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How Does Net Torque Affect Pulley Acceleration in an Atwood Machine?

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Find the tensions of two strings in mechanical equilibrium

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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?

  • Creed
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Find the incorrect relation from the figure

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Can you explain Automobile Kinematics?

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Using wave equation to find frequency from wavelength

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How Do Restitution Coefficients Affect Billiard Ball Trajectories?

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Rectangular loop falling through magnetic field boundary

  • Jenny Physics
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Why does work depend on volume change for solids and liquids?

  • Sarah0001
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Electron Speed in Conducting Shells

  • branshims
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Dynamics of a string coupled pendulum

  • physics_cosmos
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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

  • Alif Yasa
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Intuition behind centre of mass equation for a rigid body

  • Pochen Liu
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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

  • hi im nimdA
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Acceleration of an electron due to Magnetic and Electric fields

  • Amadeo
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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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Shear and moment diagrams for a beam with distributed load

  • jd747
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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

  • Terrycho
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Relative velocity between lift and screw

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Magnetic field of vector potential

  • TheBigDig
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Why do electric field lines leave positive charges and enter negative ones?

  • Guillem_dlc
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Finding Broglie wavelength after acceleration

  • Physicsq
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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?

  • gungo
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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?

  • nopenopedynope
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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

  • EEristavi
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Angle of depression with a 5 degree slope

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Stress and Strain to cause these deformations

  • nerdeagle24
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Why don't incident and reflected waves cancel each other out?

  • jeehoo
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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 on two supports: finding max weight before 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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Two particles approaching head-on with relative speed 0.890c

  • 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

  • Che8833
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How do I find the radius of curvature?

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

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

  • Sarah0001
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Why does current decrease in a rotating wheel in a magnetic field?

  • bdvjofrni
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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?

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

  • hi im nimdA
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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

  • rugerts
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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?

  • Ariano AnnaG
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Torque on circular current loop

  • skyesthelimit
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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?

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

  • Np14
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Resolving forces perpendicular to acceleration

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

  • PhysicStud01
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Calculating the frequency of an electron orbiting in a magnetic field

  • John Ker
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Problem about identical particles

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Why do we store open bottles of hydrogen mouth down?

  • catrinamat
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Slope problem with a difficult equation

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Induced EMF when a coil moves axially near a stationary 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

  • mathewgreenwood91
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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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