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Finding specific heat capacity of ice in calorimetry experiment

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Pulleys and Conservation of Energy

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Calculate Kinetic Energy in Elastic and Non-Elastic Collisions

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Capacitance of a cylindrical capacitor

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Plural of "Refractive Index": Debate

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What is the Ray Tracing Diagram for a Concave Lens with f < do < R?

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Increasing magnitude of the charge

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Net Force on Outside Balls in a Charged System

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How does a changing electric flux produce a magnetic field?

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Block with pulley on frictionless surface: distance, acceleration, tension

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Tension in a string at an angle

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Finding tension and angles for two balls on threads of length 2R

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What factors determine the focal length of a lens?

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Does Mass Affect Acceleration or Not?

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Does RMS voltage depend on angular frequency?

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T, simple harmonic motion, gravity

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Interference of Waves from Two Sources and Beats

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Electrostatics. finding the resultant force

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Bolt forces on jet engine and tension in pulley system

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Electric field of a long hollow cylinder with uniform charge density

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Baseball reaches maximum height after 3.5 s and clears a 95.8 m fence

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Charge on the surface of a conducting sphere.

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Electric field from two perpendicular dipoles at their center

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Short in Wires with 2 Different Resistances

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Free-body diagram for car on 25° ramp with cable at 31°

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Calculating Electric Field from a Source Charge: A House Fly Problem

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Calculating Focal Length of Human Eye When Focusing Closely

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Coefficient of Friction of object sliding down ramp

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Damped oscillator with 520 g mass and 1% amplitude loss per cycle

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Potential energy of a proton at the midpoint of a capacitor

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How to Calculate Boat Angle for Straight River Crossing?

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One More hard Oscillations Problem

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Net force on three point charges on the x-axis

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Magnetic Force away from Long Pair of Wires

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How to Write a Physics Story Using These Terms?

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Calculating the Total Energy of a Geosynchronous Satellite in Orbit

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Force: max tension before rope breaks

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Acceleration as a Function of Velocity

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Does a Ball Rotate on a Frictionless Surface?

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Solving for Distance and Time: Motion on Incline Homework Help

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How Is Mechanical Energy Calculated in Thrown Objects?

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How much work is done by the engine?

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Maximum speed of car on horizontal curve with friction

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Counting electrons: current and charge

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How Is Chimpanzee Tracking Using Vectors and Trigonometry?

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Calculate the length of a parsec if you are on mars

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Change in Entropy of Boiling Water to Steam

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A 8.0×10^-2 kg ice cube at 0.0 degrees C is dropped into a Styrofoam cup

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Electric Field Involving Gauss's Law Problem

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What Is the X-Component of the Electric Field from a Given Potential?

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What Element Results from Removing Protons and Neutrons from Oxygen-16?

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Bowling ball rolls off table at 15 m/s, lands 45 m away

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Does a 15 nm Photon Ionize a Ground State Hydrogen Atom?

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What is the tension in string 1 when string 2 breaks?

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Spring, resonance frequency and a bit of fun

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One dimensional motion in Halliday Resnick Fundamentals

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Electric potential of a hollow sphere

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What is the Ratio of Speeds After a Noncentral Elastic Collision?

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What Is the Angular Velocity of a Hinged Stick After Collision?

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Physics Force and Motion Problem

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Frequency of Siren Perceived at 50m After Fire Engine Passes

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Electric field inside and outside a hollow charged sphere

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What is sound wave refraction and how do speed and frequency affect it?

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Kinematics: Object Thrown Up from 3.6m Window

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The pressure sand exerts on a particular area.

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What does ε₀ stand for in the electric field equation?

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Proving initial speed of a particle

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Solving for 3 variables in projectile motion problem

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Two cars on highway with opposite motions meeting

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Milikan's Experiment Lab - Euclidean Algorithm

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Electric Field of Two Charged Plates

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Supersonic plane flying horizontally

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Electric Potential: V=-ED for Capacitors?

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Atwood's machine height problem

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How Do I Calculate the Time Constant from Oscillation Decay?

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Electric Field in Concentric Spheres

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Electric Potential: Solving for Center of Sphere

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A diatomic ideal gas such as air..

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Thermos Coffee Cooling: What is the Final Temperature?

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Finding gravity on Planet X from a string, a weight, and frequency

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Net Electrostatic Force on Four Charges at the Corners of a Square

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Rotation Rate of a Generator Coil

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Tension in two ropes supporting a hanging weight

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Understanding Gauss's Law and Solving for E(P) and phi(P)

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Net force on q2 from q1, q3, and q4 at corners of a square

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