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Isobaric System (work done by, or on?)

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How Does Electric Field Vary with Distance in a Cylindrical Setup?

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Finding tension and acceleration for two masses on a pulley

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Calculating Electron Kinetic Energy in a Cathode Ray Tube

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Drawing shear force and bending moment diagrams for a cantilever beam

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How Much Water Turns to Ice When Mixed with Ice at Subzero Temperatures?

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Calculating E-Field Inside a Hollow Sphere with Concentric Shells

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Potential Energy of two spheres

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Unit conversion inside a derived gausses law eq

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Why is Angular Momentum Conserved on a Frictional Surface?

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Centripetal acceleration where to start

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What is the Voltage read on a Real Voltmeter?

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What is the equivalent capacitance of the capacitors shown in the figure?

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Efficiency of a heat engine in a reversible cycle

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Equivalent Resistance Calculation for Resistors in a Circuit

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Why do we need an Earth wire in our appliances?

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Which optics software is recommended for drawing optics schematics?

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Why Can We Only Calculate Average Speed During a Stone's Fall?

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Electric potential midway between two equal point charges

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Power consumption of 600W device when voltage drops from 220V to 160V

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Building a Model Car: Ideas for Traveling 10 Meters

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Linear Expansion of Steel Girder Due to Temperature Change

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Dated box of dates, incline ramp, find normal force

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How Does the Resistance of a Light Bulb Change When It's On Versus Off?

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Understanding a Charged Device: Polarization and Grounding

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How much water would be required to absorb this heat?

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Baseball thrown from street passes window at 23m with 14m/s upward

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Newton's 2nd Law/Coefficient of friction

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Work, evaporation and internal energy in first law of thermodynamics

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What Is the Acceleration of a Rolling Tire's Top and Bottom?

  • joej24
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Rocket Propulsion - Varying mass

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Maximum height and time for object launched at 13.8 m/s

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Finding Acceleration of Car Stopping in 157ft at 70mph

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Euler's method for tank drainage when inlet A stops

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Solar radiation intercepted by Mars surface

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How Do Two Equal Mass Asteroids Orbit Each Other?

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Isothermal expansion: reversible vs irreversible

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What Are the Mass and Speed After an Elastic Collision in Ice Hockey?

  • papereater33
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Calculating spacetime intervals between events

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Height of pine tree casting shadow on a wall

  • chawki
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Electric Field inside a metal sphere

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Archimedes' Problem: Iron Body Submerged in Water

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Relating force, displacement, time and velocity

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Concentric Spheres: Learn About Shapes

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Magnitude of Acceleration given a pendulum equilibrium

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Kinematics - Boat over a constant River.

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Geodesics on Surfaces: Proving the Relationship to Particle Motion

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Moment of inertia using parallel axis theorem

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Electric field from storm cloud at aircraft altitude

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Electric Field and Charge of a Capacitor

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Thermodynamics, Finding Work and Heat transfer

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How Fast Must a Tennis Player Run to Return a Lob?

  • mac227
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How Does Temperature Change Over Time Between Two Aluminum Plates?

  • kubixxx
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Calculus Problem (involes critical numbers)

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A man in an elevator at the forces affecting him

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How Does Temperature Affect the Length of Steel?

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Calculating Change in Kinetic Energy of Cart

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Resistance depending on temperature

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How do I calculate work when both pressure and volume are changing?

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What is the angle of the velocity vector of a released package?

  • mac227
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Finding vector components and angles from a treasure hunt diagram

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Rocket's Max Height: Solving for ymax

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Find Force Applied to Tooth with Tension of 2.0 N

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Cathode ray tube deflection with voltage between plates

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Potential Difference Between Capacitors in Circut

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Energy lost charging a capacitor - can someone check my calculations.

  • MalachiK
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Dynamics: Minimum Force Problem

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Moment of inertia of 3 disc system

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Block sliding down incline at constant velocity with friction

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How Is Work Calculated When Moving a Charge Near a Conducting Shell?

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Current from a sine wave signal

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If the electron is freed up, what would be its acceleration?

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Finding f_L as Source Speed Approaches Speed of Sound

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What is the Magnitude of the Dipole Moment in a Uniform Electric Field?

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What is Coulomb's law and what does it act on?

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Bolt Falling from elevator ceiling

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Fluid mechanics barometer problem

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Angular acceleration, inertia, torque, mass, force and velocity

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Monatomic Gas and Isotherm - W, U Calculations

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I am not sure the source of error of simple pendulum experiment

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How Do Wind and Plane Angles Affect Flight Direction and Speed?

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What is the translational speed of the cylinder after falling 8.0 meters?

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Calculating the Magnetic Field in Free Space

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Graph of electric field, determine potential

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What is the process for measuring torque in a magnetic field experiment?

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Tension Change When Spreading Scales: What Happens and Why?

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Turtle starting from rest with constant acceleration toward pine tree

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How Does a Boat's Position Change with Wind and Currents?

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Book sliding off a table: height, distance, and final velocity

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What Is the Coefficient of Kinetic Friction for a Hockey Puck on Ice?

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Circular motion, grade 12 physics

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Which Object Exerts More Force: A or B?

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2-D Kinematics Vector Resolution

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Parallel or Series Capacitors: Solving Circuit Confusion

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