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Does Torque Transform Like a Vector in Different Coordinate Systems?

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How Does an Electric Circuit Function with a Battery, Wire, and Resistor?

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Conservation of the impulse, center of the masses

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Is deceleration always in the negative direction?

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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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Current and voltage in an open circuit

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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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Electric potential from a uniformly charged rod on the z-axis

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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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Motor power and energy calculations with circuit design

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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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Potential difference needed to stop a proton at 800,000 m/s

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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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Entropy change when a ball falls in an isolated system

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Solving a Physics Problem with a Bowling Ball

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Elliptical orbit transfer and conservation of energy

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Driven damped harmonic oscillator with f=2cos(5t)

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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?

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What do these vector equations with unit vectors mean?

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

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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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Related rates problem for water bottle with varying diameter

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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 exerted by a spinning flywheel on a machine

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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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Wheelbarrow acceleration with two angled forces and friction

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What is the electric field at the point?

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Bullet fired into pendulum block: why is my speed wrong?

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Total energy stored in a 12V 115Ah battery

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Force on electron in an upward electric field

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Understanding Projectiles (Example Problem Given)

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Stopping distance on dry concrete at 88 km/h with locked wheels

  • 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?

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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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Normal force on roller coaster car at top of 18 m circular hill

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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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Right triangle trigonometry: why is sin(θ) = Δx/h in this diagram?

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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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