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Finding angle to reduce friction

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What is the difference between induction and polarization?

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Induced current in expanding metal ring

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How Does an Elevator's Acceleration Affect Spring Balance Readings?

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Equation for a floating solid sphere

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Calculating Beat Frequencies in Identical Strings with Varying Lengths

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Momentum of colliding billard balls

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Package sliding down a round surface

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Finding the Velocity of the Third Piece after an Explosion

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What did I do wrong with these vectors?

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Probability inside finite square well

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Questions on the different types of heat transfer

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Angle between cube diagonal and face diagonal vectors

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Mechanics problem, mass sliding over a sphere

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Theoretical electrodynamic cycle 1

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Superposition problem - stuck at this step

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Calculating Tension of a String Suspended Ball

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Can it be easier to cycle uphill?

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Where did I go wrong while solving for R_L?

  • PainterGuy
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Find acceleration? Are two solution possible?

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Why Does Terminal a Show Negative Potential in This Circuit Analysis?

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Non-uniform Inertia of a Cylinder: I = (3MR^3)/5

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How does ΔA=-integral(PdV) relate to the general equation dA=dU-TdS?

  • sparkle123
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Solving Dynamics of Rigid Bodies with Connected Loads and Inclined Forces

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How do you calculate the enrgy required to maintain a given thrust?

  • kitna paisa
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Understanding Dimensional Analysis and Deriving M = L^3 T^-2 for Mass

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Electrostatic force between sodium ion and a chloride ion

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How Much Work to Stretch a Spring 4 cm from Equilibrium?

  • flyingpig
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Why is the E-field inside a conductor zero?

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Projectile Motion Golf Question

  • michaeljf
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Max distance for wheel to slide on shaft with friction coefficient μ

  • Femme_physics
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Calculating Velocity and Direction at Height of 120m

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Superposition of electric field

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Average power when capacitor discharges

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Irrev. adiabatic process entropy >0 or =0?

  • sparkle123
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DG is for isothermal thus dH =0?

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Moving a charge/electrostatic force

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Projectile motion of mortar round problem

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How to Use Nodal Analysis to Find Vth in a Circuit

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How to proceed with nortonization?

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Can a human survive a 30m jump into water, and what forces cause injury?

  • flyingpig
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Calculating the threshold ionization intensity for hydrogen gas.

  • Cypher49
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Calculating Force and Motion on an Inclined Plane

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Estimating moment of inertia without calculations

  • Femme_physics
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Capacitor and Mechanics question, IPhO 2004

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Calculating Potential Difference in Series Capacitor Circuit

  • flyingpig
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Proving an equation using Properties of Determinants

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Radius of curvature of a Projectile

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Projectile motion of a thrown object

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Solving vectors using component method

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Satellite velocity and altitude for 12-hour retrograde orbit

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How to find angle between two inclined plane mirrors?

  • kush03
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Projectile/ Trajectory equation

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Kinda embarrassing to ask about setting up this simple kinematics eqtns

  • flyingpig
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Perfectly Elastic Collision (Easy, just confusing)

  • ForrestFire
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How Does an Insulating Sphere Affect Electric Field Distribution?

  • Leeoku
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Finding the amplitude of a pressure wave

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Finding Constructive Interference

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Maximizing Mass Motion with Minimal Hand Movement

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Finding freqency from 2 insturments playing together

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Dimensions of temperature and charge in terms of M, L and T

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Hydrostatic Pressure - Theoretical Scenario

  • EnquiringMind
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I need the solution for the 3 important problems

  • abdallah306
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Some questions related to work,energy and momentum

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Physics paper topic for undergraduate level

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Acceleration of Hot Air Balloon

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Calculating electric field given velocity and magnetic field

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Why Does Grounding Affect Current Flow in a Circuit?

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Tension In a string Second Harmonic

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Why Does Current Direction Affect Voltage Sign in KVL Analysis?

  • PainterGuy
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Maximum kinetic energy of a pendulum

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Transverse Wave Velocity (speed)

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Show EM Wave equation invariant under a Lorentz Transformation

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Horizon distance and observers altitude problem

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What is the magnetic field strength on Earth's surface at either pole?

  • tnutty
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Calculating current in a loop, given torque and magn. field

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What is not essential for simple harmonic motion?

  • silent10
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Speed of waves through two String

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Magnetism and the Effect on a Freely Hung Loop

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Electric field strength from equipotential lines at points A and B

  • conniechiwa
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What is the Electric Potential of a Uniformly Charged Bent Wire?

  • Leeoku
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Describing Work Done on an Object through KE

  • The Head
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Where can we apply mesh and nodal analyses?

  • PainterGuy
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What determines the polarities of v3 and v2 in Figure 3.8?

  • PainterGuy
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Statics with an engine regulator

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Work done by force at 45° to displacement

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Finding the distance a plant falls

  • mathforkicks
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Relative Motion problem driving me crazy

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How Is Thermo Efficiency Calculated in a Monatomic Gas Cycle?

  • AriAstronomer
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Sumation of symmetric and skew symmetri metrices

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