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Q: Find the acceleration produced by a total force of 58 N on a mass of 2.0 kg. (neglect friction)

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Q: Determine from what height would a car have to be dropped to have the same kinetic energy that it ha...

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Q: Note: When the vectors A and B are parallel cos 0 = 1 and the dot product has maximum value. Alterna...

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Q: A moving coil galvanometer has a coil with 175 turns and area 1 cm2. It uses a torsion band of torsi...

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Q: Р (Рa) 800 B 600 400 A C 200 8 10 v (m³) 2 4 V 4. One mole of an ideal gas is taken through a closed...

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Q: The lenses in the figures below are all made of glass of index 1.50 and have surfaces with radii of ...

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Q: 5. A steam engine intakes 100 g of steam at 100°C per minute and cools it down to 20°C. Calculate th...

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Q: ANSWER IN ESSAY FORM What are the parallel and series circuits' similarities and differences

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Q: For the circuit below, i, = 1.4 A. Calculate i, and the total power dissipated by the circuit. 162

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Q: Given data : Voltage=12 Volt Current=3 A Find resistance

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Half Life

The concept of Half Life has numerous practical applications some of them includes figuring out the effective drug dosage to finding out when a radioactive becomes safe to use. If you look for a career in Nuclear Physics you will need this concept.