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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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