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Can I apply volume expansion this way?

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I can't figure this one out thermal expansion of rod and ruler

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Find Angular Velocity of Centrifuge with Particle 10.0 cm Away

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Calculating Real Depth from Apparent Depth and Observation Angle

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Determine the length of a pendulum on the moon

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Calculating heat req. by fuel in boiler, interpolation needed.

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Does friction decrease after overcoming static friction?

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Magnetic field due to two looped wires

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Rotating Cylinder of Variable Density

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Find Angle of 5kg Mass Suspended from Cord

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Angular momentum of a two particle system

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What is the Relationship Between Snell's Law and the Index of Refraction?

  • Peter G.
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Elastic Potential energy problem (simple)

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Calculating Time Dilation for a Spacecraft Traveling to Proxima Centauri

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Moment of inertia of a hollow disk with a metal ball inside

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Why does a diamond sphere with zero emissivity reach infinite temperature?

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Identifying cathode material from photoelectric effect data

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Static 2d body, force in member unknown

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Calculate tension in a rope (pulley-rope-mass system)

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What is the angle for perfect light blockage through a polarizer?

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Solve Work-Energy Problem: 2kg Mass Down Frictionless Hill

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How can you measure the volume of a floating irregular object?

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Rod ontop two parallel influenced by B field

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How Is Binding Energy Calculated for Lithium-6 Nuclei?

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How to get coefficient of f^k without mass and without constant force

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Finding resultant of 5 vectors with different directions

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How can we get enough water to a skyscraper 50+floors

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Infinitely Long Parallel Rectangular Parallel Strips (H field)

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Circular motion problem ON THANKSGIVING

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Capacitors reconnected (finding charge and potential)

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How Do You Calculate Spring Extension in a Series Configuration?

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How Does Air Resistance Affect a Moving Tennis Ball?

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Doppler Effect? Happy Thanksgiving

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Uniformly Magnetized Cylinder (B/H Field)

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Speed of Pendulum Bob at Lowest Point

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Why does current flow through an inductor at t=0 with no initial conditions?

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Time is directed from present to future.is it a vector quantity

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Help with a physics calculation in an Excel sheet

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Oscillations, two masses on opposite ends of the same spring

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Mechanics question, structure with unknown forces

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How tightening a string affects frequency?

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Resistance series and parallel

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What is the resulting amperage from a Leyden jar discharge?

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Fundamental frequency of a stretched string

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Determining Minimum Height for Marble to Complete Loop-the-Loop

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Calculating Joe's Climb Efficiency

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What Are the Energy and Angles of Photons from \(\pi_{0}\) Meson Decay?

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Physics lab work - calculating % errors

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Magnetic Field in a Cylindrical Conductor

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Physics puzzle ratios of two times which it take an object to fall down.

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A 150kg cart moving at 13m/s east collided with a 420kg wagon

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What is a linear medium?

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Virtual work sign conventions in a four-link mechanism

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Finding the electrostatic force between two charged balloons

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How Do You Calculate the Extension of a Spring Holding a 480 g Mass?

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Do mirrors only reflect and lenses only refract?

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Energy required to move an object to an altitude twice the radius of Earth

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How to Find the Force of Friction on a Model Rocket?

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3 ways wireless electricity transmissions

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Magnetic Field at the midpoint between two current carrying coils

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How Far Should a Satellite Be from Earth to Match the Moon's Orbital Period?

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Difference between simple product and dot product

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Finding total energy of an oscillator

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Reflection at metal vs glass/air boundaries for mirrors

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Falling Yo-Yo (angular momentum/energy, torque)

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Calculate Average Net Force of 20g Bullet Striking Wood

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How Fast Will the Elevator Rise with 14kW of Power?

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Calculate the force applied and constant frictional force opposing its motion

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Finding mass of a single screw lab No calculations XD

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Finding the Speeds of Objects in a Spring System

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A fish is 10 cm from the front surface of a spherical fish bowl

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Vector 'B' When Vector Product with 'A' is Zero

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How Does Mass Affect the Acceleration and Distance Traveled by Falling Objects?

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Gravitational Interactions » Truck and Car

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Quantum mechanics, wavefunction problem

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How to Calculate Heat Transfer During Isothermic and Isobaric Processes?

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Describe Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

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Which SUVAT Equation Applies to This Kinematics Problem?

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Three spring two mass system, compression of the middle spring

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Ball swings down and hits block - finding block's final speed

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Kinetic Energy of a mass moving in horizontal circle

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Calculate Magnitude of Impedance for RLC Circuit

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Finding mass flow through a turbine using enthalpy

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Rocket Question~~Max Velocty and Ff

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Calculating constant velocity using work

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Equation of motion for a rigid rotating rod

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Final velocity, three forces, time, mass and velocity given

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A body moving in a straight line with constant accelaration

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Find mass of an object hanging on string

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Relative speed, center of mass, kinetic energy

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Find Maximum mass with the principles of torque and rotational equilibrium

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Wooden ball suspended by string in horizontal air current at 30°

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How to find L in this problem

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