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Pendulum that releases at the bottom end of swing?

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How Efficient Is a Tire Jack Lifting a Car with a 50N Force?

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Amplitude and Pressure Wave: Pa Homework

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Net Force on 1.6t Car on 40o Banked Icy Road

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Finding magnitude of magnetic field in a conducting coil

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Largest mass of rock that wont sink the boat

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Calculating Work in Ideal Gas Systems with Movable Pistons

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Projectile Motion, with only Displacement and Angle Known.

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Solids Elasticity (Bulk Modulus)

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Distance it takes for terminal velocity

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What is the Tension in the String and the Mass of the Bar?

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Calculating Angular Acceleration, Torque, and Work on a Solid Disk

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Photon energy, frequency, wavelength

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How Many Revolutions Before the Mass Slips on a Rotating Disk?

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The Final Equilibrium Temperature Reached?

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Calculating Speed on a Snow Sled with Frictional Force

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Max Ball Height: No Mass Needed

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Understanding Double Slit Interference: How Do We Count Fringes?

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How long did it take for the box to travel 4.00 meters?

  • hatcheezy
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Anyone know how to solve these problems (DYNAMICS)?

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Relationship btwn rotational and translational KE

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Calculate the new angular velocity of the disc

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Why Don't We Convert Wavelength When Light Enters Glass?

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Understanding Magnification in Lens Systems

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How Fast Must a Bullet Travel to Melt on Impact?

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Understanding Light Wave Interference: Constructive or Destructive?

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Wavelength in an electron transition

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What is the torque exerted by a stationary car on its rear wheels?

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How Does an Inclined Plane Affect Mechanical Energy and Work?

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How Does Wave Propagation Affect Rope Tension and Displacement?

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Net Force on Loop in Changing Magnetic Field

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Finding object distance with converging lenses.

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Gauss' Law Application Question

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Projectile Motion with air resistance

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Magnet and Current-carrying wire/circuit

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Calculate Earth's Net Power Output to Space

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Conceptual questions on sound/waves

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Determine the ice cube temp change

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Linear expansion metal rod problem

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Newton's law conceptual question

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Doped semiconductor, donor electron radius

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Maximum Wavelength of Photon - electron ejection

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Relativistic quantum harmonic oscillator

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Miller indices of a plane in a simple cube

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Thinnest film in which the reflected light will be a maximum?

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How Do You Calculate Transformer Efficiency with Given Power and Voltage?

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How Do Forces Balance When Standing on Tiptoe?

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Amount of Force that Water Exerts on a Dam

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Angular Freq. of small oscillations on a wheel/spring.

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Physics Electron Velocity - HELP

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Simple Electrostatics Problem (Conceptual)

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What is the material's work function?

  • itryphysics
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Calculate the total entropy change of the steam

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How Does a Wave Pulse Affect Rope Stretching?

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Pressure, Force, and Density Calculations for Immersed Objects

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Intensity of Double Slit Pattern

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Motion of an Iron Block in Water

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Proton moving through magnetic field

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Calculating slit separation for sound two-slit interference?

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How long does it take for wave to travel the lenght of the string

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Buoyant Force and air molecules

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Electric potential problem. Conceptual.

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How Do You Calculate the Electric Potential Below a Charged Wire?

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Mirrors (concave) + questions on lens and mirrors

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Train and Speed of Sound in Air versus Track

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Physics Final-Multiple Problems-Help

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Why Is My Calculation of Rotational Inertia Incorrect?

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Calculating Image Position and Size Using Convex Mirrors

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Spring oscillation question HARD

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What is the total resistance of this circuit with all resistors at 20 ohms?

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Terminal Voltage automobile storage battery

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What Does the Rayleigh Criterion Reveal About Image Resolution?

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Is My Electrical Circuit Calculation Correct?

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AC Circuit Resonance Angular Frequency Calculation

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What Went Wrong with Calculating Pulley Efficiency?

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Center of Mass Movement in a perfectly inelastic collision

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Wavelength Conversion in Water: 640 nm Light & Wedge

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Calculating Power Output of Wind Turbine

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Write the kinetic energy of the sphere

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Calculate Minimum Wing Area for Plane in Air | Bernoulli's Equation

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Gas Homework: Adiabatic/Isochoric/Isothermal Process

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Calorimeter and heat, units question

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Magnetic Field, finding the current

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Pressure and volume at each stage Carnot engine

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Underwater Pressure: 9.42 ATM, Find Vessel's Depth

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Magnetic dipole moment homework

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Solving for Entropy Change: Copper & Water

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