed problem

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2D Kinematics - Projectile Motion Question

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What do I do for these problems ?

  • whataboutbob
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Final velocity of a rock and how it compares to work

  • ja!mee
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How Do You Calculate Average Velocity in Projectile Motion?

  • Mdhiggenz
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Two hard physics problems (Projectile motion and gravitation), for me

  • physicsisgrea
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Maximum height of a projectile launched at an angle

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Pendulum projectile momentum question

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How to find energy output of a wave over the course of one hour.

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Trouble working out the GM product of Earth: u = GM.

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Boiling above and below supercritical pressure

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Calculate force from wind on kite

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What is the Mass of m4 Given Tensions and Forces?

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Electric Field at Center of Square.

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Force of Friction w/o Coefficient of Friction Given

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Time for package dropped from ascending helicopter to reach ground

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Kinetic energy of a ball when falling (projectile motion)

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A simple problem that will take one minute to answer (:

  • lNVlNClBLE
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An object attached to three springs

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Linear thermal expansion, a space between two metal rods

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Rayleigh Criterion related to the eye

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Electric force from two point charges on y-axis

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2D Projectile Motion problem, is there a better solution?

  • Habeebe
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Finding support forces on a cart with a cylinder pushed horizontally

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% error over many, many measurments

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What is acceleration due to gravity of earth?

  • 6spdtls
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Deriving the Freudenstein equation from two equations

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Electric Fields in Equilateral Triangle

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Experiment to measure total resistance in a parallel resistor circuit

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Calculating Minimum Force to Prevent Slipping on an Inclined Plane

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Calculate Charge of Object A: Mass 100g, Force 0.35N

  • Miike012
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Mass of Object in Uniform Electric Field

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Find "g" Value on Distant Planet: 6.501m/s^2

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Electron velocity in Electric Fields

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Thermal Energy Transfer: A Gas Heated at Constant Volume and Pressure

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Ball thrown vertically from 40m building with 4s upward flight

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Ball thrown from 45 m building at 30° and 20 m/s

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Why Did the Wave Interference Proof Simplify This Way?

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Dimensional analysis of y = (2m)cos(kx) with k = 2m^-1

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Uncertainty in ln(R) Calculation in R: Is (uncert in R)/R Correct?

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How Much Power is Lost in a Copper Wire in a Series Circuit?

  • chawki
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Electric field due to a nonconducting sphere

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