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Horizontal circle inside a cone

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Sinking Can Boat: Debating the Rate of Water Flow

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Find Flux through a Disk in Electrostatics Question

  • Dell
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Solving Two 6.20 kg Blocks Connected by Pulley

  • craig22
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What determines the brightness of bulbs?

  • erinec
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A Magnetic Field Problem with a Triangular Loop

  • Kudo Shinichi
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Water cooled/heated between 0 -4 C

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Magnetic Fields and Current Loops

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Incorrect Thermometer Readings: What's the Boiling Point?

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Determing Acceleration, Tension

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Mercury & Water Flow in U-Tube: Determining the Length & Height

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Uncovering Resonance Frequency in Wine Glasses

  • LachlanMc
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Help with Torque and Force Please

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What are their velocities in m/s after the collision?

  • remaan
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Torque: Overhanging Books on Table

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Force and work on a shopping cart

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How Does Angle of Incidence Affect Color Reflection in Soap Films?

  • adc22
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Trying to figure out gravitational attraction between two objects.

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Car rounds a flat road-friction forces

  • Dannystu
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Solving Friction Problems: Calculating Distance and Time

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Solving Tension of Cable Supporting 56kg Beam - kN

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Tension In musical strings and wavelength

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What is the direction of the magnetic field at point P?

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Angle of Incline: A Basic Physics Question

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Conservation of Energy ski-jump ramp

  • lauriecherie
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Magnetic field of earth on airplane

  • Brit412
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Unpolarized light and Polarizers

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Relationship between magnetism and electricity

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Concave mirror - finding object and image distance

  • phys62
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Heat expansions using simultaneous equations.

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How Do You Calculate the Thermal Energy to Melt a Copper Bar?

  • chameleon1
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Conservation of energy of an ice flake

  • lauriecherie
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Two people in spaceshift shift seats

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Height, time, gravity acceleration

  • gigglin_horse
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Calculating String Mass per Unit Length: Tension, Wave Speed, and Gravity

  • gansta344u
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How Does Earth's Radius Influence Calculations in Magnetic Field Equations?

  • Melqarthos
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How do I find the height of the image?

  • phys62
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Simple Capacitors: 6.0uC Charge, 1.5V Source

  • harvellt
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Mass and Kinetic Energy in Car A vs Car B

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Interference : GPS Transmission

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How Is the Force on the Boom Hinge Calculated in a Wrecking Ball Setup?

  • anelmarx
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RC Circuit - Charge on Capacitor

  • calvert11
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Pulley's-have test coming up soon-

  • Dannystu
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2 Blocks Stacked, Pullied, Bottom Accelerating, Newton's 3rd

  • myxomatosii
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Weight of copper hanging/submerged

  • Mattc
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Someone please explain this physics concept

  • eddy10188
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Circular Motion and angular speed

  • dcangulo
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Momentum Conservation => EXPLOSION

  • TwinGemini14
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Rotating surface/friction question

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How to calculate work done using a graph

  • Apple4ever
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Finding Earth's Mass Using Gauss Law

  • bananasplit
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Finding Multiple Images in a Convex Spherical Mirror

  • XBOX999
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Max Speed of a Porsche 944 Turbo - 113317.4 W

  • tomboi03
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Reference Material Needed for Essay on Radioactive Decay

  • knowlewj01
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Friction coefficient on a rotating cylinder [mechanics]

  • albatross84
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Capacitor and resistor in parallel

  • bp_psy
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Solving Spring Problems: Finding Total Force

  • spaceshipone
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Dependent motion between 2 bodies to find velocity

  • t_n_p
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The flow of charge inside a circuit.

  • Yuqing
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Linear momentum- moving blocks and attatched spring

  • rmunoz
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Don't know where to begin mag field question

  • dewdrop714
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Determining force on an electron, possibly easy force problem(PLEASE HELP)

  • unoriginal
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[Q] - Wave moving along a string

  • Sheen91
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Static friction preventing block from sliding

  • malta
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Maximum compression in a spring

  • Knfoster
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Penny sits on top of a frictionless sphere, please

  • malta
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What Angle Should a Sniper Adjust to Hit a Target 1000m Away?

  • rogers236
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How Does Elastic Collision Work in Two Dimensions?

  • Kitty808
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Solving Chain on Pulley: Find Velocity

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Point mass gravitational problem

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Capacitance in Parallel and in Series

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Finding the force of magnetic field lines

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Two wavelengths, max/min at same angle

  • cashmoney805
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What is the average force exerted on a bouncing steel ball?

  • Knfoster
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Temperature and volume physics problem

  • M11
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How Does Kinetic Energy Affect Force in a 1D Atomic System?

  • MaxManus
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Electric field of infinite plate

  • Dell
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Field outside a solenoid on its axis

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Rolling motion of a rigid body problem

  • Minchi
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What Factors Influence the Re-entry of Apollo 13's Command Module?

  • bheidkamp3
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Finding Magnitude induced EMF in Coil

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Simple harmonic motion equation form

  • sam1212
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Push a 22kg crate up a frictinless incline

  • EmoryGirl
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How do you derive a Range prediction equation?

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Can Friction Actually Speed Up an Object?

  • jchojnac
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Projectile kinematics sticker for me

  • triggerhorse
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Inelastic and elastic collision problems

  • mdwjun
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Linera Expansion and heating from a stream of electrons

  • TFM
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Maximum Stress on a wheel in motion

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Confused on diffraction grating question

  • dewdrop714
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Magnetic Field around a Bundle of Wires

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How Do You Calculate L and C in an RLC Circuit with Given Reactances?

  • wayneinsane
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Solving Pendulum Question: Find Energy for Every Other Time Push

  • kidsmoker
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Magnitude of the baseball's momentum?

  • tnutty
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Finding ratio of 2 masses with acceleration

  • unoriginal
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What is the axis and angle of rotation represented by this matrix?

  • Gregg
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