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How is the Angular Separation in a Diffraction Grating Calculated?

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Is My Planck's Constant Data Incorrect?

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How Far Can a Bird Watcher Hear a Song Bird's Sound?

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Proton Motion in Electric Field

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How Do You Calculate Recoil Speed in Ballistics?

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Calculating Final Velocity with Acceleration: Space Shuttle Example

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Calculating Visible Light Photons Emitted Per Second & Distance

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Elastomer stretched in tension and elongation

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Magnetic Field and Current Flow: Explained

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Inclined Plane and Elevator with Acceleration

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How Long Must Force F2 Act to Match the Impulse of Force F1?

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Newton's Second Law: Acceleration & Mass Relationship

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What is the force intercept on my graph and how can I find it?

  • Machinehead73
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Distance from House for Soccer Ball Kick Homework

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Calculating Potential Difference in a Uniform Electric Field

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Absolute value of acceleration Help

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Net Force of a Model Rocket in Free Fall

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A three step cycle problem check

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How fast does the student need to drive to save the melting ice cream?

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Designing experiment to detect pipe leakage using radiation.

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Calculating Electrostatic Force with Coulomb's Law

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Is My Calculation of Applied Force in a Pulley System Accurate?

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Vertical circular motion of a body

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Determine magnetic flux and current

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Electron Speed in a Voltage Gradient

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How to Calculate Bullet Velocity in a Spring/Block System?

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Given Sound-Level B1 at A Distance D1, Find D2 at Sound Level B2

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Focal Length & Position of an object.

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Help Me Calculate Wheel Angular Velocity For Simulating a Car

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What is the Method for Finding Average Acceleration Using a Graph?

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How to Solve for Acceleration on Two Connected Incline Planes?

  • Machinehead73
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Radioactivity of Thorium question

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Neon Ions Acceleration in Tube w/20kN/C Field

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Basic Thermo Question (heating a room)

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Calculating Force of Gravitational Attraction: Mass M, m, Distance

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Determine currents in resistors help

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Stopping Distance + Reaction Time Problem -> Physics beginner

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X - Solving for Load in Young's Modulus Problem

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A: Mouse and Ladder: Time for Return

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Pin Connection with one support reaction?

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Find Acceleration for Pulley Homework

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Work Done on 12kg Mass: 52N - 15N over 24m

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How Does Wavelength Affect Double-Slit Interference Patterns?

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Calculating Acceleration with Friction and Applied Force

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A basic question on quantum mechanics

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Consservation of energy problem

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Efficiency of electrical power plant

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Foca length of a concave mirror

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Direction of Angular Velocity (w)

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What is the frequency of a sound wave traveling through air in a tube?

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Ideal Gas Law: Solving Air Bubble Volume at Different Depths

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Calculating Binding Energy of Neutron in 14N

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Do Modern Circuit Boards Use Full or Partial Shielding Techniques?

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What is the Work Done on a Car by Gravity on an Inclined Plane?

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Tension on the string is doing work

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Carbon sample of a saber tooth tiger decay

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Electric Potential Energy of More Than Two Charges

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Projectile Motion: Solving for Overall Velocity with Hang Glider Example

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Stopping distance inclined plane

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Using Kepler's constant for Jupiter

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Is My Calculation of Velocity at the Bottom of a Ramp Correct?

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Finding the kinetic coefficient and acceleration

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Finding h for a Cylinder on a Track

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How Does Changing the Axis Affect Angular Acceleration of a Disc?

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How Does a Falling Metal Bar Generate Electricity in a Magnetic Field?

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Work on a charged particle due to Ring

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Relative Acceleration Across a Potential Difference

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What is the magnitude of the net force acting on the ball?

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How do you pronounce X and Z (reactance and impedance)?

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Electric Field of an Infinite Line of Charge: Analyzing the Rod

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How Do Forces and Accelerations Work in a Frictionless Tug-of-War?

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Net Force Worksheet: Solving Acceleration, Mass & Friction Problems

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Calculating Energy Impact: Weight Required for 9 Joules at 1 Meter Height

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What Happens to Lung Volume When Ascending from a Submarine?

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Atomic Energy Levels Homework: De Broglie Wavelength & Ionisation of Fe

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Calculating Friction Force: A Toy Train Example

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Finding combined amplitude of out of phase waves

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What Is the Linear Density of the String in a Standing Wave System?

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MY BIGGEST PROBLEM in capacitance

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Toaster Resistance: Calculate Power Rating & Heating Element Resistance

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Ideal gas question on glass bulbs

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Van de Graaff generator? adding a electron?

  • graphicer89
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Newton's Laws of Motion; tension

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Charge distribution (Gauss law)

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Period of oscillation of spring system

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Coulomb's Law - Vector Analysis

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Ideal Gas Question Homework: Mass of Air in House @ 20C & -10C

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Simple Harmonic Motion (easy question)

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How Many Revolutions Does a Proton Make in a Cyclotron?

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Simple lab calculation (Magneticfield vectors)

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Question with large number?electron charge?

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