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Heating a steel plate with a hole in it

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The Magnitude of Induced EMF in a Moving Rod?

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Hole in an aluminium plate and that plate is heated

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Solving Toppling Hemisphere Problem with Momentum & Angular Momentum

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Determining Resistance of a Copper Wire Without Knowing Its Resistivity

  • Archimedess
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Waves in round trip through a thin film and phase difference

  • DottZakapa
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Is the balance of forces equation correct for a tube immersed in alcohol?

  • ValeForce46
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Intrinsic coordinates kinematics problem

  • Santilopez10
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Tension and speed of bowling ball pendulum passing the equilibrium position

  • snormanlol
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Relationship of a planet's mass, size, and acceleration due to gravity

  • yoosnb
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Tension in a String: Solve for Unknown Lengths - 98.6N

  • snormanlol
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How Do I find Force when only Distance and Mass are given?

  • Kaitlynn Robicheaux
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How Does the Volume of a Block Affect Its Buoyant Force?

  • NicholasJ
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Comparing current densities in wires with different radius and conductivity

  • DottZakapa
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Bernoulli equation and negative pressure

  • sinasahand
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Fringe spacing of the Interference pattern due to two Coherent waves

  • Baibhab Bose
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Electromagnetic waves radiating away from a transmitting tower

  • DottZakapa
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How to find the frequency of the second wave?

  • nineteen
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Impulse and force from a hinge

  • Prabs3257
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The distance where the magnetic field of two wires is zero

  • DottZakapa
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How Does Radar Track a Plane's Motion in Different Coordinate Systems?

  • Santilopez10
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Proving limits of electric fields on infinite planes

  • Cactus
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Is the Electric Field Calculation Consistent with the Potential Result?

  • Cactus
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Pulley problem with 2 masses and an incline

  • lilmulla
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Chain Hangs Over a Pulley and Starts Moving

  • Gundyam
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Why is the acceleration not equal to mg sin(theta) in pure rolling motion?

  • Prabs3257
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Is this equation correct for a rotating pendulum?

  • Prabs3257
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Mutual inductance of a long wire and a triangular loop?

  • TheSodesa
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Deriving an Expression for an Electric Field along the Z axis

  • Cactus
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Understanding Induced Charges in an External Field

  • harsh22902
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Project Motion/Trigonometry Question

  • MrDickinson
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Voltage received by each bulb in a circuit

  • cormzy
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Relative velocity of a ball thrown inside a moving truck

  • jisbon
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Inserting a dielectric material between two plates of a capacitor

  • idor
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Strategy for drawing equipotentials

  • etotheipi
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How Does the Euler-Lagrange Equation Apply to Parametric Solutions?

  • Another
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Is the Origin for a Sawhorse at C or -D/2?

  • sjogosk
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How to Derive Time Taken in Projectile Motion?

  • jisbon
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Astrophysics: Calculating the circumference of an ellipse

  • Andy1200
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Radius of disk suspended on its edge

  • songoku
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Changing the Air Temperature with a hair dryer

  • spsch
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Spinning a bucket of water in a vertical circle - Inertia

  • candypie90
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Thermal Expansion in Liquids and Steel

  • kgm01
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Calculating theta from alpha: Tan(theta)=Cot(alpha)

  • Shivam
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Question Regarding Parallel Plate Capacitor Network

  • jezza10181
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Relative velocity of two gravitationally attracting spheres

  • etotheipi
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Volume and length expansion with beta and alpha

  • kgm01
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Total Particle Energy Flux in Auroral Arcs

  • DaynaClarke
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Physics - Spinning a bucket of water in a vertical circle

  • candypie90
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Thrust of a large ship's propeller accelerating the ship

  • jisbon
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Definitions of ray, particle and photon in atomic physics

  • geoelectronics
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A string attached to a fixed wall and a mass on a spring

  • Old-Alien
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Electric Field due a charged disk

  • Yalanhar
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Velocity of the center of mass in constrained motion

  • Prabs3257
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Calculate the electric field due to a line of charge of finite length

  • Yalanhar
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Calc Forces on Pulleys: 200N, 300N Masses, No Friction

  • Est120
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Consequences of a fourth neutrino type

  • szcsongor
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How Much Water Can a 1KW Carnot Engine Freeze in 5 Minutes?

  • zilex191
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Joule heating effect - qualitative explanation

  • dwd40physics
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Kinetic coefficient of friction greater than the static coefficient?

  • Manasan3010
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Calculating Momentum and Energy Conservation in Elastic Collisions

  • Shivam
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Two balls of mass 4kg and 2 kg are moving in 1-D, answer the following

  • Shivam
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The motion of 2 objects in contact

  • PhysicS FAN
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Circular motion -- Find the angular velocity at t=3

  • jisbon
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Magnetic poles and field problems

  • CAT 2
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Calculating Density Using Upthrust and Drag Force in Water

  • jisbon
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Is answer 5 correct for the acceleration graph problem?

  • Manasan3010
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Can You Solve This Capacitor Circuit Problem Using Q=CV?

  • EDCJZ
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Finding the Position(s) of Particle Oscillation

  • Ajay N
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Can we find the frequency of a rod pendulum by just using F=ma?

  • Homgkung
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Mechanical advantage of a pulley system

  • EasyPeasy
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Implications of mass energy not being conserved for ##\beta^+## decay

  • JD_PM
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Electric Field from its Potential of a Half Circle along its Z axis

  • AndresPB
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Trying to get equivalent resistance of a circuit

  • AmirWG
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EMF induced in a rotating rod having mass

  • Physics lover
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Why can't fluids sustain tangential forces or shearing stress?

  • Rishabh Narula
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Faraday's Law - Balloon Problem

  • rofldude188
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Instantaneous versus average velocity?

  • DeltaForce
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Probability of hitting a rotating disc

  • Moara
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Will Two Ships Collide Based on Different Methods?

  • brotherbobby
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Linear momentum or Angular Rotation

  • Manasan3010
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Amount of magnetic energy stored in a cylinder

  • Physics lover
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Capacitor Problem with distance-dependent dieletric

  • rofldude188
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Block on plate with time-dependent applied force

  • jisbon
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Velocity ratio from energy conservation equation

  • Manasan3010
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How is the Biot Savart law derived?

  • jdou86
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Magnetic susceptibility and relative permeability

  • Marwa
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Circuit analysis: Six resistors and two batteries

  • littlejay21
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Find the Electric Field E using Gauss' Law

  • Nicci
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What forces are acting on an object during a bounce?

  • Jeff97
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Newton's Second Law — Net Force problem

  • adams_695
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Why is velocity positive in one graph and negative in another?

  • Paul_dirac
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Final temperature of an adiabatic process between two reservoirs

  • Baibhab Bose
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Why can we ignore certain circuit paths?

  • xAly
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How to interpret magnetic field diagrams?

  • Dan13
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