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Calculate Potential Energy of Electron in Bohr Model

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Completing Nuclear Reactions: Balancing Charges and Nucleons

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4 resistors in series and parallel

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What is the Force Acting on a Particle with Changing Velocity?

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How Far Does a Helium Balloon Stretch a Spring?

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Solving Mass-on-Scale Problem with Falling Chain

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Formula involving the change in a kinetic energy

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Circuit Analysis: My Solution to Problem in Figure

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Calculating Wind Velocity: Solving for Magnitude and Direction

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How Can I Calculate the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion for a Material?

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What Is the Correct Derivation of Torricelli's Law?

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Hooke's Law Graphs Homework: Analyzing Spring & Elastic Band

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Longest Wavelengths in 128 cm Tube: Open at Both/One End

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Surface tension calculation problem

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Relative motion -cheetah and gazelle

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The relativity of time: time dilation

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Hohmann transfer orbits (delta-v)

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Some hints on the question please? thanks

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Energy Stored in Magnetic Field of Solenoid

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Can I open xml files as text documents?

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Electric Field of a charged rod

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How Is Electric Flux Calculated for a Charged Sphere?

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One object exerting force on another

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Determine the net charge contained within the cube

  • 22steve
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Force is mass times accelaration Question inside

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Velocity from a force time graph

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Oscillations and mechanical energy

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Riding a Segway: Physics Behind the Motion

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Simple Harmonic Motion: vertical springs - graphing period^2 & mass

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Boyle's Law: Calculating Balloon Size at Surface After 40 m Descent

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Motional emf problem on inclined plane

  • yankans
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When will one car overtake the other? (acceleration,veolcity,time)

  • drinkingstraw
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Velocity,time,acceleration question

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Maximum current amplitude in RLC circuit

  • John 123
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Friction Force & Direction for 925 kg Car at -12.2m/s2 Acceleration

  • drinkingstraw
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How To Calculate Energy Of A Child On A Slide?

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Resistance effecting current through Voltmeter

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How High Does Tarzan Swing From Point A to B?

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Finding the unknown resistor using only an ohmmeter

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Spherical Mirrors an ray diagram

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Capacitor (currents, resistors, etC)

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How Can Bessel's Method Determine the Focal Length of a Lens?

  • w3390
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Calculating Momentum of a Falling Mass: 30.00 kg Object from 4.00m Height

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Angular Momentum of each particle about the origin

  • joemama69
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Special relativity problem (conceptual)

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Ice added to Water (heats of rxn)

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Understanding Microscopic Ohm's Law

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Can You Measure Terminal Velocity in a Classroom Experiment?

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Maximum friction force before slipping occurs

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What is the period of a damped oscillator with given parameters?

  • Full Beige
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Conceptual Questions Fluids and Simple Harmonic motion

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Need help Projectile motion after breaking in two pieces

  • Koskesh
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Reaction force between a Sphere and particle

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How does the mass on a horizontal spring behave?

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Calculating Distance with Sound Waves

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Calculating Remaining Kinetic Energy After Excited State

  • fball558
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Thermo/Fluids Research Paper Idea

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Converting Btu to J: Troubleshooting Heat Capacity of Water

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A few easy conceptual questions

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Linear Impulse - Jackhamer Rebounds

  • joemama69
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How Do You Calculate the Effective Half-life of a Radioactive Isotope?

  • larianne
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Series and Parallel Circuit Help

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Keppler's 1st Law: Examining a Proof

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Calculating Chain Velocity Through Point Particle System

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How Large is the Activity of I_131 After 2 Days?

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Electron double slit diffraction with unequal widths

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Just a Hint on How to Do This Question?

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Calculating Force Between Three Insulated Conductors with Equal Charges

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Find electric field produced at point P, along perp. bisector

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Solving Rotational Dynamics of Mass M & R Rolling on Ramp at Angle θ

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Collision response of two object

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Doppler Effect frequencies Question

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How Is Energy Conserved in a Photon-Electron Collision?

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How Do You Calculate Average Volume Charge Density in a Layer of Air?

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Rotational motion and law of gravity

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Why Do Longer Wavelengths Diffract More Than Shorter Wavelengths?

  • Yuqing
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Calculating Final Velocities of Elastic Collision in 2D

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How Do You Calculate the Translational Velocity of a Ball on an Incline?

  • blink1987
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Calculating Punch Force to Break Concrete Slab

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Projectile Launch - Using Earth's Radius

  • bustin
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Calculating Revolutions: Sam's Lost Ring in the Mall - Homework Help

  • blink1987
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How Many Oscillators in a Carbon Nanoparticle with 5000 Atoms?

  • yoyoz41
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Calculating Microstates and Oscillators in a Collection of Objects

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Einsteins model of a solid help?

  • fball558
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Simple angular acceleration problem

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Finding the binding energy for lithium

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Physics 40s conservation of momentum question

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What Are the Characteristics of Oscillations for a Box on a Spring?

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Calculating Velocity of Meteor Rock Fragment Falling on Neptune

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How Is Voltage Induced in a Rotating Coil Within a Magnetic Field?

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Rate of energy transfer: interior/exterior through glass

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