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How is the magnitude of L calculated here?

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What is the period of this binary orbit?

  • caters
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Would electric field exist if there were only one type of charge?

  • navneet9431
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Center of gravity and over-hanging blocks

  • brotherbobby
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How Does Earth Maintain Its Angular Momentum After the Sun Disappears?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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What do the symbols in the gas equation represent?

  • ArcHorizon
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Calculations using the Ideal Gas Law

  • ArcHorizon
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Angular and orbital speed at perihelion

  • pobro44
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Working out the kinetic energy of a body due to a gravitational field

  • etotheipi
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Taking the components of a system containing multiple vectors

  • Hijaz Aslam
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STATICS – Pushing a ball over a curb

  • brotherbobby
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What are these two: ##L_{i}## & ##L_{f}##?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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How Does Angular Momentum Remain Conserved in a Merry-Go-Round System?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Electric Field for Charge Distributions

  • Jkalirai
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Conditions needed for magnetic force on a conductor

  • Tane
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Does tension require acceleration in the rope?

  • sumitsumit
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Charge on plates in Millikan's Experiment

  • Zahid Iftikhar
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Finding the magnification of a ball lens

  • DharshanT
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Factor of 1/2 in electric field with two dielectrics

  • rofldude188
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How Do You Calculate Force with Mass, Height, and Distance?

  • twadd
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On the motion of a particle on the inner surface of a sphere

  • gnits
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Melting of substance with -ve slope for fusion curve

  • Parzeevahl
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Thin Lenses Problem: Solving for $q=d-p$

  • Archimedess
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Need formulas for the dis/charge of batteries

  • Abhinavpsingh
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Electric Circuts (Voltage, Ohms, Amps)

  • Kmcquiggan
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Coefficient of restitution equals zero for collision problem

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Velocity after t seconds with a time varying Force

  • Physics lover
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How to find the wavelength of the sound of the tuning fork?

  • Helly123
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Maximizing power dissipated in a variable resistor

  • xAly
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Magnitude of the Magnetic Field near a Circuit Inclined at an Angle

  • Mark Zhu
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How do I set up a carbon-14 dating equation with a 6000-year half-life?

  • Kmcquiggan
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Moment of Inertia: Calculation Method

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Moving Electrons in a Uniform Magnetic Field

  • Jkalirai
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Calculating the Displacement (Having Constant Acceleration)

  • epuen23
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Centre of gravity shifted to what position?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Finding safe speed on a banked curve with centripetal force

  • Jaccobtw
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In which circumstances is work done?

  • mehmet
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Bernoulli's Principle -- correct derivation

  • Wisemetrics
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Are waveguides resonators if they produce normal TE and TM modes?

  • CGandC
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Determining the Moment of Inertia about an angle θ to the x axis

  • pranjal verma
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Spring Problem On inclined plane without numbers, only variables

  • Jaccobtw
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Spring Car, Acceleration Problem: Find Spring Constant

  • Jaccobtw
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How Does Spring Force Affect Net Force in Physics?

  • Jaccobtw
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Two carts connected with a spring -- working with forces and acceleration

  • Jaccobtw
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Massless wedge pushed by horizontal force

  • Shivam
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Find the EMF generated by a guitar string in the pickup coils

  • b1llso
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Projectile motion over an inclined plane

  • MattDutra123
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Masses sliding on a smooth wedge

  • Karol
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Three masses, a string and pulley and a table -- solve for the acceleration

  • Rishabh Narula
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Current density as a function of distance from the axis of a cylinder

  • Physics lover
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Deflection of Fixed Rotated Beam

  • roldy
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Assessing experimental validity and improvement

  • mani88
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Find Velocity of the wooden block at t=4 sec

  • Shivam
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Will my wrist watch slow down on planet Jupiter?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Where did ##\large \frac {4R}{3π}## come from?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Mechanical vibrations: colliding blocks

  • vxr
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Why is the work done in moving a charge around a circular path zero?

  • Crystal037
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(Bipolar Junction Transistor) The Current Gain of Common Base Amplifier

  • Terrycho
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Find the charge of a mass hanging from a pendulum in an electric field

  • spsch
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Is Graphing Capacitance vs. 1/d More Effective?

  • databug72
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Finding period of balls attached with spring

  • atim
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Draw the F.B.D. (Free Body diagram) of two blocks

  • Shivam
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Man on ladder: jump off instantly vs last moment?

  • vxr
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Why friction plays no role in this non-slipping billiard ball problem?

  • andresB
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What is the final speed of a mass collision?

  • ola_12
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Find the stretch of a steel wire in a static equilibrium problem.

  • greenrichy
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How to Calculate Induced EMF in Mutual Inductance?

  • RwandaGloria
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Where's my mistake? (Lorentz Transformation for a moving spaceship)

  • Efeguleroglu
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The volume of the nucleus to the volume of the electron

  • patric44
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Entropy change when hot bullet drops into cool oil

  • babaliaris
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Series RLC and Parallel RLC circuits

  • paulmdrdo
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Finding force from momentum vector

  • Physics lover
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Work done by friction on a two-block system

  • Physics lover
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Is there any shortcut for this lengthy problem?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Double slit experiment wavelength of light used

  • Iskak
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How does the strong nuclear force relate to particle accelerators?

  • flintstones
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Where does the ##Y_{C}## measurement go in this I section?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Mechanical vibrations: floating apple

  • vxr
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Two body problem, velocities of two bodies, relative velocity given

  • pobro44
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Reasons for a gain of momentum during a collision

  • greenrichy
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Finding time for a stone dropped 35.75 meters

  • Jeff97
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Connected system of a bullet and a block

  • vxr
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Mechanical vibrations: maximum velocity

  • vxr
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Net force and friction calculation for a block with applied force

  • Kmcquiggan
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How Do Angular Velocities Remain Constant With Different Radii?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Minimum force required to prevent sliding down

  • Pcmath
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Motion Q: Dropping/Throwing Stone in Water-Vi, Vf, a, t, d

  • Jeff97
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Find the impulse exerted on the wedge by the ground during impact

  • baldbrain
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Year 11 Physics depth study (Waves and thermodynamics)

  • mani88
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Does the mass of an object affect its inertia?

  • gazeem
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Proof a property for a 3x3 matrix

  • mathodman
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Variation of electric field and potential along the axis of a cone

  • Physics lover
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Inductance of a Solenoid with a Core inside

  • titansarus
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