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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

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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?

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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?

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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?

  • Shardooni
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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

  • The legend
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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?

  • Paymemoney
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Calculating Forces on a Banked Curve

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

  • biggie1
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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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Electron deflection angle in a TV picture tube

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How to Solve Question 36 on Time-Displacement Diagrams?

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Acceleration of two masses and a pulley

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Kinematic Distance Problem? Can't Tell

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Ice cube into water/thermal equilibrium

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A nail is placed inside an electromagnet, why do we feel a buzzing sensation?

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Finding the direction of the momentum (by drawing?)

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Understanding Vector Subtraction for Solving Vector Problems

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Finding where electric field is zero between two charges

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Calculating Force Using Young's Modulus

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Deriving Mechanics Equations for the Moon

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Force of Friction on an Inclined Plane

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Impulse and Momentum of an object

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