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Finding tensions in two strings supporting a 20 kg mass

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How to Calculate Coupling Coefficient Without Mutual Inductance?

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What is the speed of the rock right before it hits the ground?

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Electric/Gravitational Forces

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Why divide the angle by 2 in the optical lever method

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How Does Angle Affect Block Acceleration?

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Calculating uncertainty in data.

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Calculating Forces and Acceleration Between Charged Particles

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Finding complete solutions for Ohanian/Markert Physics for Engineers

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How to find distance with the given information?

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TWO Point Charges on the x-axis and an electric field graph

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Adiabatic, Ideal gas, changing heat capacity, work calculation

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Gauss's Law - Cube with point charge at centre

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A man strikes a 460. Hz tuning fork and moves away from you

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How Do You Determine the Phase of Waves from a Diagram?

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Finding the First Three Terms of exp(z sin z) Taylor Series

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Change in elect. PE given work, KE, charge

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How Does Ampere's Law Treat External Currents in Magnetic Field Calculations?

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Calculating Curie Constant for Iron Ammonium Alum using Curie's Law

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Light wavelength transmitted through oil slick to water

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Sound traveling through air/concrete

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Absolute Uncertainty of a Volume

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How Does Resistor Configuration Affect Circuit Resistance?

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What Initial Speed Makes Two Balls Meet Mid-Air?

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Frequency of an open/closed pipe

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Can Normal Force Actually Perform Work on an Object?

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Math Physics: Lagrange Multiplier question

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Find the Root-Mean-Square of the gas

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Finding F2 when F1 and net acceleration are known

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Calculating Velocity of a Car Rolling Off a Cliff

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What Are the Differences Between Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Magnets?

  • Stevay
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Mutual Inductance with Pulsating Current

  • seanhbailey
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Problems about Electricity and Magnetism

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Human cannonball projectile range problem

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Electric Potential of Two Positive Charges at Point A on y-Axis

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Tension Between Objects in 1 Dimension

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Vectors: Finding Magnitude and Angle

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Blocks on pulley on incline plane

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Thermal conductivity through a concrete wall

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Diffraction grating angles for 520 nm and 630 nm light

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Finding Electric Field due to hemispherical charge distribution

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Designing an RC Circuit for RL Equivalent Voltage vs. Time

  • dancergirlie
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How Do You Calculate the Time a Marble Takes to Travel from L to P?

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Quick q on gauss' law (cylinders)

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Effect of light and sound to opaque object

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Equilibrium problem missing 2 problems

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Net Flux through a sphere (Gauss's Law)

  • Alex G
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Governing Equations: Force on Damper w/ Damping Constant D

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Does a car at rest after stopping have motion or distance?

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Electric Point Forces in a Circle

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Does a rolling disk go higher with or without friction on an incline?

  • joej24
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Thermodynamics problem- isobaric process

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Relative Motion - What is your thought process?

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Final Temperature of System with Ice Added

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Calculating Moment of Force Produced at Point A

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How Do You Calculate Force Output and Total Pressure in a Stacked Ball Setup?

  • WehrdScience
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Electric Current - Parallel and Series equations

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Current divider rule for parallel resistors with unknown R

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Finding currents in a five-resistor bridge circuit

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Calculate Energy of System: Electron Gun, KE, Force, Acceleration, Time

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Major Project on Physics of the Heart and Cardiovascular System

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How should a bird adjust its direction to fly north in a crosswind?

  • Peter G.
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Critiquing velocity and acceleration graphs from hand position data

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Multiple choice questions on current

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De-acceleration of cars in wreck

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Determining the sign of Work in Electric Problems

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Force Needed to Push a Box on an Inclined Plane

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Baseball and Average Force Question

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Solve Otto Cycle Problem: Max Pressure Lambo Murcielago w/r=11.0

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Charge change when Teflon fills a parallel plate capacitor

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Calculate distance between two planets in elliptical orbits

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Finding acceleration from the last 100m of a 200m drop

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Electron moving in electric field

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Design RC Circuit for V vs Time Characteristics

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Optimizing a Free Throw: Solving for Initial Speed and Angle

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Graph Vout vs Time for RC Circuit Switch Closure

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How to Solve an Energy Change Equation Involving Temperature?

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Lens: object distance vs. image distance?

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Finding Frequency for Rolling Motion of Sphere in Spherical Bowl

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Electromagnetic and the weak force

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Damped oscillations in a vacuum chamber

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The Relationship Between Length and Frequency in a Simple Pendulum

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Relativistic Momentum and Kinetic Energy

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