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Creating a Nichrome Heating Coil for 12V, 36W @373K

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Airplane flap angle and lift in a wind tunnel experiment

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Essay Help for IB: Researching Physics Topics

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The Law of Conservation Problem (Application)

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Six homework problems on vectors, quadratic equations, and forces

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How to we do the inverse of y=(x-1)^2 ?

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Friction question (intro level)

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What is the Inductance per Unit Length of a Solenoid?

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Why Must HCl and NaOH Be at Equal Temperatures for Mixing in Experiments?

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Question on Electric Potential Energy

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Ball Velocity at Different Times

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Sound travel time from airplane at 9000m with temperature-dependent speed

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Velocity and acceleration of a ball

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Exact forces (not net forces) involved in pushing a line of boxes?

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How Do Echo Timings Help Calculate Cliff Distances?

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Magnetic constant for force between two magnetic poles

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Conditions of equilibrium problem

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Does the work-energy theorem relate to 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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Two charged spheres hanging from a thread at 30 degrees

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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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50kg mass hanging from pulley with 1kg mass on 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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When does the rocket use up its fuel from the graph?

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Which objects are accelerating in these six scenarios?

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Expression of Electric Field with known charges

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Quick thermo problem[just an uncertainty]

  • K29
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Showing RC has units of time

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Force and distance in a hydraulic lift with two pistons

  • Mowgli
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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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Check resistor network with 12Ω, 18Ω, 36Ω parallel resistors

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Solving Trajectory Problem with 2 Variables (V,A)

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Charged particle rotating in electric field

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How Do You Calculate Electric Field Intensity?

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How Does Air Speed Affect Aircraft Weight?

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Can kinetic friction and gravity do positive work?

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Electric field on a piece of wire

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RC transistor switch: labeling, charging delay, and bulb control

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

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Solving a system of 5 equations with 5 current unknowns

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Calculating heat of reaction by adding and subtracting equations

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Finding experimental evidence and theorists for nuclear fusion essay

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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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Block M pulled by hanging mass m on frictionless pulley with friction

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Finding charge on third point charge given force conditions

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Calculating Gravitational Force Between Earth and Moon

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Coefficient of friction for block on incline with spring

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

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Calculating propeller torque from rpm and force measurements

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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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Sign of potential energy for opposite charges at fixed distance

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Force on a corner charge in a rectangle of four equal point charges

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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

  • shawli
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Friction question (introductory level)

  • Fallinleave
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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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Average and RMS speed of molecules with speeds 2 to 11 km/s

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Finding the result of a collision

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Which thermodynamics laws apply to heating copper until oxidation?

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Electric field slowing a proton from 3.5 × 10⁶ m/s to rest

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How to know the direction of friction?

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How does nodal analysis by inspection work?

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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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