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Pulling masses up a tilted plane with kinetic friction

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What is meant by multiplication in physics?

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Kleppner 7.10 — Using a gyroscope to measure latitude

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Electric dipole moment vs electric current dipole moment

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To find the closest approach of two ships

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What does a force of zero indicate about the total force acting on a particle?

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New amplitude of a spring-mass system when a 2nd mass falls on the first

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Calculating Force and Torque for Linear motion (image provided)

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Confirming Green's function for homogeneous Helmholtz equation (3D)

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Direction of resulting displacement

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Force to make 2 blocks move relative to each other at constant speed

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Finding torque equations for a bottle opener problem

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A string over a pulley with two hoops wound like spools on each end

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Calculating Minimum Power for Perception of Radiation from a Point Source

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Finding currents using Kirchhoff's laws

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Conclusion about wave propagation in SR given L dot S = N = L' dot S'

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Is there a proof about angular momentum conservation?

  • LCSphysicist
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Calculating velocity from the position versus time graph

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Show that Tv^(R/c_v) = constant

  • romanski007
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Why are Mo-95 and La-139 more stable than U-235?

  • Bolter
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How Far Would a Galaxy Be with a Speed of c?

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Inelastic collision between mass and stick: rotation and swing height

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Waves and vibrations on a string

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Relating polynomial coefficients to position, velocity and acceleration

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Distance traveled and period of a mass - spring - pulley system

  • songoku
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Wave propagation - Oblique Incidence

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Free body Diagram of a Plank resting on two Cylinders

  • Stewie117
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Proving that mass is an additive quantity

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Why should arguments of certain functions be dimensionless?

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What is the Period of a Near Rectilinear Orbit with Zero Minor Axis?

  • LCSphysicist
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Why do planets have elliptic orbits?

  • LCSphysicist
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Detecting the Alignment of an Inf. Plane Capacitor: A Paradox?

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Can Mixed Units in Ratios Be Converted and Used Accurately in Calculations?

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Plot the space-time diagram of a photon and a spaceship

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Energy of n-Photons: Find Equation

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Find the instant of the collision

  • LCSphysicist
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Plot a photon on a space-time diagram

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Calculating the Moment from a Different Vantage Point

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Torque Balancing and Virtual Work: Solving for Equations in Force Balancing

  • cupcake_rainbow
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What does P mean in gravitational potential energy equations?

  • LCSphysicist
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Can a Single Point Grapefruit Create an Interference Pattern?

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Torque on an atom due to two infinite lines of charge

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How are v1, v2, and ωR related in a ring constraint equation?

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[AC Circuit] How do we convert from the time domain to the phasor domain?

  • Special One
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Electric circuit -- Ohm's second law

  • MARIAM507
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Earth's satellite and its first space speed

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Engine working between multiple temperature baths worse than Carnot

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Net Gravitational force on an object

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How do I find the frequency, speed and direction of a wave

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Origin of Potential Energy - 65 Characters

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Modulus of the electric field created by a sphere

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Calculation Involving Thermodynamics, Gravitation and Fluid mechanics

  • Ayesha02
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Mutual inductance between two adjacent circuits

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Potential at a Point: A Question of Solutions

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How can I solve for the x force component in this force expression?

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Period of oscillating system with two masses and pulleys

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Magnetic field in a solenoid using sin(θ₂) − sin(θ₁) formula

  • Special One
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How to get the magnetic moment for this loop?

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Help calculating an exercise

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Solid disk rolling down an inclined plane -- Some conceptual questions

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Ball collides with a door and pushes it open

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How do calculate this moment of inertia?

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Capacitance of a spherical capacitor

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How to determine if a spring has mass in a problem

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Electric field from charged disk and point charge

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Calculating Moment of Inertia from Ball Accelerations

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N-type semiconductor -- calculate the doping level

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How to interpolate the correction factor F

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Rotational motion (conceptual error?)

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A rocket and its gas exhaust velocity

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A hypothetical isotropic antenna

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Mass of water given only power and density

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Is There a Better Way to Demonstrate Force on a Current-Carrying Wire?

  • VitaminK
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Charged capacitor connected to an uncharged capacitor

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Vectors Question using Calculus -- Swimmer crossing a River

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Particle motion in a magnetic field

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Justifying the constant of integration in compressibility equations

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Finding little g using an inclined plane

  • Ahmed Mutaz
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Trajectory in a non inertial frame

  • LCSphysicist
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Truck with attached inclined plane and a block on the incline

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How Do You Calibrate a Meter Stick?

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Why Do Spring Constants Differ Between Hooke's Law and Oscillation Method?

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Bohr Model - Absorbing a Photon with Enough Energy to Ionize the Atom

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Understanding How to Scale an Atom's Nucleus

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Is the time independent Schrodinger equation commutative?

  • etotheipi
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Longitude contraction / time dilatation

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I can't comprehend impulse = momentum

  • Pushies
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Solve my Mechanical Motion Puzzle: 18in(7lbs)

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Refrigerant - mass flow, power, COP

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I.E. Irodov Problems in General Physics, 1.304

  • Luke Tan
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O and P whose 4-velocity and 4-acceleration have a dot product of 0

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Determining moment (or torque) around a certain point on a wrench

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