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Lunar lander in orbit around the moon and how much work the thrusters do

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Angular and tangential acceleration

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How Fast Can a Child Swing Without Breaking the Rope?

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Inelastic collision and circular motion

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Work and Kinetic Energy Problem

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How Do You Calculate the Velocity of a Swinging Mass?

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Blackbody Radiation: 100K to 1000K Energy Increase

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How Do You Solve an Oscillating Rope Problem?

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Electric field in a ring between two magnets

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Electric force with a moving conductive bar in a magnetic field

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Why is Neutrality Important in Electrostatics of Conductors with Cavities?

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Solenoid magnetic flux and emf

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What Is the Recoil Speed of Earth After a Meteorite Collision?

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Young's interference experiment problem

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Is delta H=0 for isothermal process?

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A Flexible chain between two hooks (statics)

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Projectile motion of tennis ball

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Nonconsevative force ramp problem

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Gravitational torque about a point on a rod

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Help with Basic Homework, about electromagnetic induction

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Another moment of inertia problem. help

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How to calculate dampening coefficient?

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Find Image & Object Distances from h, h', f

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Conservation of Angular momentum question.

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Instantaenous velocity/center of mass? help

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Elastic Collision and Kinematic Problem

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Calculating Impulse and Momentum in a Colliding Cart System

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Electrons, wire, amps and magnetic fields?

  • heston1980
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Uniform Electric Fields concept question

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Last moment of inertia problem I have

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Unanswered Questions: The Consequences of Neglecting Scientific Inquiry

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How Does Friction Impact Tug of War Dynamics?

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Solve Collision Problem: Two 8kg & 5.9kg Blocks

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When do two pulses begin to meet?

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Deflection and Modulus of Elasticity

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Calculating Shear Force for a Linearly Increasing Load on a Rod

  • Patdon10
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Electromagnetism qs need someone to check my work

  • crosbykins
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Extremely Difficult Circuit Problem involving a potentiometer

  • lilcho
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Vertical Spring Oscillation Frequency

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Calculating Projectile Motion for a Catapult with Limited Data

  • thedarklite
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Calculating the Angle of an Electron Passing Between Charged Plates

  • crosbykins
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A-Level physics past papers and answers online ?

  • GUS
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Is 2 or 128 the Answer? Unraveling the Mystery

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Double Slit Experiment - Measurement Problem

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Question about electrostatic equilibrium?

  • jle1092
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Batteries: voltages when in series, parallel, and combination?

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Vector Calculation: Find Angle & Magnitude Resultant Vector

  • AlchemistK
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Convert Magnetic Field [MMaxwells*N] to Gauss

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Solving Power of Projectile with Air Resistance

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Calculating Charges Using Coulomb's Law and Slope Analysis

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Learning EKG Graphs: Understand Cardiac Cycles in 1st, 2nd & 3rd Periods

  • MitsuShai
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What is the maximum water speed from a compressed watergun?

  • PFCJeff
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What's wrong with this Spring Energy question?

  • cadenmoore
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Calculating the Rate of Nuclear Fission with 1000 kW Power and 200 MeV Energy

  • intellpuneet
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Finding Surface area of a Parametric Curve

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Interesting dimensional analysis question posed about time perception

  • cogandil
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Acceleration of a metal rod in an electric circuit

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How Does a Canister's Speed Change Along a Frictionless Incline?

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of an Isotope?

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Induced magnetic flux through a coil

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Basic Lenz's Law question, loop near current carrying wire

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Thin Film Interference Patterns

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Calcuating the resistance of a circuit.

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500 ohm resister fed from 120 VP-Pac source

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Help with applying Kirchhoff's Law to a circuit

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Electric Field and Energy Storage of 9V Battery Across Parallel Plates

  • physicskid8
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What is the current equation and approach for problem-solving?

  • BARBARlAN
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Charge and Voltage ProblemDon't know where to start

  • JoshP-hillips
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Understanding the Star Winding in 6-12 Volt Generators

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How Does the Biot-Savart Law Apply to Forces Between Wire Segments in a Loop?

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Equivalence of two sine arguments

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Angular acceleration of a computer disk drive

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Magnetic field at origin because of 3 wires

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Probabilities Inside Cubic 3D Infinite Well

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Max Distance Calculated for Spring Mass System of K=450N/m, m=2.2kg

  • samdiah
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Basic one dimensional kinematics problem, need conceptual help

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How Do You Calculate the Center of Mass for a Composite Shape?

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Vertical intercept of an Acceleration Force Graph

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How Does Special Relativity Affect Exam Time and Signal Transmission?

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Grade 11 musical instrument project

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What Determines the Number of Real Roots in a Quadratic Equation?

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Compound Microscope Homework: Angular Magnification & Object Distance

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Why Are Most Pieces of Iron Not Magnetic?

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Graphical Methods Homework: Ranking Paths and Windows

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Why do large particles scatter more light than smaller particles?

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Heat dissipated from electric field

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Work done by force (Vector notation)

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Magnetic Field and vectors from Two Wires

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Moving electrons and magnetic fields

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Electric Field of Non-Conducting Sheets.

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Switching from parallel to series and keeping restistance the same.

  • lilcho
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Water going down a waterfall, where is it warmer?

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