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Find Angular Acceleration: Torque & Rotational I

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Standing Waves on a Violin String

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Calculating Car Lift Height with a Hydraulic Lift

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Calculating Efficiency of a Steam Turbine at Varying Temperatures

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Conservation of momentum and energy problem

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Calculating Acceleration of Kings Dominion Drop Tower

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Using mass of copper in both air and liquid to find density of liquid?

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Elevator problem; but i don't have the mass

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Calculating Angular Velocity and Kinetic Energy in a Rotating System

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Newtons 2nd Law & Kinetics pt. 2

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Car with mass of 1500kg and thrust of 4000N

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Thermodynamics- energy, pressure, volume

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Applyings Newton 2nd Law and Kinematics

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Determine Electric Force Due to Charges on Neg. Charged Dust Mite

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Simple Electric Field Magnitude Question

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Thermodymanics dealing with pressure, temperauture, and constants

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Simple Electrical Equation Advice.

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Ohm's law and resistivity, again

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Like charges repel and unlike charges

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How Much Force Does Sunlight Exert on Earth?

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How Does Helium's Volume and Temperature Change in an Adiabatic Ascent?

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Percentage Uncertanty and youngs modulus

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Which Statements About Object Motion in Physics Are False?

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Thermodynamics- Gauge pressure, moles, molecules

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How Much Heat Escapes Through a Concrete Floor in an Hour?

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Why Do Series Circuits Show More Error Than Parallel Circuits in Experiments?

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Solving Stationary Waves Homework Problems

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A Damnable Man: Who Killed Adam Able?

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Find the acceleration with very little

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How the current go through this circuit?

  • machinarium
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How Does Temperature Affect the Depth of Mercury in a Glass Tube?

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Resulstant force pendulum equilibrium position

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Newton's third law, frictional force, acceleration

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Aeroplane flight: time, displacement, velocity question

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How Do You Calculate Wave Parameters and Displacement?

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What is the initial length of rods A and B in rod C?

  • william313
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2 Questions of Momentum and Impulse

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Net force is Zero, quadratic answers

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Road Bank Top Speed Calculation | G & \mu

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Find the rate of change of the current in the inductor

  • machinarium
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Help with electric fields, max height, and displacement?

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Drawing a PV Diagram: Solving Homework w/ Work Calculation

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How Does Friction Affect a Sphere's Velocity on a Ramp?

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Law of Conservation of Energy of a downhill skier

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World Lines Problem, axes as meters

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Moments of Inertia Homework: Find Max Height H

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Electron Single Slit Diffraction

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Hard Physics Problem - Centripetal Force

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Calculating Velocity of Sphere on Inclined Plane

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Initial phase determination in a wave

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How Do You Calculate the Maximum Speed in a Frictionless Pulley System?

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Electrostatic Force in a Mad Scientist's Trap

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What is the maximum force allowed in this tension problem?

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Calculating the Radius of a Hill for Weightless Sensation at 42 mph

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Electrostatic Potencial Problem

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Need Help with Rotational & Transitional Equilibrium LA

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Mass of chair on weighing scale and wall

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Physics maths calculus charge calculations

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Which way does electric field line go?

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What Happens When Identical Charged Spheres Make Contact?

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How Many Photons Hit Your Retina from a Distant Light Source?

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Calculating Time for a Mass to Hit the Floor on a Pulley System

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Calculating Velocity After Elastic Collision: Kinetic Energy Problem

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Circulation Motion - Airplane Loop

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Calculating Capacitance: Series vs Parallel

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Comparing Kinetic and Potential Energy in Circular Motion

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Rotating the Resultant Force on a Charge

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Question on electric filed of an insulating cylinder

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Energy And Electric Field In Circuits

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Finding the de Broglie wavelength from momentum

  • Matty R
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Solving a Vertical Ball Throwing Problem: Velocity and Time Calculation

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What effects does a conductor have on a circuit. How can they be minimised?

  • MathsRetard09
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Can we use gauss' law to find the e field of a finite line of charge?

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Calculate Heat Transferred in Gas with Constant Temp & Compression

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Physical pendulum: frequency of rotated square

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Another projectile motion problem.

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Resultant Force on Charge in the middle of square

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Minimum Electrical Potential Difference required to stop Alpha particle

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What is the Internal Energy of an Ideal Gas at Given Conditions?

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How can the mass of an object be determined with given variables?

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Special Relativity: Which notation to use

  • Matty R
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What is the tension in the rope?

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Electromotive force in constant flux

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Placing a 3rd charge so there is no net force

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Point of Equilibrium between two charges

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Constructive or destructive interference- Car radio

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Charge question A, B, C Explanation

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Is this a misconceptin? Moment of inertia

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Charges placed on a hexogon, working out the force and energy

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Question on series solutions of diff equations

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What Is the Velocity After a Cork Ball and Dart Collide?

  • loba333
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Electric Potential Difference involving Alpha Decay question

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Solving Complex Impedance Homework Q2

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