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Charging of capacitor through rc and with pulse

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How Fast Should Water Flow from a Faucet to Properly Water a Rooftop Lawn?

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Eigenvectors of rotation matrix

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Coulomb's law and related problem

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How Do Friction Coefficients Affect Acceleration on a Frictionless Surface?

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Measuring mass without a balance

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Calculating Refractive Index Using Fabry-Perot Interferometer

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Solving for Acceleration of a Charged Particle

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Relativity of Simultaneity (and Lorentz transformation)

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Relation between temperature and refractive index

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Finding an kinetic energy of an electron moving to a positive plate

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Solving for Horizontal Projectile Motion: Mechanics Final Question

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Electric field and electric charge, whats going on in the diagram.

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How to Calculate Volume of a Lake Using Different Approximation Methods?

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Just started my physics class. Already

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Gravitational force with different distances and planetary masses

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Hooke's law and kinetic energy?

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Liquids; volume and mass flow rates

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Calculating Work and E-field from and equipotential contour graph

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Which Statements About Electric Field Lines Are True?

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How Do You Convert km/h to m/s² for Calculating Acceleration?

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Maximum Velocity in projectiles

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Finding the E-field between two infinite plane charged sheets

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What is the required force to push a box upwards on an angled surface?

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Solve Refraction Problem 4: Find Angle of Refraction from Air to Glass

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Force - boxes connected by strings

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Calculating wavelength of a standing wave on a guitar string

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Electrostatics home work question

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Finding Charges in Battery for 5 Seconds

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Parallel voltage sources circuit

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Measure the length of a material with Michelson interferometer

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Freeboard of a Soup Can in a Pool

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Proving v3*t1 = v1*t2 for projectile motion at three points

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Question on a waves/sound problem

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How can we use calculus to find volumes of revolution?

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What is the relation between a shell and a solid sphere?

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Motion on an incline plane (detailed)

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Roller Coaster and Centripetal Acceleration

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I with this Uniform circular motion problem

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Gravitational Force Between; Sun and Earth, Moon and Earth

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Finding thrust of a jet engine with 74.2 kg/s air intake

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Throwing an object over the fence

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Calculating the Ratio of Planet Masses Using Newton's Law of Gravitation

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Finding distance between two points A, B moving in a plane

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Explain, briefly, what a hysteresis cycle is

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Calculating Time to Discharge Capacitor to 3V

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3D statics - looks impossible to solve

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Charge distribution across capacitors in series and parallel

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Will ammeter reading change when switch closes in circuit with identical resistors?

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Angle at which canon can be fired

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Find V(f) for two particles resting (and compressing) against a spring.

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How Is Average Acceleration Calculated for an Arrow on a Bow?

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How Do You Calculate Cos 125 Degrees in Engineering Mechanics?

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Question on a doppler effect problem and equation

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Relative energies inside a rectangular box

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Current: Average vs. Instantaneous.

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Impulse imparted by the ground on the ball?

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Astronomy - Distance with different scale factors

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How Do We Calculate the Weight of Block C in a Frictional Force Problem?

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Work results in a change in energy?

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Capacitors in Series and in Parallel

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Find the acceleration of the blocks

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Calculating Resistance of a Light Bulb

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Gravity and acceleration simple calculation

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How is the junction area of each diode calculated in this circuit?

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Electric potential and distribution of charge

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Average velocity of a vehicle traveling north then south

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A spring loaded gun question from my test.

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Finding Magnitude and Direction of Vector Addition and Subtraction

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Solve U1=U*R2/(R1+R2): Current Circuit Theory

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Maximum kinetic energy of a rocket in free space.

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Why Is Heat Energy Considered Unusable?

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Current of Electricity: electrons

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EMF in loop, given magnetic field

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Electric potential, conceptual problem

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Can dropped from rising scaffolding at 50 m height?

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Calculating gravity from height and time of a jump

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Electric field from charged wire and proton acceleration

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Electric Field Strength on Cube Faces

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Acceleration - a constant or increasing?

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Average acceleration of a car from 5.51 to 8.09 m/s

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Determine distance with constant acceleration

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Understanding Chassis Ground in Car Electrical Systems

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How Does Light Behave When It Travels Between Different Mediums?

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Motion of object in 2 dimensions

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Finding Time T with Given Velocity and Acceleration

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Compute the terminal speed of a car as it coasts down the incline

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Infinite Mass and Finite Tension over a pulley

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Spring with larger constant: maximum velocity or displacement?

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Uniform Acceleration Motion (UAM)

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Calculating Work Done by Gravity on a Falling Skydiver

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How to Find Vector Components Along Given Directions?

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