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Gradient and Divergence in spherical coordinates

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Making a vehicle go straight on carpet

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A Braking System with Spikes for Cars

  • Alateo
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Torque on a Circular Current Loop under a Misaligned Magnetic Field

  • domephilis
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Rod with Current on Rails in Magnetic Field

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A problem in applying Kirchhoff's Voltage Law

  • Patrick Herp
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Body attached to a block by a spring, shaped like an inclined plane

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Ball revolving around a massive disc and a cube placed at centre

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Finding the intermediate height of a ball in terms of its maximum height

  • SelzerRS
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Time taken for a planet to collide with the Sun

  • someone_2156
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Why is there no current flow in the middle branch? (Circuits problem)

  • phantomvommand
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Why does temperature coefficient of resistance use R(t) not R₀ in the denominator?

  • tellmesomething
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Trying to tie two runners of different speeds over a race

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Can Energy Conservation Solve the Angular Velocity Problem?

  • nafisanazlee
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How do we represent a triangle wave for input voltage in this circuit?

  • zenterix
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Why is Radial Acceleration Ignored for a Rotating Board?

  • momo1111
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Concept of different accelerations on rotations of rigid bodies

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Relativistic Decay and Separation Between Moving Nuclei A and B

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Textbook 'The Physics of Waves': Varying Force Amplitude

  • brettng
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Expression for magnitude of the constant friction force

  • Racoon5
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Energy conservation equation to find equation for final velocity

  • Racoon5
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How Many Eggs to Turn a 40lb Flywheel in a Vacuum?

  • gibsnax
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Effect of rim width on a frisbee's stability and range

  • Anjish
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Rocket + Connected Body Dynamics problem

  • Mohammad Ishmas
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Quantum Mechanics Boundary conditions

  • MaxJ
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Uncertainty in particle position

  • MaxJ
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Derivation of reflection and transmission probability formulas

  • MaxJ
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Why is the direction of kinetic/static friction up a ramp?

  • Heisenberg7
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Heated gas pushing a mercury column out of a cylinder

  • highschoboy004
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Temperature of two subsystems at equilibrium

  • f3sicA_A
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Doppler Effect Question: Flying Bat Echolocating a Mosquito

  • pot
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Momentum transfer from laser reflecting inside a cubic box

  • dark_matter_is_neat
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Incandescent Bulb - suitable approximation for voltage-current curve

  • RodionGork
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Diophantine equations and physics

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Underground cables faulty point detected

  • tellmesomething
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Motion of an electron inside the cavity of a charged sphere

  • Zayan
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How to solve this driven RLC circuit?

  • zenterix
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Electrostatics and current problem with 3 metallic balls

  • tellmesomething
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Driven torsional oscillator equation setup

  • zenterix
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Find the mass of odium for both solid and liquid state

  • hraghav
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Find the final temperature of the combined honorite and odium?

  • hraghav
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Mechanisms Involved When Charging a Battery

  • tellmesomething
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Find final temp of 2 substances once they have reached equilibrium

  • hraghav
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Magnetic Field of an infinite current-carrying wire at a point

  • BuggyWungos
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To what extent does this system behave as a pendulum?

  • l4teLearner
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How does a simple circuit work?

  • tellmesomething
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Why is current constant through a resistor?

  • BuggyWungos
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Did I Misuse the Parallel Axis Theorem for Polar Moment of Inertia?

  • Usaid3112
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Why is the current in a conductor equal to zero when not connected to a circuit?

  • tellmesomething
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Why does electric potential energy increase if you move against the field?

  • BuggyWungos
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Determining angular velocity of weight attached to a cord and cylinder

  • I_Try_Math
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Electromagnetic force on a positively charged particle

  • Sat-P
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Why would this be accelerating positively?

  • helloword365
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Calculating the Relative COG of Two Masses

  • slobberingant
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Pistons placed on top of communicating vessels

  • highschoboy004
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Is Linear Momentum Conserved in This Case? (sliding box hits a floor tile)

  • Heisenberg7
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Image velocity from a moving mirror when object moves faster

  • Zayan
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Calculating moment of inertia for automobile engine torque

  • I_Try_Math
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Confusion over acceleration of gravity as positive/negative

  • helloworld2941
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A cylinder has two sides containing gas and water separately

  • highschoboy004
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Finding the angular velocity of a pendulum

  • I_Try_Math
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Number of bright fringes given by diffraction grating on a screen

  • lorenz0
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How Many Lines Per Millimeter Does the Diffraction Grating Have?

  • Ericv_91
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What’s gone wrong with my derivation of the Lorentz Factor?

  • ryan2
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Single slit diffraction: brightness ratio and 6th dark fringe distance

  • hraghav
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Coulomb's law to find electric field for charge density function

  • Su6had1p
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Finding smallest distance for constructive and destructive interference

  • hraghav
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Find smallest value of y for constructive interference

  • hraghav
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EMF induced in moving rod in B-field, why is "L" length of wire frame?

  • phantomvommand
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Induced EMF due to a moving magnet

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How to Apply Derivatives in Physics Problems?

  • Heisenberg7
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How to calculate pressure when two forces are exerted

  • physics565
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Equivalent resistance of this 6-sided circuit

  • Sat-P
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Contact force and electrostatic force in an electrostatic press

  • tellmesomething
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Solving for potential using surface charge density of a sphere

  • BuggyWungos
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Tension in a string which connects 3 pulleys

  • danut
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Particle in one dimension wave function from Quantum Mechanics

  • BlondEgg
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Minimal distance between two planes moving perpendicularly

  • NikolasLund
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Block on 45° ramp connected to pulley with friction

  • I_Try_Math
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Friction problem of a block sandwiched between 2 surfaces

  • vcl0124
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How friction acts on a block moving down a slope moving side to side

  • QuantumOscillatorIII
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How to find the equivalent resistance of this infinite circuit?

  • zenterix
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The div in cartesian coordinates

  • kirito
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Finding the reflection location for a diver in a convex mirror

  • hraghav
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Find the electric field between 2 finite discs

  • kirito
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Find the location and length of the final image

  • hraghav
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Man pulling a boat along the water with a rope (from above on a steep bank)

  • brotherbobby
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Material Selection - Hooke's law [not]

  • nik_2507
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Tension Force Problem (applying Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem)

  • Heisenberg7
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Falling mass, additionally accelerated by a rope

  • greypilgrim
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Calculating torque on a pendulum

  • I_Try_Math
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