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    Electric field & force due to charged insulating hemispherical shells

    I did not say that a hemisphere can repel itself. It does not follow from what I wrote. I said "each piece of charge feels the field of a full spherical shell". Of course, not full but minus the infinitesimal piece considered. But the point was that the field is that of a spherical and not...
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    Electric field & force due to charged insulating hemispherical shells

    A hemispherical shell does not have a constant field, not even considering only the field near the outher surface. So, there is no menaingful way of talking about "the field of..." and giving a constant value. It looks like it may be the result of taking the field of a spherical shell (with...
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    Electric field & force due to charged insulating hemispherical shells

    You don't find the field of one hemisphere but of a sphere. As long as the two pieces "almost touch" the field is of a sphere. For a hemisphere alone there is no simple formula, of course. I don't think the problem in the OP expects to find such a field. Each piece of charge experiences the...
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    Electric field & force due to charged insulating hemispherical shells

    You can find the formula for the field by using Gauss's law and the spherical symmetry.
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    Sound Wave Diagram Help

    If they are both dashed they are in phase. Half a period later the same point will be reached by two solid lines. The amplitude of the pressure at the point has maximum value. At the constructive interference there is maximum rarefaction too.
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    Sound Wave Diagram Help

    Coherent means that the phase difference is constant. Any constant. Your drawing seem to assume a phase difference of 180 degrees.
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    Sound Wave Diagram Help

    Are the speakers supposed to be out of phase?
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    Power dissipated over 1 cycle of a AC source-free RLC series circuit?

    Did you learn about RMS values of voltage and current? (this is for the OP)
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    Experiment measuring the distance dependence of a suspended metal bolt from a magnet

    You assume that the field is proportional to the current (or voltage). But this will be the case only if the point of interest is always the same relative to the magnet. But here you have the bolt at various distances from the magnet, don't you? Is the suspension point of the bolt fixed as you...
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    Help with Friction Forces: Box resting on a board on a frictionless surface

    What will be the accelerations of the two bodies if ##F=m_1\mu_s g##?
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    Current in circular wire surrounding infinite solenoid in a circuit

    Have you tried to input a positive answer? What is the meaning of a negative current?
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    Current in circular wire surrounding infinite solenoid in a circuit

    Why do you think that there is something missing?
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    Average velocity in different coordinate systems

    Correct expression for what? The average velocity is usually defined as ratio of displacement and the time interval the dispalcement happened. ##\vec{V}_{av}=\frac{\Delta\vec{r}}{\Delta t}##. If you want to express the displacement in polar coordinates you have to define what do you mean by...
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    I Insulator band gap and applied voltage?

    The voltage you apply cannot accelerate the electrons in the valence band, so it does not transfer energy to them. This why they are not conduction electrons. Strong electric field may alter the band structure itself though and maybe reduce the band gap.
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