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Graduate End correction of the pipe mouth(standing wave)

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High School Highest one could suck a drink up this straw?

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Graduate Sinusoidal wave traveling along a composite string

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Undergrad Mohr circle for 3dimensional stress state

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Graduate I'd like to see your point of view

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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?

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High School Why does heating a cornstarch solution with excess water form globules?

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Can a Fridge Cool a Room or Will a Canvas Roof Buffer Work?

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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

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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 Fe+ Brine Solution forcing by Earth Tides

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Graduate Instant accelelation in travelling wave

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Graduate Steady state diffusion with zero density at boundaries

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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?

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Undergrad Gas Animations: Create Videos from Particles Positions

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High School Why Mosquitoes Spin After Being Swatted

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Graduate Relation between occupation probability and first passage probability

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Graduate Stationary waves energy problem

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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

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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?

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What is your favorite equation?

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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?

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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?

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Graduate How Do Dipole-Dipole Interactions Influence Molecular Behavior?

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High School Understanding Tidal Forces: An Overview

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High School Simpler explanations of physics

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Graduate Standing waves in surface vibrations in rods?

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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?

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Graduate Circular Drum Head Modes: Understanding Why They Don't Always Follow the Rules

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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Standard Deviation of Total Average in MRI ROIs?

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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?

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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?

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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

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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?

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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)

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Graduate Transforming Real Signals to Complex Representation

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Undergrad Vectors and coordinate transformations

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Undergrad No prefix: What is the energy required to ionize air?

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High School What Does Force Mean in Different Contexts?

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Undergrad The Doppler Effect (in general)

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Orthographic critique about an arxiv paper

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Undergrad What is backpressure in microfluidic devices?

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Undergrad Book recommendations for thermodynamics and plasma physics

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Graduate Is there a func' for ideal x-section area in a resonant beam?

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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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Graduate Are chaotic systems really determinitistic?

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Undergrad What are the uses of quaternions in Physics?

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High School Understanding Modulation: Types and Meaning

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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?

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Undergrad What Are Cells in a Laptop Battery?

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Where to find data on hockey stick composition

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Stone skipping physics simulation

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High School Everything is made out of nothing?

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Graduate Spherical shock wave propagation in liquids

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Spring IR Melting: The Raspberry Cane Effect

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