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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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A question regarding work with friction

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How Does AC Frequency Influence Power Dissipation in a Resistor?

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Force and Newtons law of motion

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How Is Kinetic Energy Related to Cue Ball Motion in Pool?

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Adding 28lb northwest at 45° and 15lb north vector

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Entropy Calculation for Small Systems

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Multiple choice physics test from past paper

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A question regarding power and hookes law

  • physicskid72
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Coefficient of kinetic friction between each block

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Determine the amount of kinetic energy lost due to the collision

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Spring cannon, initial velocity, and compression

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Simple Lens Diagram for a Camera

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How Does Water Pressure Affect Piston Position in an Ideal Gas Cylinder?

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Eigenvalues and Normalised Eigenvectors

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Car Suspension Homework: Find Speed to Avoid Wild Bouncing

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Dust particle diffraction through a hole using Heisenberg uncertainty

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Volume of water discharged from a tank

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Analysis of Lorentz Force on Particle Motion

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[Circuit] Potential Difference question

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How to Calculate Mass of a Block Using Force Equations?

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How Much Power Does a Sprinter Generate in a Race?

  • tangibleLime
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Problem finding the direction of current (electricity)

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Conical Pendulum Radius Calculation

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A person jumps on a merry go round, how much does the merry weigh?

  • smhippe
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How Can the Cosmos Be Both 3 Degrees and Extremely Hot?

  • saberjim
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Making a soda can roll with an internal spinning flywheel

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Interference with two speakers?

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Solve Max Velocity Increase of 100kg Probe in Gravity Assist from Mars

  • zebra1707
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Tarzan and Jane(collision in one dimension problem)

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Particle sliding off a hemisphere: where does M enter?

  • benf.stokes
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Egg drop from 3 meters with straws, tape and paper

  • Midas.
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T: Lorentz Transformation for Length and Relativistic Mass

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How Do Water Droplets Impact Limestone Floors in Terms of Force and Momentum?

  • myworldisorange
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Find force (N) of atmosphere on area

  • Calhoun295
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Simple true and false questions

  • physicskid72
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What Determines How Far Sound Can Travel?

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Cauchy Boundary Conditions on a Wave

  • bon
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Simple Work Done by Force Problem

  • tangibleLime
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What happens to the height of the orbit?

  • bon
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Conduction of Heat and Radiation problem

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How can a particle experiencing a force be solved using work and energy?

  • tangibleLime
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Understanding Household Currents

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Damoed Oscillation in an RLC circuit

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Easy Perpendicularly-Oriented Polarizers

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Potential Difference Across an Inductor in an RLC circuit

  • Senrab
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Converting light years to meters and calculating star luminosity

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Mechanical device inside a soda can to roll 15m

  • reesespieces2
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Tension During Swing of Pendulum

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Electric field inside a sphere of charge density A/r

  • Repetit
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What Temperature Gives Nitrogen Molecules an RMS Speed of 1.5 m/s?

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What Determines the Acceleration of a Charge in an Electric Field?

  • GlobalDuty
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What is the velocity of the body

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Where Should the Third Charge Be Placed to Achieve Zero Net Electric Force?

  • Gummibare610
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Spring cannon launching 0.8 kg ball 25 m at 45 degrees

  • TexasBB12
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Physics of sound applied to instruments

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Proton distance in a uniform electric field after 0.5s

  • matt72lsu
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Solving a Ramp Problem: Calculating Forces and Work Done on a Sliding Piano

  • YuppittTales
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Calculating potential difference

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Balance Decay Equation: 60Co --> 27Ni + 0B-1

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How Do You Calculate Oscillation Parameters for a Mass on a Spring?

  • lemon
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How Do You Calculate the Wavelength in a Closed Pipe Resonance Problem?

  • crosbykins
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Range of speeds of particle confined in box

  • Linus Pauling
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Solving for Velocity of a Body with Fx=-6xN

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Light Refracted through a Prism

  • Yaaaldi
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Units of Square root of a quantity

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How Do You Calculate Velocity in Lorentz Transformations?

  • Nuclear#1
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What is the maximum angular speed of a twisted disk?

  • mybrohshi5
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How does a bicycle rider hear a car horn while moving away?

  • kylepetten
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Rocket Launch-Horizontal and Vertical motion:

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Calculating Change in Flux: A Challenge!

  • jimbkob
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Computing Central Force Potential: Bound from |r| to Infinity

  • mystraid
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Calculation on Romer's theory of the speed of light

  • Gothy
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How Much Weight Can the Sign Hold Without Breaking the Cable?

  • tangibleLime
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Storage of capacitors in series

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Inclined plane moment of inertia

  • pat666
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Speed of Point on Rim of 50.0 g Disk with 8.00 cm Diameter

  • tangibleLime
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How to Calculate Moment of Inertia for Different Door Rotations?

  • tangibleLime
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Moment of inertia of a rotating bar

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Maximum speed for a vehicle to pace another at constant velocity

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Eddy current losses - solid/laminated cores

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Up, anti-up quark annihilation Feynman diagram

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Moment of inertia and kinetic energy of a rotating particle

  • pat666
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Speed of 4.00 kg block before hitting floor using energy methods

  • pat666
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Finding unknown resistance and EMF in a three-resistor circuit

  • PhilCam
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Toy car flywheel energy and angular velocity

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How Do You Calculate Energy Delivered to an Inductor Over Time?

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Tour Submarine: Deep View 66 Can Descend to What Depth?

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Electric field from exponential charge density using Gauss' law

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Pressure of person on chair Question

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