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Is Acceleration Zero When Velocity Is Zero?

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How can I have a negative angle?

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How does the presence of water affect the image formed by a converging lens?

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Electric Flux through an Infinite Plane

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When to use the work-energy formula

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How Does Changing Charge Magnitude and Distance Affect Electric Force?

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Calculating Angular Acceleration

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What is Tension in Physics and How is it Defined in a Physics Book?

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How Do You Calculate Angular Velocity and Moment of Inertia?

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Solving Parachutist Problem: Force Exerted by Parachute

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Solving Quadratic Drag Force on Upward Motion of Gun

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Work required to move the charge

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General questions- acceleration and velocity

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Elastic Glancing Collision-HELP

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Projectile Motion including Displacement and Speed

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Finding speed from acceleration

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Why Do Nickel and Iron Exhibit the Highest Binding Energy?

  • learning_phys
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Heat Pumps & COP: How Do They Work?

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Question about magnetic field of a current

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What Wavelengths of Light Appear Bright Due to Oil Spill Interference?

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Energy in Capacitor: Find Charge & U

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Eletric force and gravitational force question

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Find charge density on two parallel planes

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Helpppp EM Radiation doesn't make sense to me

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Speed of Block After Falling 0.5m: 3.0 m/s

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Capacitance per length of co-axial cabel

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Slanted Gravity: A boy on a hill

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Determining D traveled by xForce. (notschoolwork)

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Radiation Dosage and Energy Absorbed by 69 kg Patient

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Calculate Normalizing Factor for Integers

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Maximum interference of frequencies

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Release Ball to Fall Through Hole on Circular Platform

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Understanding Oscillatory Motion: Relationship Between Length and Time

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How can an atom be neutral if it is not in its ground state?

  • learning_phys
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Work & Tension Homework: Find W & Delta K.E.

  • Gear2d
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Resistors & Heat: Quick Explanation Needed

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Electric Fields: Charge/Unit Length on Inner Surface of Coaxial Cable

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Basic physics – mechanics (it is not homework)

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Oscillatory motion and transverse wave on string

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Deflection of bullet by Earth's magnetic field

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Triple Integration: Transform Equation to Spherical Coordinates

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How High Can a Flea Jump Using Resilin Energy?

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What Are the Amplitude and Period of the Mass-Spring System?

  • teenholiday
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Understanding Hook's Law and Compression of Springs

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Melting Lead in a Kiln: Calculating Time and Energy Requirements

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Question on pressure, volume and rates of change

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What Speed Must She Run to Leave the Cart with No Horizontal Velocity?

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Higher physics - rearranging prob

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Trickey projectile motion question

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Electric field strength of wire problem

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Object 18cm in Front of Lens to Reduce Image by 2.0

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What Is the Initial Velocity of the Particle in This Collision Problem?

  • ddphuyal
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Understanding the Balmer Series: The Discreet Line Spectrum of Hydrogen Gas

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Solving String Tension for Weighted Rings

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Where Does Extra Voltage in a Step-Up Transformer Come From?

  • learning_phys
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Conformal Transformation for Perpendicular Charged Sheets

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Problem on an atwood's machine given an upward acceleration

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Organ Pipe and Fundamental Frequency

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Bernoulli's Equation and A Water Tank w/ Small Outlet

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Calculating Young's Modulus with Force and Extension Measurements

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Dynamics-Coefficients of Kinetic friction

  • shakabra
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Eccentricity of orbit. Apogee and perigee positions and distances

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Pascal's principle/pressure/viscosity

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A question on Newton's 3rd Law

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Proton hits infinite charged plane, find charge of plane

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What is the Magnetic Field Inside a Tightly Wound Ring?

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Time for two bodies to collide under gravity.

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How to Calculate Mass of a Wire for Measuring Wave Speed

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How to Calculate Maximum Speed on a Banked Corner?

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Reply quickly, quiz in a few hours, very simple magnetic field question

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Electron velocity and unit vector notation

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Equation for triangle using angles

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Equilibrium of Charged Beads on a Rod

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2 bowls rolling on an irregular surface

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Kinematics: Find Ball's Bounce Ratio from Height h

  • slogger
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Help with question related to magnetism

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Circular Motion, a swinging ball and tension in string

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Find the acceleration of blocks - Friction problem

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Open and Closed Pipe Length for Harmonics

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Solving Rotational Motion Homework: Mass m, Length r, Centripetal Force Fc

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Force Required to Separate Magdeburg Hemispheres

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Calculating Acceleration for Circular Motion

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Measuring resistance accurately?

  • BioCore
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The proabability density of an electron

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Solving Magnetism Question: What Current & Direction is Needed?

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