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Electric field due to a flat hollow disk

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Kinematics Question: A motorboat and a log in a stream

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Hitting a rocket with a projectile

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How to find Tb and Moments 3D equilibrium of rigid bodies

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Beam with a rope - type of problem (Statics)

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What Should Manufacturers Specify: Peak Power or Average Power in Audio Systems?

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Why did solving ionization energy with potential energy give the wrong n?

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Mutual inductance when coil axes are perpendicular

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Find the altitude and the speed of two jets with Doppler Effect

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Electric Field of a Finite Cylinder

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Stunt driver car jump: projectile motion velocity components

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Tension and reaction force in circular motion

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A mistake in the derivation of escape velocity

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Finding the center of mass of a solid hemisphere

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Two rods, each with a free and a fixed ball and a spring

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Why Is My Calculation Result for Acceleration Incorrect?

  • nicky670
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How Do You Calculate the Buoyant Force for a Stratospheric Balloon?

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Why will acceleration be -9.8 if it is moving upward direction?

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Kinematics, Conservation of energy, momentum

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A pyramid of three cylinders (statics problem)

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Calculating the Force Required for a Moving Wedge and Block System

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Solving Special Relativity Problem with Train Walking

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Finding the angle of a fragment in an explosion using momentum vectors

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Why does water have the same density at 1°C and 8°C?

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Momentum and Conservation of energy

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Integration ##\ddot\phi = -\omega^2\phi##

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What is the formula for calculating electrical potential?

  • jjson775
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Applying kinematic equations without velocity information

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Is the Calculation of Linear Density k for a Uniformly Charged Bar Correct?

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Voltage using different references

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Hollow and solid spheres floating in liquid

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Calculating Time with Forces Acting on a Block

  • tryingtolearn1
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Trouble Understanding Phasor to Time Domain Conversion Math

  • Mark Zhu
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Mechanics: Motion of Two Connected Vehicles

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Specific work done by an adiabatic & reversible compressor on air

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How to draw the transfer behavior of a fuzzy controller

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Which symbol for refractive index, μ or n?

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Calculator Question (Casio) -- How to disable "Shift 9 = AC"

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Finding net charge on a sphere's surface

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Why is jumping onto a moving train harder than it seems?

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Force on a charge at the tip of a hollow, charged cone

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Conservation of Energy Along an Incline with Friction

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Proving that the total mechanical energy is conserved with time

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Zero Force from 3 charges placed at the vertices of a Triangle

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Standing waves on a string -- Find the difference of phases

  • LCSphysicist
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Change the wavelength in a driven rope?

  • Edel Crine
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Energy Conservation between mechanical and electrical

  • Physicslearner500039
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How Is the Electric Field Difference Across a Charged Surface Determined?

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Uncertainty in the measurement of the focal length in this experiment

  • songoku
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Using Gauss' Law to find the field at a point

  • rtareen
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Significant Figures with Experimental Values

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Does a π phase shift from reflection advance or lag the wave?

  • LCSphysicist
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Normal force and cable tension for accelerating elevator

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Elastic Collision of Hydrogen and Carbon Atoms

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Why Does a Moving Rod Appear Inclined in Different Reference Frames?

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How do you calculate the acceleration of a block sliding down a plane?

  • tryingtolearn1
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Circular Motion of a Cyclist and a Car going around a bend in the road

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Deriving d/dt[a · (v × r)] with the product rule

  • happyparticle
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Find the potential using a line integral (Electromagnetism)

  • Vitani1
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Write the equations of a mass and spring in different accelerated systems

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Finding the potential difference of a diode

  • Ben1238
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Difference between curvilinear and rotational motion

  • Like Tony Stark
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Final Image position for a setup with two lenses

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Real and Complex representations of an oscillation equation

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Calculating the distance between fringes in an alternate universe

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Work done by a conservative force using change in potential energy

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Duct pressure unit conversions not checking out

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Interpreting line EB on spacetime diagram from Schutz Fig. 1.14

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Finding angular Momentum from a force

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Why is thin film interference maximum 2d = (m + 1/2)λ not 2d = mλ?

  • songoku
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Polish Physics Olympics problem with unknown circuit dependencies

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Bicycle wheel forced to roll around a vertical axle

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A traveling wave on an infinite string, find the intensity

  • LCSphysicist
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The leaning ladder problem using Newtonian mechanics

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Equivalent resistance of a section of a graphite ring

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How to Determine Reaction Forces on a Gyroscope at Points A and O?

  • Like Tony Stark
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Calculating Wave Amplitude and Frequency

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Is the Lorentz transform just switching between reference frames?

  • billllib
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A rotating rod acted upon by a perpendicular force

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How come 7,271,000 mm^3 is equivalent to 7,271 cm^3 ?

  • chriscarson
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Electromagnetism: Force between two charged plates

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Why is capacitor voltage −20V at t=0− in RLC parallel circuit?

  • jisbon
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Solving a Pendulum Problem with Exponential Solution

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Three charges attached to the vertices of a triangle

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Calculating Earth's Effective Spring Constant for its Orbit Around the Sun

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Second order differential equation solution

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Lagrange Multipliers and Energy Loss Question

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Two block problems with friction

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Relationship between Cp, Cv and R

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Nonlinear Hooke's law: cubic term vs Taylor expansion

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What Experiments Can I Conduct to Investigate Light Sensitive Devices?

  • Taksehasam
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What causes an object to rotate?

  • Like Tony Stark
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Magnetic field from moving charge cross product

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What happens when an uncharged object is brought into an electric field?

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