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How do we calculate slope of a acceleration vs.time graph?

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Electrostatic Potential for Two Concentric Cylindrical Shells

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How do you calculate the total E-field for a cube with a 3D vector E-field?

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How Do Kirchhoff's Laws Help Find Unknown EMFs and Currents in a Circuit?

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How to Convert Between Velocity-Distance and Distance-Time Graphs?

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Finding equivalent resistance in complicated circuit

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Solving Fuzzy Dice Question: Finding Car Acceleration

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Energy levels of carbon atom electrons

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Collision between two pucks, find the angle

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Unraveling the Mystery: Why Stars Blink but Planets Don't

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Change in potential energy problem

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Ideal Carnot Engine: Find Time & Power Output

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Solving Friction Problems - Homework Statement

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Stretching a stretched spring/non-stretched spring

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Boyle's Law Explained: How Temperature and Pressure Affect Volume

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Vibrations problem - Transverse in a string under tension

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A Single Turn, Square Loop (torque)

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How Does Newton's Law of Cooling Predict Time for Temperature Changes?

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How Do You Calculate Work and Heat in a Carnot Engine Cycle?

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How Do You Solve for x in This Algebra Equation?

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Frictional Force/Kinematics Problem

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Distance traveled when accelerateing

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What forces are acting on a block suspended by a rope over a pulley?

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Watertight and low wight material

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Derive Electric Potential Energy

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Can Air Be Treated as an Ideal Gas in Absolute Zero Calculations?

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Calculate the capacitance per unit length of the cable

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Tangential Acceleration vs. Tangential component of force

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Using a pendulum to find Planetary mass and radius

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Calculating Potential from Field

  • Ron Burgundy
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Tangential, Radial Components of Acceleration Quick Question

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Electrostatic Potential of 4 charged spheres on corners of a square

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Calculating Total Energy of a High Diver's Leap

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Parallel-plate capacitor charge problem

  • Allyson
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Physics help please determining distance of box pushed

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General question about directions of v.

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Why Does Reverse Saturation Current Spike at Breakdown Voltage?

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Calculating Final Velocity: Need Help!

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How Many Electrons Are Removed from a Charged Copper Ball?

  • Mek8388
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Whirling stone - Tension/Velocity

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Finding Electric Field at a Specific Point and on the Y-Axis

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Finding the Maximum Electric Field of a Charged Ring

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Zero position in Potential Energy

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Electrostatics - finding magnitude of a third charged particle

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Is Velocity Zero When the Velocity-Time Graph Passes Through Zero?

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Match head rubbed over a distance

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Change in electrical potential energy of a charged tire shrinking

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How far does a cylinder roll after being released from an incline?

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Sliding down a ramp - quick question

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How much power is the customer receiving?

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Calculating Frictional Force: A Problem-Solving Guide

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Gauss's law, cylinder of length L

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How many moles of gas are in the bag?

  • Wellesley
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Calculating Work Done by Electric Field on a Point Charge

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Dissipated Heat in Joules for Braking Motor with Given Parameters

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System with two boxes and pulleys

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Formula to calculate the uncertainty in the density

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Calculating the Force on a Painter by a Chair Using Newton's Second Law

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Where Does a Projectile Fired from a Cliff Land?

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Projectile Motion from a cliff with no information.

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Calculating the Mass of a Negative Ion with a Specific Charge

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Finding Acceleration of Blocks Connected by String

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Why do all three quantum models only consider positive quantum numbers?

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Calculating Tension & Acceleration of Stacked Blocks | Newton's Laws Homework

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A question on vertical circular motion

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Is My Calculation of the Divergence of a Vector Correct?

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Relative Velocity/Two-dimensional motion

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Average Bullet Velocity Inside the barrel

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Find the change in electric potential energy

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Calculating Charge in Equilibrium for an Electrostatics Problem

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Conservation of Momentum of a boat and women

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Minimum distance b/w projectiles

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Two batteries and three resistors

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Change in electric potential energy of charged conducting tire

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Graphical Analysis of Motion: Investigating Velocity and Acceleration

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Solving Plane Velocity Relative to Ground: Homework Help

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Solve Oscillation Problem: |v|=0.5v_max

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Elevator Tension Homework: Find Acceleration & Cable Tension

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Calculating Local Interface Curvature for Fluid Dynamics Simulation

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Physics behind this bottle holder?

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A golfer gives a ball a maximum initial speed of 39.9 m/s.

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Magnitude of bullet fired into gel

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Solve Circuit Problem: Find Battery Resistance

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Which Hits First? | Physics Explanation

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What are the magnitudes of the two force components?

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String waves on a cable car and free falling.

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Radioactive Decay Graph in y=mx+c form

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Conservation of Momentum in Collision between a Ball and a Truck

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Solve Circuits Homework: V=IR, 12V & 24V, 2-8 Ohms

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Calculate the time it took the marble to travel from N to P?

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Calculating Mass in a Momentum Conservation Problem

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How Do Projectile Motion Concepts Apply to Real-World Physics Problems?

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Is an oscillatory motion always periodic ?

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Golf Swing Force: Estimating Club Impacts Ball

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