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Finding the spring constant while stretching and compressing

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Do car and truck experience equal momentum change in a head-on collision?

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Prom Colin: Physics Problems Answers (16,18,15,13)

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Quantum Mechanics Question 1-D Well

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Half Life of radioactive needle

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Calculating Force Applied to a Front Tooth Using Elastic Cord Tension

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What Are the Correct Directions for the Forces in These Diagrams?

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Two elastic balls colliding head-on at equal speeds

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Magnetic Force of a copper wire

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Finding the Electric Field Needed to Suspend a Charged Bead

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Free-Fall Homework: Find Velocity of Dropped First-Aid Kit

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How Do You Calculate the Change in Velocity of a Flying Saucer?

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Average Power Calculation in RLC Circuit at 402 Hz?

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Trajectory of a Charge in an Electric Field

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Speed of an electron in an electric field - trying to find my error.

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What is the maximum current and electric field in a charged wire?

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Torque has to equal zero, but introduce F

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Verifying an Electron's Final Speed After Releasing from Rest

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Tangential acceleration - unknown term

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Simple Motion Questions [Grade 10 Level]

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Momentum Conservation and Center of Mass

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Understanding Snell's Law: How to Know When Light Bends

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Riding a train from Chicago to Detroit

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Electric Potential at Center of Uniform Conducting Sphere?

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Why does air escaping a tire get cold?

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How do I approach physics proofs systematically?

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Calculating the Rest Mass Energy of One Mole of Neutrons

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Capacitance and Max Potential Difference

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Net magnetic force on a loop parallel to a wire

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Finding pulley moment of inertia with blocks on incline and string

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Battery emf and internal resistance from current vs voltage graph

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Oscillations of a weighted ruler

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How to calculate azimuth from dX and dY in surveying

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Calculating complex cos curves from data

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Car changes direction: find acceleration and displacement over 4.0 s

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Atmosphere as a function of Zenith angle?

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Spherical mirror, shortest longest focal length

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The Role of the Spring in the Collision

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Looking at this simple light problem

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Electrostatics 1st year engineering

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Garden cart being pushed over a bump

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What Angle Does Light Refract in Ice?

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Circuits capacitors, voltage and charge problem.

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Calculate Force from Energy of a Particle

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How to use the gradient to find Electric field

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What is the common velocity of the arrow

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Porro prism and Refraction of Light

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Average power consumption in watts

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Force on Charge Moving in Magnetic Field

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Using e in a Formula: Electric Potential

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Linear law with charging a capacitor

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Angular Momentum Conservation Near a Planet: True or False?

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How to Solve Kinematics Problems with Acceleration and Velocity?

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Is the period 3.44 × 10⁻⁵ s for a 29 kHz frequency?

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Is the Electric Field Inside a Hollow Dielectric Sphere Zero?

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How does Temperature affect Resistance?

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Index of refraction for vegetable oil

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Minimum force in a single turn square loop

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Determine the change in internal energy, of the gas during this process

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Physics I question Skydiver falling

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I have a test tomorrow can someone me with this vector problem?

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Two Charges, Find Spot of Zero Potential

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Proton acceleration between parallel plates

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Charge distribution in a conductor (using maxwell's equations)

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How Long Does It Take for a Locomotive to Reach 32 m/s After Crossing?

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Amusement park ride gravitation problem

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How Do Forces Affect Hanging Blocks Connected by Ropes?

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How far does the electron move before reaching its turning point?

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Is the chain on a rotating amusement park ride strong enough?

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Why doesn't dropping a weight increase torque on a pivoted lever?

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Momentum and Impulse on a Toy Car: How to Find Velocity and Momentum?

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Baseball hit at 30 m/s and 30° hits window 12 m high

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Quantum Physics Question - Second Year University level.

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Electric potential: point charge in a hollow charged conductor

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Electric force on alpha particle near gold nucleus

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What Is the Velocity of a Hammer Sliding Down a Roof?

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Find the speed of light in silica

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Center of mass and moment of inertia of a weighted wheel

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Calculating Torque for Constrained Wheel Rotation

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Finding how high a winch can lift a mass before the battery discharges

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How Does Physics Explain Forces on The Roundup Amusement Park Ride?

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I must find Temperature, The Distribution of Molecular Speeds.

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