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What is the average angular deceleration of the rear wheel?

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Why does resonance peak amplitude decrease with resistance in parallel LCR?

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Sliding bar constraint equations

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A Physics Kinematics Grade 11 question

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How much light passes through a window?

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Car pulled over speed bump with cable at angle

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Projectile Motion: Is Final Y Velocity Lower Than Initial? Impact on Time?

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Ring moving along frictionless arc

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What is the Tension in Each String for a Hanging Ball?

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Frictionless Ramp question, should be very simple

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How does telephone signal transfer work?

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How is τmax/rmax related to the second moment of area?

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Equation for heating water with a nichrome coil

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Flow of electricity and resistivity (ohms law)

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Flow of electricity: Open versus Closed Circuit

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Kirchoff's Laws to find all currents flowing in the cct

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Angular Velocity with Bike Tires

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Actual vs percieved depth. optics question

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A Leaning Plank. Find where it looses contact.

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Energy resultant of Solidification Point Of Ethanol

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Angular momentum of comet in elliptical orbit at perihelion

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How Does Capacitance Change with Angle in Non-Parallel Plate Capacitors?

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How Do You Calculate the Moment of Inertia for a Cubic Slab?

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Resonance of a Parallel LCR network

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Conservation of energy of spring

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Calculating I for a Circular Hoop with Tangential Axis

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Chase problem involving acceleration and velocity

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Minimum force to raise barrel with pipe levers

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Electric Field and Forces Problem?

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Blackhole spaghettification and maximum body tension

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In a certain region, the earth's magnetic field has a magnitude

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Electrostactics- honors physics problem

  • Creative-Amy
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Circular Motion astronaut training

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Time to complete circuit on dome at maximum speed

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Basic problem on the equation of motion

  • Frisky90
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What Are the Quantum Limits of Cooling Sodium Atoms in an Atom Trap?

  • natalie.*
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Maximum acceleration using energy principle

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Inclined Plane Pulley System: Finding Tensions

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How Does Particle Velocity Change in Different Reference Frames?

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Find Out How to Determine Accuracy of Line of Best Fit

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Can You Protect an Egg from a 40 ft Drop Using Only Straws and Rubber Bands?

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Which line is stonger? orange, green or blue?

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Which bead arrives first at the finish: A or B on a curved wire?

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Calculate Resonance Wavelength?

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Find Electric Field vector from Equapotential lines

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Rotation - Collision of Rotating Cylinders Cylinders

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Acceleration of a Particle in Frames S1 and S2

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Is the Time of Orbit for a Satellite Above Mars Really 800 Million Years?

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Calculating Wavelength for Diffraction Grating Problem

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How can I solve the Thoroid circuit problem?

  • Tusike
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Very Very Basic Numeracy Question - I'm Having a Dumb Moment?

  • Physics Enemy
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Rotation - Angular acceleration

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Hanging Mass - Answer says that I am wrong

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Block rising between two downward-moving wires at angle α

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Right hand rule finding direction of magnetic force

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AC Circuits / Alternating Current

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How Do You Calculate Final Velocity in a Two-Car Collision Scenario?

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Calculate total energy expended in the acceleration

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Accuracy and percentage uncertainty

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Wondering about the signs or coordinate system for forces?

  • page123
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What are the unknowns in this nuclear reaction sequence?

  • AStaunton
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Newton's Second Law: Combined Masses

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Net gravitational force from sun and moon on Earth at different moon phases

  • eclecticmanic
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Finding Angular Displacement in a Pirouette

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Finding Brewster's Law - Relation between Io and Refractive Index n

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Car crash stimulus calculations

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Acceleration from min/max derivatives

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Projectile Motion - formula derivation

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Show that 1/2mv^2 = 3/2kT for a star cluster

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Power needed to maintain speed against resistance in a coasting car

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Find coefficient of kinetic friction for mass on ramp and level surface

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How Does Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Induce EMF in Brain Tissue?

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Uniform Circular Motion in a Horizontal Plane

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Constant acceleration with initial backward velocity

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Compton Effect conceptual problem

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Bernoulli's Principle: Venturi Pipe

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Atwoods machine and angular momentum

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Simple Resistance-Temp relationship

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Charge density of a infinite straight wire

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Minimum angle to hit a target 0.8m high at unknown distance

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What Incline Is Needed for a Toboggan to Slide Downhill?

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What is wrong with my solution?

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Understanding Shear and Bending Moments in Beam Analysis

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Rotation problems: pure rotation, angular velocity, torque, and rolling

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Calculate Magnetic Field Strength for Deflecting Electron in CRT?

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Circular Motion, only radius known

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Find moment of Inertia from Force, radius and acceleration

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Statics question: when do I need to find the support reactions?

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Current in a Network of Resistors

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Two connected masses on separate inclines

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Why does the impulse equal 2.8 when a moving tennis ball is hit back?

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Physics Test Question, Electromagnetism (induced charges) (grade 12)

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Two ramps, one friction, one frictionless

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Maximum height and acceleration of a jumping flea

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How to Calculate Average Power of a Train Pulling an Object on a Slope

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Voltage drop across a resistor in a circuit

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