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What is the Force Required to Move a Block up an Inclined Plane?

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Solving for Ion Mass in Magnetic Field

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How Does Frequency Variation Affect Phasor Current in a Series Circuit?

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Solving Heating of Piston in Cylinder w/ Mass & Gravity

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Determining the constants R and L of a coil

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How Do You Calculate Wavelength in a Diffraction Experiment?

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Launch of a mass attached to rope with mass

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Simple harmonic motion and friction

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Photoelectric Effect of hydrogen atom

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Are My Multiple Choice Answers Correct?

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Calculating Spring Constant for Horizontal Oscillation of a Mass

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How do I calculate instantaneous velocity?

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Force due to three magnetic fields

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Mass on Vertical Spring stretch

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Mirror/Lens Equation and Resistors in Parallel

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Voltage caused by change in capacitor plate seperation

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Light transmission through two plastic disks with n=1.5

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How does one calculate his distance to the center?

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Elongation of wires from same material with different dimensions

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Two rings on horizontal wire with hanging masses and friction

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Electron deflected via magnetic field

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Vector Resolution: Engineering Math Exam Question

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Car Collision Dynamics Analysis

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Car deceleration at 7.0 m/s² stopping in 2.0 s

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Spring scale amplitude when turkey drops onto plate

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Laser simultaneity in different reference frames at 0.6c

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What is the Electric Field Between Deflection Plates in a TV Tube?

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Electrostatic force between sugar grains and hot-air balloons

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Projectile Motion - V0 is 5 times v @ max height?

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Boost Your Resistance IQ with This Tricky Question - Post Deleted

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Textbook recommendations for General Physics I

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Time delay between wave pulses in two wires supporting an irregular beam

  • MrShimizu
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What is the spring constant for an elastic cord with varying weights?

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Force pairs between 5 stacked objects using Newton's laws

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Working equation for change in time (Impulse)

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Launch with Chains: Solving a Hard Physics Problem

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Why Can't You Raise Your Leg Sideways Against a Wall?

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Circuit analysis in series vs. parallel

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Vector addition, subtraction and dot product calculations

  • zainriaz
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Why is AM radio reception clearer than FM in valleys?

  • kylepetten
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Moving train - kinematics problem

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Is my simplified bullet drop equation accurate for long-range shooting?

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How Does Doubling the F Number Affect Exposure Time?

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Half-life of isotope from decay rate measurements

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Converging lens becomes Diverging lens

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Brightness of Light Bulbs in a Circuit

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Vectors (?), Change in Velocity, Average Accel.

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Physics question help

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How Much Helium Is Needed to Lift a 340kg Balloon?

  • pat666
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Moment of Inertia of a grouping of pennies

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Angular Velocity of weighted plates

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Electrostatics physics question, by checking my answers

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What similarities can be seen in the motion of these five objects?

  • hereitgoes
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Calculating Transformer Parameters

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How Does a Star's Mass Loss Affect Satellite Orbit Distances?

  • bon
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Conducting rail ciruit, against gravity

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Why is my steel sphere density 0.0079 g/cm³ instead of 7.9 g/cm³?

  • derivethis
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Specific Gravity and Pressure in Flowing Pipe

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Calculating Gravity at Half Earth's Radius

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Moment of inertia and axis of symmetry

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Shape of surface of fluid in a rotating tank

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What is the Correct Answer for These Multiple Choice Physics Questions?

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Which Rolling Object Reaches the Bottom of the Ramp First?

  • bon
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Mechanics of smooth rings and string

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Elastic collision: showing u1 > (1+e)m2u2/(m1−em2)

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Loss of energy in the system as a result of the collision

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Solving Archimedes Principle: 6500kg Iceberg in Sea

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Capacitance in concentric shells

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What is the change in kinetic energy for a block attached to a stretched spring?

  • pleasehelpme6
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Electric field strength at the midpoint between the two charges.

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How Does Connecting a Wire Affect Light Bulbs in an Inductive Circuit?

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Thin Film Interference Problems

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Understanding Wave Intensity and Superposition

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Is Earth in Danger from the Incoming Comet?

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Thermodynamics: Conceptual Question

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Finding magnification for a curved mirror with 10 cm radius of curvature

  • lynchdemartin
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Newton 2nd law of a fish in an elevator

  • Agent M27
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Solving for Angle of Elevation: p = 12.67°

  • thereddevils
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How Do You Verify Equations for a Balancing Robot?

  • auto
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Calculating Work Done by Engine on Railway Wagon

  • bon
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Solving the Particle Velocity at Time t=5

  • thereddevils
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How Is the Moment of Inertia Constant Determined Experimentally?

  • stalebrownie
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Bottle Rocket Velocity: Constant Force, Increasing Rate

  • jerryez
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What is the maximum force reduction for a 4 m ramp in a warehouse?

  • jerryez
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What is the approximate diameter of an oil molecule?

  • xxcherry06xx
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How Do You Solve 0.51 = 1,800((v^2)/13)?

  • randomss444
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