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How Do Forces Determine the Balance of a Supported Ruler?

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Electric field from uniform line charge at different distances

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Electric Flux Through a Square: 2.1µC @ 20 cm

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Finding equation of equlibrium for rod and two blocks

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Supposedly easy electromag question which I cannot do sadly.

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Magnetic field from point source

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Electric field of a cylinderical insulator

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Ice Floats: Calculating Water Level Percent

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Difficult question on pressure in liquids

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Does U-235's Higher Likelihood of Fission Make It More Useful Than U-238?

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Calculating Load on Pilot in Horizontal Curve Flight

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Calculating Takeoff Time for an Aircraft

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Calculating Work on a Box Moving up a Ramp: Physics Problem Help

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Momentum; bullet block of wood; distance; friction.

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What is the speed of transverse waves on the rope?

  • Luis2101
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Newton's II frcitionless surface, constant velocity, angle of incline

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Pu-239 + 1N fissions into what?

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Electromagnetic Induction and Waves

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Solving Diverging Mirror Homework: Size & Location of Image

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What is the acceleration and tension in this two-block system?

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Solve Physics Ramp Problem: Acceleration of Box

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How Do Braking Forces Affect Train Derailment Distances and Coupling Forces?

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Sphere describing a circle, find tension

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Tangential Acceleration of a Pendulum

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Rotational Kinematics - Angle of a bar attached to a spinning rod

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Did I Solve the Equations for Statics and Friction Correctly?

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Power density calculation of Laser

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Converting Units: Microvolts to Volts and Picoseconds to Seconds

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Normal Force on Vertical Plane

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Finding zero field point from +7.88 μC charge in uniform 300 N/C field

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Resistances in Series or Parallel

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Confused? Wave Function Direction Explained

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Calculating Sound Level Intensity with Multiple Jet Engines

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What is the final temperate of the aluminum?

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How Is Tension Calculated in a String with Waves?

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Pushing a lawn mower, total force exerted?

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A Lawn Mower and Newton's 2nd Law

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Internal Resistance in battery

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Two sinusoidal waves of the same period

  • kukulalalu89
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Calculate the change in entropy of the cube-lake system

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What is the entropy change of ice to water and water to vapor?

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Where is the voltage potential zero given two points?

  • xcmntgeek
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See if you can solve this tough one (energy and momentum)

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How Fast Will the Block Move After Being Released from the Spring?

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How Do You Solve These Physics Equations?

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Sliding down incline with friction

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Child on a Merry-Go-Round: Calculating Angular Velocity After Moving Inward

  • Steveadams79
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What is the period of a bobbing cork?

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Solving Lens Image Problem: Where is Image Formed?

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What Energy Makes a Photon’s Wavelength 10 Times That of an Electron?

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Why does the area centroid formula for bar y have a factor of 0.5?

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Air pressure in a container then released

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Determining Leading Car's Velocity On TV Outage

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Hydraulic Jack Question: Calculating Piston Movement for 2000 kg Car

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How Does Projectile Motion Apply in Olympic Ski Jumping?

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Electrostatic Force: -0.7nC Charge at Origin

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Kinetic Energy (in eV) of He with given change in potential

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How Do Forces Balance in a Spring-Mass System?

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Trebuchet Help: Calculating Final Velocity & Acceleration

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Solving a Hydrostatic Problem: Cylinder Height in Water and Oil

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What Are the Key Aspects of Phase Transitions?

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DeBroglie wavelength for particle at rest

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Proton Acceleration in Uniform Magnetic Field: Homework Solution

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Potential Energy of Dipole in Electric Field

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Hurricane wind blowing across a flat roof

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Difference in the maximum potential capacitance

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Motion in 2D astronaut orbiting moon

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Finding minimum plate area for a parallel plate capacitor with dielectric material

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How Do You Calculate Pressure from Number Density and RMS Speed in Argon Gas?

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Calculating Bubble Diameter at Surface: A Diver's Dilemma

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Cannot see where potential enegy comes from in classical mechanics

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Two connected particles resting on a smooth cylinder

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Photoelectric device in circuit

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Kinematics - Minimization of a period

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How is a Conservation of Energy Problem Solved?

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Explanation of net torque in a problem

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Optical Instruments I - Thin Lens

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2 refrigerators maintaining temperature

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Angular momentum/kinetic energy

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Can Physical Quantities Have Non-Standard Dimensions?

  • RoyalCat
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What is the Braking Force of a Car with No Friction?

  • XphysicsblurX
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Proton speed needed to circle the earth

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How Does Changing Frequency Affect Current in a Series LC Circuit?

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What speed would a proton need to orbit in an exact circle ?

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Calculating Energy Absorbed by Eardrum from Intensity & Area

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How to Calculate Net Electrostatic Force in a Square Configuration?

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Electric Fields and Point Charges

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Vertical elastic collision with spring

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Depth of a Pit Based on Time Delay of Sound from Falling Rock

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Solving for the Speed of a Box on an Incline

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Finding the Speed of a Box Tied to a Propeller on a Spring

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Calculating Energy Absorption by an Eardrum Exposed to Sound Waves

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Magnitude of the force on this segment of wire ?

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Near & Far Point of Eye: Power of Lens & Max Distance

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