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Solving for a Train Without Knowing Mass

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Total Force on Wire: Solving a Physics Problem

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Cart pulled by cord over pulley: finding change in kinetic energy

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How do you solve integrals with e to a power?

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Angular acceleration of dipole in uniform electric field

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Speed at which to hurl a projectile?

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Discharging of a capacitor through a light bulb.

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What is the specific heat of seawater?

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A challenging friction and forces question

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What is the angle between vectors A and B?

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Mechanics (general motion of a rigid body)

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Finding angle in ring support wires and tension in angled rope

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Moment of inertia of a disc with a hole

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Hydrostatic Pressure: Submarine Crew Escape Force Needed

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Distance between Binary Star Systems

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Electric Field of an Infinitely Long Insulating Cylinder

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Angle of incidence for light from flashlight at feet to reach eyes in mirror

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Calculating Work and Speed on a Ramp

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Integral of e^(i x v) /(x^2 + a ^2) from -Infty to Infty

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Calculating Time Dilation on an Airplane in Special Relativity

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Finding energy released when water freezes on ice

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How Does Force Affect the Time in a Domino Effect Experiment?

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Which suspect's rifle matches the bullet's kinematics?

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Why electric field and drift velocity vary in series resistors

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How Far Should the Runner Sprint to Finish a 10km Race in Under 40 Minutes?

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Relativity - Lorentz Transformation

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Calculate Acceleration, Velocity and Force of a Piston

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Calculating Work Done by Force of Gravity on a 0.245 kg Ball

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Find the current and potential difference

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What is the maximum power and corresponding current for a car battery?

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Maximum Charge on Parallel-Plate Capacitor with Mica Dielectric

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Is the Force Conservative in a One-Dimensional System?

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What are the different methods to find the volume of copper wire?

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Does Current Depend on Wire Diameter?

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Magnetic field produced by coil and solenoid

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Double slit interference with small angle approximation

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Dielectric Breakdown-max potential difference

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Minimum film thickness for destructive interference with no reflection

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Special Relativity and muon decay

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Which Charge is Negative in an Electric Field Diagram?

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What is the Kinematics of a Particle Leaving a Ledge?

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How do I solve this Thick Film, Double Slit problem?

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AC emf applied to capacitor and lamp in series

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What Went Wrong in Calculating the Velocity of Carts C and B After Collision?

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Problem solving for time when average power and total energy is given

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Acceleration and velocity (conceptual) question

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Can Displacement Be Calculated Without Drawing a Scale Diagram?

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Deriving Formulas for Work/Energy Problems

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Tension in a vibrating string at a given frequency

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Finding n₁ when light undergoes total internal reflection

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How Does the Smaller Block's Slide Affect the Larger Block's Acceleration?

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Calculating Net Work, Heat Transfers in a Thermodynamic Cycle

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Lorentz Transformation - Proof that t'2 - t'1 >0

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At what tension does a 10kg box slip on a 20kg sled on a 20° slope?

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A car placed on incline and a mass placed on the car

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How to solve rotational work and energy problem?

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Calculating Work Done by a Batter on a Baseball

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Calculating SAR from multiple sources

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When does a wire loop in a magnetic field have maximum and minimum current?

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Understanding about differentials?

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Volume of object that weighs 200N more in air than in water

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How to Determine Relative Velocity Using Vector Subtraction

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How Does Water Angle in a Rotating Carousel Microwave?

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Elastic collision between neutron and carbon-12 nucleus

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Rotational Motion of a slender rod

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Calculating Collision: How Long Until Two Continents Collide?

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Does This Engine Violate the First or Second Law of Thermodynamics?

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Prove 4f is the Min. Distance Between Conjugate Points for Thin Lens

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Simple beginning physics, mindfart

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Uniform Circular Motion and Water Falling From A Bucket

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Seafloor spreading over 100 million years with 2000 km length

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Determining the mass of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

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Time dependent Resistance in an RC-circuit

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Finding penguin mass m2 from tensions in a four-penguin chain on ice

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Rotational Inertia of compass needle

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Why can this formula be applied for diffraction gratings?

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Finding tension in T3 and T4 in an equilibrium problem

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Calculate Speed of Water Ejected from Hose

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Ball on String Elastic Collision

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Tangential and Radial Acceleration of car around a curve

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What Is the Average Volume Gained Each Day for a Newborn?

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Absolute Temperature and the Ideal Gas Law

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Kinetic Theory of the Ideal Gas

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Momentum in Space - How long will it take?

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Optimal Expansion Gap for Concrete Highway in Varying Temperatures

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Calculating Frequency of Vertical Oscillation for a Spring-Mass System

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Justify the number of significant figures for x

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Potential at points inside and outside a conducting sphere cavity

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Biomechanics I, somersault question using angular accel/ vel

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Finding density of unknown liquid from styrofoam buoyancy and rope tension

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Solve Frictionless Drift Physics Problem: Angle of Inclination

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Calculating Height and Velocity: Solving the Throw-up Problem

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Spring collision problem: why is my extension 4.5 cm not 6.1 cm?

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