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How Does Kirchhoff's Law Apply to Circuits with Multiple Batteries?

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Calculating the velocity of a bowling shot

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How high will the piston rise if its temperature is increased?

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How Is the Minimal Distance Between a Proton and a Nucleus Determined?

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Calculating Heat Flow Through a Block of Material

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Thin Film Problem: Find Minimum Thickness for Light Transmission

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Thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity

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Specific Heat / Thermal Conductivity

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What is the Minimum Electric Potential Needed to Stop an Alpha Particle?

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Physics - Calculus question - Convservation of energy

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What Is the Net Entropy Change in a Two-Step Gas Process?

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Second order nonlinear differential equation problem

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Find the voltage across a capacitor in a LRC circuit

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How Do You Calculate Light Absorption by Water Per Unit Depth?

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How Does Water Pressure and Flow Rate Affect Rotational Sprinkler Dynamics?

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Changing angle to seek a moving target position

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Can Interference Patterns be Observed with Sound Waves?

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Question about how resistance works

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A few simple work/energy questions~

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How High Does the Ball Rise in a Rotating Bowl?

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Speed of a transverse wave along a wire?

  • coffeem
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Simple Harmonic Motion Question

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2 Dielectrics in a Parallel Plate Capacitor

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Calculating Spring Displacement with Added Mass in Simple Harmonic Motion

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Finding Rotational Inertia with Thin Rod: Explanation and Example

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How Does the Central Maximum Shift When a Laser Beam's Angle Changes?

  • physics2011
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What Can We Learn About Wave Speed from a Vertical Standing Wave?

  • arkofnoah
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An electron traveling at a speed of

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Help understanding circular motion

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Why is it Easier to do Sit-Ups with Hands on Stomach?

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Understanding Static Electricity and Charge Interactions

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Can Complex Equations Be Solved Using Software?

  • lorik
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What Velocity Must the Bullet Have to Swing a Block to 40 Degrees?

  • Ry122
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Fluid Dynamics - Multiple Pipe System Need

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Calculate Final Temp of Water After Ice Melts: Help Requested

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Masses hanging from ceilings by strings

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Determine the tension in the pendulum string

  • Ry122
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Can a 60W 120V Appliance Surpass the Max Household Current and Blow a Fuse?

  • labview1958
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Clarification of the normal force

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Are astronauts weightless in orbit?

  • mizzy
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Multiple loop circuit with grounded point

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Need to find the EPE, electric field and the work of the charges

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Non linear motion ( Physics olympiads question )

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What is the voltage of the car in Ohm's Law Application Problem 1?

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How to Calculate a Skier's Speed at the Bottom of a Slope?

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Understanding the Impact of Reduced Air Resistance on Object Acceleration

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Finding Friction Force in a Flexible Hinge with Mass

  • mechaniXx
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Buckingham PI Theorem proof - Dimensional Analysis

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3 unknown forces acting on a beam

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Binding energy vs Kinetic energy

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Calculating Changing Velocity of a Rocket on Excel

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Calculate Pressure of Interstellar Hydrogen Gas at 3K

  • hasan_researc
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The effect of mass on roller coaster cars

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How Does a Tin Can Phone Transmit Sound?

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What is Thermal Motion and Why is it Important in Understanding Atoms?

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Displacement of airplanes in opposite directions.

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Solving an Integration Error with Acceleration Data

  • mark2468
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Swimming across a river question

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Total heat capacity of an monatomic gas?

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Entropy chance with a carnot cycle?

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Exam question: conservation law

  • PhMichael
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Electric dipole in an electric field

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Will the book and the note separate? Why or why not?

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What Is the Formula That Links Sound Wave Power and Frequency?

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Calculating Energy Release from Nuclear Fission

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A small postage stamp is placed in front of a concave mirror

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Space Time Interval: Solving Distance & C-Value

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Time it takes for the wheel to stop?

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How does relativity affect simultaneity in a frame of reference?

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Calculating a Square Root Without Calculator

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Calculating time period in vertical circular motion

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Angular velcoity of point masses

  • mizzy
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Component vectors positive or negative and angles positive or negative

  • Who,me?
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Work to rotate a dipole in an electric field

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Intensity of Light- What factors contribute?

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Mag force between two wires with opposite charges

  • fm621
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How to calculate fuel to accelerate a vehicle

  • IMK
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What is the wave speed and string velocity for y(x,t) = 3e^-(2x-4t)^2?

  • Faux Carnival
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How Do You Calculate EMF in a Circuit with a Resistor?

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Proving equations for a plane stress condition

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Angular acceleration of a discus

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Why Does Water Refract Light and Improve Visibility?

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Does Throwing Rocks from a Boat Affect Water Level?

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What is the final temperature of the water when ice is added to it?

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Understanding Magnetic Flux and Eddy Currents in Electromagnetic Induction

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Angle of Incline Calculation with Coefficient of Friction

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Where Is the Point of Zero Net Gravitational Force Between Earth and the Moon

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Easy-ish Conservation of Energy question

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System of Masses and Pulley, Problem

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HELP Specific Homework Problem, Particles and Waves

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What horizontal force is required to accelerate the block

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Equilibrium of a Spring: Force or Mass?

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Solve Physics Duck Problem: Find Min V0 & Angle for Bullet Targeting Duck

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Time taken to travel x meters with constant acceleration

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