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Cylinder with piston releasing causes gas to expand: final state?

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Calculate the magnitude of buoyant force

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What are the Rotational Dynamics of a Thin Rod Held by a Pivot Point and String?

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When does car A catch up to car B on a circular track?

  • sheepcountme
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Annoying ellitpical orbit problem

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Diving car down steep, slippery hill (work, gravity, friction)

  • Jim01
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How do I set up the equations for this?

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Frequence of light of galaxy receding from earth

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Pressure vs Vlume graph questions

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Viscous Drag and Terminal Velocity

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Orbits of planets/Angular momentum

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Rotation and translation of a cylinder

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Conversation of mechanical energy

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Distance light travels between reflections in a fiber

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How Does a Finite Wire Segment Affect Magnetic Field Calculation?

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Theoretical Rope and Pulley Question

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How Do You Calculate Current in a Complex Resistor Network?

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How to Find Reactions at Point A in a Structural System?

  • Ryuk1990
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Why does coefficient of kinetic friction vary in pulley system lab?

  • Exuro89
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Sliding block Kinetic Energy Problem

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Finding Equivalent Resistance in a Combination Circuit

  • Gemy4
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Thermal conductivity of airplane

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Solving for Wave Speed: A Guitar String's Story

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Determining Amplitude of Standing Wave on a Guitar String

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Some electromagnetism questions

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Rotational Kinetic Energy of Moving Wheel

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How Is Net Work and Heat Calculated in a Thermodynamic Cycle?

  • joemama69
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How Do You Analyze a PV Diagram for a Diatomic Ideal Gas Cycle?

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Block/Spring Problem (Kinetic Energy)

  • lshine09
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Is displacement always equal to distance traveled?

  • CaptFormal
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Negative acceleration and instantaneous velocity on an object.

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What is the Complex Exponential Form of a Trigonometric Function?

  • mmmboh
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What does the slope of an acceleration vs. mass graph reveal?

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Calculating the Required Force to Prevent Sliding on an Incline Plane

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Normal force of a ball at the top and bottom of a circular path

  • oadeyemi
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A very Inquisitive question - Finding Force of Tension

  • Weebay
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Finding potential differences when R1 = 4 × R2

  • yamugushi
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Why Does qEt/m Represent Drift Speed in a Conductor?

  • anonymousphys
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What kind of a vector force field is this?

  • Keano16
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How Does Angular Velocity Change in Different Yo-Yo Maneuvers?

  • Physics122
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What is the Net Force Acting on a Truck and Trailer System?

  • VeryJerri
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Length Contraction spaceship Problem

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Newtonian Mechanics (true or false)

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Finding initial velocity from launch height, range and angle

  • xwater
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Solve Ramp with Friction: Coefficient of Kinetic Friction

  • rechitzy
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Range of a thermometer - and bulb size

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Logic gate circuits - What does two-level and multi-level mean?

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Sliding mass on sliding incline

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How Do Electric Circuits and Their Methods Work?

  • jerrybg
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Child dragging box (friction, net force and work)

  • Jim01
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Woman in Elevator Problem (Free Fall), Forces she experiences?

  • Ballin27
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What Are the Best Resources for Understanding Quantum Physics?

  • clm321
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Question concerning work and horizontal force.

  • Jim01
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Determination of signs in basic capacitance problems

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Mutual Inductance in a solenoid

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Determine inductance of a solenoid

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Driving Force of 1500 kg Car: 22600 N

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Statics - Balancing moment and resultant force

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Cord vibrating in fundamental mode with hanging mass

  • TheNextOne21
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Reading oscilloscope diagram for voltage and frequency

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Why is it easier to move a car by pulling on a rope attached to a pole?

  • Tearsandrille
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Finding what a rotation matrix transformation does to a vector

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How Do You Calculate Object-Image Separation for a Convex Mirror?

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What is the frequency of unknown tuning fork

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Uniform Electric Field in Cavity of Solid Sphere

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Calculating Work and Energy in a Spring Loaded Cannon

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Find the Magnitude of Emf Induced in a Circular Loop After 6.00s

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Velocity of a moving conducting bar in a magnetic field

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Circuits with series and parallel wiring

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Why doesn't the E-field double between parallel conducting plates?

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Cylindrical Capacitors Questions

  • apphysicsgirl
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Two-block system with friction giving wrong coefficient

  • Bensky
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Electric field inside a uniformly charged solid sphere .

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Orbital period of Earth using Newton's law and gravitation

  • Sci21
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Induced Current - is there one if inside constant B field?

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What Speed Range Keeps a Car Safe on a 65m Banked Curve?

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Finding the distance for one stone to pass the other

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Energy Equations: U, K, E for 0-4 cm Compressions

  • MrGoodyear812
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Trying to find volume given Newtons/ archimedes principle

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Parallel conducting wires and zero magnetic field x value

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Finding electric field between parallel metal plates with charge Q

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Projectile Motion Kinematics Problem

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Calculating Time for Mass to Reach 70 m/s

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Number of revolutions a disk has made after a given time

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How do you find wavelength if your given only the speed?

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Calculating Acceleration Time for an Electron

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Intake Temperature for a 40.2% Efficient Carnot Engine

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Finding satellite altitude from orbital speed

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Bicyclist's displacement, velocity, and acceleration over 30 seconds

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Two-block system - what am I doing wrong?

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Momentum Conservation and Collisions Concept?

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