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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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Voltage, electric field and potential energy for concentric shells

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Calculate Temperature of Nitrogen Gas at 2 atm Pressure

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What is the work done on cart by the string?

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Motion of a system that has two masses and three pulleys

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Relationship between Excess Pressure and Surface Tension for a Drop on a Fibre

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Motion of masses connected by a string over a pulley

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What are the uncertainty values for my corrected magnitudes?

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Why does dot product equal magnitude times projection?

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Load resistance in voltage regulator

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Calculating Work for Launching a Spacecraft to a Great Distance from Earth

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Advice on calculating the determinant for 3x3 Matrix by inspection

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A question regarding energy and momentum conservation

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Correct statement about perfectly elastic collision

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Find the Velocity given Magnetic field and Magnetic Force

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Rolling Marble + Air resistance = Displacement?

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Energy needed to penetrate each object

  • PhysicS FAN
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Image charge method for potential between two conductors

  • Othman0111
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Finding the current and voltage for each resistor

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Describe the position of a pulley attached to a sling

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How proportional action is produced in a pneumatic controller

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Retarded time calculations: Electrodynamics

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How many crates can you load in a minute with different average power outputs?

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Finding the tension in the thread

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What is the magnitude of the average force?

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Does the angle of the slope matter in these cases? Why/not?

  • grooveactiva
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A fluid mechanics problem -- Shape of a falling water drop

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Find the magnetic field given I, t, Hall EMF, and G_s

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Deriving full width at half maximum formula for electron diffusion

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Projectile motion -- Maximum range it can travel inside a 2m tunnel

  • rashida564
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Conceptual check: Newton's third law

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Three particles chasing each other in an equilateral triangle

  • Raghav Agarwal
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Why doesn't Newtons third law also apply to the frame?

  • Callista
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How does back-emf in an inductor lead to the exponential charging curve?

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Things to talk about in a Polarization Write-up

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Why does substituting T back into the acceleration equation give a2=a2?

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How do I determine the uncertainty value of the star's absolute magnitude?

  • Thomas Smith
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Finding the POSITION of the center of mass

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Charge induced on parallel plates if a charge between plates

  • Rakesh Kumar Jaiswal
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Capacitance vs. Inverse Distance Graph's Slope

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Find the Moment about the ankle

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Finding the Current in a Resistor in a Closed Circuit

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Capacitor in parallel with resistor at steady state

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I need to calculate the equivalent resistance

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Calculate the radius of this rotating wheel

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Kinetic energy and velocity of electron after compton scatte

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Why does clay sticking to a rotating disk not change its angular momentum?

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How can I calculate the number of photons with this data?

  • HazyMan
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Calculating Pump Power for Well Water Removal

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How Long Does It Take for a Boomerang to Return?

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Bungee jumping and Conservation of energy

  • solarcat
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Why does a frictionless stick let you neglect the y-component of momentum?

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Interference fringe pattern on a thin cut cylinder slice

  • Anurag98
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Work Done by Gravity and Tension in a Pulley System

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How to measure the magnification of a microscope in the lab

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How Do You Solve This Capacitor Problem with Aluminum Electrodes?

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Refractive Index: Speed of Light in Medium vs Vacuum

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Magnetic Field required to hold a loop in static equilibrium

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Finding tensions in cables at angles

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How Does Pressure Vary in an Open Tube?

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How Does Coil Configuration Affect Solenoid Inductance?

  • Rayanna
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Problem involving energy/motion

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Altitude - Why is it a Scalar?

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What angles produce a net torque of 1250 Nm on an angled arm?

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Uncertainty when converting inches to meters using a tape measure

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How to find distance between 2 charges, with no force given?

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Initial velocity for soccer ball through two holes in walls

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Calculate Linear Acceleration of 0.5kg Mass Suspended from Flywheel

  • kelvin scott
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How to Derive the Coefficient of Friction from Time and Acceleration?

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Area under a frequency vs wavelength graph?

  • JosephTraverso2
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Question regarding supernovae shock breakout

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AP Physics 1 collision with inelastic then elastic collision

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Calculating Speed on an Incline Using the Law of Conservation of Energy

  • rob stevenson
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Using Integrals to Calculate the Rotational Energy of Earth

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Do I exert a force on the moon?

  • KingAlexander211B
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How Does Heat Affect the Motion of a DIY Stirling Engine's Wheel?

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Non-inertial reference frame problem with condition 4

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Boat with Friction: CoM / Minimum Time Problem

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Radius of curvature of the trajectory of points A and B

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Potential across a conducting sphere surrounded by an insulator

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Why is induced EMF zero outside a solenoid?

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Solve simple nonlinear equations in the form [A]x=b

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When current flow reach indeterminate form

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Calculating Forces on a Motorcycle Riding in a Transparent Sphere

  • solarcat
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Where can you not see a satellite

  • solarcat
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What happens to a light photon when it hits glass?

  • askbbj
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How to Determine the Work Done by the Rope on a Sledge?

  • Romain Nzebele
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Free body diagram of a compressed board between two boards

  • Romain Nzebele
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Combining Multiple Rules for Error Propagation

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Ohmmeter question -- Measuring a 2-resistor circuit

  • Kenny555
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Equilibrium problem with 5 unknowns

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How Do You Derive the Constraint Equation for a Disc Rolling Along a Parabola?

  • QuantumDuality
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Why can't Baron Münchhausen pull himself out of a swamp by his hair?

  • Davidllerenav
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Potential Energy of a Finite Proton

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