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Work Done By a Spring's Restoring Force

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Calculating Capacitance of Two Electrodes with Varying Distance

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Forces in three rods supporting a block

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Formula for calculating the wavelength of sound in interference

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What does 'a distance L apart' mean?

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Diference between cm^3 and cm^-3

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Is a mother carrying her baby doing work on the baby?

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Entropy and the Helmholtz Free Energy of a Mass-Piston System

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About changes in a magnetic field

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Heat Transfer - Radiation - Net heat transfer between two mirrors

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Fourier’s Law Of Heat Conduction (Window Pane)

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Quantum Physics (Electron in infinite deep quantum well)

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What Is the Interpretation of an Integral Equation with a Proportional Variable?

  • Anti Hydrogen
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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

  • MrSmailes
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How can we find a galaxy's velocity from its redshift?

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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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Finding exercise problems to supplement Feynman Lectures on Physics

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Motor boat intercepting vessel A after 500 seconds

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Slope and velocity problem (difficult)

  • IamVector
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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

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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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Spring scale reading when jumping from 1 meter height

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Why can't we use Cartesian coordinates for the ant and rubber band problem?

  • IamVector
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Finding the angular acceleration of a flywheel

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How wheel radius affects force needed to pedal a bicycle uphill

  • homeylova223
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Question on a textbook statment on Rutherford Scattering

  • User1265
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Standing waves on a string with a hanging mass

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Nuclear Power Plants - Electricity Production

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Solving Spool Acceleration Problem Using Newton's Laws

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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

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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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How do you label vectors correctly in physics?

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Elastic ball collision problem

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

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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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What is a probability mass function?

  • flughafen
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Cars Collide on a Hill, Conservation of Momentum

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Finding enthalpy for refrigerant-134a off the saturation curve

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Specific heat capacity aluminium

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Finding tension in a rope suspending a chandelier

  • ttpp1124
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Why must normal force be zero at minimum speed in a loop?

  • User1265
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Tension in rope: crane with box 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?

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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

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

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How to calculate the equivalent resistance in this Circuit?

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Order of anharmonicity of a simple pendulum

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Propagation of uncertainty with tangent function?

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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?

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Accelerations in Atwood machine with three masses and upper pulley

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Heat dissipated in a Resistor-Capacitor circuit

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Phase difference between 2 points on a wave

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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

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Block pushed onto a moving conveyor belt

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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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How do I calculate tension force using F=ma?

  • jamiebean
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About the constraint equations of a pulley

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Calculate the current in all parts of this electric circuit

  • Karl Karlsson
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Uncertainty calculation for a quiz problem

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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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Projectile motion plot in Mathematica showing wrong results

  • Saptarshi Sarkar
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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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