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What Determines the Critical Angle in a Glass-to-Liquid Interface?

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How Do You Convert MeV/cm^3 to Rads?

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How to Calculate Heat Loss Per Hour Through a Glass Window Pane?

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The force of a Hurricane on a person

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Why Does the Electron Stay at the Same Speed in a Series Circuit?

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What is the formula for calculating distance from acceleration data?

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Finding pressure at narrow end of segment

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Free body diagrams for springs and dampers in torsion

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Time required to reach to Speed of Roller table for a bar

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Water Bottle: relationship between Volume and Time

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Friction on a pivot. Graph of motion w/ c.angular accel.

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How Do You Rank Normal Force in This Physics Problem?

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Disk moment of inertia example.

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Mastering physics :pulleys and friction

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How can understanding free fall be useful for activities like skydiving?

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Calculate the Current, Lost Volt and P.d across parallel resistors?

  • looi76
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Work done by force on a non-linear track.

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Frictional Torque for Static Equilibrium of a Pulley

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Girl on a swing, stands up and becomes stationary?

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Static equilibrium of diving board

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How Does Sunlight Intensity Translate to Force on Earth?

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Initial Acceleration of Wood in Water

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What are the steps for reducing sound intensity by 20 decibels?

  • ongobongo
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What are the tension forces in a suspended mass system?

  • pbele21
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Jackson p244,Green function for wave equation

  • NinjaSlayer
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Find the ratio of the total kinetic energy after the collision

  • emerica1254
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Static Equilibrium, new to this subject, help please?

  • jcfor3ver
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Two questions on rotation/angular kinematics

  • killazys
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Equations of motion for angular acceleration

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Resultant vector of an isosceles triangle?

  • atypical
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Inertia Question, simple but yet confused? Help greatly appreciated

  • jcfor3ver
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Finding Time in Projectile Motion

  • fcb
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Vibrating aluminium string

  • kudoushinichi88
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How Much Energy Does a 3.5 mW He-Ne Laser Beam Carry Over 1 Meter?

  • sgoeke
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What Is the Maximum Electric Field from a 100W Light Bulb at 1 Meter?

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A bat and an insect Doppler's Effect problem.

  • kudoushinichi88
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Solve 2-Particle Elastic Collision: Mass m & Final Velocity -v/5

  • I Like Pi
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(E&M) Charge and electric field in a two plate system.

  • Chewy247
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Conservation of Angular Momentum of ballerina

  • Nontrad
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Enthelpy, thermal energy, and kinetic vs. potential energy

  • arkabas
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Beginner at solving projectile equations

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What is the Speed and Maximum Height of a Pendulum Bob in Motion?

  • kissafilipino
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How Does the Method of Images Determine Potential Inside a Grounded Sphere?

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Radiation Pressure causing acceleration

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How many electrons are missing on the suspended oil drop?

  • homevolend
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Calculate density of Oxygen at STP

  • EroAlchemist
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Significant digits and easy average speed/ velocity questions

  • Pruzhinkin
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Why Must Lens Separation Be Considered in Multiple Lens Systems?

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Solving Weight of 12 kg Crate Sliding on 35° Platform

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How to Find Coefficient of Friction on Sandpaper Using Applied Force and Mass?

  • Havenater23
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Calculating Object Distance for Magnified Real and Virtual Images

  • iurod
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What is the Gravitational Force Between the Moon and a 50-kg Student?

  • STrain
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Calculating Number of Electrons for Positive Charge of 1X10-6

  • homevolend
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How to find the normal force given the center of gravity and the radius

  • Pinkchika88
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Solving 6kg Cat on Wagon Mass Problem

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Another way to calculate loss of energy

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Kepler's Third Law: Homewor Help

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Rocket attatched to a spring problem

  • mjolnir80
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Collision Question Homework: Masses m1 & m2 in Frictionless Bowl

  • DMRika
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Linear Momentum, Impulse, Center of a Mass, Velocity, Kinetic Energy

  • DMRika
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What Causes Some Galaxies to Release Superluminal Jets?

  • appplejack
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Measuring Pressure on a Mechanical Leg

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Calc Volume and Temp of gas with changing conditions

  • EroAlchemist
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Are these solutions for waves correct?

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What is the Work Done by Air Resistance on a Round Trip?

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Charged Particle at rest in a Solenoid (conceptual question)

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What is the apparent magnitude of the binary system?

  • PaulWright
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What was the velocity of the Honda

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Car Braking (On Inclined Slope)

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Angular Velocity of 10 N m Applied Disk - 2 Revolutions

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Impossible Roller Coaster question (for me anyway)

  • scolaiw
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How Does Train A's Maximum Power Influence Its Equation of Motion?

  • grusini
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Max Frequency Homework: 9.0 ev Electron & 143 Neutrons, 92 Protons

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Frequency and wavelength on different instruments and loudness

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How Does Removing Pigs Affect the Decibel Level in a Pig Pen?

  • MASM
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Finding a Mass of a Block on an Atwood's Machine

  • guss
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Understanding Entropy: Drawing Temperature Entropy Graphs

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Rank Kinetic Energy Pendulum Problem: A-E-I < B-F < D-H < C-G

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Ampere's Law with an open cylindrical shell

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Compression of monatomic ideal gas

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Diffraction due to a narrorw slit

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Electric Potential at a Distance

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Does magnetic flux change if the area is extended past the B field?

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Why Does Sound Behave Differently in Various Gases and Media?

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Rectangular Vectors From angle and magnitude

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Efficient Energy Calculations for a Ball Down a Ramp

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Find Rest Mass of Composite Particle After Collision

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Rotational Momentum and linear acceleration

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Center of mass problem involving shell

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Binary-star system, gravity + centripetal force question?

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Fluids (finding the vel of air in a plane)

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Solve Mechanics Questions: Velocity, Position & Frictionless Plane

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Special Relativity Ship Problem

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Ideal spring with 1kg mass: max acceleration and extension

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Does Constant Acceleration Always Change Velocity's Magnitude?

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Working out the frequency/wavelength of a photon.

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How Do You Calculate the Diameter of a Pipe Constriction in Fluid Dynamics?

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Work-mechanical energy: box sliding

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