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Coulomb's law for uniformly charged spheres

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Gravitational field intensity 300 km above Earth's surface

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Modern Physics Introduction Photon Energy and Wavelength

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Calculating the normal force of a roller coaster

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Modern Physics Introduction Standing Wavelength and Frequency

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Modern Physics Introduction Question on Electron Speed and Momentum

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How Does Non-Monatomic Gas Behavior Differ During Expansion?

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Direction of acceleration in projectile motion

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Max Height of Rocket A Above Earth's Surface

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What is the coefficient of static friction between the crate and the truck bed?

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Kinetic and potential energy and speed

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Question on thin film interference

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How Is the Capacitance of a Parallel-Plate Air Capacitor Calculated?

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Law of reflection with a glass slab on the mirror

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Physics question (mass at rest raised to height by force. What is velocity)?

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Center of Mass and Motion of Objects: A Mechanics Exam Review Question

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Electricity basis resistors/power/current question

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Current carrying wire and induced electric field within the wire

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Single and Double Slit Diffraction and Interference

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Deriving frequency formula for rotating mass on a spring

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How Does a Potential Step Affect Particle Wave Functions and Traveling Waves?

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Calculating Refraction at a Spherical Surface with Multiple Media

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Few questions about nuclear physics

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Beats from Different String Lengths

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How to find eigenvectors of a 3 by 3 matrix

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How Is Net Work Calculated in a Cyclic Ideal Gas Process?

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Wire Suspended By Magnetic Field

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How Do You Calculate the Coefficient of Friction on an Inclined Plane?

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Detecting gamma rays with cesium and a Geiger counter

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Maxwell's Equations: B-field induced from changing E-field

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Momentum of a mass spring system >_<

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Calculating Capacitance for a Rolled Capacitor

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What is the Final Temperature of Hot Body C in a Thermodynamic Engine Cycle?

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Net Electric Force on +q Charge with Two Added Charges

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Calculating Orbital Speed of a Geosynchronous Satellite around Mars

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Molar heat capacity (Thermodynamics)

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Gravitional Potential Energy and Elastic Potentional Energy

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Elastic collision between identical steel balls at 40 degrees

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Electric Field Interactions in a Bent Wire Configuration

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Deriving MOI of a Radially-Dependent Density Cylinder on an Incline

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Serious problems understanding which things to do first

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Calculations associated with a bouncing ball

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Finding Electric Flux of a Disc of Radius r

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Start a Fire with Shaving Mirror?

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Woman standing on ball of foot - torque

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Acceleration of suspended block in pulley-cylinder system

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Solve Buoyancy Problem: Estimate Balloon Radius for 6 Yr Old Boy

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Temperature of a Conducting Rod

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Intensity measured from a point and surface intensity

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Destructive interference of sound

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How Does Inserting a Dielectric Affect Electric Field in a Charged Capacitor?

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Finding refractive index and critical angle when refraction angle is unknown

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Confined Electron: Min Uncertainty in Momentum/Velocity

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Temperature for 440 Hz sound wave with 0.82 m wavelength

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Calculating Tension and Charge Magnitude in Charged Particle Systems

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Parallel capacitor, electrostatic energy

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Calculating Speed of Block with Dielectric in Capacitor

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Total force resisting the forward motion of a boat at a speed

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Find an expression for linear momentum and torque

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What is the derivation for decrease in g with depth?

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Calculating Mass and Height of Ideal Gas in a Vertical Tank

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How Is Frequency Calculated in the Stern-Gerlach Experiment?

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Power output of a person during a run

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What is Faraday's Law of Induction?

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Transformer windings and voltage

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Right hand rule #2 for current and magnetic force on electron

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Polarised light from fresnel's equation

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Max Height of Ball: Can it be Determined?

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Calculating Angular Speed in a Rotating System with Sliding Rings

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Calculating velocity, given mass and force

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Can you induce a current in a coil without a magnet?

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Can either golfer hit a hole in one with this velocity and angle?

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What is the relationship between heat loss and resistivity in a cable?

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How Do You Calculate the Impact Speed of an Asteroid?

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Distributed load - model bridge project

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How to Calculate Angular Speed of a Rotating Turntable with Added Mass

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Calculating the mass of the moon given radius.

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Why are magnetic forces not always conservative?

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Concept of Field Lines, how Electricity vs Gravity

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Particles with Spin in a Box - Energy Levels

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Complex impendance in RL circuit

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Spring Energy Problem Conservative forces

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Sound Interference - Radio Broadcast

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What is the Correct Equation for Calculating the Length of a Spring?

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Bead Parabola Accelerometer

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Why is the maximum wavelength 8.00 m, not 4.00 m?

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What will be the image distance when he reverses the mirror ?

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How Do You Calculate Work and Potential Energy in Physics Problems?

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Gas law and finding the pressure

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Calculating Heat Capacity for Cage Weight of 1000 kg at 9 m/s

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Statics problem - is the mistake mine or the solution manual?

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Calculating the Total Resistance of a Composite Wire

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Magnetic field direction in Helmholtz coils

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