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Gradiant question involving potenetial energy

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Mass Pulley Acceleration Problem

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Obvious Magnetic potential question

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How Do You Calculate the Average Force of Air Resistance on a Projectile?

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Mechanics of a ball sliding and rolling

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What is the Proper Method for Calculating Moment of Inertia for a Disk?

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Speed of Sound - Errors and Enhancements

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Centripetal acceleration fan problem

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Energy from each battery in a double-battery circuit

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Gyroscope Angular Speed Calculation

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Two masses attached with a spring.

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Ray diagrams for mirror ray tracing

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How Do You Calculate the Work Done by Friction on a Skier?

  • neoncrazy101
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Help Needed: Magnetism and Electron/Alpha Particle Motion

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Charge to Mass Ratio of a Particle to Electron - Mass

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How can I create realistic gravity code for my video game?

  • AlbertRenshaw
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How Do Lorentz Transformations Relate to Rocket Frames in Special Relativity?

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What is the potential at the center of a sphere with given boundary conditions?

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How Is Linear Velocity Calculated for a Cylinder on an Inclined Plane?

  • kayron
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Kinetic energy of a rolling sphere

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Rate of flow of water through a pipe

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What Are the Effects of Cepheids Not Existing?

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Momentum Powered Uphill Roller? Help

  • NathanJP
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Calculating relativistic mass of neutrons, wrote out my plan please critique

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Series circuit answers correct?

  • confused12345
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How deep is the well using the speed of sound?

  • starji
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Uncertainty Principle & an Atomic Nucleus

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Okay, now I understand it. Thank you!You're welcome.

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Simple Harmonic motion (non-calculus)

  • suwarna07
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Ball attached to String (Potential Energy)

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Determine the Energy of Electromagnetic Radiation After Particle Collision

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Evergy of Simple harmonic motion

  • Jake4
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Beta decay problems, not getting the right answer

  • crosbykins
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Help with this simple nodal analysis issue, please

  • PainterGuy
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Force Needed to Keep Mass on Wedge Stationary

  • Violet42
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Specific Latent Heat and Thermal Physics

  • Peter G.
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Two spaceships pass each other/fire rocket

  • Leb
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Finding KE when given de Broglie wavelength

  • vspectra
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How to find the voltage and current of this circuit

  • silvercats
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Linear attenuation coefficient.

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Second order differential equation

  • Tan Bee Yong
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How to treat internal resistance in calculations ?

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What Mistake Am I Making in Calculating Fringe Width?

  • cupid.callin
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How Do You Calculate Orbital Period with Limited Data?

  • blackbyron
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How Is the Time Constant Calculated in a Series-Parallel RC Circuit?

  • newyorkcity
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Current on Parallel Conducting Wires

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Fluids, finding the density of a sphere in oil Please help

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Thermodynamics Help: Ideal Gas Temperature Rise Comparison

  • zorro
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Bulbs connected in series power consumed

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Atwood Lab Homework: Analyze, Experiment & Report

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What is the Total Work Done to Reach a Speed of 60 mph?

  • connphysics
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How Do You Determine Force from a Given Trajectory in Physics?

  • Physics Help!
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Understanding Electric Field Direction Around Point Charges

  • JooJupe
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Maximizing range and time aloft when throwing a ball

  • FredGirl13
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Solve the 2011-Point Resistance Challenge!

  • ashishsinghal
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Calculating Charge and Voltage in an RC Circuit with a Closed Switch

  • the_storm
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At what velocity should relativity be taken into account

  • moonkey
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Solving Doppler Shift to Calculate Cyclist's Speed

  • Beatdiz
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Electronics current calculation

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Measuring speed of sound in air

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Time Period of pendulum on another planet? Given gravity

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Photoelectric Effect & Silver: Can 449nm Light Eject Electrons?

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Calculating the Volume of a Concave Lens Using Multiple Integration

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Special Relativity: Understanding the Problem of Simultaneity

  • Shark 774
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Calculating Resistance Across a Hollow Sphere

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Force exerted on a seat on rollercoaster

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What are the Components of a Circuit?

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Rotational Motion and magnitude

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Standing waves and vibration frequency

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What is the Resistance Between Two Points in an Infinite Grid?

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High power lasers and nature of light waves

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Idel van der Waals fluids and Helmholtz potential

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Projectile Motion: Water Balloon Launch Project

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Why is absolute zero important in the PV = nRT formula?

  • Peter G.
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How do I Calculate Acceleration from Distance and Time?

  • hogga10
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Are Rolling Resistance Equations for Speed and Acceleration Accurate?

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Tension Calculation for a Vibrating Violin String

  • bigsaucy
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Forces problem: a donkey pulling a cart

  • N_L_
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How Is Kinetic Energy Related to Spring Compression in Harmonic Motion?

  • artsakh
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Mechanics problem - how fast for a car to take off on a hill.

  • leoflindall
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Astronomy - Determine the sum of the stellar masses

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Curvilinear (n/t) motion (find magnitude of acceleration)

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How Do You Solve Simultaneous Equations for Revision?

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Carnot engine ( Thermodynamics )

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Understanding Ln Graph: Form & Deduction of P and L in V = Pe-LQ

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Period of Small Oscillations for Rigid Body Pendulum

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Calculating engine torque/horse power from datalogs

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How to calculate battery discharge time

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Standing waves and frequency

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Force exerted by aircraft dive brakes- where did I go wrong?

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Calculating Cooling Rate for a Black Body in a Vacuum with a Radiation Screen

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Multipath dispersion in fibre optic cable

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Question on Work: Understanding Force, Mass, and Displacement

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Conceptual Question Regarding Fluids

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Ball on a string with initial velocity

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Entropy Change Q: 10 Ohm Resistor @ 300K, 5A for 2 Mins

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