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Undergrad Hall coefficients of tungsten and silver

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High School Can night vision goggles detect differences in fluid density?

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High School A friend of mine who knows I believe in God but also put faith in

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High School Why soda bubbles when you shake it

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High School Strange question, but is time and actual thing ?

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Graduate Derivation of Kutta Joukowski condition

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Undergrad Has anybody heard of this odd sub-type of physics and geology?

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Undergrad Geostationary Satellite Equatorial Plane

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Graduate When is it More Cost-Effective to Add a Staircase vs. More Floorspace?

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High School Why does an explosion create both slow and fast pressure waves?

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High School How do I calculate a pumps psi output?

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High School Understanding Fluctuations in Multimeter Readings

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Graduate Negative Energy in Particles: A Conundrum

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Graduate Is the phase diagram for an oscilliator always clockwise?

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Undergrad Flow separation leads to stalling?

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Undergrad Are mysteries in physics still found in classical mechanics and thermodynamics?

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Graduate Why does gravitational Laplace's equation equal zero?

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Undergrad Oscilloscope triggering function on aperiodic signals

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Undergrad Why does f(x-vt) represent a wave along +x?

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Graduate Does a medium have to have mass to 'be' a medium?

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Undergrad Name of intermolecular forces of gases

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Graduate Is Infinite Compressibility Possible in a System?

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High School Why Do We Need Specific Launch Sites for Space Exploration?

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Graduate What is the P.D.E. governing this phenomemon?

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Undergrad Propagation of waves on a string

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Graduate Physical meaning of Radius of Gyration

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Undergrad How can animal fence wire be optimized for minimal cost?

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Undergrad What does determine the harmonic number in standing waves?

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Undergrad Does reflected sound return to its original frequency or stay Doppler-shifted?

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Graduate When to use fourier integral instead of fourier series expansion

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Undergrad Implications of Imaginary Numbers?

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Graduate Understanding what a stagnation point is in compressible flow

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Undergrad Is the wave equation applicable to all types of waves beyond harmonic motion?

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Undergrad Understanding a passage from Newton's Principia about weights and wheels

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High School What is the phase angle and what does it represent?

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Undergrad How to prove units when you have logs in an equation

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Undergrad Calculating Stress in Joules: My Experience

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Graduate Earth movement and physical vacuum energy harness

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High School How do I calculate blower flow in cubic feet per minute?

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Newbie to the Forum with Professional Physics Simulation Background

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Undergrad What do x and t represent in the harmonic wave equation?

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Graduate What does Aphex Twin's spectrogram equation mean?

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Graduate Recommended books on nonlinear physics

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Undergrad Simulating musical instruments with tuning forks

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Is there any way that we can defy gravity?

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Is there a term called 'Wave Factor'?

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High School Does the dewpoint dry the air effectively?

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Graduate Hard to find bubble rise paper/bubble shape determination

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Graduate Landau theory: why does a m^3 term implies first order transition phase

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High School What physics programs should I add to my TI-84Plus?

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Undergrad What are safe Gauss levels for everyday exposure?

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Graduate Ultrasonic Frequencies: Harassment or Something Else?

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Undergrad Mass continuity equation's applications for fluid

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Undergrad Determining Likelihood of Divergance

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Which famous physicists go with these equations?

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Graduate Forced Vortex in Earth's Atmosphere: Height and Density Distribution Explained

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Graduate Wave equation, general solution, cylindrical symmetry

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Undergrad When and why do we use Reynolds transport theorem?

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High School What is a plane angle and a solid angle?

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High School What is the Geometric Centre of a Body?

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High School How can you determine the latitude of your house?

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Undergrad Why Vectors product the way it is?

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Undergrad Does Betz Law Apply to Helicopters?

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Graduate Numerical Studies: Research Ideas for Simulating Phenomena

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High School What is the physics behind it?

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Biography of Igor Irodov

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High School Would you be weightless or crushed at Earth's center?

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High School Fundamental Equations of Classical Physics

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Graduate D'Alembert's solution of the wave equation

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Undergrad Transposing the hydraulic diameter formula

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Undergrad Any truth to discharging our bodies?

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Undergrad What is a second-order phase transition?

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Graduate General Formula Resistors Polyhedron

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Graduate Why should a planet's surface correspond to constant contour of cost effectiveness?

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Undergrad Is Energy from the Sun Radiated in a Vacuum?

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Graduate Suggestions for an advanced physics lab project

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High School Stirring tea with floating leaves

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Graduate Classical explanation of Photodissociation?

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Graduate Electricity and magnetism book for mathematicians without prior physics background

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High School Hole in Parachutes: Why is It Necessary?

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High School Contradiction regarding capillarity

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Undergrad Differences between FFT power spectrum and power spectral density

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Undergrad Is there any quantity in physics that has the unit kg^2 in it?

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Undergrad Energy of Wave: Does Amplitude Affect E?

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Graduate SI: Why relying to such a definition of a kilogram?

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Undergrad How Do Harmonics Work on a Guitar String?

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Undergrad Vladimir G Ivancevic, who is he? credible?

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Graduate Why do Spherical Non-Oscillating Bubbles Dissolve in Saturated Liquids?

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Graduate Is Power Balance a Valid Criterion for Oscillating System Stability?

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Graduate Wilson's GF Method (molecular vibrations)

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Undergrad Conceptual quest on standing wave

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Undergrad Frequence of resonating wine glass

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Graduate Where does this equation come from?

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Graduate Understanding classical stochastic systems

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Undergrad Understanding Normal Mode: What is it?

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Undergrad Molecular Geometrical Representation

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Graduate How much of visible sky is occupied by CO2?

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Graduate Simple model for evaporation animation with particles leaving a surface

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Undergrad How does a salt bridge prevent charge buildup in a galvanic cell?

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High School Why is glass transparent and solid?

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