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Graduate References for non-vacuum dispersion relations
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High School Transverse Waves: Why They Can't Travel Through Liquids
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Undergrad How Does the Inverse Square Law Affect Communication with Distant Spacecraft?
- Spakfilla
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High School Why does heating a cornstarch solution with excess water form globules?
- WiFO215
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Can a Fridge Cool a Room or Will a Canvas Roof Buffer Work?
- tgkprog
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Undergrad Conflicting Answers on W|A for 844200 and Units of Measurement
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Graduate What Are the Most Fascinating Idealized Entities in Physics?
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Graduate Making hair gradually thin toward the tip while rooted to skin
- SAZAR
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Undergrad Maximum number of mutually immiscible liquid phases
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Undergrad Interesting bouyancy theoretical question
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Graduate OMEGA Formula: Integrating to Find the Answer
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High School Classical Physics-Modern Physics
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Graduate Instant accelelation in travelling wave
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Graduate Steady state diffusion with zero density at boundaries
- mordechai9
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High School Understanding Standing Wave Basics for Non-Physicists
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High School What's quality factor in oscillation ?
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High School Why Do Phys Equations Use Squared Signs?
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High School Why does all energy travel in waves?
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Undergrad How to model an ellipsoid rolling on an inclined plane
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Access Needed: Journal "10.1051/jphyscol:1974623" Requested
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Undergrad What if you were in a hollow, extremely strong tube in the middle of a planet?
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Graduate Can constant velocities produce a longitudinal wave?
- luckis11
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Undergrad Gas Animations: Create Videos from Particles Positions
- shakespeare86
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High School Why Mosquitoes Spin After Being Swatted
- WiFO215
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Graduate Relation between occupation probability and first passage probability
- WiFO215
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Graduate Stationary waves energy problem
- pisatajay2009
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Graduate Can the Peclet Number Control Diffusion in Nanoscale Laminar Flow Experiments?
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Graduate Gauss' Theorem for gravitational force
- coki2000
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Symbols such as derivative symbols
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Graduate Why is Diffusion Called a Second Rank Tensor Variable?
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What is a rheostat and how does it work?
- waqarrashid33
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What is your favorite equation?
- zeromodz
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High School Gravitational force, is it inverse square law?
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Undergrad What Are Dot Products and Vector Cross Products in Mathematics?
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High School Wifi n bluetooth technology how?
- anvesh111
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Undergrad Is the Average Kinetic Energy the Same as the Kinetic Energy?
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Undergrad Detection of string vibrations using home equipment
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Graduate Where does the energy disappear to?
- IPhO' 2008
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Graduate How Do Dipole-Dipole Interactions Influence Molecular Behavior?
- secret2
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High School Understanding Tidal Forces: An Overview
- wofsy
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High School Simpler explanations of physics
- marko33
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Graduate Standing waves in surface vibrations in rods?
- yerpo
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YouTube: Perpetual Energy - How do you explain this?
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Graduate Why check compatibility of pressure gradients in Navier-Stokes
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High School When I vibrate one end of a string, the wave is set up?
- WiFO215
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Graduate Circular Drum Head Modes: Understanding Why They Don't Always Follow the Rules
- RedX
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Standard Deviation of Total Average in MRI ROIs?
- xfshi2000
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Undergrad Conserved Quantities: Role in Physical Systems
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Undergrad What Are the Emission Spectra Results for H, He, Ne, Hg, and N₂?
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Graduate Anderson localization - waves experiment
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Undergrad How Does Wind Influence Wave Dynamics on the West Coast?
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Undergrad Can Transverse Waves Exist in the Ocean Due to Hydrogen Bonding?
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High School What's the difference between energy and force?
- kashiark
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Graduate Does Energy Decay Occur in Sealed Metal Boxes with Excited Resonant Modes?
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How to Put Together a Slip-N-Slide
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Graduate Intuitive reason for no gravity in a hollow sphere
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Undergrad What does Q have to do with frequencies?
- johnjaypl
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Undergrad Why transverse wave cannot propagate in a gas or in liquid?
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Undergrad Understanding Solid Angle and its Relation to s=rθ
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Graduate Understanding Purcell's Cube: Attraction to Mass Center?
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Undergrad Why Does Density Affect Velocity of Sound?
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High School Harness Infinite Energy with Magnets in Space
- menniandscience
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Graduate Linear and Schoenberger wave formulas for 20 ft ocean waves
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Graduate Laplace Equation on semi-infinite plate
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Graduate Where does exp(-4pi^2) appear in physics?
- franoisbelfor
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Graduate Are Statistical Ensembles Just Mathematical Tools or Realistic Concepts?
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High School A few questions about different stuff (plus request for a good source to learn)
- Mad_Eye
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Graduate Transforming Real Signals to Complex Representation
- fisico30
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Undergrad Vectors and coordinate transformations
- rockyshephear
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Undergrad No prefix: What is the energy required to ionize air?
- Alex Schaller
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High School What Does Force Mean in Different Contexts?
- eranb2
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Undergrad The Doppler Effect (in general)
- Urmi Roy
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Orthographic critique about an arxiv paper
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Undergrad What is backpressure in microfluidic devices?
- frenchero
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Undergrad Book recommendations for thermodynamics and plasma physics
- veselyi
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Graduate Is there a func' for ideal x-section area in a resonant beam?
- silverslith
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Undergrad What does a molecule having dipole moment signify?
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Graduate Young's modulus and bulk modulus of cooked pasta
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I was just wondering (not a hw question) whats the best design for penny barge?
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Graduate Are chaotic systems really determinitistic?
- SW VandeCarr
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Undergrad What are the uses of quaternions in Physics?
- C.E
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High School Understanding Modulation: Types and Meaning
- ecestar
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High School U Value of Glass - Get the Facts Here
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High School Calculating calories burned from step count and stride length
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Graduate What is the Diffusion Tensor for Isotropic Media?
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Graduate Resonant Absorption: Does Material Absorb Wave Energy?
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High School How do you derive this (E=v/d)?
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Graduate Why is the shower curtain pulled inward if Bernoulli's law doesn't apply?
- michelcolman
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Undergrad What Are Cells in a Laptop Battery?
- swraman
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Where to find data on hockey stick composition
- lizglasgow
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Stone skipping physics simulation
- ashkan.afshar
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High School Everything is made out of nothing?
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Graduate Spherical shock wave propagation in liquids
- Bpapdi
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Spring IR Melting: The Raspberry Cane Effect
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Graduate Question regarding Helmoltz equation
- maverick280857
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High School What is the difference between induced and influenced ?
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Undergrad Utility of Form factor and Crest factor in an AC waverform
- dE_logics
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1995 Ap Free Response Physics C Solutions
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If their was a suit that was able to stay hot on the outside of it,
- afcwestwarrior
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