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

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Ionization Energy: Solving for n and Why I Was Wrong

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Clarification about Mutual Inductance

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

  • Edel Crine
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Electric Field of a Finite Cylinder

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Kinematics question: Stunt driver jumping his car from ramp to ramp

  • nicky670
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Tension and reaction force in circular motion

  • Like Tony Stark
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A mistake in the derivation of escape velocity

  • Leo Liu
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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

  • Like Tony Stark
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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?

  • nicky670
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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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Mechanics: Explosion of an Object Vector Diagram

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Density of Water at 1°C & 8°C | Homework Help

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Momentum and Conservation of energy

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

  • happyparticle
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What is the formula for calculating electrical potential?

  • jjson775
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Help with these rocket launch questions please

  • takelight2
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Is the Calculation of Linear Density k for a Uniformly Charged Bar Correct?

  • ToucanFodder
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Voltage using different references

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Hollow and solid spheres floating in liquid

  • brotherbobby
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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

  • AN630078
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Specific work done by an adiabatic & reversible compressor on air

  • Master1022
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How to draw the transfer behavior of a fuzzy controller

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Which symbol is more relevant for refractive index: μ or n?

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

  • chriscarson
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Finding net charge on a sphere's surface

  • archaic
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Jumping on a Train: Tips and Advice

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

  • cwill53
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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

  • cwill53
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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?

  • madafo3435
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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

  • i_love_science
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Is Reflection of an Incident Wave Lagging or Advancing?

  • LCSphysicist
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Mechanics: Elevator Accelerating Downward

  • AN630078
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Elastic Collision of Hydrogen and Carbon Atoms

  • AN630078
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Why Does a Moving Rod Appear Inclined in Different Reference Frames?

  • Data Base Erased
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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

  • AN630078
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Deriving Cross Vectors: Understanding d/dt[a * (v x r)] = a (v x r)

  • 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

  • Like Tony Stark
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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

  • nish95
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Question about gravitational potential energy and angular motion

  • plomeiko
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Real and Complex representations of an oscillation equation

  • e_mts
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Calculating the distance between fringes in an alternate universe

  • Vitani1
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Work done by a conservative force using change in potential energy

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Can someone help me interpret this spacetime diagram?

  • Vitani1
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Finding angular Momentum from a force

  • fer Mnaj
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Formula for maximum interference for reflected light (thin - film)

  • songoku
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How can I solve this physics problem step by step?

  • Frouel
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Bicycle wheel forced to roll around a vertical axle

  • Nexus99
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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

  • Edel Crine
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Question about the Lorentz transform

  • billllib
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A rotating rod acted upon by a perpendicular force

  • Hamiltonian
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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

  • oondi
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RLC Parallel Circuit: Analyzing Current & Voltage at t=0-

  • jisbon
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Solving a Pendulum Problem with Exponential Solution

  • archaic
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Three charges attached to the vertices of a triangle

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

  • Edel Crine
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Second order differential equation solution

  • Ron Burgundypants
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Lagrange Multipliers and Energy Loss Question

  • cwill53
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Two block problems with friction

  • Hamiltonian
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Relationship between Cp, Cv and R

  • PSN03
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Question about the nonlinear Hooke's law

  • patric44
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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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What is the mistake in calculating the magnetic field in this problem?

  • Physicslearner500039
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What happens when an uncharged object is brought into an electric field?

  • aspodkfpo
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Can Angles Be Assigned Dimension in Scientific Calculations?

  • HappyFeynman
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Equation Alternatives for Young's Modulus

  • LCSphysicist
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A simple pendulum is suspended from the ceiling of an accelerating car

  • badluckmath
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The velocity of the center of the base of a rolling cone

  • guv
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Change in acceleration with change of angle of applied force

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2 masses and 2 pulleys (Kleppner and Kolenkow)

  • AspiringPhysicist12
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