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Deceleration: True or False? | Homework Equations Explained

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What is the force on point charge A due to other charges?

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Electric field due to point charges and a ring of charge:

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Analyzing Open Circuits: Current and Voltage

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Dragging a Board problem, fairly simple yet somehow I am getting it wrong?

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Maskelyne's Schiehallion Experiment

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General question pertaining to a thin rod and E

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Centripetal force satellite orbiting problem

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Coulomb's Law, find the acceleration

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Why Do Metals Block Electromagnetic Waves?

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Find Group Velocity: Solving for k=5.8x10^9 m-1

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Time Varying Unit Vectors for Analog Clock - Cartesian and Polar Coordinates

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Find the period of the motion and the farthest distance from equilibrium

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What is the Corresponding Temperature on the Centigrade Scale?

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Electrical Circuits: Power and Energy Calculations

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What is the limit for using the equation for deflection when m>M?

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Astronomy, Intensity from Given Flux

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How do I find the magnitude of the sum of these force vectors in 3 dimensions?

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Statics- Bending Moment Diagram

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Particle in a uniform electric field

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Impedance across AC voltage source

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Electric Potential and Consv of Energy, Is this right?

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Understanding Electric Fields and Their Directions

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Tension as a function of distance

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Fundamental Frequency of Vibrating String: From 256Hz to ?Hz

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Why Does Using Specific Heat in a P-V Cycle Yield Zero Net Heat Transfer?

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Thermodynamics: Change in entropy of a falling ball

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Solving a Physics Problem with a Bowling Ball

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Can conservation of energy be applied to this problem?

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Homework check on Harmonic Motion

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Confined, Uniform, Electric Field

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Period and frequency of a lightwave

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Why Is the Total Area for Calculating Heat Loss 320 Square Feet?

  • tweety1234
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Understanding Vector Equations in Homework Problems

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Equilateral Triangle Point Charge Question: Find Charge Q at Midpoint D

  • Ammora
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Integration bounds in a continuous charge distribution of a semicircle

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What Was Wrong with My Spring Compression Calculation?

  • madah12
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Calculating Electric Field Near Two Wires Using Vector Notation

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How to derive x(t) equation from energy

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Calculating Velocity of Wreckage After Collision

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Elastic Collision: Finding Velocities After Collision

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Is there an alternative method to solve this problem?

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Why I-V curve but not V-I curve

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What is the coefficient of static friction?

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Problem involving centripetal force of a circle

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Kinematics Question: Farthest Point and Time Analysis

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How Do You Calculate the Initial Compression of a Spring in a Launcher?

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Torque Help: Flywheel Energy & Power Calculations

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How Accurate Is Your Electric Field Calculation?

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Thermodynamics- Isothermal Expansion

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I with questions on using energy, thermal properties and fluids and density

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Sign change when factoring constants from Fourier series summation

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What is the electric field at the point?

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Solve Frictionless Pendulum Problem: Speed of .01kg Bullet

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Circuits: Total Energy in a Battery Before Connecting to Bulb

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Understanding Projectiles (Example Problem Given)

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Stopping distance (work & energy)

  • Chica1975
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Conducting shell conceptual question

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I cant solve a simple Acceleration/Deceleration rate of time problem.

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How to get equation for velocity of Pendulum

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Is this a reasonable approach to calculating pressure difference?

  • ana111790
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Thermodynamics, solving for Q1. I've almost got it

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Horizontal Recoil Speed of gun

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Balloon problem, thermodynamics

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Roller Coaster Car Normal Force: 3693 N and -1307 N at Various Velocities

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Lost on rotational motion problems

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Problem of objects falling from a height

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How Do You Calculate the Tangential Speed of a Fan Blade?

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How Does Black Matter Relate to Plasma in the Universe?

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How long will it take Michael to catch Robert in a long distance race?

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Circuits: Current and Energy of Capacitor

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Quality of Lenses Using Newton's rings

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Solving Free-Fall Kinematics: Find Acceleration from Initial Speed

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Calculating Flux through Square

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Connected bodies - Spring and 2 blocks

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Buoyancy of a pail of water problem

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Total traslational kinetic energy problem

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Forces [ Finding displacement ]

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Two unequal charges repel, suspended from same point.

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What does the notation dQ/dt mean in calculus and physics?

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Calcluated density value different from literature

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How Do Temperature and Pressure Changes Affect Tire Pressure?

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How to Calculate Average Force of a Proton Passing Through a Metal Film

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Either I can't do Pythagoreas or this book can't

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Find Min Radius for Sound Wave in Tube

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Book error, or am i missing something? TRIG piece

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Damped Harmonic Motion with a Sinusoidal Driving Force

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Momentum of Explosions: Solving for Direction and Mass

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What does Schrödinger equation prove/mean?

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Solving for Initial Velocity in Kinematic Equations

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Understanding Electric Potential Differences

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