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Angular displacement is not a vector

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Number of Resistors needed for a maximum power

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Electric field stregth between charges

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Relativistic Spaceship moving past Earth

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Energy principle and circular/ellipse orbits

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Charged sphere hanging between capacitor plates at what angle

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How Does Side Length Influence Electric Flux Through a Cube?

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A few conceptual problems with moments

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My answers seem ok but differ from book.

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Finding an Unknown Resistance of circuit

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Alternate River crossing problem

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Energy conservation vs momentum conservation in SHM

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Acceleration and tension in a system

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Bar magnet at solenoid entrance when current turns on

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Torque from a brick on a bike pedal and drawbridge statics problems

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A cylinde with a piston in contact with a heat reservoir at 353 k.

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Final velocity of a proton through parallel plates

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Using Vectors to Find Displacement and Angle

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Electric Field due to a rod (1-dimensional)

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Maximum Centripetal Acceleration

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Finding spring constant k in N/m

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Three negative point charges lie along a line

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Uniform charged ball charge density problem

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How Does Sound Refract When Moving from Air to Water?

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Center of mass of half-cylinder and hydrostatic force on its face

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Solving the Supersonic Speed Problem in Physics

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Finding the Electric Force on a Rod by Linear Charge

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Yes, the two expressions are equivalent.

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Different significant digits in uncertainty and data?

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Flux for an Infinite charge line through a cylinder

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Pivoted beam with force at one end and spring attached to the other end

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Matrix optics; simple lens system

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Angle changes in Relativity (Shooting the Deathstar on a flyby)

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Error Analysis: Addition of Quantities with Uncertainty

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Finding the Minimum Angle for a Particle to Reach (x1,z1) from (0,0)

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Projectile Motion Homework: Finding Maximum Height and Time

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Does Bouncing Increase the Impact Force Required in Collisions?

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Electric field from charged plane x+2y=5 at point (-1,0,1)

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Arrow with 6s flight time and 210m range

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Coulomb's law electric field charge on y axis

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I'm having a lot of trouble converting units

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Projectile motion with acceleration and vectors

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Find V rms and MM using density

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Calculating Angle Between Vectors Using Cosine Law

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Charged capacitors in series and both ends of wire connected

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Motion in a Magnetic Field and TV

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Light source image in glass plate and convex mirror coincide

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Tension in a chain of 100 blocks pulled by 100 N force

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Work done moving two charges together

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Heat ice to steam and cooling lead in water problems

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Doppler-shifted frequency problem

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The question is: How can I find the magnetic field inside a long conductor?

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Momentum and Impulse: Dropping an Object

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F = ma 2007 Exam - Question #25 - SHM with a box in water

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Ideal Gas law and mole conversions

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Accelerating a Uniform Sphere Down an Incline

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What Are the Temperatures of an Ideal Gas During an Adiabatic Expansion?

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How does pressure affect work done in ideal gases?

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LCR circuit resonance: finding frequency and voltage to shatter glass

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Stepper Motor Torque Characteristic Measurement

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What is the electrical potential energy of a triangular charge configuration?

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Impulse Momentum Theorem + Egg Drop?

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[objet falling] Air resistance / terminal velocity

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Expert Witness Testimony: Accident Analysis

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Calculating Centripetal Acceleration in a Speed Skater's Turn

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Ball on string hanging from movable cart

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How to calculate instantaneous acceleration?

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Airbag stopping distance with constant acceleration

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Finding the current in a resistor

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Proving Kirchoff's Laws algebraically

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What Is the Electric Potential at the Origin Given Four Point Charges?

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Circular mass, finding multiple variables

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What is necessary for an object to move?

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Need a demonstration of interference in Waves

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How Does a Diverging Lens Affect Image Position and Size?

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Specific heat capacity and changing temperature of water

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Man stuck to rotating cylinder wall with friction

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Why does a magnet fall slowly through a copper tube?

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Charge and voltage across capacitors in series and parallel

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Develop an expression for Temp as a function of time

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My calculations - youngs modulus

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2 dimensional harmonic oscillator.find the energy eigenvalues?

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Electric Fields using Gauss' law

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Finding rest-frame lifetime from moving particles' lifetime

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Finding specific heat of material X by calorimetry

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Finding the current through a circuit

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Solving a Simple RL Circuit: Find My Fault!

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Quantum-mechanical three-state system

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Finding Maximum θ for Apparatus Not to Roll Right

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What is the density of the bird statue?

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Some issues with adding 2 vectors

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Static Equilibrium Pulley and free body diagram

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