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Electric Flux through Cylindrical Surface

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Where and when does the car catch the truck?

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Relativity Problem: Sweep Laser for v > c on Moon's Surface

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Ideal Gases equilibrium question

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The electric field due to a point charge

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Solve Integer Sequence: 1955th Place = 4?

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Propagation error in finding the perimeter and area, .

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Polar Coordinate Tracking problem

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Conservation of linear momentum and kinetic energy

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Gravity at an arbitrary location near a disc

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Magnitude of the average acceleration

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How Do You Calculate the Power of a Water Pump?

  • furor celtica
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Spring theory, when can this happen? If ever

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Finding the Optimal Radius for Keeping a Body on a Spinning Carousel

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Position of a particle given an equation for acceleration

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Question involving trigonometry & river currents

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Calculating Electric Field of Insulating Sphere

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Collision Between Two Balls on Strings

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Calculating if a projectile from Mars will impact Earth.

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Why a spring-mass assembly is a SHM?

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Calculate Max Wavelength of Sound Emitted by Loudspeakers

  • Peter G.
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Different initial vertical velocities on different planets

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Three Vectors - Resultant vector magnitude?

  • KendrickLamar
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Why Did My Projectile Motion Calculation Yield the Incorrect Height?

  • waters
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Solve Baseball Pitcher NR's Pitch Time to Home Plate

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Solve Influenza A Virus Problem: 1368350 Viruses

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What is the Angular Frequency of Two Masses on a Spring?

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What is the Correct Value of q/Q for 1/5 the Maximum Electrostatic Force?

  • eurekameh
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How Does Wavefront Orientation Change When Light Enters a Slower Medium?

  • Peter G.
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Electron traveling parallel to a Uniform Electric Field

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The influenza A virus is a spherical virus

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Electric force, tension, charge

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Find the value of the z component of the total electric field

  • blueyellow
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Rolling and sliding sphere on flat surface

  • versatilehong
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Calculate the y component of the electric field at a generic point(x,y)

  • blueyellow
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Calculating Horizontal Force for 3 Boxes on Frictionless Surface

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Solving Kinematics Questions with 5 Variables

  • MattJ81
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What is the Correct Way to Calculate Torque in a Uniform Boom System?

  • Jimmy84
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How Do You Find the Gravitational Field at a Corner of a Square?

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Find Kmax with given numerical quantities

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Charge in Metals (Supposed to be easy)

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Phase space trajectory question

  • Grand
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Solving Hall-Petch Equation Homework

  • TyErd
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Calculate the total energy stored in the capacitor as a function of x

  • blueyellow
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Density and Uncertainty of a Block?

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Airplane flying in a crosswind problem

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Magnitude/direction of point charges

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Panpipes - confused with the physic principles

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Converting km/hr to m/s^2: What is the Formula?

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Finding the magnitude of an electric field.

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Point charges in an electromagnetic field

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Why Does a Green Glass Plate Absorb Everything Except Green?

  • logearav
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What Are the Units of Constants A and B in the Equation x=At+Bt²?

  • tavo0116
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Mobile Phone Radiation and Brain Tumors: Investigating the Link

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Centripetal Force through Turns

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Calculate the total impedance of the circuit

  • blueyellow
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Finding amount of graphite in a Pencil

  • Manty
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An amusement park ride question, picture included

  • wmrunner24
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Maxwell's equations using vectors D and H

  • blueyellow
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Questions about Young's Double-Slit experiment and light waves intereference

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What Is the Minimum Launch Angle to Hit a Target 200ft Away?

  • AirForceOne
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Bouncing Ball Graph/Quadratic Formula

  • Megzzy
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Finding the displacement under a curve.

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A very weird capacitor association

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Area of a Gold Leaf? | Calculate with Density

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Capacitor current in function of time

  • jaumzaum
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Momentum Principle. Please help (due in 1 hour 30 minutes)

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Electric field of a charged ring.

  • NeverSummer
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Finding force needed to neutralize a vector

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Calculating Average Speed and Velocity for a Commuting Student

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Finding g on unknown planet given only total time and a random height

  • tswvyimlis
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Projectile motion of a fired gun

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Diff. Eq. related to SHM question

  • astropi
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What is the Apparent Weight in an Accelerating Elevator?

  • Zach Knight
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Finding the initial velocity, .

  • megkirch
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Solving for Time and Velocity with Only Three Variables

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Electrostatic force and magnitude problem

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Constant Velocity should = Acceleration of 0m/s^2 right?

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Calculating Centripetal Force for Particle in Circular Motion

  • buttontugger
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How is tangential accleration zero in uniform circular motion?

  • pcsx22
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What forces keeps electrons from falling into nuclei?

  • treehouse
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How to Derive Lorentz Transformations?

  • Kyoma
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Magnitude and angles of a force

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Projectile with different landing heights

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Calculate Initial Speed Driving on a Crowded Freeway

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"Calculating Stress-Strain Graph Homework

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Average Velocity of a Runner in 1500m Race

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Why Do Thermometers Show the Same Reading in Ethanol and Water?

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Q Value for spontaneous fission and neutron induced fission

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Finding the Upward Velocity of a Long Jumper's Flight Phase

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BO: Calculating Initial Velocity of a Projectile with Horizontal Launch

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I have no intuition. Momentum problem

  • flyingpig
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Help! Find the Magnitude of a Displacement Vector

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Calculating Velocity Components and Angle between Cars at an Intersection

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