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Kirchoff's Law Question; I'm very close

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Masses and inclined plane with friction

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Tension in a Simple Pendulum: Calculating Tension at Rest and at an Angle

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How Does Capacitance Affect Current Amplitude in a Shunted RLC Circuit?

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Vector sum of two 14.8 m vectors at 32° and 108°

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Find total current, battery voltage and power loss in parallel circuit

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What is the Velocity-Time Graph for a Ball Thrown Straight Up?

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Monkey Climbing Rope: Solving for the Least Time to Reach a Banana at 6.90m

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Finding the Angle of a Projectile Launched from a Cliff

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Why is the Sign of Work and Energy Important?

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Finding speed of light through medium, when given critical angle of refraction

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Car on banked turn, with reversed banking angle

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Why Does Apparent Weight Change on a Ferris Wheel?

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Entropy Change in a Two-Step Heating Process for Water in a Heat Bath

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Calculating Charge in a 9V, 12W Radio

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EMI Quickies: Get Answers to Your Questions

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Calculating Distance of Earthquake Epicenter Using P and S Waves

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Water Bottle Experiment (not that of Newton's)

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What Velocity Does the Boy Gain After Throwing the Jug?

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How to calculate average force?

  • kings13
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What is the most likely value of the current, with its uncertainty?

  • aurao2003
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Book inserted between parallel-plate capacitor

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Finding Total Capacitance with Electrical Breakdown

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Understanding Time Dilation and Age Differences in Twin Paradox Experiments

  • Raziel2701
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Couple simple electric force questions

  • JimiJams
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What does sin2(θ) mean in the projectile range formula?

  • ThomasMagnus
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Four Charged Particles in a Square

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Magnetic Field loops of wire Question

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Orbital shapes, Newton's gravitation, and Kepler's laws

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Creating a simple budget step by step

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Projectile Motion. Find where it lands.

  • TcWhistler
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Finding Max Compression of Spring with 500g Block

  • AnnieF
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Two questions regarding conductors and their properties.

  • flyingpig
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How Do You Calculate Charge from Electric Potential Energy in a Dipole?

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How Is Force Calculated When Pushing a Block at Constant Velocity?

  • macmac410
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Calculating Minimum Magnetic Field for Sliding Copper Rod on Two Rails

  • tomrja
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Solving Spherical Conductor: Net Charge and Electric Field

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Calculate Speed of a Charged Particle in a Square

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What Is the Potential Difference Across Three Series Resistors?

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Parallel and normal components of electric field near a metal plate

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Thermodynamics - Thermal Energy of a gas

  • WolfeSieben
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Net Charge of a Region with Increasing Electric Field?

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Speed of sound at –10 °C given proportionality to temperature

  • chawki
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Does the slope increase if it goes from more to less negative?

  • Ryker
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Find max compression of spring, block on incline

  • DrWillVKN
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Relative separation speed in pepper spray momentum problem

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Angle of Line x+sqrt(3y)=12 with X-axis

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Impact force of 15 lb object at 67 mph and equivalent drop height

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Mass Per Unit Length: Easily Calculate

  • Mattmiles
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How Does Gauss' Law Apply to Coaxial Cable Charge Distribution?

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Potential Difference of 1200 V Gives Electron 1200 eV Kinetic Energy

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Vertical Motion Problems: Can You Solve These?

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Solenoid in open circuit and with glavanometer attached

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Piston problem including force and work

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How Is Average Speed Calculated for a Round Trip with Different Speeds?

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Finding the force applied on a foot

  • chris_0101
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Projectile Motion - Find intial velocity when given an angle?

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How Does Time Dilation Affect Space Travel Between Earth and Vega?

  • jewels04
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What is the Flux through the surface?

  • uchicago2012
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Vector problem with traveling car

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Estimating observable universe volume from its age

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How Does the Doppler Effect Calculate Submarine Depth and Velocity?

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Astronomy, Luminosity of 100 solar mass stars

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Tension in a rope due to hanging mass

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What are they doing? Charges and Conductors

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Signs and directions of field lines in Gauss's law problem

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Hohmann transfer orbit from Earth to Mars

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Physics - Thermodynamics - Pressure caused by Nitrogen atoms hitting a surface

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Electric field and total charge

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How Does Charge Distribution Affect Electric Field and Work Done?

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Contour integral of cosh z/(z²-z) around three circles

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Electric flux through a hemisphere with uniform field

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Calculating Average Power of 130V RMS Generator Circuit

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Heat flow through oven glass door in 1 hour

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How Do You Calculate Current Density in a Wire?

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Electric field question(half worked already)

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Finding units for charge and electric potential expressions

  • TypeFun
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Dynamics HW problem giving me a real headache

  • customwelds
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Problem with angular acceleration and Moment of Inertia

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Where on the x-axis will a third charge have no net force

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Finding current at instant when capacitors have lost 80% of initial energy?

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Accelerating to pass a truck in 3.0 seconds

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Two electrons, one moving towards the other.

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Chain hanging off table: integration help for variable mass problem

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Why am I getting negative work when it should be positive?

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Physics-Electric Fields: Can someone please explain this to me?

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Electric Potential: Two Spherical Shells

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Electric field at the surface of a Geiger counter wire

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Finding the Spring Constant: A Simple Calculation

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Calculating Change in Electric Potential Energy with Multiple Charges

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Finding the Electric Potential at a Point Due to Multiple Charges

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What is the Path and Speed of a Proton in a Magnetic Field?

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How Much Fuel Does a Spacecraft Use to Generate 1.5 MN Thrust?

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Charged Particle Travelling Through Electric Field

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