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I've come across another fluid pressure problem I don't understand
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I do not disagree with this at all. If we are working with absolute pressures and ignoring surface tension then water pressure is always...
Yesterday, 2:15 PM
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I've come across another fluid pressure problem I don't understand
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Yes. Post #26 was intended for the OP - in case they didn't understand the underlying physics. My school physics teacher (from many...
Yesterday, 2:14 PM
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I've come across another fluid pressure problem I don't understand
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You may have some misundestandings - even about the forces in Fig. 1. Try working through this: Consider the simple Fig. 1 setup...
Yesterday, 8:20 AM
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For a massless piston assembly subject to no external forces other than water pressure, the calculation for ##F_3## is immediate and...
Yesterday, 8:10 AM
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I've come across another fluid pressure problem I don't understand
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Some general comments... Units for ρ and g are essential. If the correct units aren’t clear, sometimes terrible things happen! E.g. see...
Friday, 7:30 AM
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Adding and subtracting vectors using vector diagrams
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The OP has incorrectly drawn the Post #1 diagram, believing (wrongly) that ##\vec s = \vec a + \vec b##. Then they have ignored their...
Thursday, 12:09 PM
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Adding and subtracting vectors using vector diagrams
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It would be best to sort out part a) first. There are some mistakes. The first two are: 1) The diagram is wrong. When adding vectors...
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How can we teach students the difference between sequences and series?
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The difference between sequences and series is trivial. Are you sure you’ve asked what you intended? But there could be casual misuse...
Sep 20, 2025
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Yes this was the intended question , my instructor wrote it in class on the blackboard and then he just solved it, this was the diagram...
Sep 18, 2025
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It seems a lot of confusion is created for the OP when the full original problem statement is not provided. The learner may not be able...
Sep 17, 2025
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Minimum mass of a block
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The intended original question is probably something like this: Block B (mass ##M##) is initially at rest, in equilibrium, on the...
Sep 17, 2025
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Minimum mass of a block
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In Posts #5 and #8 I was referring only to the case of a non-oscillating mass(A) in equilibrium. I hope this was clear from what I...
Sep 16, 2025
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Minimum mass of a block
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At the point when slipping starts, the tension (##kx##) must be equal to both ##mg## and ##Mg \sin \theta + \mu Mg \cos \theta##...
Sep 16, 2025
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Minimum mass of a block
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I’m not entirely sure what the difficulty is, but this might help... Imagine gradually adding weights to to A, i.e. gradually...
Sep 16, 2025
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You may get better/more answers if you formulate a more specific question rather than just this "check my work" format with three pages...
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