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The efficiency of a furnace’s heat transfer process

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Energy Conservation in Angular motion / Moment of Inertia

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What will the phasor diagram of this LCR circuit looks like?

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Conductive loop that is contracting in a magnetic field

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Tension, Net Force, and Acceleration relationship?

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Conservation of Momentum (Elastic Collisions)

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Vertical circle in a pendulum ride -- tension force acting on the gondola

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How to find the period of small oscillations given the potential?

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Particle Dynamics Problem (kinematics)

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How can I calculate the rate of energy absorption from nuclear decay?

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Pulley and cart system acceleration

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Kinematics problem: Determine the velocity of this car during braking

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Why are there no force resolutions at ##30^0##?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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David Morin's Rope around a Pole example

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Does Mutual Inductance Affect Voltage in an Open Circuit?

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Motion of a rod hinged at one end

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Intensity and power question (weird)

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Force Free Motion of a Symmetric Top: Direction of phi dot

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Ocr practical paper question on concept

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How to stop a steering wheel using an electric motor?

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Why is balancing a dumbbell at arm's length harder than holding it at the chest?

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Calculate the tension in a rope attached to a ball in circular motion

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Intensity of sound, power output

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Half-life problem with unknown initial sample amount

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Binary star wavelength shift from amplitude not peak-to-peak

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Why does net force equal mass times acceleration?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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A ladder against a wall problem

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How can a differential pressure transmitter be labeled FT, PT, or LT?

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Doppler effect -- find the frequency

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General Physics I Question: Moment of Inertia Problem Difficulty

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Why do nuclei form in the first place if the protons repel each other?

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The Indeterminacy of Problems with Multiple Friction Interfaces

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Rotating with slipping to rotating without slipping?

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Combustion of an explosive liquid bubble

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Large discrepancy in calculated height from gravity formula

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Is this the proper method to find net force?

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State what type of reaction this is

  • amazingphysics2255
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Astrophysics question: Wire mesh radio telescope antenna

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Time constant question in an AQA exam paper

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I have a problem regarding a momentum related question.

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Velocity of COM after collision

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Finding out the mass of gas transferred outside of a room

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Why air resistance has less force than gravitation force in free fall?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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What is the moment for this diagram?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Where I am going wrong in summing moments for this diagram?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Why is moment ##F.S## instead of ##F.\frac{S}{2}## for this diagram?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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What direction is the force acting at A in this diagram?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Why a car decelerates after releasing the gas pedal?

  • vxr
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How to calculate acceleration in this Atwood's Machine?

  • ArnavVarshney
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Calculate the mass defect of a carbon-12 nucleus

  • amazingphysics2255
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What do questions based on the polygon law look like?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Area covered on Earth by geostationary satellites

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Is this strontium-90 nuclear decay equation correct?

  • amazingphysics2255
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Does capacitor discharge through RC decay reduce amplifier noise?

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Work done on test charge and electrostatic potential energy line integrals

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Compressible fluid through a narrow tube.

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Max Elongation of Mass-Spring System

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Thermodynamics assignment help on icebergs and heat calculations

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Static equilibrium -- interpretation of forces

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How can I determine the inclination degree? (visual binary)

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Velocity of ball rolling down ramp

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How do I find rotational inertia for multiple disks attached to a rod?

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Force Diagrams for Sliding Block on Inclined Plane

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How can we determine the distance to the Galactic center?

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Acceleration of two Objects after Collision

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Heat transfer to solution per litre

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Why ##3.cos 60^0## is added to 4?

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Frequency of sound in an open-open tube

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SUVAT equations + two balls dropped at different times

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Direction of the induced current from an OCR paper -- concept question

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Nuclear Reaction - How to determine variables as much as possible

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Equating two formulas for root-mean-square velocity

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Extra speed necessary to orbit at 970 km

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How negative sign appeared out of nowhere?

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Velocity of a slider immediately before impact

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What does the ε₀ symbol represent in electrostatics?

  • NP04
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Work and Internal Energy for Adiabatic Processes

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Calculating Work and Velocity on a Water Slide

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How to calculate Resistors in a circuit ?

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How to calculate the time required to open a valve to inflate a balloon?

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Complex impedance and phase angle of a circuit

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How Fx = F(4/5) in this diagram?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Vibrations: A momentum impulse starts a mass into oscillatory motion

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Understanding resonance in a spring

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Finding Angular Speed and the Change in Kinetic Energy

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Calorimetry Lab Analysis (predict specific heat of unknown metal)

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Angular Momentum in an Inelastic Collision

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Choosing the right law of forces for magnitude and direction

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Quadratic equation for drag race: car and motorcycle passing times

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Center of Mass of acceleration and velocity

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Circular Motion Question: Change in Vector Angular Velocity

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Converting arcseconds to parsecs for the semimajor axis

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What's Wrong with Energy Argument in Vertical Spring-Mass System?

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Voltmeter problem from (OCR paper) multiple choice

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What are the steps for calculating the center of mass of this object?

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