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Calculating Impulse and Speed with a Variable Force

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Simple Harmonic Motion amplitude

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SI Units question in physics conceptual question

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Electrostatic Net Force Problem

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Electric Circuit: What Slope Tells You

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To determine the mass of a liquid using an electronic balance?

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Probabilty of finding the electron of the hydrogen atom in

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Motion Question: Calculating Change in Momentum and Resultant Force

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Calculating Cross Section from Neutron Absorption in a Gold Foil

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Calculating Wave Speed for a 6m Rope with 7kg Mass and 140 N Force

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Any suggestion for a car safety physics project?

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Motion sensorPositive or negative?

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Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential?

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Why Does Impedance Use Positive and Negative J Notation?

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What is the Angular Momentum of Harry Potter on a Spinning Merry-Go-Round?

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Center of Mass: Boat and regular pentagon

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Thermodynamics, ideal gas, probability distributions

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Is voltage and amp constant in a current?

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What are equipartitioned waves?

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Meaning of simple harmonic motion equations

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Electric Forces and fields question

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Calculating the 8.50 * (4.33 - 3)

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Free-body diagrams for accelerating truck and box

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Calculating charge when given electric field

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Quarter Wavelength Transmission Line

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Why does light always travel at c in an inertial frame?

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Finding the time derivative of a trigonometric function

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Force induced by mass (very simple

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How Does Sunlight Affect Black Body Radiation?

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Magnetic field outside a solenoid crossed by a current.

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How Do You Calculate Initial Speed of a Football Kicked at an Angle?

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RC Circuits, time to charge a capacitor

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How Does Surface Tension Affect the Force Needed to Separate Glass Plates?

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Tedious Algebra- Is it needed? - Coulomb Force

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Michelson Interferometer - Fringe Shape

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What is a Complex Lens? Convex or Concave?

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Focal length calculations for a double convex lens?

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Physics P-n Junction Diode Problem

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Determine the magnitude and direction of smallest force

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What number on a digital clock draws the least current from a battery?

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The compressive longitudinal strain

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How to Resolve a Vector into Parallel Components?

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Does partial reflection-partial refraction occur for all waves?

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Force between capacitor plates, partially filled with dielectric

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Confused by first question in air resistance problem

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Finding the KE and the energy will be lost due to friction?

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What is the Entropy Change of the Universe?

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A 59 kg pole vaulter falls from rest from a height of 4.7 m onto a

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Block Sliding, might use work energy theorum

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Confirm V=fx Meaning with Springs and Waves - 65 Characters

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Relativistic Mass as described by Kenneth Krane in 'Modern Physics'

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What is the role of gravity in a hanging spring's potential energy?

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Conservation of Energy, Ball going down slope

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Proving Stirling's formula with substitution t=ny

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Electric current? how many electrons?

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Ideal gas law - work out temperature and pressure

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What is the age of Earth: solar day, lunar day, or astronomical day?

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Finding pressure and temperature of helium gas from volume and atom count

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How can we solve the ballistic pendulum problem using conservation of energy?

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What is the Group Velocity of Infrared Radiation in a Dispersive Medium?

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Angular speed and acceleration of a rod

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Looking for A-Level Physics Exams

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Gravitation and velocity problem

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Hopefully last question on circular motion (on a cone)

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Temperate a scalar than why negative temperature?

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How does the amount of charge on a doorknob affect the length of a spark?

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Thermodynamics, Helmholtz free energy, Legendre transformation

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How Does Launch Angle Affect Projectile Range?

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Force in members of truss; section method

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Centrifical Motion Theoretical Question

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More circular motion questions:

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Deriving E=mc² from relativistic mass and kinetic energy

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Lorentz Length Contraction Derivation

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What are the weights A and B in this system?

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Where Should the Coin Be Placed for the Ball to Hit It?

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A rocket accelerates upwards Mechanics

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A pendulum on some moon has a length of 1.5meters and a period of

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Moment of inertia of solid slab

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Explain solution to me(Gravitation)

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Diffraction grating: spacing, diffraction angle, and frequency

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Model Railgun Project - Don't have a grasp of the physics

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A simple change in gravitational energy, but I want to be certain.

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Speeds of Two Electrons in a Collision?

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Velocity of a Dropped Camera on Mars

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How Fast Were the Catapulted Boulders Initially?

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What is the problem with this physics question?

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Wavelenght associated with electron

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