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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 ?

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Equillibrium of electrostatic forces of 2 charges on a 3rd

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How Does Air Pressure Affect the Range of Alpha-Particles?

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How can the man stay in balance with a rope?

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How long until the ball hits the ground?

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Potential difference between charges +q and -q separated by distance R

  • Highwaydude
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Does mass affect the period of oscillation on a spring?

  • Peter G.
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Pion decay to muon and neutrino: finding pion mass

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Calculating Linear Change in MgO Under 100 MPa Stress

  • thephysicsman
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Converting 4163 kJ/mol to kJ/litre using molar mass

  • clintyip
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Are Momentum Equations Different for Elastic and Inelastic Collisions?

  • Hanga
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Projectile Motion or Motion in Two dimension

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What speed must the ball be thrown

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Free falling body after certain height

  • lase
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Wavelength - Yellow line in the spectrum of a sodium lamp

  • mstud
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How do I find missing terms in kinematic equations?

  • cneedshelp
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Calculating Potential Energy of a Spring System without Gravity

  • greencleaner
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Equilivant Resistance with Source

  • dhens43
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E field from two charges at origin and 8m

  • pyroknife
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Time when car stopped given initial velocity and acceleration

  • 1MileCrash
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Man on a Flatbed: Inertia Prediction

  • littlesohi
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Do Bullets Fired Upwards Pose a Risk When They Return to Earth?

  • latentcorpse
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Simple Harmonic Motion - Acceleration and Time Period

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Find vector components when adding and subtracting two vectors

  • littlesohi
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Production of the bremsstrahlung

  • nousername
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Where does this equation come from?

  • hermano
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Why does an X-ray tube have both tungsten and copper anodes?

  • nousername
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Figuring out time when you have acceleration and distance.

  • cneedshelp
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Acceleration of a falling object at specific times

  • cneedshelp
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Acceleration equations involving time.

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How Do You Construct Shear and Moment Diagrams for a Frame Beam?

  • jtpijnenburg
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What is the wavelength of the radiation emitted at transition 3?

  • mstud
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Finding the distance at which Car 1 overtakes Car 2

  • azadder
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Centripetal force motorcycle problem

  • bulbasaur88
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Converting specific gravity to pressure in hydrostatic formula

  • TyErd
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Determination of the wavelength of a spectral line

  • mstud
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Speed at the top of a vertical loop-the-loop with normal force

  • bulbasaur88
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Corrective lenses, power of the eye change

  • DJ-Smiles
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Calculate Gravity Car Distance with 840g + x Weight

  • PhyzWizKid
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Energy of an atom in an excited state

  • mstud
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You are driving down the highway and you brake to avoid hitting a deer

  • skysunsand
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Calculate Absolute Pressure with P = pgh

  • TyErd
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Pipe and speed of sound question

  • xtheunknown0
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Effect of elevator acceleration on spring-mass oscillation

  • Peter G.
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RLC parallel circuit; fourier components

  • mathman44
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Load voltage with shorted load / open load

  • illidari
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Find where e-field is 0 question.

  • pyroknife
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Prooving a projectile motion formula

  • stonecoldgen
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Thermodynamics heat engine Question

  • blackwing1
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Centripetal forces and satellites

  • supmiller
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Solving Projectile Motion Equation from Physics 8e - Chapter 3 Page 70

  • physkid1
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2D Kinematics - Finding Initial Velocity

  • whoopie88
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Energy Test, need some extra revision

  • BigMackey
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How Do You Solve for Variables in Algebraic Equations?

  • xpaulinabearx
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Steel - Youngs Modulus, Poisson Ratio

  • samirnasri
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Distance needed to survive a 150 km/h crash with airbag

  • Faka
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Why Does the Integral for Pendulum Swing Time Diverge at Zero Velocity?

  • LiorE
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Simplifying the Buckingham equation

  • stevemilw
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Does the normal force on a table have a reaction pair?

  • Peter G.
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What is the Total Force Exerted on a Vertical Dam by Water?

  • bcfcdan
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Correct explanation of how gyroscope works?

  • hyunwoo126
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Sound intensity and distance problem

  • foobarbazzer
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How Do Different Wavelengths Affect Pulse Timing in Fiber Optics?

  • mmanu
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Centre of Gravity of Multiple Crates

  • joe465
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Central Force Field: Meaning of Centrifugal Term

  • rob60
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Particle moving in an XY direction

  • Saba Gaad
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Car displacement vector and lunar lander free fall problem

  • Desecration
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Torque experienced by a current loop in uniform magnetic field

  • logearav
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Graphing acceleration versus theta to find gravity

  • channel1
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How to Study SHM with a Mass Between Two Springs?

  • Ipos Manger
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Uniform circular motion, trapeze artists problem

  • bulbasaur88
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Finding acceleration with Kinetic Friction coefficient

  • phee
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Find the percentage of electrons were removed?

  • blackbyron
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Torque friction on a rotating disk

  • kudoushinichi88
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Confusion with Kirchhoff's Law in Circuit Diagram

  • jforce93
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Why speed of the railroad hopper is the same? []

  • amiras
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How to Determine the Current in This Circuit?

  • W1z0
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Operation amplifier - inverting amplifier

  • logearav
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Force between two long parallel current carrying conductors

  • logearav
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Square of a wave function; way to understand

  • Juqon
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Electric field, dipole moment and potential energy of two point charges

  • bmarson123
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What equations do I need for a power consumption problem?

  • TyErd
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Total Mechanical Energy: Mass or No Mass?

  • TyErd
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Uniform circular motion, earth's rotation

  • bulbasaur88
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Flowerpot passing window kinematics problem

  • razrsharp67
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Height of ramp given normal force in circular loop

  • mastergaurang
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Constant Velocity (Finding when 2 objects will intersect)

  • davyvfr
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Normal Force acting on tries of a go-cart

  • Hanga
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Basic electronics problem with an amplification factor for a transistor

  • Femme_physics
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Calculating the work done to bring charges together

  • NewtonianAlch
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Path of a Balloon Tied to a Thread

  • Cromptu
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Maxwell's Equations - State what arbitary fields describe.

  • bmarson123
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Conservation of momnetum or Newtons second law?

  • vkash
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Calculating voltage within a capacitor

  • NewtonianAlch
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What formulas do I need and how do I work out the height?

  • BobbyJones
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Shear Force and Moment Diagrams

  • TyErd
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