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Binary Stars energy loss calculation

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And then you can use V=IR to solve for resistance.

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Solve for the tension in T1 and T2

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Charging a partially charged capacitor

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Sled sliding down a hill with constant acceleration

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Deriving a formula for max. speed of a simple pendulum bob

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What does change in energy content of the gas mean?

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How Fast Does a Wave Travel in a Steel Wire?

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Water pressure in underground horizontal pipe 35m below ground

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Calculating Fractional Increase in Tension for Beat Frequency Problem

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How Is Electric Flux Calculated Through a Non-Uniform Field in a Cube?

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Vertical Spring With Weight Reaching Equilibrium

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Energy in an Oscillating Spring

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What Determines the Frequency of a Wave Packet?

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How to Calculate Charge Content of a Sphere with Spherical Symmetry?

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Capacitor discharging into another capacitor with RC timing

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How Do You Calculate Amplitude and Period in Simple Harmonic Motion?

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Two-point source interference pattern

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Power delivered by Battery to Capacitor in Time Constants

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Centripetal acceleration at the ends of a rotating rod?

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Find exit speed at the bottom of the ramp using kinematics only

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By how much does the thermal energy of the gas change?

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What is the Pressure Change in an Aortic Aneurysm?

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Finding Electric Field of Charged Ring w/ 2 Lines Intersecting

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Simple Electric Potential/Field problem

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Heat Transfer: Finding T2 for a Cooled Stainless Steel Pipe

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What are the components of force in 3D for a pulled atom?

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Power in three 100W lamps with switches 4 and 5

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What is the solution to a simple RLC circuit problem?

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electron deflected between parallel plates in electric field

  • rbraunberger
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What is my textbook trying to say?

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Finding where electric field is zero with opposite charges

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Why is energy conserved in an elastic collision? I proved it is not?

  • flyingpig
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Sound intensity level at different distances from a point source

  • Student3.41
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Find the Magnitude of b Given c and a Vector in the Positive y-Axis

  • emmy
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Calculating Charge of 3 Identical Point Charges

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Line Charge+ insulating Cylindrical Shell

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What is the formula for finding the speed of ions in a heated plasma?

  • Drakkith
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How far up the hill will it coast before starting to roll back down?

  • spartan55
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Sound power intercepted by microphone from point source

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Does Damping Affect the Period of SHM?

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Solving Electric Field Equations: A Case Study

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Doppler Effect- small question on formula setup.

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Solving Force vs Time Graphs: Velocity Example #37

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Work and energy transfer when kicking a football

  • Peter G.
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How Do You Calculate Dynamics of a Mass Spring System?

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Building a roller coaster in school

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Find Time in Air for Ball Launched Upward with 18 m/s

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Simple harmonic motion of a pendulum: find angle and velocity at 1.6 s

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Lowest Resonant Frequency Issues

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Physics Questions: Electric Field Magnitude/Direction/Units

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Energy delivered to eardrum from sound wave at given intensity

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Energy from electrons and circuits: eV, ionization, and torch battery

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Solar neutrino problem: predicted vs observed flux

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Finding velocity and acceleration components on parabola y² = 4x

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How Do You Calculate the Orbit Height of a Spacecraft Around a Planet?

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Proper time and time dilation in an airplane flight

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Field and force with three charges

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Collision accident/involves momemntum

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Tennis ball hit at 3° clears net at trajectory apex: find initial speed?

  • m_scott
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Rise of Water in a 20 cm Capillary Tube

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CO2 gas in a temp-controlled, pressure-controlled container

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Time to melt 0.25 kg ice with constant electric heater

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Conceptual? question of direction/magnetic force of current in x-y plane

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Dot products and angle between cables

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Why is the Ground Force (K) Located at the Edge of the Cylinder?

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Beginning Low-Pass Filter Questions

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Thermal Expansion of lead rod question

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Solving for Index of Refraction Using x, d, and θ

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Questions About Ruthenium 106 and Brachytherapy

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Current in multi-battery circuits

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How Does a Day on the Moon Compare to Earth?

  • blink_1992
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What height was it thrown from.

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What Average Acceleration Must a Plane Achieve for Safe Takeoff?

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When will Mike hit the water when jumping off a diving board on the moon?

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Which position-versus-time curve shows negative acceleration

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Find C in general sine function

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How Is Work Related to Changes in Kinetic Energy in a Rocket Car's Deceleration?

  • mousemouse123
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Internal Resistance of a Battery problem

  • dancergirlie
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Finding average speed for round trip with different speeds

  • frizzler43
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How Do You Calculate the Return Path in Vector Addition?

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Could somebody define Cell current?

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Specific volume and density problem

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What Tension is Needed to Maintain Wavelength When Frequency Doubles?

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Basketball player shooting ball, finding velocity for a no backboard shot

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Energy equivalence between linear and rotational motion

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Finding the average force on a box in a collision

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Understanding Angular Size Calculation: Europa and Jupiter

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Relating molecular speed distribution to rotational speed

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