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What is the net charge contained within this cube?

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Find an Expression For the Voltage

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Is the Kinematic Equation Applicable for Calculating Projectile Motion Speed?

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Find the tensions in the cables of a weight

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Calculating mechanical energy and efficiency in a pendulum experiment

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Limit of a mountain using universal gravitation

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Finding airplane and wind velocities from triangular flight path times

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Projectile Motion Question: Tennis Serve and Net Distance

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Is Option B the Correct Answer for Question 8 on Viscosity?

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Calculating the Hydrogen Spectrum: Understanding Energy Levels and Transitions"

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Static friction of blocks on a wire

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Equilibrium in a tractive apparatus - tension and pulleys

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Galilean transformation inconsistency with light sphere equation

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Question on oscillations spring balance and fish

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Focal Length of a Plano-convex Lens

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Least squares fit to a straight line?

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Range of Powers of Eye Lens - Optics Question

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How Do Newton's Laws Apply to Pushing a Lawn Mower?

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Two Speakers - Sound Maximum and Sound Minimum Problem

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Simple Harmonic Motion (Person gets into car)

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Finding heat direction without knowing final temperature

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Time period formula-proof required

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What is the Electric Flux Through a Cube and How Can it be Calculated?

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How Is the Distance of 262m Calculated for a Particle Accelerating from Rest?

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Normal and static friction forces on a car on an inclined road

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Physics question on absolute pressure?

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Are These Statements About Vectors True or False?

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Calculating Jupiter's Mass from Orbital Data

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Calculate the work down by the force on the object

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Centripetal force of Earth orbiting the Sun

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Trouble with multiple-current circuit diagram problems.

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Oblique Elastic Collision Angle Calculation

  • kingjoshie
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Finding projectile landing point with quadratic equation

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How Do You Calculate Forces on a Parked Car on an Incline?

  • xiaoren
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A wave speed of a hanging chain

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How Long Does a Cliff Diver Stay Over Water During Their Dive?

  • Badrakhandama
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Stone Throw Kinematics Question

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The percentage of carbon dioxide in the air

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The Information of O178: What Can We Learn?

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How Do You Calculate the Speed of an Arrow Shot Horizontally?

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Dispersion of light and temperature

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Center of Gravity of a Hiker and Backpack

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Calculating Electric Field of a Uniformly Charged Spherical Shell

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Falling Objects (With air resistance)

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Calculating Vector Projection Using Trigonometry

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How to Determine Elevator Speed with Winch Mechanics?

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How Should Gravity Be Signed in Kinematic Equations?

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Where Do Parallel Light Rays Focus When Entering a Glass Hemisphere?

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River wave speed and frequency with changing depth

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Magnitude of the vector r=r2−r1?

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Electric Field Due to Infinite Line Charge

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Position and velocity vectors of a squirrel

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Maximum Height of Colliding Balls

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Derivation of Kepler's Third Law

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How to Find the Unit Vector of a Given Vector?

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Calculating Speed for a Bullet to Pass Through 10 Planks

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Realistic explanation of the doppler effect

  • Moroni
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Finding Acceleration of Ball on Paper

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Energy question, displacement of a spring

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Friction and force on 50 kg tube pushed by 15° wedge

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Air bottle submerged in pond: depth for 100 cm³ water to enter

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Understanding Optical Power in Simple Lens Equations

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How much work is done in an hour?

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Resistive Force (of a damped oscillator: what is it?)

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Forces in pole leaning over ground

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Refractive Index of Water/Glass Combination

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Compton Scattering in Newtonian Physics

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How Do You Calculate the Electric Field at Point P with Two Charges?

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What is the Current at Node Y in a Circuit with Kirchhoff's Current Law?

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Calculating Forces on a Banked Curve

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I'm having trouble trying to solve this particular problem.

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Finding E field inside a sphere with charge proportional to radius

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Potential and Kinetic Energy with Time Thrown In

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How Do You Determine the Third Force in a 3-Force Equilibrium Problem?

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What is the Speed of a Proton at Triumf?

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Volume of Air Bubble at Atmospheric Pressure

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Calculate Horn Frequency Decay Time in Seconds

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Understanding Dielectric Constants and Their Impact on Capacitance

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What average net force is required to stop .

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Whistle moving toward wall produces 11 beats/s with reflection

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Finding magnitude and angle of vector (4.0m, -3.0m)

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Magnitude and direction of resultant

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Calculating Wavelength: Finding the Formula with 10cm Between Phases

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How Do You Calculate the Mass of the Sun Using Orbital Mechanics?

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Projectile Motion, Physics I with Calc. I

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Can a thin lens form an in-focus image at very large distances?

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What Is the Direction of Plane 1 Relative to Plane 2?

  • bluefire90
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Charged rod in your hand stays charged

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Calculating pressure and temperature

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Total energy of parabolic and hyperbolic orbits

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Can Heat Flow and Work Impact Internal Energy in Insulated Systems?

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Solving the 411nm Wavelength Emission from Hydrogen

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How Long Does It Take for a Ball Launched Off a Cliff to Hit the Ground?

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