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Find the initial velocity of the second stone

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Interpretation of distance mentioned as degrees

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Efficiency of a steam power plant

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How can I calculate the magnetic field using electromagnetic induction?

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Velocity of a charged particle

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Relative velocity between a Bus and a Car

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Did You Calculate the Speed of Sound Correctly?

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Find the incorrect relation from the figure

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Can you explain Automobile Kinematics?

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Open ended physics problem that I would greatly appreciate help on

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How Do Restitution Coefficients Affect Billiard Ball Trajectories?

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Rectangular loop falling through magnetic field boundary

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Q&A: How Does Work & Energy Relate to Solids, Liquids & Gases?

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Electron Speed in Conducting Shells

  • branshims
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Dynamics of a string coupled pendulum

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Understanding Force and Momentum in Angular Elastic Collisions

  • PhysicS FAN
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What is the maximum distance of projectile?

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How to Calculate Impulse in a Momentum Problem?

  • Ariano AnnaG
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How can I solve for the sines and cosines in a harmonic oscillation problem?

  • PhysicS FAN
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How to calculate what a voltmeter measures with multiple resistors?

  • Rasias
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Finding the speed of the cylinder's point of mass

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Intuition behind centre of mass equation for a rigid body

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Find the equilibrium angle of this unusual driven pendulum geometry

  • Alif Yasa
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Chain problem - velocity as the chain becomes completely vertical

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Acceleration of an electron due to Magnetic and Electric fields

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Calculations for a ball tossed vertically upward

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How Does Doubling the Temperature Affect the Mean Free Path in a Gas?

  • Sarah0001
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Plotting Shear & Moment Diagrams for a Beam

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Forces acting on a coil due to a varying magnetic field

  • Zack K
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Rectilinear motion, not uniform accleration

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Relative velocity between lift and screw

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Calculating Charge on Capacitor with Decreasing Magnetic Field & Coil

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Magnetic field of vector potential

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Electric Dipoles: Convention & Field Lines

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Finding Broglie wavelength after acceleration

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Calculate the impact force when falling from a height

  • Emilyyyyyyyyy
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What is the near-point of the eye-plus-spectacle?

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Force and power applied to create a traveling wave

  • Miles123K
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How can the time dilation equation explain faster moving clocks running slower?

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Efficiency of the Rankine Cycle

  • TheBigDig
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How to Interpret Missing Energy Levels in Atomic Spectra?

  • Clara Chung
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Relation between Potential Field, Force, Kinetic Energy and Abs.Energy

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Angle of Depression Help: Using the Sine Rule to Solve for Unknown Angles

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Stress and Strain to cause these deformations

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Standing Waves: Incident and Reflected Waves' Equal Frequency

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Finding stress and elongation in piston

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Relationship between k and E when deriving the density of states

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Slab resting on two supports: Maximum weight added without tipping?

  • tjosan
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Maximum Capillary Rise: Dynamic Treatment of Liquid in Motion?

  • Rituraj131
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Graphing Kinetic Energy of a Toy Car Released from a Compressed Spring

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What is the angular acceleration of this cylindrical system?

  • Np14
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SR: Finding the speed of particles wrt the laboratory

  • rugerts
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Coulomb's Law: The distance between two charged spheres

  • Valenciamar
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How can I derive the relativistic de Broglie equation?

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Work Problem -- Wood Block Sliding into a Spring

  • Che8833
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Solving for acceleration of two blocks with two pulleys

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How do I find the radius of curvature?

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Find the position of a proton in an E and B field

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What Is the Correct Current Equation to Induce Given Flux in a Circuit?

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A question about magnetism that causes a wheel-loop to rotate

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Black Body radiation and Planck's radiation distribution

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How Do Mass and Windings Affect Disc Rotation Dynamics?

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Find an expression for the power developed at the given rotation rate

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Can the Maximum Efficiency of a Thermal Cycle Be 2/5?

  • Clara Chung
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Trouble Understanding How to Apply Kirchhoff's Laws

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Kirchoff's Voltage Law transposing problem

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Finding the ODE that describes this circuit + find its transfer function

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Finding the unitary matrix for a beam splitter

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Potential Energy and Equilibrium Position for a Circular Trajectory

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Cannon shoots a bullet. What if it's not fixed to the platform?

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Torque on circular current loop

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Is the Energy Stored in a Capacitor Really QV Instead of QV/2?

  • Clara Chung
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How do we calculate the temperature of a laser-heated substance?

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What is the tension force for this system in rotational equilibrium?

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Mechanics question (beginner level)

  • trew
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Is Ball Bouncing on a Surface a Simple Harmonic Motion?

  • PhysicStud01
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Help with Bernoulli's equation for a central heating system

  • ShaunG123
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Calculating the frequency of an electron orbiting in a magnetic field

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Problem about identical particles

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Why do we store open bottles of hydrogen mouth down?

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Slope Problem: Need Help with a Difficult Equation?

  • megaly
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Current induced on a coil by a changing magnetic flux in another coil

  • Zack K
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Faraday's law -- circular loop with a triangle

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Forces acting on the base of a crane

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Terminal velocity of falling sphere with drag and buoyancy

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Do Neutrinos Leave Tracks in Cloud Chambers?

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What is the Magnetic Field Inside a Cylindrical Coaxial Cable?

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Total equivalent resistance of a combined circuit

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Calculating Centripetal Acceleration in a Vertical Loop

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Force on a pin from a pendulum and a string

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Thermal balance in calorimeter after adding lead

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Ratio of Intensities of 2 sounds

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Focal length of converging thin lens graphs

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How Do You Calculate Forces and Balance a Hanging Cafe Sign?

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