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Significant figures when writing measurements with uncertainty

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Pressurized Line and Rigid Tank Probem

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Circuit analysis involving parallel and series conditions

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The electric field between two adjacent uniformly charged hemispheres

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Calculating air resistance for a cart rolling down a ramp

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Uniform Circular Motion: banked race track circular path

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Using Matlab ode45 to solve a simple 2 body problem

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Finding the Thevenin equivalent of a circuit

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How do we determine whether circuit element is negative or positive?

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Uniform Circular Motion on a racetrack

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Torque on a current loop caused by a magnetic field

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Converting km/hr to m/s: What is the formula?

  • scotthands
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Converting pressure to flow rate

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Find Velocity given Force and Mass

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What is the Calculation for Mass?

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What is the Formula for Calculating Tension in Physics?

  • liuquinlin
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Particle colliding with rotating disc: angular velocity after impact

  • WonderKitten
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Solving the two body problem in Matlab

  • patric44
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Forces on a Skydiver during the initial frefall phase of the jump

  • Balsam
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Dielectrics inside a parallel plate capacitor

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Vector cross product anti-commutative property

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Degrees of freedom in a molecule

  • LCSphysicist
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Masses on strings and pulleys (iWTSE.org)

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Effect of Leakage on Capacitor Energy Storage

  • wcjy
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Poynting vector and electric field

  • Kaguro
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Thermal physics -- Converting the internal energy of argon atoms to temperature

  • Kathhhriine
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What is force potential and how does it relate to Bernoulli's Equation?

  • sarvesh0303
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What Is the Electrical Equivalent in Energy Conversion?

  • moonelson
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What Is the Density of Air at a Given Temperature and Pressure?

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What is density of magnetic field?

  • boris16
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Is my approach to this problem correct?

  • polibuda
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Bird on a bus -- friction problem

  • quark12
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Determine the force in the bar CB

  • ClearWhey
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Coriolis Force and Centrifugal Force

  • arhzz
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I don't understand how a tension related to a torque would have this formula

  • KittyCat1534
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Calculation of time taken for a motor to rotate an object 360 degrees

  • physicsguy113
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Leaning pole with friction problem

  • shinobi20
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How do I find relative velocity between myself and an airplane?

  • Robloxian642
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Man on an Elevator -- Force Diagrams

  • Lugytopo
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Mass with small charge sliding down a ramp

  • wcjy
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Definition of energy level width

  • Eitan Levy
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Find the forces in the AB, BE, ED and BC arms

  • ahmetkalca
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Conservation of energy, centripetal acceleration, kinematics

  • wcjy
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Moment of Inertia of a Solid Cylinder With a Wedge Removed

  • cedoty1989
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Work function of electrons in a metal

  • SQUB
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Extinction law -- How big is the extinction in the H-band?

  • CharlesDamle
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Finding redshift when vacuum and matter contribute equally

  • Eulalie
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What determines that a system carries no angular momentum?

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What is the Isobar Binding Energy and How Does it Affect Atom Masses?

  • jjson775
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How to find d2 when given d1 and d, total time, and average velocity?

  • orangegalaxies
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Conservation of angular momentum under central forces

  • Saptarshi Sarkar
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Harmonic Oscillator With and Without Friction (mass on a spring)

  • quark12
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Electrostatics - electric potential and field strength (dielectric)

  • polibuda
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Lifting a survivor into a helicopter with a rope

  • bolzano95
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Max velocity of a vibrating loud speaker membrane given sound intensity

  • custner
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Checking units for ideal gas law calculations with temperature and mass

  • Brinkley23
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Measure the distance to a star using magnitude and extinction

  • Mikkel
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Find the supply voltage of a ladder circuit

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Why isn't mass variation considered in tape unwinding down a ramp?

  • A13235378
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Composing a few transformations

  • etotheipi
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Rotating body moment of inertia

  • Ugnius
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Why do we need to equate the rate of energy of the second plate to zero?

  • LCSphysicist
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How do I start solving this problem?

  • ChrisWM
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Finding the magnetic field B given the vector potential A ?

  • patric44
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Voltage developed across a cooled crystal

  • etotheipi
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What is the reaction force between the ring and the hoop?

  • Olivia Lam
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Find ω, the angular frequency of oscillation of the object

  • joelkato1605
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Relation between magnetic and electric fields

  • tboyers
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Planetary motion in a viscous medium

  • Leo Liu
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Is the solution correct? (forces between 3 charged particles)

  • PhysicsTeacher159
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If internal forces balance the applied force, what causes deformation?

  • baldbrain
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Electron accelerating to 200 m/s in 3 minutes

  • Robloxian642
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Ball floating in two-beaker fluid density system

  • bw519
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Solving for Time to Reach Ground: Calculating Velocity of Sound over 50m

  • Robloxian642
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Problem Involving Refraction Of Light

  • Aristocrat
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A simple system of two masses and two pulleys

  • adamm150
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Temperature removed from entropy integral for heated water

  • LCSphysicist
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Which of the 2 metals is the magnet

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Quantum Uncertainty Questions (HUP)

  • vintagelover007
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Electrodynamics problem -- Calculating the resistance of ocean water

  • LCSphysicist
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Why mechanical energy changes when clay sticks to an oscillating block

  • Leo Liu
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Why does the hoop have lower moment of inertia than the cylinder?

  • cal35182
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Sign problem in the rocket equation

  • Leo Liu
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Energy Dissipated: Calculate Rate in Joules/sec

  • lexia
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Understanding Short Circuit Current Paths in Electrical Circuits

  • madafo3435
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Thermodynamics and adiabatic lines -- Prove this statement

  • LCSphysicist
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Proving the differential of daylight hours with latitude

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What is the Correct Equation for Velocity on a Curved Surface?

  • NTesla
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Thermodynamics: work done on the atmosphere by an expanding gas

  • LCSphysicist
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Particle in equilibrium (balancing forces on an object on an incline)

  • Justin_Lahey
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Question related to a gamma spectrometer

  • patric44
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Uncertainty of the Best Value from a Multiple-Trial Experiment

  • WannaLearnPhysics
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Mass of vapor per hour for heating water

  • songoku
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Calculating the uncertainty with this measurement

  • LCSphysicist
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Do vector components always form right angles?

  • ianc1339
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Why Does Light Form a Cone When Refracted in a Swimming Pool?

  • joelkato1605
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Spherical shells (inner conducting and outer nonconducting)

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