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Alpha particle touching Gold nucleus

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What maximum power must the motor provide?

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Complex Numbers and Vector Multiplication

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Why Does the Water Bend Towards the Comb and Not Away?

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Electric Field on finite charged rod

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How Long Does It Take for an Electron to Return to Its Initial Height?

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Momentum - Hit and stick problem solving

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Why Does the Ball Leave the Tray at a Different Time Than Expected?

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A problem with significant figures

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Magnetic Field Mass Spectrometer Calculations

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Work and Energy with 2 variables

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Finding excess electrons on an oil drop in an electric field

  • AceInfinity
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What Happens to Percent Error as the Number of Vectors Increases?

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Ice block on inclined plane- easy problem

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Question on momentum, impulse, and collisions

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How Do You Calculate the Distance Between Two Stars in a Binary System?

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Charge inside conducting shell

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Gravity interaction is possible between

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Infinite lines of charge, Gauss' Law

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Calculating Crane Height from Angles

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I am back on intro physics forum Question on springs

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Special relativity - photograph of a moving meter stick

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How to Find Force F on a Boat with Given Forces and Motion?

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Statics - I think I found a mistake in the solution manual - need confirmation

  • Femme_physics
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Rescue plane dropping a capsule at 57.3° from vertical

  • stupif
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Conservation of mechanical energy (no friction) - doesn't work in this case?

  • Femme_physics
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Estimating Maximum Ranges of Ammunition for Tabletop War Games

  • Twit42
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A lens and a convex mirror problem

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Two stones thrown from roof at different angles: why same final speed?

  • gkangelexa
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Pressure/Volume question. A2 Physics

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Finding cable tensions T1 and T2 in horizontal beam with two cables

  • Femme_physics
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Some Problem Related to Position vs Time Graph

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Isothermal compression vs thermally isolated compression

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What is the acceleration needed to prevent block A from sliding down the cart?

  • maff is tuff
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Solving Ampere's Law Trouble: My Mistake in Calculating B?

  • giladsof
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Conservation of Energy speed of block

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Show that the acceleration of the system is upward

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What does this value represent in this work question?

  • AJKing
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Why doesn't fuse F3 blow out in this circuit?

  • joej24
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Ampere's Law vs Biot-Savart arouns a Square

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Inability to calculate kinetic energy if I use SI units

  • ErikMBrewer
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Number of decayed atoms in a simultaneous decay process

  • mike_M
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Finding Maximum Altitude of a Rocket

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What Is the Bird's Speed After Swallowing the Insect?

  • jeeves_17
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Separation distance between wires - Magnetic fields

  • SimonSays
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Power of a man cycling up a hill.

  • AJKing
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Shockwave Question: Solving Mach 3 Plane 20Km Above Person

  • AriAstronomer
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Rotational Motion/Projectile motion of a ball on a circular ramp.

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Two lenses problem, multiple interpretations, no true answer

  • zimo
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How Do Pressure and Impurities Affect Water's Melting and Boiling Points?

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Revising simple lenses - magnified, and diminished images

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Force Experienced by Charges between Parallel Plates

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Why is momentum conserved in collisions but not in isolated systems?

  • AJKing
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Solving the Last 3/4 of a Second Fall: Can You Do It in 3 Minutes?

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Cars colliding into each other.

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Registering for USAPhO Exam Without a Teacher

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How Do You Calculate the Velocity of a Rocket Facing Air Resistance Over Time?

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Proving Preserved Temporal Order of Cause and Effect

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Increasing Torque, Force, and Work: Increasing crank Length (L)

  • Femme37706
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Where did pi^2 go in this QM j/eV unit conversion?

  • timn
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Calculating Amplitude for Different String Gauges in Guitar Tuning

  • kevin36
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Zero Normal force during uniform circular motion?

  • soominds
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The conservation of momentum in 2D

  • Dakkers
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Boy walking on beam supported by two posts

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Speed of sound, frames of reference

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Find the magnitude of resultant of OA, OB and OC.

  • devvaibhav
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Understanding Forces and Electric Potential

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How Does a Spring's Compression Relate to Impact Velocity?

  • Femme_physics
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Normal force acting on a ladder lying against a wall

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Understanding Source Differentiation in Sound Wave Superposition

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What Determines the Peak Angular Speed of a Rotating Cylinder?

  • menglish20
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Solving Tensions and Reaction Forces of Pole AB

  • Femme_physics
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Instantaneous velocity question?

  • Saitama
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Classical physics (phase diagram

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What is the new distance between the rope and the Earth?

  • Punkyc7
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Rotational Motion of a car on a curve

  • ajmCane22
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Question on force and simultaneous equations

  • Kalix
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Free body diagram of atwood machine

  • Shukie
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Potential energy per ion in a 1D ionic crystal

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Rocket ascending in Earth's gravity

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What is the Force on Charge B Due to Charges A and C?

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Converting gauge pressure to absolute pressure with barometric data

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What is the Initial Speed Formula for a Ballistic Pendulum?

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Air is a real substance for year 8 class

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Simple Pendulum Problem: Finding Coefficient of Linear Expansion

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Energy of Falling Dominoes - Rotational and Gravitational

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Will These Two Planes Collide?

  • Femme_physics
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Can I convert a cosine voltage to Euler form without a sine term?

  • wateveriam
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How to find current through resistors.

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Calculating Resistivity: Finding the Area of a Wire

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Gravitational Potential Energy: Two Neutron Stars

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