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Wedge interference - solving for 'separation of fringes' without lambda

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Efficient and Accurate Power Sources for Electromagnets: What Are My Options?

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Finding the Angle of Tipping for a Semi-Cylinder on a Ramp

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Discharging a Capacitor: How Long Does it Take?

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Uniform Vertical Force of Electrons, Using Momentum Principle

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What is the correct sign convention for the change in internal energy?

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Electric field from two charges at point above horizontal axis

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What Is the Correct Equation for a Box on a Frictionless Incline?

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Relative momentum formula or not?

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Don't get this dynamics problem

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Elastic Recovery and Permanent Set

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Taylor Series Expansion for the Relativistic Factor of Momentum

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Coefficient of friction of a moving car

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Accelaration/ traveling problem

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Impulse on booster unit from space vehicle explosion

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How Many Harmonics in a 4-Node Standing Wave?

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Calculating Car Speed from Horn Frequency

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Electric Currents and Magnetic Feilds

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Why Are Dipole Forces Not Collinear in a Uniform Electric Field?

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Was the Car Speeding Based on Skid Mark Analysis?

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Initial Velocity of 1.52 m High Jump Record

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How High and Far Does a Spring-Propelled Space Shuttle Travel?

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Harmonic Motion of a pendulum Problem

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How to find potential at center of square of point charges?

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Calculating image locations with thin lenses

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How Far Are You From This Lens?

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How Is the Initial Current Calculated in a Discharge Graph?

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Understanding Kirchhoff's Laws: Solving Circuits with Multiple Voltage Sources

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Heat of fusion of water ice and dry ice (CO2) - need some insight

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Why are equipotential lines horizontal in a uniform field?

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Calculate Work done in square form?

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Analysis of a circuit that contains two diodes

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Time Dialation-Theory of Relativity

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How Fast is the Wave with a 1-Second Echo?

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Circular Motion: Plane does a loop

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How many air molecules in a 20×14×8 ft room?

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Finding x when Elastic Potential Energy equals Kinetic Energy

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How Do You Calculate Spring Constant and Mass for Oscillations?

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Velocity as a function of distance problem

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Simplifying torque equation with L terms

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Projectile Motion, Shooting a Ball in Zero Gravity.

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Time of sunset using Radius of earth

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What was the initial speed of the archer's arrow?

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Calculate acceleration of the 4 kilogram block

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Vectors. Adding, subtracting, and velocity questions

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Sled accelerating down a hill with displacement data

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Net Electric Field: Find Magnitude Midway Between 2 Particles

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Net electric field with triangle

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Which particles from space pass through the Earth

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Nonuniform Semicircle of Charge problem

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Why do positive charges not move in a conductor?

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Why is it difficult to measure 2000 amps with a series meter?

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Work-Energy Theorem: Determine Distance for 73kg Skier w/ 4.2m/s

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Throwing a baseball up in the air

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Special Relativity - Proper Length

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What are some real-life applications of lenses?

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Radioactive Emission: Determining Half-Life

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Kinematics/uniform circular motion.

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Solving a Physics Problem Involving a Hinged Stick and Clay

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Copper wire attached to the terminals of a cell

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Scaling of sphere radius, surface area and volume

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What is the Time of Travel for a Train Stopping at Multiple Stations?

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Black Oil - Why Does It Appear All Colors?

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Gauss's Law and electric flux of a surface

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Principle of conservation of momentum

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Why does capacitor charging current decrease over time?

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Why is the kinetic energy ratio 60 in americium-241 alpha decay?

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Centripetal acceleration at equator

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Why should you not take a notebook computer through a metal detector?

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Block and spring collision - work

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Indiana Jones rope swing physics

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Horizontal Projectile Motion Problem

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Twin paradox and Hafele-Keating experiment

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RC time constant lab, Current vs time

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What is the force that acts tangential to fluid's surface

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Diffraction Grating, Light with two wavelengths

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Electrical Work Done by Supply Transferring 0.80 nC Charge

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Minimum refractive index for total internal reflection at 45 degrees

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Speed and time for packet through tunnel in planet's center

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Solve Two Pulleys Problem: Find Minimum Tension Needed

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Proton passes parallel conducting plates

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Centre of Curvature: Turning Point or Centre?

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How can the stunt be possible with a minimum force of 600 N?

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Jumping a Crevasse (Projectile Motion)

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Rutherford's experiment alpha source

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Deriving moment of inertia of a spherical shell using surface integrals

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One-layer atmosphere model for Venus surface and atmospheric temperatures

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Speed and acceleration of a stone in a rotating tire

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Coin and Marble on a Frictionless Dome: When Will They Hit the Ground?

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