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Carnot Heat Engine, thermodynamics

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Multiple choice but no answers to them so can't study?

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Why Is Diffraction More Evident When Slit Width Matches Wavelength?

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Solved: Conical Pendulum: Calculating Tension & Period

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Finding the coefficient of Friction

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Getting moles number of Oxygen in Balloon - 65 characters

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Breaking up vectors into components

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Solving for Power Loss in a Transmission Line: (P-P')=(P^2)R/(V^2)

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I think I am brain dead today. I can't even solve this simple problem

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Exponential decay question. fundamental

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How Does Stretching a Wire Affect Its Resistance?

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Solving Kinematics Problem: Dropped Object Distance & Height

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Resistance and the flow in a circuit

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Using Min and Max slope method to determine uncertainties

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Why does the snapped wire create heat?

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Pushing a 94kg Crate: Calculating Force, Work & Power

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Calculating Work Done for a Box on Horizontal Floor

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Solving Homework: Speed, Acceleration, and Distance

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Tension and pulleys (not calculative questions)

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How much work is done by the towrope on a waterskier moving due west?

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Potential difference of 2 points across charge and conductor

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Type 1 Projectile with an initial vertical velocity

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How Quickly Can an MRI's Magnetic Field Be Safely Altered?

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The Doppler Effect For EM Waves

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Simple Alpha Particle Spectroscopy Question

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What is the relationship between mass and acceleration based on given data?

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Number of revolutions within 4 seconds

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Circular Motion Force at Point A: Stunt Car on Frictionless Track

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Kinetic Friction and skis thrust

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An adiabatic piston of mass m .

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How Do You Derive the Range Maximizing Equation in Projectile Motion?

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Acceleration in free fall w/ air drag given velocity and mass

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Inertial and non-inertial frame of reference

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Spring compression - Conservation of Energy

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Coefficient of friction-Puck travelling up an incline

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Energy Conservation & Potential Energy Spring/Friction Problem

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Electric Potential Between Two Charges

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Concepts of a Piston cylinder device

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Meter Conversion: Rs, Rm, Rt, %Ig, %Is

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I hate signs, a simple problem with electric potential

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What Forces Act on a Mass Sliding Inside a Hoop?

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How Do You Calculate Earth's Radial and Transverse Velocity Components?

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: precalc project amplitude help

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Understanding the Difference between Radiance and Irradiance

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Potential difference between 2 points

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Derivations of the motion equations

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Vertical circular motion in uniform circular motion

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How Is Acceleration Calculated in Uniform Acceleration Problems?

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Calculating Buoyant Force of Balloon System

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Mutual Inductance of a conducting loop and a solenoid

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Calculating Mass from Force & Acceleration

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Helicopter carrying a water balloon

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Conservation of Energy - Bungee Jumping

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Calculating the Horizontal Force for Stationary Blocks on a Cart

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Loop moving through a magnetic field

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Atomic Mass in a Mass Spectrometer

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Field Transformations: loop moving along wire

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What is the tension on a string wrapped around a pulley?

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Statistics of Radioactive Decay

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Solve the Spring-Block System: Find x1 & x2

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Resultant electric field magnitude and direction

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How Does Charge Affect Electric Field in Spherical Shells?

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How Long Will It Take to Heat Water in an Electric Kettle?

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Equation of Motion of sky-diver

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Simple fluids but is the application correct

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Can a Ball Roll in a Horizontal Circle Inside a Bowl?

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Conservation of energy - spring

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How Does Charge Redistribution Work in a Conductor with a Cavity?

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PLEASE HELP in Deriving Terminal Velocity Equation

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I am about to toss this book off the window

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Calculating Force P Needed to Lift 150kg Cylinder

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Angle for a projectile that must clear 2 walls

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What is the Speed of a Proton Released Midway Between Charged Sheets?

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What Is the Correct Unit for a in the Equation P + av^2 = b?

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Find Weight of Object Pulled by Rope w/ FT=30N & Acceleration=1.4m/s2

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Force between a unform sphere and a particle* outside of the sphere

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Constructive inteference question

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How Does Friction Affect Mechanical Energy in a Bead Slide?

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How to improve a summary of superposition/Schrodinger's cat

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Motional Emf: Solving for Speed with E=vBL

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Calculating Linear Speed of Test Tube in Centrifuge

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Virial theorem for an inverse-square law force

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Deriving RPM for Object Slipping from Rotating Surface

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A mass attached to 2 identical springs (please HELP)

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Fabricating a Uniform Wire: Length & Diameter Calculation

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What Is the Magnetic Field at the Center of a Solenoid?

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Calculate Electrical Energy Stored in 9V Battery (120 mAh)

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