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Undergrad Why does the phase constant shift a wave in the equation y(x,t) = ym*sin(kx - wt - φ)?
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Undergrad Why does Neon gas sometimes glow brilliant white ?
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High School Can metal skewers help bake the perfect cake?
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Undergrad What is the significance of phase constant in the wave equation?
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Undergrad Desciribing intensity of human scream?
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Undergrad Motorcycle speed in a train, short circuits, and circuit resistance
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High School Air volume released from pressurized tank through valve
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Undergrad Conductivity of metals at 0 kelvin?
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High School Is the US Prepared for an EMP Attack?
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High School What is the volume of these round pipes?
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Graduate Where can I find examples and resources on the 3-body problem?
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Undergrad What is the equation for a transverse wave with periodic boundary conditions?
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Graduate Are There Real-World Examples of Asymptotically Stable Nodes?
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Graduate How is earth resonance,EM stationary wave and ELF related to transmit energy?
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Undergrad Is g affected by other sources of gravity?
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Undergrad Finding the air cavity resonance of a propane tank for a drum.
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Undergrad Simple sinusoidal wave can't convey information?
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Graduate Standing waves on arbitrary membrane
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Graduate Why the core spin faster than the manlte
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High School If everything has energy Which thing can be an energy source?
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Undergrad Why is there an antinode at the open end of a tube?
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High School Why do physics exist? objects interacting ect?
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Which Is Correct: Equilibrant or Equilibriant?
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High School Can Quartz Crystals Convert Heat to AC Electricity?
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High School Why do different elements occupy the same volume as gases but not as liquids?
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Resonance in action: Russian Bridge
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Undergrad Zero gravitation is it possible
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Graduate What is a space/spatail harmonic?
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Undergrad Wavelength vs period for time-dependent harmonic oscillations
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Undergrad The meaning of vector/cross product
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Graduate Boundary condition problem for diffusion equation
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Undergrad Is Energy Scalar or Vector, and How Does Dimensionality Affect It?
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High School Why Do We Experience Two Tides on Earth Simultaneously?
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Graduate Gravitational Constant Measurement ?
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High School What is s for length derived from?
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Graduate The Rayleigh-Plesset Equation for Sonoluminescence
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Undergrad Where does reduced mass come from and what is its physical significance?
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Graduate What are the equations for whistling in a convoluted tube?
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High School What happens to cohesive forces when things break?
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High School How does a gyroscope work without math?
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Undergrad Why are exponential functions dimensionless?
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Undergrad Where Can I Find a Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagram for Pure Methanol?
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High School Why do I panic and forget physics formulas during timed tests?
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High School How many significant figures do 0.0 and 0.0000 have?
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Graduate Markov property and chemical oscillators
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Undergrad Plastics to tolerate -300F for liquid nitrogen generation
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High School Ion Thrusters - How much do they cost?
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Undergrad Algae producing oxygen in diving cylinder?
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Undergrad Why does the wave equation for a string apply to all types of waves?
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Undergrad What does the Centroid of area under Rate vs Time plot represent?
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Undergrad Which path does gas prefer to flow to when pressure is equal
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Undergrad How was a unit of energy first defined?
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Where can I find fonts with physics symbols like h-bar
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Graduate Noise term η(t) in Langevin equation
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Undergrad BTU rating of Earth below frost line
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Undergrad How effective is torricellian vaccum?
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Graduate Gravitational field Strength Inside the Earth
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Undergrad Parallax during the earth's orbit?
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Undergrad Reciprocity theorem and ideal gas law
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Graduate How Does an Obstacle Affect Wave Parameters?
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Graduate Adding or removing energy from a guitar string.
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Undergrad Probability of past vs future events
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Graduate Pascal's law out of statistical physics
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Undergrad Can wind chill cause frostbite at above freezing temperatures?
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Graduate Why partial derivatives in continuity equation?
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Graduate Why use primed coordinates for this
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Undergrad Longitudinal/Transverse oscillations
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High School Musical instruments - beats phenomenon
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Graduate How is Ising Model a Markov Chain?
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Undergrad Ionizing N2 and CO2 at 50 g/s flow rate
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Undergrad Can chemical reactions take place at absolute zero?
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Graduate Question on waves propagation from a moving frame
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Undergrad How to open a winebottle with a shoe
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Graduate Would a syringe in space suck?
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Undergrad How Do Cathode Rays Penetrate Thin Metal Films?
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Undergrad Good books on vibrations and waves beyond the basics
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High School What is ripple factor in halfwave rectifier?
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Undergrad Is it possible to create a SINGLE circular wave?
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Undergrad Wavelength and resonant length equation
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High School Do multiple fans in a tube displace more air than one fan?
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Graduate Something that absorbs at longer wavelengths looks more red?
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Undergrad Amplitude modulation equation with carrier and modulator frequencies
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Undergrad Amplitude Modulation Phenomona
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Graduate Does capillary length limit water rise in very thin capillaries?
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Undergrad Can some clarify what exactly n is ?
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High School Wind tunnel simulation software
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Graduate How do you find chaos in the n-body problem?
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Graduate Normal modes and system's energy
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High School Is cycle the same as wavelength?
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Undergrad What is effective conductivity?
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Undergrad How does Perrin's Brownian motion experiment prove atoms exist?
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Undergrad The Constant of Integration
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High School What is the difference between standing waves and transverse waves?
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Undergrad Chaotic system w/ initial condition
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Undergrad Could you make a fluorescent lamp with krypton?
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High School Can Someone give me a good despriction of Classical Physics?
- Physgeek123
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Undergrad Does the amplitude of a wave change with the Doppler effect in a medium?
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High School Struggling with Unit Conversions in Physics Problems?
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Undergrad Why Doesn't Air Pressure Affect Archimedes' Principle?
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