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Frequently Made Errors in Heat: Elementary Level
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1. Heat, Work, Internal Energy, and Kinetic Energy
"If heat is the motion of molecules, why isn't it Kinetic Energy?"In everyday use, we may think…

Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics: Springs
1. Springs in Series
"A spring of constant ##k_1## is connected in series with a spring of constant ##k_2##. What is the spring constant…

Frequently Made Errors in Probability: Conditionals in Natural Language
1. Turning a verbal condition into Algebra
An actual thread..."A study of auto accidents has found that 40% of all fatal accidents are…

Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics: Momentum and Impacts
An impact is an impulse (change of momentum) that involves arbitrarily large forces acting very briefly. These result in near-instantaneous…

5 Common MATLAB Error Messages and How to Fix Them
MATLAB error messages like "Inner matrix dimensions must agree" or "Index exceeds matrix dimensions" almost always trace back to five common mistakes:…

Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics: Hydrostatics
1. Archimedes' Principle
X "When a body is placed in a liquid, the weight of the body equals the weight of the liquid displaced"That will…

Frequently Made Errors: Equation Handling in Physics
1. Algebra versus Arithmetic
When numerical values are provided as inputs in a question, it is tempting to plug these into the equations straight away.…

Frequently Made Errors: Kinematics Mistakes Explained
Kinematics is the subset of dynamics that only concerns itself with time, displacement, velocity, and acceleration. A problem is a kinematics problem…

Frequently Made Errors: Mechanics — Moments and Torque
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Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics: Forces
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