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How Do Echo Timings Help Calculate Cliff Distances?

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Conditions of equilibrium problem

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Work-Energy Theorums & Newton's Second Law

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Potential Related to Electric Field?

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Why Is the Calculated Torque About the Shoulder Incorrect?

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Find the direction and the magnitude of the total electric field

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Difficult UCM/friction question

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Hanging Charges Homework: Finding Charge on Suspended Spheres

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FBDs of Stacked Boxes: Understanding Force Distribution in Connected Objects

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What Was the Original Frequency of the Piano's Out of Tune A Note?

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Statics Problem: Weight Hanging from a Rope

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Acceleration of Charge in a Potential Gradient

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What Does Zero Electric Flux Indicate About the Electric Field?

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Find the Time When Rocket Uses Up Its Fuel: Graph Analysis

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Acceleration: is this accelerating?

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Expression of Electric Field with known charges

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Quick thermo problem[just an uncertainty]

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Units of RC are the same as time - help

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Calculating Forces & Heights in a Hydraulic Lift

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Substance decrease by factor of 100? (radioactivity)

  • physics(L)10
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Principal Quantum number by size?

  • physics(L)10
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Capacitors - long Q - full procedure, very grateful if someone will check

  • pat666
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Report on air resistance of projectile motion

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The speed of sound in relation to temperature

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A momentum question - having conceptual difficulties -

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Equipotential Surfaces for Different Charge Configurations

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R circuit (pretty simple) need checked - full working - please

  • pat666
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Solving Trajectory Problem with 2 Variables (V,A)

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Another electric field question, =/

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How Do You Calculate Electric Field Intensity?

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How Does Air Speed Affect Aircraft Weight?

  • Mowgli
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Please help me understand relationship between work and friction/gravity

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Electric field on a piece of wire

  • vladimir69
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Solve Transistor Trouble: Physics Help

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Predicting Cell Movement and Shape in Conway's Game of Life

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Needing help with calculating currents

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Adding and subtracting thermalchemcial equations help needed

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What Are the Key Experiments and Theorists Behind Nuclear Fusion?

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Can Power Absorbed by 5G1 be 0 in this Circuit?

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Tension in string of object suspended in liquid

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Sound Source distance and Localization method

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Solving a Static Problem with Conflicting Results

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Conservation of momentum of a bullet question

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The suspended object then must be negatively charged.

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Master Point Charges with Ease: Homework Equations & Attempt at Solution

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Calculating Gravitational Force Between Earth and Moon

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Dynamics/ Simple Harmonic motion help

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Calculating Time for 1000kg Boat to Slow from 90km/h to 45km/h

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Torque and Angular acceleration

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Simple Harmonic Motion of Charges

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Work Done in Compressing Oxygen: Thermo Analysis

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Conservation of energy - spring problem

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How to Derive the Equation of Motion for Connected Masses on a Cylinder?

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Finding q(t) on a capacitor in an RC circuit

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Calculating Capacitance for a Water-Filled Parallel-Plate Capacitor"

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Understanding Capacitor Charging Time

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Potential Energy of Oppositely Charged Particles: Positive or Negative?

  • pat666
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Point Charges: Finding Force on Q_2 - Solved Homework Problem

  • pat666
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Potential Difference with Series and Parallel Resistors

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Equipotential surfaces - - Pictures

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Finding Electric Field from Electric Force and Charge

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Potential difference charge and Energy - Equation

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Momentum/law of conservation of energy - collision of two cars

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Friction question (introductory level)

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What Is the Frequency of Oscillation in a Series RLC Circuit?

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Equivalent Current Through Specific Resistor

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Calculating Average & RMS Speed of Molecules

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Finding the result of a collision

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Understanding Thermodynamics in an Experiment: Laws at Play

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Finding Electric Field intensity

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How to know the direction of friction?

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A point charge near a stream of water

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What Is the Direction of the Magnetic Force on a Proton?

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Angle needed on banked corner of road.

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Electric force of Van de Graaff generator problem.

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I with my mechanical principles home work.

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Circular Diffraction Patterns: What is the Correct Diameter of the Slit?

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Magnetism - Is there a magnetic force on the lectron

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Real vs Ideal Springs: How Do Forces and Stretches Compare?

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Force of collision without knowledge of the results of the collision

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Analyzing Canon Ball's Height & Acceleration Over Time

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Electric field of semi circular piece of wire

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Rotational motion of a turntable

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Cylindrical Surface Charge Density

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Conservation of Energy with Spring Mass System on Inclined Plane

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Conceptual: electric potential

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Linear Momentum (One Dimension) Quiz Question

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