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Confusion - Diff Eq for a Circuit? What does my professor mean?

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Total charge of electrons in 1.77 Kg of H20

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How Long Does It Take an Asteroid to Orbit the Sun Compared to Earth?

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Force per unit length of wires-

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Stabalizing an egg drop project

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Calculating Current in a Basic Resistor Circuit

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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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Ratio of rotational kinetic energy of Earth to 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 magnitude and direction at points A, B, C

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Deriving tangential and normal acceleration components

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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 of Cu2+ ion with mass number 63

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Carrier wave frequency spectrum

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Turbine output power with gauge pressures and Bernoulli's equation

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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

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Electric field forces in the limit x>>a

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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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Frequency and period of light wave calculations

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Finding the period when given rotation rate in rev/min

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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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Angle between radius vector and positive x axis from Cartesian coordinates

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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 acceleration, initial and final speed

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Calculating Power of Motorcycle on Sloped Road

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Force required to pull loop from magnetic field

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Finding voltage drops in circuit with parallel resistors

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Stored Energy in two Parallel Plate Capacitors

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Moment of inertia of pulley with and without point masses

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What is the degrees of freedom of helium gas ?

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Deriving Newton's law of cooling

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

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Center of gravity of a water-filled truncated cone bucket

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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?

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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)

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Force direction on loop near LC circuit at t = 4.20 ms

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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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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?

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Finding K when work done on a particle is 90K joules from t=0 to t=4s

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Difference between Time periods

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