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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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A toy car is set rolling on a straight track

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The average force needed to throw a baseball 90mph?

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How to find the energy of an object that was at rest?

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Force and Impulse on a Railway Locomotion

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Understanding Energy Loss in Projectile Motion on a Ramp

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Derive thermal expansion of area from length

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How to find initial velocity with only an angle and distance?

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What are the dimensions of angular acceleration divided by radius?

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Improving Tesla coil spark gap to power full light bulb

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Solar cell EMF and internal resistance from two load measurements

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Efficiency of a Heat Engine: How to Calculate Heat Transfer in a Monotonic Gas

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Average force and angle, collision problem

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Calculating Displacement of X and Y with Water-Filled Container

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Express torque as a function of angular velocity

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Solving Particle Motion in a Rigid Box: t=0

  • Svyatoslav
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When can using a logarithm make solving an equation easier?

  • bolzano95
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Solving 2 Blocks on a Slope: Find fmax Needed

  • shashlik
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What is the radiation weight factor?

  • gungo
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Gravitational Potential: How to know where the max GP is located?

  • tiffany chan
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Electric Potential across charging battery.

  • Amadeo
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Shm , calculation of amplitude of spring mass system

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Wave equation, wavelenght not given

  • AncientOne99
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Solving for Thickness of Lead to Reduce Count Rate to 50

  • gungo
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Equation of shm for different positions

  • Shivang kohlii
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Why must the x and y axis be perpendicular?

  • Phillipv2004
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Curvilinear Dynamics and forces

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Why does the cart accelerate when F=0 and there's no friction?

  • EEristavi
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Finding the change in velocity from an acceleration vs time graph

  • MattDutra123
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Spring compressed by mass, finding maximum height after release

  • Jonah765
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How to calculate angular speed?

  • Romain Nzebele
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Error propagation in aircraft vector problem from scale drawing

  • Claric1
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Initial velocity of accelerating bird with northward acceleration

  • Christopher Nguyen
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Circular motion of a rotational spring

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Calculating the Length of a Water Column in a Beaker

  • patric44
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Find the wavelengths Kα, Kβ , Lα and Lβ from elemental Cu

  • AlphaLibrae
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What percent of the sky can an astronomer see at one time?

  • charlie05
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Thermodynamics of an Insulated Box: Water-Steam Question

  • Master1022
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Fluid Mechanics, Particle Size, Bouyouncy Force

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Maximum height for water from a fire hose

  • tuki
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Cylinderical reigon and potential difference

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Calculate elevator acceleration using mass

  • aleah
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Expression for effective potential energy

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Projectile Motion Experimental Error

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Determining position of an object after inelastic collision

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What are other names for bending stress?

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Volume charge density and potential difference in sphere

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Dynamics: Relative Acceleration

  • Master1022
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Regression for a first order system

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Uniform charge density and electric potential

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Finding image charge for a grounded conducting sphere

  • Kaguro
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How do you solve for time if a, v, and s are given

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Uniform distribution of charge and work needed

  • fight_club_alum
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Potential difference to achieve speed

  • fight_club_alum
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Finding an expression for acceleration

  • Mitza
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Finding the angle of an inclined plane

  • Mitza
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Minimizing downstream drift while swimming across a river

  • EEristavi
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Finding the expected value of position in a Potential Well

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Find the center of mass of a plate

  • Davidllerenav
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Radioactivity Question, Is this method correct?

  • Irishdoug
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Speed of two charged particles repelling each other

  • fight_club_alum
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The maximum intensity for light transmitted through a thin film

  • FranzDiCoccio
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What is the power input of a motor pulling up an elevator?

  • magnesium12
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Is hot gas more massive than cold gas?

  • rugerts
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Calculating the charge of two concentric conductive spheres

  • Miles123K
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How far does the block slide? (work, spring, incline)

  • magnesium12
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Electric Potential slowing a charged particle to a stop

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Electron trajectory through 2.4 cm magnetic field in cathode-ray tube

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How Do You Calculate Heat Transfer in a Thermodynamics Piston Problem?

  • babaliaris
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Finding reaction forces at hinges A and E for a beam with a couple

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How Does a Dielectric Influence Charge Induction on a Conducting Shell?

  • Karl86
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Finding Ctr of Mass of object w/ given uniform mass density

  • jigsaw21
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Finding the period of the satellite's orbital motion

  • rwssman
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What is the weight that will balance the object Q?

  • Kile
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How to find the center of mass of a cube?

  • Davidllerenav
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3rd harmonic of a column of air with one end enclosed

  • Miles123K
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Projectile Motion with Pulley System

  • EddieV
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Mechanics Problem from MEXT scholarship 2007

  • rwssman
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Block projected up an incline: how did the book get 2.5 m/s?

  • CVRIV
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Maximum displacement in mass spring system

  • Fitz Watson
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Blood flow velocity via Doppler effect

  • FranzDiCoccio
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Oscillation Problem -- Ball mass on the end of a horizontal spring

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Thermodynamics: Insulated Box Partition Question

  • Master1022
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MATLAB_Quantum Well_Finite Difference Method

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Heat exchanger - efficiency of the cycle

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Potential/Kinetic Energy of Particles in Harmonic Oscillator

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Calculate number of turns for an electric heater

  • MisterP
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Finding recoil velocity of an object during a collision

  • jigsaw21
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Calculate the maximum voltage that can be applied

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Calculate the energy in a capacitor's electric field

  • MisterP
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Heat transfer problem for cooling a solar panel

  • davidhe96
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Finding mass of steam that heats ice and water to 60°C

  • Julieh
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Calculate the amount of heat supplied to a gas

  • MisterP
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Need to calculate the friction coefficient

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Explain friction in a pulley system

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Work done lifting and sliding a box with friction

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