Circular Definition and 999 Threads
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MHB Apc.2.8.1 ap vertical circular cylinder related rates
$\tiny{2.8.1}$ The vertical circular cylinder has radius r ft and height h ft. If the height and radius both increase at the constant rate of 2 ft/sec, Then what is the rate at which the lateral surface area increases? \een $\begin{array}{ll} a&4\pi r\\ b&2\pi(r+h)\\ c&4\pi(r+h)\\ d&4\pi rh\\... -
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What is Kepler's Formula and How is it Used in Circular Motion and Gravitation?
Using Kepler's Formula, I tried to solve for the answer but was told that it's incorrect.- Mongster
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- Circular Circular motion Gravitation Motion Orbital
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I Muon Time Dilation in Accelerating Frames
Hi In the book, "Why does E= mc2" by Cox and Forshaw, while discussing time dilation, the example of a muon is given. The authors explain that muons when circulated in the 14 m diameter AGS facility at Brookhaven at 99.94% of the speed of light, its lifetime is increased from the value of 2.2...- bksree
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- Circular Gamma Particle Path Value
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Potential Energy and raising a satellite from Earth into a Circular Orbit
a. V=-GM/r V=-6.67*10^-11*6.0 x 10^24/6.4 x 10^6 V grav = -62531250 ~ -62.5M Jkg^-1 b. To find the gravitational potential 200 km above the surface of the Earth; r=6.4 x 10^6 +2*10^5 m=6.6*10^6 V grav=-6.67*10^-11*6.0 x 10^24/6.6*10^6 V grav= -60636363 ~ -60.6 M Jkg^-1 Can I check that it is...- AN630078
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- Circular Circular orbit Earth Energy Orbit Potential Potential energy Satellite
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Tension and reaction force in circular motion
Hi I'm having trouble to understand the centripetal force in a rotating rod with a mass in its end. When ##90°<\theta<270°##, the centripetal acceleration is produced by the tension, which counteracts the radial component of the weight. But what happens when ##\theta<90°## or ##\theta>270°##...- Like Tony Stark
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- Centripedal acceleration Circuar motion Circular Circular motion Force Motion Reaction Reaction force Tension
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I Object in or out of a circular field of view? (celestial coordinate system)
In celestial coordinate system (right ascension/declination), how to check if an object with position RA and dec is within a given circular field of view of radius R (in arcminutes) and centred at (0,0)? R is small in this case so I assumed that I could compute the distance d of the object from...- vladivostok
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- Circular Coordinate Coordinate system Field Field of view System
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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I Stability of circular orbits in an arbitrary central force field
In this chapter, the stability of an object orbiting in a circular orbit of radius r_c in an arbitrary force field f is considered. The author arrives at the equation of a harmonic oscillator, for small deviations x from the circular orbit: \ddot{x} + \left[-3\frac{f(r_c)}{r_c} -...- pop_ianosd
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- Central force Circular Field Force Orbital mecahnics Orbits Stability
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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Circular Motion of a Cyclist and a Car going around a bend in the road
Question 1: So we are given three variables; Mass=90kg Angle to the vertical = 20 degrees Speed = 10 ms^-1 There is not enough information to rearrange the formulas for centripetal force or acceleration in terms of r to find the radius. However, I have a attached a free body diagram of a...- AN630078
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- Bend Car Circular Circular motion Motion
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Spring-mass system in circular motion has a maximum angular speed?
and this is my solution for question (d), it may seems that $$R=(k)/(k-m\omega^2)R_0$$ so that $$\omega ≠ \omega_i =√(k/m)$$ but $$\omega_c <\sqrt{k/m}$$ is always true, ##\omega_i## corresponds to the limit case when ##F_max## is infinitely large Besides, I don't know other Physics prevents...- Bruce_Pipi121
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- Angular Angular speed Circular Circular motion Maximum Motion Speed System
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Mechanics Circular Motion Question
Part (i) *Pink represents mark scheme method Part 2 However I am still confused on the diagram.- girlwhoneedsmathhelp
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- A level Circular Circular motion Mathematics Mechanics Motion
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Futher Mechanics: Circular Motion of a Car Going Around a Banked Turn
Below is my working out. If you could have a look at my answers and see if they are correct and then advice me on how to improve my solutions for Parts I and II, and how to answer F and G with the given information. Thanks in advance! Parts aand b are diagrams so please refer to the attached...- RemotePhysics
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- A-level Car Circular Circular motion Mechanics Motion Physics
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To find the relative velocities of linear and circular motion
Could I please ask for help regarding the final part of the following question: It is the very last part, to find v in terms of u. So I have that the velocity of the midpoint of XY is: V_m = (u/2) i + (u/2) j I let the position vector of P be: r_p = cos(wt) i + sin(wt) j (w = angular...- gnits
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- Circular Circular motion Linear Motion Relative
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I Formula: velocity of circular orbit wrt Schwartzschild metric
Below are equations/formulas/text from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_geodesics https://hepweb.ucsd.edu/ph110b/110b_notes/node75.html I apologize for not remembering the source for the "v=" equation, or for my inability to find it again. For a circular orbit, the distance r and...- Buzz Bloom
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- Circular Circular orbit Formula Metric Orbit Velocity
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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What is the metallic circular component in this voltage sensor?
While searching for something else, I stumbled upon this https://robu.in/product/voltage-sensor-module/. It is idiotic to buy something like this, because a voltage divider doesn't cost more than a few cents. But what is the metallic circular component in the middle of the sensor? Some kind of...- Wrichik Basu
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- Circular Component Sensor Voltage
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- Forum: Electrical Engineering
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Trying to find the equation of position in a circular oscillatory motion
First of all, i know that the motion will be bounded, is not necessary to know if the motion will be closed or not. Second, by analyzing the graphic of a effective potential with such conditions, the motion will agree with harmonic motion. Ok I don't know how to prove the harmonic oscillation...- LCSphysicist
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- Circular Motion Oscillatory motion Position
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When Does an Object Experience Only Centripetal Acceleration in Circular Motion?
Hey guys, Theres something I've been confused about when looking at circular motion. When does an object have just centripetal acceleration as the acceleration of the object, if ever. I think that the acceleration vector is between the centripetal and tangential acceleration when an objects...- Riemannenthusiast
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- Acceleration Centripetal Centripetal acceleration Circular Circular motion Motion
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- Forum: Mechanics
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Analyzing Forces in Circular Motion: Finding Equilibrium in a Spring System
https://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/262043I got here, i think that the component y N will balance the mg force; the other componente of N will be divided in two, one to balance the force, and other to be the centripal result, but i don't know how relate to each other- LCSphysicist
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- Circular Circular motion Forces Motion
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Calculating Orbital Velocity and Radius Using Energy Conservation
I know this problem can be solved using energy conservation, but I tried another method that I don't know is correct or not, but yielded a similar result to what my classmates got: $$F_{C}=F_{G}\Rightarrow \frac{mv^{2}}{r}=\frac{GMm}{r^2}$$ $$\frac{v^2}{r}=\frac{Gm}{r^2}\Rightarrow...- cwill53
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- Circular Circular orbit Orbit Satellite
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Torque on a circular current loop
Can anyone please tell me why the torque on a circular current loop can be calculated by the equation below? In other words, what is the intuition for the formula? Thank you. (I modified my question to a particular case) $$ \vec{\tau} = I \vec{A} \times \vec{B} $$- Leo Liu
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- Ap physics Circular Current Current loop Electromagetism Loop Torque
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Circular motion, friction and forces
I am not really sure how to go about this. I have been sick for a couple of weeks and fallen behind a bit. Can anyone help me out please? Thank you- hankrinsen
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- Circular Circular motion Forces Friction Motion
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Magnetic field affecting a circular loop
If the magnetic field is constant then no change in flux will bring no induced emf nor any induced current. With the loop is in rest position the external magnetic field will exert a force but to calculate that force with the help of magnetic field isn't obvious. If this were a charged loop, the...- Bilbo B
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- Circular Circular loop Field Loop Magnetic Magnetic field
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Diffraction using a circular aperture
Here is the following question I have been trying to answer I have drawn a quick simple sketch of what I believe is happening in the set up. Also because the angle that I am dealing with is very small, I made the assumption that sin(theta) = 12.9mm/X (where X in this case is the max distance...- Bolter
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- Circular Diffraction
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Induced EMF and current for a bar sliding on a circular rail
On the left: my copy of the illustration in the problem. On the right: top view, with the angle. The problem gives the magnitude of the magnetic field, the radius of the rail, the resistance of the resistor, the initial rotational frequency of the bar. I am able to obtain the given solutions...- FranzDiCoccio
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- Circular Current Emf Faraday's law Induced Induced emf Sliding
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Circular motion and g forces in rollercoaster
I my attempt, I set the drop height to 20m and using conservation of energy, i calculated the speed at the bottom. Calculating centripetal acceleration, if the radius of the circle is less than 10m then the g force is greater than 5, if equal to 10m the velocity at the top is 0 and there is 0...- Erucibon
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- Circular Circular motion Forces Motion Rollercoaster
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Circular motion of a car on a banked road
f=(m v^2)/r- MIN JIN
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- Car Circular Circular motion Motion
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Question about finding the amplitude of this circular wavefront
I'm stumped. How do you get this without knowing the wavelength? Can someone explain how to get the answer?- randyrandy
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- Amplitude Circular Wavefront
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Volume of an oblique circular cone
This is not homework. I have given myself two parameters; ##\theta##, and ##\alpha##. (see figure, it is a side view): The idea is to find an expression for the radius of the circles as ##x## varies on that line (figure), then sum up infinitely many cylinders of infinitesimal thickness. The...- archaic
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- Circular Cone Volume
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- Forum: Calculus and Beyond Homework Help
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Kinetic energy and momentum in circular paths
I have some doubts about ballistic pendulums. First, we say that if a bullet hits the pendulum, the linear momentum is conserved. But when we consider a rod attached to a pivot at one of its ends instead of a pendulum we say that the linear momentum isn't conserved because the rod can't move...- Like Tony Stark
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- Circular Energy Kinetic Kinetic energy Mechanics Momentum
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Oscillation frequency of 2D circular drop in an ambient environment
Hi PF! Do you know what the natural oscillating frequencies are for a 2D circular drop of liquid in an ambient environment (negligible effects)? Prosperetti 1979 predicts the frequencies for both a spherical drop and bubble here at equations 5b and 6b. There must be a simpler circular 2D...- member 428835
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- 2d Circular Drop Frequency Oscillation
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- Forum: Electromagnetism
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Circular Motion/Energy: Find the position of the rings when tension = 0
Here's my first attempt at a solution: First, I calculated the speed of one ring at the point where the tension would be zero. 3mgr(1-cosΘ ) = (1/2) * (3m) * (v^2). 3m * v^2 = 6mgr(1-cosΘ) Next, since I wanted the centripetal force, I took the result I got and divided by the radius. Fc =...- Edidas
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- Circular Position Rings Tension
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Horizontal Circular Motion With Lagrange
In the situation described in the problem, the mass is moving on a horizontal circular path with constant velocity. Wouldn’t this make L and U both constant? Then the Lagrange equation would give 0 = 0, which isn’t what I’m looking for. Any help would be appreciated.- Fascheue
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- Circular Circular motion Horizontal Lagrange Motion
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Circular fringes in a Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Fabry-Perot Interferometer contains an etalon(an optical cavity created by 2 partially reflective mirrors placed parallel to each other separated by a small distance). When light enters the etalon it gets reflected back and forth between both the mirrors, being partially reflective, every time...- Aurora_b
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- Circular Fabry-perot Fringes Interferometer
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How Does Torque Affect Angular Acceleration in a Circular Disk?
moment of inertia= [(1/2)(1.1kg)(0.96)^2+ (1.1kg) (0.75*0.96)^2]= 1.08 kg*m^2 θ=9.8 degrees= 0.17 rad torque= (mass*gravity) * radius * sin(theta) radius= 0.17rad * 0.96m = 0.16m torque= (1.1kg*9.8m/s^2) * 0.16m * sin(0.17rad) = 0.29 N*m torque = inertia * angular acceleration 0.29N*m=...- ac7597
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- Circular Disk Moment of inertia Torque
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How Long Before Runners A and B Meet at the Starting Point on a Circular Track?
Circular track: Both are in same direction.A = 3m/sec, B = 1 m/sec. Circumference of track= 100m. What is the time taken by A & B to reach starting point for first time?- Benjamin_harsh
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- Circular Track
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Electron with circular trajectory in a magnetic field
I'm not sure how I'm able to calculate the velocity of the particle using the formula without knowing the force exerted on it. Also, I don't understand why the question also provides the mass of the electron.- merdeka
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- Circular Electron Field Magnetic Magnetic field Trajectory
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In circular motion - centripetal acceleration is never there
So far what we know about the circular motion is that an object moving in a circle experiences a force towards the center of the circle and as a result accelerates towards this center. But we also know that an object always moves in the direction of resultant force - if two tractors moving at... -
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Trouble understanding vector hat notation - Circular Motion
I'm new to classical mechanics. I've done enough work with vectors to get the basics. But, I'm having trouble understanding the notation on this MIT presentation I found on circular motion: http://web.mit.edu/8.01t/www/materials/Presentations/Presentation_W04D1.pdf On slide 23, for example, I...- lightlightsup
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- Circular Circular motion Motion Notation Vector
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Circular Motion: Write expression for the period in terms of r and g
I'm not sure if I'm doing this right as far as coming up with the equation they are asking for. I feel the question is poorly worded and the formatting makes their equation notation difficult to understand. Any insight would be very helpful. This is my work so far:- ColoradoGrrrl
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- Centripetal force Circular Circular motion Expression Gravity Motion Period Terms Uniform circular motion
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I Aberration of Light in Circular Motion: Does Distance Change?
Simple as it sounds! Usually people derive aberration of light using linear motion, not circular motion. When aberration happens in linear motion, one would expect distance between the source and the observer to change. But, in circular motion, the path light takes in the circular motion, in...- Phylosopher
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- Aberration Circular Circular motion Light Motion
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Static Friction in Circular Motion
A) So we are given the radius and the coefficient of static friction as 3.0 m and 0.28 respectively. I know that in the vertical direction the only forces acting are the normal force and the gravitational force. Therefore, the normal force is equal to mg because net force is equal to 0, due to...- Softwarm
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- Circular Circular motion Friction Motion Static Static friction
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Using Newton's Laws: Friction, Circular Motion, Drag Forces
Here is my attempt at setting up the equation: I set up the equation to find the acceleration of the box: F-Ffr= m*a after finding the acceleration, I can use the acceleration and plug it in the formula v^2=(v0)^2+2*a(x-x0), which will get me the value of (x-x0)The solution sheet says that F...- Sunwoo Bae
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- Circular Circular motion Drag Drag forces Forces Friction Laws Motion Newton's laws
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Small bead - Circular loop Problem
Homework Statement: A small bead is fixed on a circular loop of radius R as shown in the figure below. The loop is rotating about YY axis with constant angular acceleration ‘α’. The loop starts from rest, then, the bead is in circular motion, then acceleration of the bead at instant ‘t’...- Albinjijo
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- Bead Circular Circular loop Loop
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Circular loop of wire is concentric with a solenoid
Question: In Figure (a), a circular loop of wire is concentric with a solenoid and lies in a plane perpendicular to the solenoid's central axis.The loop has radius 6.13 cm. The solenoid has radius 2.07 cm, consists of 8230 turns/m, and has a current i_sol varying with time t as given in Figure...- Pochen Liu
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- Circular Circular loop Electromagentic Loop Solenoid Wire
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Circular motion with kinematics
My working: ##s=\int v## ##v= \sqrt{\frac{a_{c}}{r}}=\sqrt{\frac{a_{c}}{\frac{4}{2t+2}}}## ##s= \int_{0}^{2} \sqrt{\frac{2}{\frac{4}{2t+2}}}## My final answer seems to be wrong. Any ideas? Cheers- jisbon
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- Circular Circular motion Kinematics Motion
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Electric Field for the circular path of a positively charged particle
Here is picture. Answers is A. My attempt was that I thought if i were to place a positive test charge then it would go from top to bottom if there was a positive charge in the center it was avoiding and a positively charged particle at the top, but an electron at the bottom so it would avoid...- Aaryan34532
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- Charged Charged particle Circular Electric Electric field Field Particle Path
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B Normal force of a body over a circular bridge
I am not able to understand why normal force on top in a vertical circular motion the least. Also please help me with normal force of a body over convex and concave bridges. Why do we get these equations: N=mg-mv2/r (convex bridge) N=mg+mv2/r (concave bridge)- Shashwat02
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- Body Bridge Circular Force Normal Normal force
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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Thermal Resistance of a Hollow Circular Cone
We can write our radius as a function of the height, z, of our cone: $$R(z) = \frac{R_2 - R_1}{h} z + R_1$$ Where h is the height of our cone, ##h = \frac{L}{40}##. Our cross sectional area, $$A = 2 \pi R t$$ can then be written as $$A = 2 \pi t [\frac{R_2 - R_1}{h} z + R_1]$$ This I am all...- alex_amvdor
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- Circular Cone Resistance Thermal Thermal resistance
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Circular motion -- Find the angular velocity at t=3
Hi everyone. Do correct me if I am thinking wrongly. So to find angular velocity, won't I just have to integrate angular acc = 2t, which means angular velocity = t^2? Hence, won't the answer be 3^2=9? The answer seems to be 5.43 :/ Thanks- jisbon
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- Angular Angular velocity Circular Circular motion Motion Velocity
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4-acceleration in a circular orbit around a black hole
In a circular orbit, the 4-velocity is given by (I have already normalized it) $$ u^{\mu} = \left(1-\frac{3M}{r}\right)^{-\frac{1}{2}} (1,0,0,\Omega) $$Now, taking the covariant derivative, the only non vanishing term will be $$ a^{1} = \Gamma^{1}_{00}u^{0}u^{0} + \Gamma^{1}_{33}u^{3}u^{3} $$...- Thales Castro
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- Acceleration Black hole Circular Circular orbit General relaivity Hole Orbit Schwarzchild metric
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Calculate Induced EMF in Circular Loop: Cylindrical Coordinates
In order to calculate for the curl of the induced electric field for a loop moving in a uniform magnetic field, and using the cylindrical coordinate system for a curl, it's my understanding that since the B field is in the 𝑧̂ direction, then so is the partial time derivative of B, and therefore...- TOUHID11
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- Circular Circular loop Electro dynamics Electromagnetic induction Emf Induced Induced emf Loop Maxwel's equations Radius Terms
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- Forum: Electrical Engineering