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Am I on the right track with Ampere's Law?

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Resistivity of a stretched wire VS unstretched state

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How Does Pipe Diameter Affect Water Pressure and Flow Velocity?

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Find Magnitude of Buoyant Force on Boat in Water

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Elastic collision in center of mass frame

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When is the Charge and Electric Energy in a Capacitor Half of Its Final Value?

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How Much Kinetic Energy Is Lost in a Collision Between Two Toy Cars?

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Deriving an expression for the radius of a satellite's orbit around Earth(?)

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At what angle does the light leave the glass?

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How many bright fringes are seen in the reflected light

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Rotational Inertia of Irregular Plate

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Maximum tilting angle of a composite body

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Pebble Shot with Spring Constant - how to setup?

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Magnetic Field Problem Urgent HELP PLEASE

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Fluid Dynamics Question(not too difficult)

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Find the wavelength of the sound.

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How do i find the higher electric field of these two

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How do you calculate the impulse on a person performing a belly flop?

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Calculating Impulse and Velocity in Inelastic Collision

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Centripetal Force: Ball in Vertical Circle at Constant Speed

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Circuits - Power and Resistivity

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Which end of an electron beam is at the higher potential?

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Calculating Minimum Width for 5 Interference Maxima

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What is the minimum thickness that would minimize reflection of light

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Solve Mass Using Spring & Oscillation

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How to Calculate Speed of a Car Rolling Down a Hill

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Lab - Friction and Forces on an Incline

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Sled pulled by rope at angle: finding coefficient of friction

  • Nanart
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Understand Near & Far Points of the Eye: Lenses

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Kinematics and Instantaneous Changes

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Calculating Time for Car A to Pass Car B: Acceleration Comparison

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Coefficient of Kinetic Friction Question

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Proving the line lies on the plane

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Work and Mechanical Energy & Moment of Inertia Derivation?

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Plane w/ Point A & Parallel to Plane w/ Equation

  • unknown101
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Calculating Orbital Speed: Jupiter & Earth Orbit Time

  • ubiquitous
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Newton's Second Law & Moment of Inertia Derivation?

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How Far Can the Bottom Book Overhang the Table Without Falling?

  • a_narain
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Concentric spheres and electrostatic induction

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Calculating Electrostatic Pressure on a Charged Sphere

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Finding the potential difference across two wires

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Particle in a conservative force field + SHM

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Help With Kinematics/Work, Energy, Power Problem

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Car on an incline, kinetic/static friction when break applied confussion.

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Forward euler equations of motion

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Ratio of weight at top of a ferris wheel to bottom

  • vorcil
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Static equilibrium and torque problem

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Static Eqm-unsure about forces to be drawn

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Static Equilibrium free-body diagram

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Work problem: Pulling wagon and finding angle

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Why Is Calculating Normal Force at the Top of a Rollercoaster Tricky?

  • vorcil
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Calculating the Physics Behind Super-Bouncy Shoes

  • quarktacular
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Arrow is short vetically upwards (Force/Springs)

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Conservation of momentum question FINAL

  • vorcil
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How Can Velocity and Angular Momentum Be Calculated in These Dynamics Problems?

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Question on Momentum, Force and Impulse

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Net electric force in particles in triangular formation

  • nn3568
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Finding recoil velocity only given force and firing velocity

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Me Tarzan, You Jane. Force Problem.

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Another roller coaster question

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What Speed and Direction Does the Tangled Metal Move Post-Collision?

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Coulomb's Law, net electrostatic force

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Calculating the frequency of a wave

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Is the Final Velocity of a Projectile Always Greater Than the Initial Velocity?

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Moment of inertia of a rod: axis not through the centre?

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Constructive wave interference problem

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Why Am I the Only Girl in My Electro Engineering Class?

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Finding Tension in Cables: How to Use Moments to Solve for Unknowns

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Resistance of infinite nested triangles

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How Does Torque Affect a Cart Overcoming a Step?

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What Is the Radius of an Arc for a Pilot Experiencing 5G at 700m/s?

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How Does Friction Affect the Angular Momentum of a Bowling Ball?

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Calculating Tension | Ta and Tb Homework Problem

  • Nanart
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Friction between a crate and an accelerating truck

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Tension/acceleration between 2 Masses

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How do I find the moment of inertia for a curve?

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RMS Speed of Helium Atom at 2000K: An Overview

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What Is the Wavelength of the Electromagnetic Radiation?

  • JSapit
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Radiation produced by accelerating charges

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Is My Magnetic Force Calculation on a Power Line Correct?

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Determine the Altitude of a Satellite above Earth Given it's Constant Speed

  • PhysicsJunkie
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Calculating Force in Car-Railroad Collision

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Ball Motion Down the Incline: Is the Calculated Height Correct?

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Conservation of Energy with Friction

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The magnitude of the magnetic torque on the loop

  • marpple
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What is the value of the square root of the mean of the square current?

  • phy112
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Kinetic Energy of Pulley Question

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How to Calculate Acceleration and Average Speed in a Road Test

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If a proton rebounds at 90 degrees Momentum and elastic collision problem.

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Calculating Refractive Index from Critical Angle Measurement?

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What Is the Maximum Speed of the Oscillator?

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How Does Torque Affect Tensions in an Atwood's Machine with a Massive Pulley?

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How Far Will the Sled Travel from the Cliff?

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