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Calculating Eccentricity for an Elliptical Orbit

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Solving a Basic RC Circuit: Charge on Capacitor from 537 to 195 μC

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How Does Pipe Area Change Affect Fluid Velocity and Pressure?

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Current and Power in DC Circuits

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Loop Rule - Batteries and Resistors

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Circular Motion and Force Problem

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Magnetic force on sides of square solenoid

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I need Help. Rotational Kinetic Energy of Earth and the Moon.

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Calculating Electron Orbit Radius in a Magnetic Field

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What will the electric field be at point at a distance r=5cm

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Thermodynamics and Entropy: Does an Atom's Energy Decrease Over Time?

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Magnetic Field at Points A, B & C in Figure

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Tangential & normal acceleration derivations

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Kinetics, force and acceleration

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How Do You Calculate Horizontal Angles in Surveying?

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Calculating Speed of Simple Pendulum at 25° Angle

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Projectile ball velocity physics problem

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Conservation of energy: How do I know?

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Specific charge calculation help

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Carrier wave frequency spectrum

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Solve Turbine Output Power: Bernoulli's Equation & Mass Flow Rate

  • Brabs23
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Solve Equilibrium Problem: Painter & Scaffold

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Solving for Refractive Index: Light Beam Incident on Glass Slide

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What is the density and uncertainty of a given object?

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How Do You Calculate the Motion of Rotating Objects in Physics?

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How do u convert relative angle to absolute angles?

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How Does Friction Affect the Ball's Velocity at the Table Edge?

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Calculating Upward Force in Ornithopters

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Projectile motion of shotputter

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Impulse of a firefighter's net on boy

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Wheelbarrow in Static equilibrium

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Work in mechanics vs. work in thermodynamics

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Normal Force - riding over a hill

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Potential Difference and Resistors

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How Can an AC Generator Be Converted to Produce DC?

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Particle in a magnetic field - x,y,z components

  • Luxe
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Show Fx,Fy when x>>a: 65 Character Title"Show Fx,Fy When x Much Greater Than a

  • baseballman
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Pressure in a pipe of varying size

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Calculate the energy lost to friction

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Average Acceleration During a Collision

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Wavelength/Frequency short Questions help

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Circular Motion Homework: Finding Period of Rotation for a Space Station

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Calculating Variable Pulling Force on a Spring on an Arc

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Solving an Equilibrium Problem Involving Torque: Need Help!

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Finding Mass of a Sphere

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Why do we relate mass and velocity to find momentum

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Determining Capacitance in Different Kinds of Capacitors

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Rotational kinetic energy of a flywheel

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How long does it take for a ball to hit the ground from a table edge?

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Using kinetic and dynamic principles to determine unknown parameters

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What is the Average Speed for a Car Trip with Different Constant Speeds?

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Calc Angle b/w Radius Vector Point & +x Axis: What Does That Mean?

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How Can a Pendulum Help Demonstrate Momentum Conservation?

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What Applied Force is Needed to Push a Box Up a Ramp at 50 Degrees?

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Calculate distance given accleration, initial & final speed

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Calculating Power of Motorcycle on Sloped Road

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Simple Pendulum: Help with Displacement and Velocity at A,B,C

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Force required to pull loop from magnetic field

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Analyzing Voltage Drops in Complex Circuits

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Stored Energy in two Parallel Plate Capacitors

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Am I Calculating the Moment of Inertia Correctly?

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What is the degrees of freedom of helium gas ?

  • thereddevils
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Am i wrong or is it the book? Newtonian physics two stacked masses

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HELP Derive Newton's Law of cooling

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Charged particle slowing between parallel plates at -70V and -50V

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Need help with finding Center of Gravity with given radius and height

  • yang09
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Final Pressure of Toxic Gas in Cylinder

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What is the resistance of the voltmeter in this series circuit?

  • thereddevils
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Capacitors and switches problem

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Average speed vs average velocity

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Resistance and Ohm's Law Problem

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Work Done by Normal Force: 40kg Box Pushed 5m over Rough Floor

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Electric field in a region with constant potential

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Kinetic Energy and the Power of Human Climbing

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A couple question on illumination.

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Time to Lift 50 15.0-kg Boxes at 41.4 W Output

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Is There Solid Evidence of Magnetic Monopoles?

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Post-Impact Speed of Colliding Billiard Balls

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Solving Carnot Heat Engine: Tf = SQRT(TcTh)

  • Carlo09
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Simple question about direction of force due to current

  • Samuelb88
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What is Refraction? Examples of Abrupt and Gradual Refraction

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Circular Motion of a spinning mass

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Plate Capacitor: Distance Increases, C Decreases, V & Energy Increase

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Current and voltage across resistors

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Calculating pressure acting on sides of tank

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Photoelectric Effect: Calculating Potential Difference

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Solving Piston & Spring Homework Problem - Work, Temp & Heat Input

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Acceleration vs Time Graph in Simple Pendulum

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What are the Unknown EMF and Currents in this Kirchhoff's Circuit?

  • Bob Loblaw
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Calculating K in the XYZ Space: A Homework Challenge

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Difference between Time periods

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Energy/Light-Some problem set questions

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Finding Resultant of Displacements Using Unit Vectors

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What Is the Tension in Each Pedestal of a Diving Board?

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What is the magnetic flux through a desk at a certain location on Earth?

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Finding Tension in Suspended Spheres with Given Mass and String Length

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Special relativity barn pole thought experiment

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