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Why won't capacitor charge in faraday flashlight circuit?

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Mass on spring in a falling box

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Connecting two Carnot engions-

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How Does Heating Affect the Properties of Nitrogen Gas?

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What is the tension in the string connecting a cork and a cube in water?

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Circuit with 2 loops, find the current in one of the loops

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Astronaut thrown toolkit to return to shuttle in 4 minutes

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Can a Square Coil Fit into a Round Solenoid?

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Finding percent uncertainty for 1.57 m² measurement

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Thermal conductivity of rod 1000x too low in lab experiment

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Finding electron position when it stops: x = 18te^-t

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Beam of particles focused by magnetic field

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What are the differences between Kinematics and Dynamics?

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How do I convert volts to electron volts?

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Biot-Savart law: why integrate dB times a/r instead of a component?

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Force and motion problems with walls, inclines, and friction

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Finding the Work Done in a Monatomic Ideal Gas Process

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Experimental Value of Planck's Constant?

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Quantum Physics: Calculate Highest X-Ray Freq of 8.00E+04 eV Electrons

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I think i did this electric potential problem correctly but

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Finding Time and Velocity for a Package Dropped from a Hot Air Balloon

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Minimum Speed for Puck to Reach Top of Frictionless Ramp?

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Bernoulli Equation: Finding t_fall Expression

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How to apply momentum equation to wedge with angle θ

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What Force Does the 4 kg Block Exert on the 7 kg Block?

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Space Station-Artificial Gravity

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Speed of a bullet in ballistic spring system

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How much is the current flowing in the transmission line?

  • golriz
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Electric energy - potential difference problem

  • physics213
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Compression of spring wrt speed

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Energy Loss in a Collision: Calculating Speed and Percentage

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Ball rolling down a segment then up a parabolic segment

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Rectangle tipping point on ramp

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Find Antinode Closest to x=0.25m in Standing Wave

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Newton's laws and incline surfaces

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Parallel plate capacitor and insulating material

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Moment of Inertia of a butterfly-shaped yoyo

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Scattering collisions/lorentz-invariant quantity

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How Does dV/dt Vary in a Charging Capacitor?

  • tarellan
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Inelastic Collision, only masses known

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Puddy hitting a mass attached to spring

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3 blocks on a frictionless surface

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Moment of inertia of triangle about tip formula

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What Magnetic Field Strength Keeps an Electron on a Straight Path?

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Max Displacement of Particle at x=0.5cm

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Light Fundamentals (3) problems

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Bound charges - Question about the maths. Did I calculate this correctly?

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Magnetic field from two wires and magnitude

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What Do Wave Number and Phase Constant Mean in Wave Equations?

  • lha08
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Magnetic Fields and wires question

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Wavelength of 4.00 p to 4.00 s Transition in Sodium

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Acceleration on a curve [kinematics]

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Average Speed and Free-Falling Objects

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Truck brakes and the distance they travel

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Magnetic field and direction question.

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Charged Spheres +quadratic equation

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How Does Charge Redistribution Affect Forces in a Triangular Sphere System?

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Newton's Third Law - Using pulleys and slopes

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Capacitor and diode curcit for ac to dc voltage

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What is the relationship between rotational inertia and the inertia tensor?

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What Is the Correct Way to Calculate Unbalanced Force?

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How Far Does a Particle Travel in One Period of SHM?

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Force on a sphere in a constant external electric field

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How do I draw a graph for a progressive wave?

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Why Does the Ramp Exert Total Force mg Instead of mgcos30 on the Mass?

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How Is the Mass of a Charged Particle Determined in an Electric Field?

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Photoelectric effect and work function

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When are displacement and velocity positive or negative?

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Magnetic Force Between Wires Problem #2

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Force Between Two Wires (Magnetism)

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DC Circuit. Kirchoff's 2nd law.

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Boy Scout Problem Homework: Solve Kinematics Equations

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Newton's 3rd law- inclined plane

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How Does Newton's Third Law Apply to Tension in a Dog Sled Scenario?

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Solve Newton's 3rd Law Homework: Mass of Block on Left

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Resolving Forces in a Hanging Bag of Sand

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Physics Midterm Explanation Kirkoff Rule

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How Much Work is Done by Gravity When Lowering a Piano with Two Ropes?

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Finding surface gravity on asteroid Ceres with only the planet's mass

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Coefficient of Friction Needed?

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Why add 32 when converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit

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Finding Tension in a Block-Pulley System

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Why Does the Internal Resistance Graph Have a Negative Gradient?

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Resistive force from bullet penetrating wood

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Calculating Work Done by Gravity on a Moved Book

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How can the tension in the cord be calculated using conservation of energy?

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Static equilibrium of a ladder and simple pendulum period on another planet

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Calculating work done by friction without mass

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What is the Electric Field at the Center of a Square with Four Charges?

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Electromagnetic wave striking a small pocket mirror

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Voltmeter and ammeter readings in circuit with V=14.74 and I=0.72A

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What is the Q value for lead in the Rutherford Experiment?

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What Determines the Repulsion Between Two Positively Charged Spheres?

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