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Ball being shot out of a spring gun - Velocity

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Voltage in a 2 battery series circuit

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Simple Harmonic Motion on an air track

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How much work was done to overcome friction?

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Calculating EMF Around a Square in a Magnetic Field

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Evaluating double integral - jacobian help

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Solving Vectors Question: Wind Direction & Velocity

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Kinetic energy of alpha particle during decay

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Vector Velocity and Coulomb's Law

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Solve First Law of Thermo Homework: (DT/DV)s = -(DP/DS)v

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What is the correct approach for solving thermodynamics questions?

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Understanding Discrete Quantities in Electrical Charge

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Solve Silent Ringing Bell Homework Statement

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What is the force of friction on a 50 gram coin on a turntable?

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Chain with 2 links lifted vertically - Force

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Current using kirchhoff's loop rule

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Magnetic Field Problem: Magnitude & Dir of Electric Field

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Throwing a dart from a roof - Velocity

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Object in free fall - Velocity

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What is the current through resistor 2 in a series circuit?

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Calculating Induced EMF: 50 cm^2 to .005 M^2

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Simple Problem. Finding Forces using free body diagrams.

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How to Calculate M in a Simple Math Equation

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Simple math im not understanding

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Electric potential inside non-conducting sphere

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How Does Constant Power Affect Object Motion Compared to Constant Force?

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Planar Kinematics of a Rigid Body

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Understanding the Quality Factor in RCL Parallel Circuits

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Anyone know some cool physics demonstrations?

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Calculating Min. Stopping Dist. of Lorry Carrying Crate w/ Coef. of 0.3

  • johnny_702
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Calculating Amplitude in Simple Harmonic Motion

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Calculating the Maximum Energy Stored in a Compressed Spring

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Finding the Spring Constant for Bungee Jumping

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Comparing Aluminum & Copper Deflection Angles

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Simple Spectrometer and Spectroscopy Question

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Unit conversion litres to gallons or vice versa

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Doppler effect and Resonance-relationship?

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Force & Moment Homework: Find Moment of Force P About O

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Volume of Balloon at 23K and 299K

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How Long Does It Take to Charge a 195 µF Capacitor to 125 Volts?

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And what would the webpage title be?Pressure on a Button on a Table

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Two masses attached to spring w/ pulley

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Basic Refraction question. Kindly help

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Electric Potential-Work Problem

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Calculating Force on an Aluminum Beam with Temp Change

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Finding the Value of b in Gauss's Law Charge Problem

  • scoldham
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What Angle Should Bead 2 Be Positioned for Desired Electric Field?

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Enthelpy change and Entropy change; given the equation for the substance

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Equilibrium of weight on pulley

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Explaining the relationship between launch angle and displacement

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Solve Elastic Collision: Find Velocity & Direction

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Spring and maximum compression time

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Car braking and ratio of force of friction

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Work Done by Air pressure difference

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Energy efficiency of torsion Catapult

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Molecular movement, potential energy and angular frequency

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Help w/Current Through Batteries

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Calculating Electric Potential Energy of a Charge Configuration

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Location of maximum desctructive intereference

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Bernoulli's Equation - Efflux question

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Why Does Kinematics Fail in Calculating Fmax in This Physics Problem?

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How Far Did They Fall in Meters?

  • 1irishman
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Solving Pressure: P = 7.35N / (.24m x .2m)

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What Is the Angular Velocity of a Complex Rigid Body Assembly?

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Does This Material Follow Ohm's Law?

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Ideal Gas Law Problem - Environmental Physics

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Angle of a trajectory required to make it go a specified distance?

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Lenses- magnification adn focal length

  • PhysicsChick8
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Harmonic traveling wave physics

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Solving Number of Molecules for Entropy of 1.181x10^-12 J/K

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Forces and Tensions: Two Masses Suspended from Cable System

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Electrical Circuit/Electrical Power Problem

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Thinking about electronic collisions with hydrogen.

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Calculating Volume of Helium Balloon at Different Temperatures

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Relative Velocity: Car A, B & C on Two Lane Road

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What Attracts a Solenoid's Northern End: A Bar Magnet's Polarities?

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Simple Photoelectric Effect Conceptual Question

  • fallen186
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Can UV and Sound Waves Be Polarized?

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Volume of 1 g Mole Gas at 356.2K & 1 atm: 2.92x10-2 L

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Inclined plane translational velocity

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Verify Moment Calculation: Attached PDF Answer

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Static friction and car and unbanked curve

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Coservation of energy and impulse

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Solving a Complex Equation with cos(wt).exp(jθ)

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How Much Energy Is Needed to Separate Nucleons in a Gold-197 Nucleus?

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Electric Potential of a Proton Question

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Efficiency of an inclined plane

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Relativistic acceleration with integration problem

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