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Understanding Light Dimmers: Changing Current & Voltage

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What is the relationship between h and R in this circular motion problem?

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Is 2.6x10^9C a Plausible Answer for a Pith Ball Electrostatics Problem?

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Ultrasound transmitter component- longitudinal or transverse waves?

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Finding the Longest Wavelength of Standing Waves on a 254.0 cm String

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How Do You Calculate the Forces Needed to Move and Accelerate a Trunk?

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What is the Force Exerted by the Sun on Earth?

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Does Body A Exert a Negative Impulse on Body B in a Closed System?

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Equipotential Surfaces: Calculating Work Required to Move a Charge

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Field at a distance 'z' from a solenoid

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Car collision, force exertion and impulse.

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UV vs IR Light Bulb Power Comparison

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Projectile Motion w/ unknown initial velocity & uneven launch/landing points

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Finding speed of sound in an object

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Microscope Theory - Alternatives to the use of light?

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Calculating Velocity of a Pendulum Using Equations

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Uniform rod can pivot about a horizontal, fr

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Proving Stacking Dominoes' Maximum Overhang w/ Centre of Gravity

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10 kg block on 40 kg slab pulled with 100 N force

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To avoid a collision what is your reaction time?

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Maximum photocurrent ejected by electrons in photoelectric effect

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Calculating Tension and Mass in a Hanging Spotlight System

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Sound waves(phase difference) PLS. HELP

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Kinetic and Potential Energy rollercoaster

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Calculating the wavelength of soundwaves

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Pendulum conservation of energy question

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What is the equivalent resistance and current in this parallel circuit?

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The Fundamental Frequencies of Open Pipes

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Calculate acceleration of object with applied force and friction

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Should It Be In Series or Parallel?

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Tension in a Uniform Cable: Where Does the Force Balance?

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Tangential Acceleration of pendulum

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What is the Average Force on Each Foot During a Jump?

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Calculating Water Speed in a Pipe: Solving a Fluid Dynamics Problem

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Steel floating in mercury problem

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What is the Time to Drain a Tank with a Small Hole at the Base?

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Vertical Jump Analysis: Calculating Time and Take-Off Speed

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A Simple Acceleration Problem - two different answers

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Radioactive Decay: 56Co to 56Fe - Which Type of Beta Decay?

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Solving Circular Motion: Train Slows from 90 to 50 km/h

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Free energy from Thorium to Radon

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Average Speed - isn't this average velocity?

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Coal Car and horizontal impulse

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Center of Mass: Plate with hole

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Pile driver - Conservation of enegy

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What Beat Frequency Results from Unequal Tensions in Piano Strings?

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Hole in a container and its distance from the bottom

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What is the velocity of gasoline in a siphon tube after opening?

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Young's modulus of copper by projecting a laser

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How can trigonometry be used to calculate distance in physics problems?

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Measuring gravitational acceleration in a vacuum

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Solving Pressure of Syringe Homework Statement

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Force and flow speed of a syringe

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Cart, Incline, Pulley, and a messed up Acceleration.

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What Are the Key Physics Concepts Behind How Cameras Work?

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Solve Friction on an Angle with 7.0kg Mass: u=0.2

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How Much Work Does a Plane's Engine Perform to Reach 3200m at 65m/s?

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Rotational Kinetic Energy - Clarification on what I need to solve for

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What is the mass density of a submerged cylinder?

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How Long Does It Take for a Car to Catch Up to a Truck?

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Derive a general formula for finding range with a spring launcher

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Thermal Radiation Homework: Ranking Objects of Same Material

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Inclined plane and inclined force-acceleration

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Stress and Strain, simple question Just need a clarification

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How Do You Calculate the Tension in a String Lifting an Accelerating Mass?

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What is the submarine’s maximum safe depth?

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Why Does an Athlete Seem to Hang in the Air During a Vertical Jump?

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Inelastic collision of snadwiches

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One-dimensional motion with w/ aceleration dependant on speed.

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Tank and a hole in it whats the speed?

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Finding Revolutions per Second of Electron & Proton in Magnetic Field

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Block and bullet collision problem

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Speed of car down hill with same power as up.

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Positively charged side with induced emf

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Circular Motion Homework: Radial & Tangential Accel, Total Accel

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Find Acceleration with only Initial Velocity and Final position?

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What is the Minimum Force Required to Inject into a Vein Using a Syringe?

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Aim of Refraction Practical Using Snell's Law

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How to Determine the Upward Acceleration of a Mass in a Pulley System?

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Calculating the speed of sound in air

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find the magnitude and direction of the final velocity

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A complex question which has mass, time and acceleration involved

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What is the Average Velocity Vector of a Clock's Minute Hand?

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Two basic physics 11 wave questions

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Determine the dielectric constant

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Applying Newton's Laws: Crate on an Inclined Ramp

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Range of mass so the body won't move

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Determining Acceleration of Pulley System w/ Friction

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Calculate angles from axis with a 3d vector

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Help Needed: Urgent Calculus Project - When the World Will End

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What rate does water flow through the pipes?

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Calculating Pressure at the Bottom of a Tank Using Density and Volume

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Which Jet Ski Crosses the River Faster?

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What am I doing wrong?: Buoyancy of an Object Homework Question

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Electrostatics: Two charged balls with attraction

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Earth & moon rotate round center of mass

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