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Box on a slanted plank with friction attached to a spring

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Simple Mechanics Problem -- Block connected to a wall by a rope

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How to Calculate Bullet Velocity After Penetrating a Block

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Cylinder rolling with a block inside it

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Will the displacement of a solid ball affect the water level?

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Electricity Problem: Solutions and Causes

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Comparing Spectra of Distant Galaxies

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Determining uncertainty in an experimental value of g

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How do I find the mass of an object without k?

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Exercises for Feyman Lectures on Physics

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To find the time taken for one vessel to reach another

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Slope and velocity problem (difficult)

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Maximum voltage that can be applied to DC circuit with resistors

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Combine swimming and running to get to the final point the quickest

  • IamVector
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Circular motion of a car on a banked road

  • MIN JIN
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Zero Amplitude Damped Simple Harmonic Motion with k=0.7s^-1 and f=3Hz

  • Timburton91
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Sticky card Application of Bernoulli / Pressure incorrect?

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Using Energy Conservation to solve this problem: Jumping on a spring scale

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Finding the angular acceleration of a flywheel

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Question about a bicycle wheel going uphill

  • homeylova223
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Question on a textbook statment on Rutherford Scattering

  • User1265
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Standing Waves Homework: A Tuning Fork, a String and a Hanging Mass

  • chessmaster62
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Nuclear Power Plants - Electricity Production

  • eminem4002
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Solving Spool Acceleration Problem Using Newton's Laws

  • lua
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Calculate the density of the material for a vibrating string

  • Bolter
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Second highest frequency in a sound pipe

  • Bolter
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Induced EMF and current for a bar sliding on a circular rail

  • FranzDiCoccio
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Calculating Work and Kinetic Energy on an Inclined Plane

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How Do Acceleration and Velocity Graphs Differ?

  • IamVector
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Vector Labelling | Vector Mapping Services

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Elastic Ball Problem: Is Something Wrong?

  • IamVector
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Can I Combine X and Y Components in the Work Equation?

  • Tinkylo
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Open pipe end correction distance for waves

  • Bolter
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Solve Your Tennis Racket Problem with a Geometric Approach

  • IamVector
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Understanding the PMF of a Random Variable: A Brief Overview

  • flughafen
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Cars Collide on a Hill, Conservation of Momentum

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Enthelpy change in isentropic condition (air-con)

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Specific heat capacity aluminium

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Solving for Tension: A chandelier is suspended by two chains

  • ttpp1124
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Understanding the Minimum Speed to Keep Carriage on Tracks in a Loop

  • User1265
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Question about a crane and anchor

  • homeylova223
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Question on pulleys force and rope pulling

  • homeylova223
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Formula for calculating wavelength of sound waves in interference?

  • Myphysicsteachershit
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Vector Mechanics — Double Gear Rolling on a Rack

  • Alexanddros81
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Calculating magnitude of the acceleration of two ocean liners

  • naushaan
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(Relativity) A flash of light is emitted at x1 and absorbed at x1 + l

  • PhDeezNutz
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Find the expression for Power in circuit

  • VitaminK
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Calculating average acceleration during a time interval

  • naushaan
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Calculatingthe resultant gravitational force on spherical objects

  • naushaan
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How Do You Calculate the Tension in a Rope Holding a Chandelier?

  • ttpp1124
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How to calculate the equivalent resistance in this Circuit?

  • VitaminK
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Order of anharmonicity of a simple pendulum

  • Saptarshi Sarkar
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Propagation of uncertainty with tangent function?

  • Cheesycheese213
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Unit conversions involving Pascals

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Find the mass of this ion moving in a magnetic field

  • Bolter
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What is the work function of a metal?

  • Bolter
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Question: Solving for Accelerations in an Atwood Machine System

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Heat dissipated in a Resistor-Capacitor circuit

  • Prabs3257
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Phase difference between 2 points on a wave

  • Bolter
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Deflection distance for an electron beam in an electric field

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How can I calculate the equivalent resistance of this circuit?

  • AmirWG
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Calculate the velocity when 2 progressive waves are added together

  • Bolter
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Have You Calculated the Maximum Bending Moment Yet?

  • Ashish181
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Magnetic field vector using F = qV * B

  • happyparticle
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Hard kinematics problem: Block pushed onto a moving conveyor belt

  • IamVector
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Determine the magnetic field inside and outside the cable using Ampere's law

  • Karl Karlsson
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Frequency of TV signal from EM waves

  • Bolter
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Polarization of light -- Determine the thickness of the crystal

  • Karl Karlsson
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Understanding Tension Force: A Beginner's Guide to Physics

  • jamiebean
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About the constraint equations of a pulley

  • nish95
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Calculate the current in all parts of this electric circuit

  • Karl Karlsson
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Help with uncertainty calculation

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Understanding a step in a Biot-Savart law problem

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What is the mass of the ruler moments? (Answer: 127.04g)

  • calculator20
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Solving a Physics Problem with Mathematica: Get Help Now!

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Moment of inertia of a rod bent into a square

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Solving Bohr Atom Problem (Qs a-e)

  • StillAnotherDave
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Kinetic force/force/tilted plane question

  • jamiebean
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What is the contact force for a 20kg object with an acceleration of 2.7?

  • jamiebean
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Why Does Adiabatic Compression Yield a Negative Work Calculation?

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Calculate the focal distance of the duplicate

  • Karl Karlsson
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Understanding what a dipole's charge is

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Balance these nuclear equations

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Specific heat of a monotomic gas

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Mechanics Problem: Pushing a heavy desk across a floor

  • naushaan
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Find the Perfect Vacation Destination

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Where Is the Center of Mass in a Triangle with Unequal Masses?

  • TutaTeacherAllan
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Oscillating Spring in a Frictionless pulley system

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Problem about compound optics in microscopes

  • help I have 12 hours
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3 concentric conducting spheres, the outer one connected to ground

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Circular motion and g forces in rollercoaster

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Equivalent capacitance odd circuit

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Average acceleration for a curved projectile path on an air table

  • Sakyo107
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Question about finding the amplitude of this circular wavefront

  • randyrandy
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Magnetic field Cancellation in AC wires (How?)

  • HAgdn
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Understanding Average Speed in Graph Analysis

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