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How to Calculate Resistor Values for Voltage Steps in a Circuit?

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Calculating Magnitude of Resultant Vector for X Added to Y = 12i -16j

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Dimensional analysis and exponents

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Max RANGE of a projectile thrown from the top of a ramp.

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Completion of radioactivity equation

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DeBroglie wavelength, kE to (p) conversion?

  • Joel DB
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Solving Homework Equations: Part A, B, C, and D

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Power, mass, speed, time and height

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Is this solvable? Projectile motion

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Finding Missing Vector Homework Solution

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Calculating Vector Equilibrants

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Speed Of A Bullet Before It Strikes A Block Of Wood

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Independent Circuits: Impact of T Closure

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What Is the Velocity of a Charged Particle in a Crossed Magnetic Field?

  • jforce93
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Simple Harmonic Motion Phase angle

  • Jimmy84
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Finding Period and Angular Frequency in Simple Harmonic Motion

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What Angle Should the Fireman Aim the Hose to Hit the Same Height?

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Gauss law and insulating sphere

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How Fast Was the Police Car Going When It Was 27 Meters Behind Again?

  • mohabitar
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Minimum Power of the engine on a car climbing a hill

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Three forces act on a moving object

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Can Any Point Along the Force's Line of Action Be Used to Calculate Moment?

  • pyroknife
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Stuck on simple constant accel. problem

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Waves - Displacement dependent upon time?

  • Peter G.
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Velocity/Speed Problems (Studying for exam)

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What is the pressure on face B of an L-shaped tank filled with water?

  • azrida
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Electric potential, spherical conductor

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How Do You Calculate the Angle of a Vector in the Third Quadrant?

  • Nat3
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Not a homework - just a question about simply rounding off in physics

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Another moment question, completely lost

  • pyroknife
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Electric Force- Finding angle of Force on q1 due to q2 and q3

  • blackbyron
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Substended angle, rotational kinematics

  • bulbasaur88
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Find values of p & q in v=K(lambda^p)(g^q)

  • glassy
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Does Rolling Without Slipping Cause Wheel Deformation?

  • e(ho0n3
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Proportion of planetary-period to the distance-from-the-sun

  • glassy
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Finding Magnitude and Direction of Force on a Charge

  • cheerspens
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What is the equation for calculating the electric field and charges?

  • johnhunk
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Finding Magnitude of a Charge on Sphere

  • cheerspens
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Is -16kN*m Equivalent to 16kN*m CW?

  • pyroknife
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What really makes the lamp comes on, tension, current or potency?

  • jaumzaum
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Electrostatic Force and Coulomb's Law

  • cheerspens
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I can't work out how to use my calculator pleae help exam sunday

  • Pete789
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How Do You Calculate Centripetal Force for Circular Motion?

  • joe465
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Coefficient of friction pulley problem

  • wallism
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Frequency of an oscillating mass with springs in series

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Relative motion in two dimensions question

  • f25274
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Projectile motion of cannon shell

  • pooface
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Thermodynamics: Ideal gas splitting invention problem

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Which trolley would turn in the smallest circle?

  • Dcoz
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Force exerted by water in a U-shaped tube

  • Dansuer
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Calculating Cannon Ball Barrel Length: Impulse and Velocity

  • phizics09
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Why Does a Heavy Spring Extend Differently Under Its Own Weight?

  • randommanonea
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What Happens to the Missing Energy in a Closed Circuit with Capacitors?

  • jaumzaum
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Coulomb's Law and Electrostatic Forces Problem

  • cheerspens
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Entropy of running water around a resistor

  • bmarson123
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What is the Acceleration Experienced in Jules Verne's Moon Launch Scenario?

  • stumphead101
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Vertical motion Kinematics Confused as heck

  • DJ-Smiles
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Simple banked curve, centripetal acceleration problem

  • bulbasaur88
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Diffraction Patterns: Calculate Wavelength of Light

  • roam
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Error Propagation - multiplication vs powers

  • Caspian
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What is the relationship between water level and wavelength in a wine glass?

  • SugerQueen
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Calculating the Speed of a Space Shuttle After 55.2 Seconds

  • Goopy17
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Determine the number of N of digital bits

  • tavo0116
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Resistors in Series Calculations including Uncertainties

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Need help badly, calculating the rate of falling objects

  • stumphead101
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What is the Relevance of the Second Solution in a Quadratic Equation?

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Can Tom Ogle's Vapor Engine Claims Be Debunked?

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You nose out a runner to win the 100 meter dash. If your total time

  • Goopy17
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Solving a Triangle: b=17.8m & theta = 65°, Find a & c

  • Goopy17
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Is My Vector Addition Method Correct?

  • hyde2042
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Calculating Spring Potential Energy in a Total Energy System

  • flyingpig
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Current Induced in Loops by Resistance Change

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Place following in scientific notation

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Finding the speed of a ball given some height and falling speed

  • skysunsand
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How do I solve for the velocity in a banked curve with friction?

  • bulbasaur88
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What Is the Correct Acceleration When an Object Stops Suddenly?

  • Nat3
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Solving Gravitational Force: F_g between Ring & Mass m at Distance x

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Reaction between net charge and no net charge

  • loganblacke
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Static friction coefficient question

  • hamsterpower7
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What is the Charge on the metal plate?

  • loganblacke
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How Do You Calculate the Effort Required in a Lever System?

  • joe465
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What is the reason for the division by two in the angular momentum equation?

  • Pollywoggy
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Conceptual question - radioactive nucleus stability

  • mstud
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Wavefront and wave - are they same?

  • logearav
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How Do You Determine the Phase Constant for Combined Light Waves?

  • roam
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Horizontal Distance For Guy Landing onto a running horse

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How to Calculate Train Travel Time with Stops?

  • tavo0116
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How do you determine the function of a spring in terms of k?

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Zero average speed but nonzero average velocity?

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What is the Debye Shielding Problem?

  • ggpwntthxbai
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How Many Coulombs Can Flow Through a 15A Breaker Before It Trips?

  • DrummingAtom
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Find the Current Through a Resistor with a Constant Current Source

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Is this calculation correct for v = 2πfA ?

  • ElectricJesus
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Equillibrium of electrostatic forces of 2 charges on a 3rd

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