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Rolling motion of a cylinder down an incline

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Diffraction Grating and Intensity

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Momentum of two balls collision question

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Finding currents with Kirchhoff's rules in a three-loop circuit

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Angular Deceleration of Flywheel due to Rotation Motion

  • thereddevils
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How Far is the Dog from Shore After Walking the Length of the Boat?

  • roam
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Rock Concert vs Whisper: Intensity Factor of 22026.4

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How Do Two Superposed Waves Result in Points of Zero Displacement?

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Collision in Midair: Find Speed After Impact

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Two blocks with equal momenta colliding via a spring

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How Is Force Calculated When Momentum Change Appears Zero?

  • roam
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Checking answers on 10 capacitor multiple choice problems

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Calculating Minimum Energy for Relativistic Collision of Proton and Photon

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Heat transfer through a steel rod

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Finding vector components of two forces at 45 degrees

  • physics(L)10
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Hydrogen Spectrum: Blue Line w/ 434nm Wavelength

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Heat exchanger output temperature calculation

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Simple Harmonic Motion of a table

  • roam
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Finding wavelength of hydrogen atom when changing energy states

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How to Calculate Normal Force in a Rotating Environment?

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Calculating Force: Swimming Pool Problem

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The minimum number of photons per second?

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Finding the distance, once you have acceleration and time

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Kinematics Water shooting out of hose

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Why Does the Milk Jug Stay Put When the Paper is Pulled?

  • GreatEscapist
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Solving Atwood's Pulley Homework Equations

  • mlostrac
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What is the velocity, speed, position and distance traveled after 30 minutes?

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A Carnot engine. Got right answers, but I have questions on solution.

  • frozenguy
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What is the power required for the belt to maintain its velocity

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Acceleration at the bottom of a bungee jump

  • ff93
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Three point charges in an equilateral triangle

  • Mugwump101
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How to Set Up Algebraic Expressions for Car Travel Problems?

  • fatuma205
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Solid insultaing sphere electric field

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Deriving momentum transfer in elastic collisions between two particles

  • subho123
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Three balls on a smooth surface connected by strings

  • Nanyang
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Simple Coefficient of Friction Question

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Calculating air resistance on air

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Electron Uniform Field Question

  • MisterMan
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How Do You Calculate Angular Momentum for a Ball on a String?

  • gongshow29
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Familiar? But confirmed correct one

  • CartoonKid
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Electric Potential Vs. Electric Field

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Planetary Motion, calculation of orbital period

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Solving a differential equation in classical mechanics

  • Shing
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Calculating Aircraft Physics for a Simulation Game

  • boks
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Physics Concepts in the Pendulum Practical

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Angular separation between two wavelengths

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How is Work Calculated for Pulling Up a Curtain?

  • Uku
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Why are tides similar on both sides of Earth despite centrifugal force?

  • ponjavic
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How Do You Calculate the Average Power of a Car in Physics?

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Electrostatic potential and velocity

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Pile driver force: finding average force from kinetic energy

  • urgent
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Free body diagram for charged particle between electric plates

  • evilgino
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Position of image of an immersed object

  • nilic1
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Electric potential on circle problem

  • physicsjock
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What is the Angular Velocity of an Arm at 45 Degrees?

  • TheNextOne21
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Will Vehicle One and Vehicle Two Collide?

  • mickellowery
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UBER EASY QUESTION: just need to make sure.

  • pfssassin
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How to work out mechanical energy used to stroke a key on a keyboard

  • knatedogg86
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How to calculate the energy of playing See Saw

  • 92sergey
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Simple mutiplication vector problem

  • physixfail
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How to Calculate Bearing and Pitch to Hit a Moving Target with a Cannon?

  • joninty
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What is the Centripetal Acceleration at Earth's Equator?

  • kevin heck
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Atwood machine, solve for angular acceleration

  • aznboi855
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How Far Does a Pion Travel in the Lab Frame?

  • kavamo
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How to visualize a potential difference?

  • MCATPhys
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Calculating Total Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion

  • Lavace
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How Does Buoyancy Affect Object Stability in Water?

  • panther2041
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Conceptual momentum and work questions

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Can Physics Principles Prove Innocence in Court?

  • bcjochim07
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Uncertainty principle - just want to check my method

  • quantumlolz
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Ampere's law for a closed ring bar magnet

  • quantumlolz
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Circuit Diagrams w/o Resistance

  • moshrom
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Do I have to break these problems up into component vectors?

  • jefgreen
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How to Calculate Average Net Force on a Truck with Changing Velocity

  • Kimorto
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Why Does a Long-Barrel Cannon Make a Cannonball Travel Faster?

  • GreatEscapist
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Rotational Energy and Kinetic Energy

  • madhuparc2004
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Minimum energy uncertainty from lifetime using uncertainty principle

  • SAT2400
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Moment of Inertia of a Trebechet

  • TheNextOne21
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What is the Correct Rule for Voltage in a Parallel Circuit?

  • Daniiel
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Half-life of 90Sr: how long until 7/8 of sample decays?

  • furface
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What is the sound intensity level of a jet at 1000 feet?

  • phytitan
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Rotational Mechanics and Torque With Relation to planes?

  • YodaSan2
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How Do You Calculate Tension in a Cantilever Cable System?

  • slain4ever
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Fourier B-coefficients for a tricky f(x)

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Equipotentials around a charge Q

  • ghostbuster25
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Potential Energy between two protons?

  • MCATPhys
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Finding real examples of strain energy converting to gravitational PE

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Cork: Solving for the Height of a Cork in a Dropped Bucket of Water

  • GeneralShamu
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What is the threshold wavelength for this surface?

  • kavamo
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Gauss's Law and Superposition of Fields

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Phase of particles on a stationary wave

  • DarkStalker
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O Physics: K Meson Decay and Velocity Calculation

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Why does an angled pencil in water appear bent and the same length?

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