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Brightness of Light Bulbs Ranking Task

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How Is Torque Calculated in a Circular Coil within a Magnetic Field?

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Calculating power give mass, time, distance

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Ball bounce timing, gun barrel length, and bird wing velocity

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Force between two metal spheres after electron transfer

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Dynamic Analysis of Motion - Biomechanics

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Why isn't the 20k resistor used in the RC time constant?

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Particle Rotation: Solving for X Coordinate at a Given Time

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Maximum Distance of Package on Incline with Friction

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How Do You Calculate the Moment of Inertia for a Disk Rotated Off-Center?

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Invisibility Cloaks: Understand How They Work

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Addition of 3d force vectors to find resultant

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How Is Path Length Difference Calculated in a Two-Slit Interference Pattern?

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Error in my units, and I don't understand why

  • warfreak131
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Central Diffraction Maximum Double Slit

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Calculating disintegration energies of alpha emmision.

  • Finaid
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Ball bouncing off ground at different angles

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Rotational Motion: Stop a 10 kg Disk in 20 sec

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Projectile motion of home run ball

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Specific Heat Capacity and final temperature

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Final temperature when tea and copper cup reach thermal equilibrium

  • 47Alexander
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Loop-de-loop work energy problem

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How Does SHM Affect Apparent Weight on a Fish Scale in Water Waves?

  • physicsnewb12
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Problem concerning zoom lens in camera

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Electric circuit, drift velocity, battery

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Eddy Current in a rotationg disk

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Galvanometer to ammeter/voltmeter

  • Dr. Science
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Object being launched into space

  • aeromat
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Equivalent Capacitance or Resistance and Kirchoff's rules

  • lookingforhlp
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Work required to lift object from earth's surface to circular orbit

  • aeromat
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Current source = Total current?

  • gabjew90
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Finding emf of battery in circuit with given current

  • DrMcDreamy
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Surface charge, electric fields, and capacitance

  • lookingforhlp
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Completing the Square, Quad form

  • DiomondJim
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Mass added to a spring to increase period of oscillation

  • jomha
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A pipe, a string, and resonance

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How are Electromagnetic Waves Produced?

  • kripkrip420
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Torque Calc: Find Torque from Force F, Vector r

  • gvcalamike
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Anglar motion, where do i start

  • jsm6252
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Features of series and parallel combination of resistors

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Uncertainty in pulley experiment efficiency measurement

  • Peter G.
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Angular Momentum and Angular kinetic energy about the center of the sun.

  • Wasseem92
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Bike and Car both accelerate from rest ( intermediate problem)

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Spring mass system and Simple harmonic motion

  • physicsnewb12
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Obtain the voltage of the generator and the phase angle

  • cclement524
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Optics problem, adding quantities

  • thezac11
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Damped Harmonic Oscillation Problem

  • Chip90
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How does a rigid block on its edge move?

  • tmiddlet
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Fast quick Energy Conservation Question

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How does the mass of the barbell affect the centre of gravity?

  • bigsaucy
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Thin Film interference: air wedge

  • Abelard
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Calculating pressure of cylinder on table

  • tehmatriks
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Why Is My Calculated Torque Different from the Textbook's Answer?

  • bigsaucy
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Time for jets to stop space capsule rotating at 30 rev/min

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Solve 8526 N Weight Acceleration Problem at 5° Angle

  • ryanbe
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Applying Newton's laws to four fluid mechanics problems

  • AttilaTheNun
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Solved: Wavelength of Scattered Light After Photon-Electron Collision

  • Allan1993
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Finding satellite period orbiting Earth given distance and mass

  • teggenspiller
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Calculating Net Torque on a Circle: 4.0cm Diameter, 20N and 30N Forces

  • bigsaucy
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Solving a Virtual Image Problem Involving a Converging Lens

  • lpau001
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Conceptual Question [Newtons Laws]

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Magnetic field from two wires distance

  • fisixC
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Deriving Energy and Wave Functions from 3D Schrödinger

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Initial vs. Final velocity of projectile with no net displacement

  • PhysicsAdvice
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Force between two point charges

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The potential energy of two atoms-

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How can the vertex be found in a parabolic curve equation?

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Torque, Rotation, Pulley problem

  • cdbowman42
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What is the equivalent resistance between points a and b in the figure

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Wave Speed Dependency on Distance from Top of Hanging Rope

  • BryMan92
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Resistors and currents-circuits

  • smoics
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How to Calculate the Specific Heat Capacity of an Unknown Metal

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Loop, compass and magnetic field

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Given the rest energy need to convert into MeV

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How Does Friction Affect Spring Compression and Energy Loss?

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Rain falling at 1 m/s, man running at 5 m/s: umbrella angle?

  • AlchemistK
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Electrostatic Potential of a Charged Metallic Shell

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Hydrogen Atom -> Uncertainty Principle

  • btbam91
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What Angle to Tilt a Cylindrical Tank to Double Water Flow from a Hose?

  • vivekrai
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Impedance in an electric Circuit

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Moment of inertia for compound pendulum with rod and disc

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How Many Turns Are Needed for a Solenoid with Given Parameters?

  • fisixC
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Why are they using a rectangle for Guass's Law?

  • flyingpig
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Some theories concerning potential difference

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Find initial velocity given angle and distance to go over an object

  • jarn6700
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Solving Uni Physics with Projectile Motion

  • Stephen1993
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Nodal Analysis with power supplied to capacitor

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What does local form mean in Gauss' law for magnetism?

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Momentum problem of blocks and bullet

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Electric field at perpendicular distance R due to a Solenoid

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Force and Motion Homework: Draw Free Body Diagram & Compare Fnorm to Fgrav

  • AnomalyCoder
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Why is E-field 0 outside of this sphere?

  • flyingpig
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Tension vector diagram [Probably obvious]

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Why is there no current in the right loop of this circuit?

  • flyingpig
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Thermodynamics - internal energy change question

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