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How Do You Calculate the Charge and Energy in a Mixed Capacitor Circuit?

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Potential difference between plates

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Determine the following electric potential differences

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Potential Difference in particle

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How Does Amplitude Influence the Oscillation Period of a Cantilever?

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How far do the runner and catcher slide?

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What forces are required to keep a car moving on a vertical loop?

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Tangential Speed and Angular Momentum

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Frustrated with Physics: Measuring Temperature Changes in the Ocean

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Expressing centripetal action with variables

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Charge and potential differnecr in a mixed circuit

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Ice skaters on perpendicular rods: tangential speed and angular momentum

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How is the relativity paradox of a spinning wheel resolved?

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Finding Max Current in an LR Circuit

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Velocity of Wave in Twice the Radius String: V = root(Tension/mu) * root2

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Uniformly Accelerated Projectile Motion

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Calculating Electric Field Intensity with Two Spherical Shells

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How Do You Calculate Kinetic Energy and Momentum for Spaceships in Motion?

  • yellowgators
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Use Kirchoff's loops rule in the circuit?

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What are its wavelength and frequency?

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How Does Newton's 2nd Law Apply to a Skateboard Pushed by a Cane?

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Max Height of Swing in Circular Motion

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Why Does Centripetal Force Equal Friction in Circular Motion?

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Calculating Induced EMF and Current in a Moving Rod in a Magnetic Field

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Coefficient of kinetic friction of a sliding crate

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Circular Movement Homework: Part A Done, Part B Troubles

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How to Calculate the Work to Charge a Spherical Shell?

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When is induced voltage zero in a moving coil and magnet?

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How does the magnetic field affect the speed of a particle Experiment

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Work-energy relationship in catching a ping-pong ball with soft hands

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Standing wave frequency with pulley and joint nodes in compound wire

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How Much Charge Flows When the Switch is Closed?

  • MeKnos
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2nd law of rotation, merry go round

  • Ready2GoXtr
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Why isn't average velocity equal to average speed for a complete orbit?

  • Rade1990
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What is the new separation between the charges?

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How Much Work Does Lifting and Pushing a Box Involve?

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Girl in basket pulling rope over pulley to lift herself

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Youngs double slit related problems

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Question related to power transmission

  • DarkStalker
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Finding velocity after displacement, and an angle

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Index of Refraction in a prism

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What Force is Required to Hold Up a Partner on a Swinging Circle?

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Pressure at the bottom of a container

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How Can a Balloon's Volume Increase When Cooled?

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Eccentricity of Elliptical Orbit

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Circular Motion, Static Friction

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How Does High-Speed Travel Affect Time Perception?

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Will the Right Mass Rise? A Dynamics Pulley Problem

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Tuning an LC Circuit to Span 540 kHz Range

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Systems - Girl and Sled - Newton's 3rd Law

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What angle does it separate from the bowl?

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Electric field and force on K+ ion in cell membrane capacitor

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Angled Projectile Motion Question

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Inclined Planes; Finding Force of Friction

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How Does Charge Buildup Affect Satellites in Earth's Radiation Belts?

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Finding the mass of air in a 2.0m × 5.0m × 10.0m box at 1 atm and 77°F

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Interference of waves from two sources.

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Total energy of 3kg spring system with 0.15m amplitude

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How current changes in metals at different temperatures

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Calculating Electron Count and Net Charge in Water

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How Do Oscillations in Spring-Mass Systems and Rotating Rods Work?

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Finding mass of sled given girl's maximum acceleration on a slope

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Archimedes Principle and bouyant force

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Moment of Inertia - Elliptical beam

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How to Decrease the Electric Field in a Vacuum Photodiode Circuit?

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How Do You Calculate the Orbital Frequency of an Electron and Positron System?

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Relating Kinectic energy and momentum

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Force due to currents in parallel wires

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B-field of ideal cylindrical solenoid, using Biot-Savart.

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Circuit with Dependent Current Source

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Finding minimum angular speed in Fizeau wheel experiment

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Most Light Through Polarizing Filters: 0, 45, 90

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Measurements of the Speed of Light

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Child sliding down a frictionless slide

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Calculating Magnetic Field of a Large Magnet in a System with a Moving Rod

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How Much More Intense Is Rock Concert Sound Compared to Jazz Fest?

  • physicsdawg
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Sound source location from microphone time delay

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Photoelectric effect and current

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How do I calculate the equilibrium temperature of a system?

  • chukie
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Current in Top Loop: Increase, Decrease, or No Change?

  • chukie
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Finding tuning fork frequency from beat frequencies

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How High Will the Soccer Ball Be at the Goal?

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Linear momentum conservation - rocket

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Free Body Diagrams - Finding Acceleration, and tension

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Calculating Impedance of 2.80k W Resistor and 4.60mF Capacitor

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Finding acceleration in a 1.5 kg and 3.0 kg pulley system

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What is the Effective Spring Constant for a System in Series?

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Ap Physics Questions Me Highlyyy Appreciateddd

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Line of charge, Feild on the origin

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Two veggieburger patties pushed across grill with horizontal force

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