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Calculating the Input Energy for Leaf Battery Pack from a Power Plant

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Should I Pursue a Double Slit Experiment for My Physics EEI?

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How Can You Solve the Oscillating Wave Problem in Vibrating Systems?

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Why might it be important to carry out stress transformations?

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Circuit problem with ammeter and unknown resistance

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How Do Protons Behave in a Particle Accelerator?

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Deriving an equation for the electric field at a point charge

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Displacement in the 5th second.

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Electric Potential expression at point P

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Why is 220V circuits used in certain devices

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Changing string length -> changing fundamental freq.

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Young's Modulus of Pressure Sensor

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Multiple electrons in an infinite square well

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Understanding Electric Fields: Measuring the Electric Field at a Point P

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Calculating Speed from Light Wavelengths

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Rotational Motion, Rolling Motion

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What Is the Maximum Transverse Velocity at x=0 for a Moving Wave Pulse?

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What Does a Non-Uniformly Accelerated Motion Graph Look Like?

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How to Calculate Outlet Pressure and Temperature in a Pipe?

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Frequency of oscillation (spring)

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Finding equilibrium position for particle D in 2D gravitation problem

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How Does Kinetic Energy Calculation Relate to a Nissan Leaf's Performance?

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When does a child walking on a plank cause it to tip?

  • mogley76
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Deriving electric field from potential derivatives

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Miniature Black Holes: Calculating Distance from Person

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Why does tripling force reduce stopping time to one-third?

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Finding Bragg-Plane Spacing for a Crystal in Diffract-Meter

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Calculating tension of objects with a pulley on an incline

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What is the velocity of electrons when released from 1 nm apart?

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How to find natural frequency of a damped oscillator

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Projectile Motion and Air resistance

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How Is the Orbital Period of a Satellite Determined?

  • mogley76
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Is My Formula Rearrangement for Vertical Circle Travel Correct?

  • RichMortimer
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Desperate Deriving Ideal Gas Formula

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Calculating Forces on a Charge from Multiple Charges

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Induced EMF and angular velocity

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Relationship between light wavelength, intensity and photons energy

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Relationship Between Resistivity and Conductor Dimensions

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Basketball Physics Question (kinematics, really )

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Magnetic field within cylinder using Ampere's Law

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Entropy for irreversible process

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How Does Adding Ice Affect the Final Temperature of Hot Coffee?

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Electric potential of a conducting sphere

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Torque about different points gives different answers

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Op-Amp Output Voltage Calculation with Two Input Voltages

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2 masses around a pulley w/ friction

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Moment of inertia of wheel and frictional torque.

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Angular momentum equations for angular velocity and point mass

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Difference Between Interference and Diffraction

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Measuring the size of a molecule

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What angle between force and displacement gives 12500 J of work?

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Determining the force that is required

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Effect of parachute on free fall?

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Newton's Second Law Incline (constant accel)

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How Do You Transform f(t) = cos(t) for t>=2 Using Step Functions?

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Work and Ideal Gases: Calculate Initial Volume

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Air bags, braking force, circuit breakers and lamp resistance

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Weather balloon radius at different pressure and temperature

  • Jake4
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Optical Instruments: Solving Homework Problems

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Fluid/Stream Que work shown need guidance

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Net work on blocks of different mass pushed by same force

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Find out How Long 9.5 W Battery Can Run Camera

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Lowest Possible Frequencies of a Sound

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Collision of Car & Truck: Calculating Velocity & Direction

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Physical meaning of ohm as reciprocal velocity

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Power Required to Move Elevator Cab in NY Marriott Marquis

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Kinetic energy - this girl is getting frustrated

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How to find work done in exact values?

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How to Measure the Output of an Op Amp Circuit?

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How long will a ball of paper take to fall from a height of 45 meters?

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Why Must Electron and Positron Have Equal Angles in Annihilation?

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I need a topic about light, waves or color

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Nonconservative/work theorem problem.

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Questions about RLC circuits and OP amps

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Balsa wood tower design with Euler's buckling theorem

  • allison23
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Why does diagram C best represent ideal gas behavior?

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Solving for Charge Q at Corner C in Electric Field Problem

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Van de Graaff generator with PVC pipe instead of glass tube won't work

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Angular Velocity, Momentum, and Kinetic Energy

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How to find out radius by velocity and an angle

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Disk and cylindrical shell collision using angular momentum conservation

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Calculating Speed of Bowling Ball Down Incline

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Angular velocity and rotational equilibrium

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Calculating Forces on a Window Washer's Scaffold

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Angular velocity of cylinder when 10kg mass unwinds 25m of rope

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Determining concentration by measuring pressure change

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Charging capacitor through two bulbs vs discharging through one bulb

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How Do You Calculate Forces on a Plank with Unevenly Placed Weights?

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Determine angular velocity - Dynamics

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Two Observers and the Motion of Protons

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Rotational kinetic energy of a fly wheel.

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How Does Simple Harmonic Motion Influence Precision Timing Devices?

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