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Find the particle's charge in terms of Q.

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Why does percent error increase with theoretical resistance in resistors?

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Why does pressure decrease when temperature decreases for a gas?

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Finding total electric field with a semicircular charge distribution

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Calculating Linear Expansion with Specific Heat Capacity and Mass Density?

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Electrostatic potential of a circular ring

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How to derive the de Broglie Relation

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How Many Square Meters of Solar Panels Are Needed for Household Usage?

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What is the Transformation of Four-Velocity between Frames?

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When to include atmospheric pressure in Bernoulli and momentum equations?

  • Master1022
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Stefan-Boltzmann law for net heat loss from a person

  • Zeynaz
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What is the Relationship Between Entropy and Temperature?

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Electric potential at the edge of a thin charged circular plate

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Hooke's Law vs. Conservation of Energy

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A statics problem with a mass on the end of a string

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Finding the Force on a Current-Carrying Wire

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LDR circuit electricity question

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Equilibrium with friction on vertical wall and rope tension

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Angular acceleration of cylinder with hanging block

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How to show that P moves with a constant speed u

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The magnitude and direction of the minimum magnetic field

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Filling a long tube by submerging it in fluid

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Fluid Mechanics: Head Loss Question (Conceptual)

  • Master1022
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Missing factor of 1/2 in propeller momentum equation

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Tension on a massless pulley homework.

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Linear Momentum - Bullet hitting pendulum

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Angular momentum of a system relative to a moving reference frame.

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Flux and Induced EMF vs displacement graphs

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Why does the displacement force act on AC - BC?

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Index of refraction and wavelength

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Why does an earthed plate still have charge in this field line diagram?

  • PhysicStud01
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The safety of radioactivity in Medicine

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Finding separation distance in binary star system from Doppler shift

  • Thomas Smith
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How Do I Calculate Temperature in a Thermodynamics Problem?

  • Zeynaz
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Finding the components of stress in bone cement

  • nerdeagle24
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Force on a magnet in a magnetic field

  • TheBigDig
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How do I show that 2 moving objects collide?

  • SueJ
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Beat frequency and Doppler shift

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Luffing Jib Load, With and Without Sheave Pulley

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How to determine the magnitude of the electric force

  • hotram
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How to calculate this dispersion relation

  • Karl86
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Fluid Mechanics: Flow rate required to achieve a constant height

  • WhiteWolf98
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Differential equation for the simple pendulum

  • Celso
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Resistors in Parallel or Series?

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Work done by static friction on a block pulled with paper

  • Caio Graco
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Maximum displacement of a coupled pendulum

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How Does the Particle's Velocity Change on the Roller Coaster Track?

  • Celso
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Choosing the proper reference frame for a problem

  • Abhishek11235
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Pressure on table from aquarium

  • Kako
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What do s_i and m_i represent in the coupled spin eigenstate equation?

  • Philip Land
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Energy density due to infinite uniform line charges

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Why Does My Relative Density Calculation Not Yield a Numerical Value?

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How to find the velocity of a water leak in a spinning tank

  • DigitalCrush
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Problem Concerning Rotational Kinetic Energy

  • Curtiss Oakley
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Bowling Ball Changing Rotational Direction

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Magnetic field of plane with thickness d with uniform surface current

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Problem concerning a mass with charge in a homogeneous electric field

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Water Slide Physics: Solving for Angular Momentum, Velocity, and Energy

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Bodies connected by a light inextensible string on an inclined plane

  • Bill Gregoryson
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Calculating elapsed time in different frames

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Fluid Dynamics - Mass Conservation, State Equation for an Ideal Gas

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Why is the Kinetic Energy 0 at an infinite distance away from a point?

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Electric field problem — Changing the charge on two spheres

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Is the Normal Force in an Elevator Conservative?

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Thrust on an triagular lamina emersed in a liquid.

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Kirchoff's law and circuit analysis

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How do i find the friction force without μ or acceleration?

  • helppmeee
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Electric field of a hollow cylinder

  • Zack K
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Find work done on an ideal gas and a copper block.

  • owlman76
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R-134a heating in piston cylinder from saturated to superheated

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Shear Stress over Stationary Plate

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Calculating Air Column Length in a Capillary Tube Using Boyle's Law

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Fluid Flow; Bernoulli's Equation

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Heat and internal energy of gas

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Work in reversible expansion of Van der Waals gas with mobile wall

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AQA physics paper On potential energy in mass spring system

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Direction of current in smaller loop on the left and on the right

  • Jenny Physics
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Enhancing the thermal conductivity of Phase changing materials

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Differentiating theta with respect to o and h in error analysis

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How Does Total Mass Affect Acceleration in an Atwood's Machine?

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Describe the energy changes in this system (Water reservoir to hose pipe)

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Cannonball Launch Homework: Find Range & Vy

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Load and deflection (beam experiment)

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Internal energy after evaporation?

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Work of isothermal expansion with virial equation of state

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Conduction of Heat through a Material

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Viscosity constant of a cylinder

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Resistive force against a bullet

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Electric field of a charged cube

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Banked circular road: conditions for equal normal forces

  • Master1022
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Brayton cycle specific work calculation with temperature formula

  • Master1022
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Find the Driving frequency and phase angle for this R-C phasor problem

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High school Physics - Simple Harmonic Motion

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The Mystery of the "Man on a Boat" Problem with Easy Tips

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Moment of Inertia of this combined system?

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Finding the change in velocity through a potential difference

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Asymmetrical Static Equilibrium

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