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Is the m/e Equation Valid When F = 0 in J. J. Thomson's Experiment?

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Apply the Delta Wye Transform to a Circuit

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Startup Guide: How to Begin Your Business

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How to find the coefficient of friction?

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Relativistic Density - Check My Work & Learn Methods

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Differentials of Entropy for Air and Water at Different Temperatures

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Solve for the total Kinetic Energy change with unknowns

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Optics: refraction and reflection

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What does the slope of an Fapplied vs Fnormal graph represent?

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How To Calculate The Force Of Water Exerted On A Full Tank

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Where can I find the following coefficients for a car?

  • Dohako
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How Does Braking Compare to Turning in Avoiding Collisions?

  • brotherbobby
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Potential energy of an electric dipole

  • Samanko
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Lateral magnification in mirrors, simple issue

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How do I calculate Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle?

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Why Are Some Resistors in Parallel While Others Are Not?

  • User1265
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How can I calculate the smallest speed of a proton in a nucleus?

  • NoctusPartem
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Find the maximum potential difference across a series circuit

  • mhrob24
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The total equivalent capacitance

  • Samanko
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The speed of a spaceship flying through dust

  • Haorong Wu
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Santa's Sleigh (Newton's 2nd Law-1D) Acceleration, Horizontal Motion

  • Angelx26
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Maximum Compression for a Block on Spring

  • Abu
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Is My Calculation of a Rolling Steel Hoop's Acceleration Correct?

  • dyn
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Need help with 2 Kinematics questions (New to forum and physics)

  • shivam28
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Circular Motion: Write expression for the period in terms of r and g

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How Do You Find the Diameter of a Wire Using Voltage and Length?

  • Leanne
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Work/Energy in a Magnetic Field

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Volume of ice needed to mitigate ocean warming since 1871

  • awink16
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What's the use of unit vectors?

  • Odette
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Collision of a puck and a brick

  • ac7597
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Find the charge on the plates of a parallel-plate capacitor w/ dielectric

  • mhrob24
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Is the Equation F=2+4v Dimensionally Correct for Calculating Force?

  • daf10
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Help with a pulley problem with 3 masses

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Relating Uncertainty in Time to Uncertainty in Wavelength

  • Blanchdog
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Finding the constant of this retarding force

  • Like Tony Stark
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Finding the frequency of very small oscillations

  • Bjarni
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Signal Generator, Oscilloscope and Capacitor

  • User1265
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Energy Received Physics of Sound question

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A Motorcyclist crossing a stretch of land

  • Mioojo
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Deriving an expression for change in internal energy

  • Krisd98
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Triple Product Rule Equivalency

  • WhiteWolf98
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Initial conditions in simple harmonic motion

  • Like Tony Stark
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Minimum separation between incoming proton and alpha particle

  • issacnewton
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What happens to a pendulum clock in a lift when the cable breaks?

  • songoku
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Newton's Second Law for Translation and Rotation

  • BayRan
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How Do You Calculate Torque Generated by Water Flow?

  • EEristavi
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Accel of 2 Masses & 3 Pulleys: F=Ma Solution

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What is the maximum tension and friction force for a block held on an incline?

  • brotherbobby
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Is the Calculation for the Center of Gravity of Two Spheres and a Rod Correct?

  • brotherbobby
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What Determines Gravitational Potential Energy?

  • Harry17
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Not necessarily homework help but I do not understand Field lines

  • Boop de Boop
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Dipole moment from electrostatic potential equation

  • Iriasrol
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Sig Figs when the Uncertainty is Larger than the Values

  • Browntown
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Understand a Conceptual question on Scattering

  • claymine
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Spectrophotometric Determination of Fe2+ (Beer's Law)

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Momentum and impulse of a football

  • ac7597
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I don't know how I got "mysterious energy" in a Carnot heat pump

  • Philip Robotic
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Understanding Sign Conventions in Elevator Tension Problems

  • Abu
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Work-Energy in carrying something down

  • lightlightsup
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Write an expression w1 of the angle shown in the first picture

  • Karl Karlsson
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Calculating the power delivered when a block of mass m slides along

  • Mimosapudica
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Newton's second law along a line

  • Jrogers201
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Water Pressure and 2 dimensional motion

  • EEristavi
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Particle bouncing between walls

  • Josh0768
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A uniform rod allowed to rotate about an axis and then it breaks

  • Kaushik
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Power developed by a person on eating 100g of ice per minute is?

  • Mimosapudica
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Calculate this Spring's Potential Energy

  • EEristavi
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Interactions and Potential Energy

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Why does a log float horizontally?

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How can I calculate the acceleration in this system?

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Force on a sphere due to a conducting plate

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Combined Gas Law: Find Volume V2

  • serendipityfox
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Escape velocity of an iron asteroid

  • ac7597
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Calculate the centripetal acceleration of the car

  • Wolves
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Analyzing My Attempts at a Question

  • Wolves
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Zeeman effect: Experimental Setup and Explanation

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Tension in Rope using Torque? Did I do this correctly?

  • kepherax
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How to find an average acceleration using an average velocity?

  • Cacti
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Moment of Inertia of a Rectangular Picture Frame

  • kepherax
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Diffraction Gratings: Calculating Wavelength for CD ROM

  • Sarah0001
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Finding equations for simple harmonic motion given a graph

  • Like Tony Stark
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Acceleration of a mass lowered by a motor (Help with Non-Ideal Pulley)

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Calculating Centrifugal & Coriolis Forces at Rest

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Wave motion and two detectors to measure that motion

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Estimate the mass of the water (Carnot cycle)

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Are the Forces Different in Parallel and Series Springs?

  • posto002
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How Do You Apply the Lagrange Equation to a Hoop at Theta Equals Zero?

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Very basic circuit question about a Wheatstone Bridge

  • User1265
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Two different answers for compound pendulum problem

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Tension in a rotating rod at various places

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Smooth rolling ball rolls down hill, how far can it fly?

  • Addez123
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What is the correct way to solve for weight on two pulleys?

  • Addez123
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Speeding bullet, average force by post on bullet

  • serendipityfox
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What is the coefficient of friction for a pen rolling down a book?

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Parallel Plate Capacitance and Charge Time

  • HelloCthulhu
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Finding the period of a pendulum in motion along a curve

  • Like Tony Stark
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Circuit Q Basics: Understand Electrical Circuits

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