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MCQ: Potentiometer: Balanced Length, Resistance of Cell E

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What is the Effect of Dimpled Surfaces on Rolling Friction?

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Harmonic Function (time averages) II

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Refrigerator power rating and heat absorption

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Train climbing 5 km track with 40 m rise: work-energy equation

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Friction and tension force- mass

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What is the Contribution of Segments AB and CD to the Magnetic Field at Point O?

  • peaceandlove
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The electric potential difference created by point charges.

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Energy lost when reconnecting charged capacitors with opposite polarities

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Getting an intuitive feel for pressure in psi and pascals

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Optical Instruments I: Optical Element

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Stocke's law and terminal velocity

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Finding Average Velocity between .7 m/s and -1.25 m/s

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Skiers on Different Sloped Hills?

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What is the difference between velocity and displacement?

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Calculating Time to Heat Earth to 100°C

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Plane mirror size and height for seeing your whole body

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Potential difference between bird's feet on transmission line

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Changing temperature of falling bodies

  • djk628
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Error Checking Single Slit Diffraction Equation for Bright Lines

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Is Temperature Constant in a Pressure-Volume Graph?

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Calculating the Center of Mass of an Arc

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Electric Flux on a Cylindrical Gauss Surface

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Harmonic Function (time averages)

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Average force in stopping a block

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Calculating droplet mass and charge in Millikan oil drop experiment

  • Matt1234
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Earth Without Oceans: Why It Would No Longer Be a Sphere

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Heat Transferred to 8,000-kg Aluminum Flagpole

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Capacitor with radius finding the energy density

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Does a constant volume and pressure change result in zero work done by a gas?

  • intenzxboi
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What is the change in temperature of a coin dropped from a building?

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What Does the Scale Read at Its Peak When You Jump from 1.3m?

  • kavipach
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A Sphere rolling down an incline. Find the speed at the bottom

  • kavipach
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Tension in vertical and horizontal ropes supporting an 800 kg mass

  • Shortyyy
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E-Field over Uniformly Charged Disc

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How Do You Calculate Force and Tension in a Pulley System?

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Challenging problem about puck revolving on a table

  • go_ducks
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RC circuit: find charge after 5.122 ms

  • peaceandlove
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How Do You Calculate the Cost of Running a Steam Iron?

  • peaceandlove
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Gravitation, really hard at least for me

  • Puchinita5
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Judging the Kite-Flying Contest: Measuring String Tensions

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What are the velocity components after an inelastic collision in 2D?

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Calculating Final Pressure of Gas Mixture in Two Identical Containers

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Angular Momentum: Mass Rotating About a Post

  • Sam_Goldberg
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Bathroom scale being compressed but jumping on it

  • kavipach
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How much gas is required to heat a house

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Why is Permittivity ε Multiplied and Not Summed?

  • jeff1evesque
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Galileo's Theory of falling bodies problem

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What is the force applied by water on a falling sandbag?

  • dance_sg
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How Does Relative Permittivity Relate to the Electric Field in Capacitors?

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Friction problem of playground slide

  • pttest
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Permittivity (background reading from Wikipedia)

  • jeff1evesque
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Gravitational Energy transfered to Kinetic question

  • rayfish
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What is the study of motion called?

  • Ki-nana18
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How does changing force and mass affect acceleration on a lab cart?

  • dance_sg
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Power dissapatied by a resistor

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Calculating Average Net Force on a Car Acceleration

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How to differentiate between single and multiloop circuits

  • novafx
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Determine Work done on the puck?

  • jumpingjack90
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Finding push force to accelerate a block at 5.71 m/s² with kinetic friction

  • Paulbird20
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Distance traveled at end of second interval: 27m

  • Ki-nana18
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What is the solution to the Power-Truck Problem in physics?

  • Chewy0087
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What is the energy equation for a damped pendulum?

  • Roboticist
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Photoelectric effect :Millikan experiment

  • pepe1964
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What is the Speed of the Incoming Sphere After a Perfectly Elastic Collision?

  • Nguyenfa.t
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Gravitation, hollowed out sphere

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Magnetic Field from Sheets of Current

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Solving Friction Force and Acceleration Problems

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Block on an incline with Friction

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Projectile Motion, requiring variable elimination

  • Lukapaka
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Calculating Eraser's Distance on Friction Desk

  • Matt1234
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Calculating Change in Internal Energy: A Steam Engine's Performance

  • jmb07
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Force on square loop in non-uniform field (Griffiths 5.4)

  • astropi
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Calculating Power Factor for an RC Circuit with Given R, C, and Frequency

  • just.karl
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Mass of an object up inclined plain

  • Paulbird20
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Suitcase dropped from airplane at 90 m/s: where does it land?

  • alex2256
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True/false Freshman Undergrad Physics Problems (Work)

  • TwinGemini14
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Spring constant for exercise equipment delivery ramp with friction

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How can work have units of volts?

  • jeff1evesque
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Where do the √3Q and 2L² come from in this charge equation?

  • tchounkovskii
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Finding velocity and displacement with gravity

  • kahya
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What is the ratio of radii for the two species X+ and X2+?

  • KatieD
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Calculating the period of a pendulum

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How Does Changing the Radius Affect Angular Speed and Kinetic Energy?

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Trouble Writing Transfer Function for Mass-Spring-Damper System

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Static equilibrium and tension problem

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Kinematics (distance, speed, velocity, acceleration)

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Some subtleties regarding Impedance

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Magnitude of force of box on ramp.

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Solving the Liquid Density Puzzle

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How can I improve my approach to solving physics problems?

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AC Power and Combining Volt/Current

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Capacitor Applications: Filtering out AC and DC Signals

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Electron deflected between parallel plates EF and GH

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What is the angular momentum of the system after the collision?

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Copper Pipe Expansion: 2.5m Length Rise to 86.5°C

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Two objects moving away from eachother at c - Special relativity

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Momentum and stopping distance

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Block is lowered into water, what is weight of water spilled?

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