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Graduate Can Math Help Predict Binding Energies in Enzymology and Crystallography?

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Undergrad Speed of Sound in Materials: Impact on "Vaporization" Gun

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Undergrad Why does the mean value theorem give this approximation for tension?

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Where to download An introduction to mechanics by Kleppner

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High School Weight of a Fully Charged vs Discharged Battery

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Graduate Using Euler's equations to model ocean waves

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High School Looking for pipe flow information in cubic feet per minute.

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Undergrad Making an Informed Decision on Physics Engines for Games

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Undergrad Form of the solution of wave equation

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High School Where Can I Learn About Vectors Online?

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Undergrad Where Does the Energy Go in Noise Cancellation and Sound Wave Interference?

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Graduate Gravitational intensity on a thin spherical shell and continuity at the surface

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High School Experiment involving Coke and PC Cola

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Undergrad Why do potholes grow larger and can they be stopped?

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Why does meat thaw faster in fur than in flowing water?

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Undergrad What is the Best Lab Apparatus for Measuring Volume of Irregular Objects?

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Graduate Kinetic Energy: T or K in Mechanics/QM?

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High School Can evaporating gasoline cool air below ambient temperature?

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Undergrad How did Gauss find the orbit of Ceres using least squares?

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Undergrad What does the gradient mean in Helbing's pedestrian model?

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Undergrad What Would Happen if the Earth Was Flat and There Was No Gravity?

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Graduate Condition of a vector field F being conservative is curl F = 0,

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Undergrad Could Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower Have Revolutionized Wireless Energy Transfer?

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Graduate Why Is the Source Term Crucial in Differential Equations?

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Graduate What is the difference between nonlinearity and chaos, or..

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Graduate Time invarient pdf but nonstationary process

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High School What is the true definition of energy in physics?

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High School What does quantities and dimensions mean?

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Undergrad What Is the Phenomenon of a Frozen Wave in Physics Labs?

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Graduate How Does Anhedral Rigging Enhance Sailboat Performance?

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Graduate Ferrofluids, gravity, Pascal and Arquimedes.

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Undergrad Do Computer Icons Follow Classical or Quantum Physics?

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Undergrad Create Standing Waves with Antinodes at the Ends

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Graduate Are There Alternatives to Mass Spectrometry for Measuring Charged Particles?

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High School What Creates a Stronger Vacuum: 15inHG or 10inHG?

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Graduate Solve Wave Equation with D'Alembert's Solution

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High School Logitudinal and Transverse wave

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Graduate Why are Kramers-Kroning relations useful?

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Graduate What is the origin of the reciprocity theorem in optics?

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Undergrad Stress-strain relation material property

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High School Why do proportional formulas need a constant?

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Make a Relaxing Electric Current Device at Home

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Undergrad Calculus-integration over mass

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Undergrad What Is the Role of Ions in Human Electric Conduction During a Shock?

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Why do coffee grains move toward the edge when stirring?

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New Theory on why tornadoes occur.

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Graduate Can a Debye Layer Form in Air?

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High School Why doesn't the sky crush us all?

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Graduate What Does Comoving Time Rate of Change Mean?

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Graduate Is information a physical quantity?

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High School Questions about classsical physics units.

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Graduate Do flexural waves satisfy Kelvin-Voigt solid equations?

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Undergrad Unravelling the Concept of Mass

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Graduate Finding an expression for dissonance

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High School What is path length difference?

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Undergrad Can note bending on a trumpet be explained through physics?

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High School Sound intensity, loudness and quality compared, plus vacuum experiment

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Undergrad Why Does Gravitational Pull Drop to Zero at the Earth's Center?

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Undergrad Natural and Fundamental Frequencies

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Undergrad How do bubbles in fizzy drinks get attracted to the walls and bottom of a cup?

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Undergrad What Is the Name of the Curve Traced by a Ball on a Ripple Wave?

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Undergrad What causes sonometer wire to vibrate in A.C Sonometer experiments?

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High School Why do humbuckers eliminate buzz from single coil pickups?

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High School Why Does the Earth Keep Spinning?

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Graduate What are some resources for modeling fluid flow in porous mediums?

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High School Why the molecules still moving to create the diffusion and the effusion?

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High School Running up and down stairs to reduce creaking.

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Graduate What Is the Nature of Vacuum and Empty Space?

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Graduate Do solitons repeat their past patterns into the future?

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Undergrad What are the equations for circular waves from a pebble dropped in a pond?

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The radio stops when I get near it.

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Undergrad Is Coriolis force real or just an explanatory tool?

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Graduate Certainty and Classical Physics

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Undergrad Viscosity of blood and coronary artery length for Poiseuille flow

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High School Why a duck's quack doesn't echo

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Undergrad Definition of the number of dimensions of a vector space

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Graduate Windmill boat on river, no wind

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Undergrad What is the Young's Modulus of Panzani Spaghetti?

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High School What are sound waves made of and why can't we hear some?

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Graduate 3D Acoustical Wave Eqn: Closed Soln in Rectangle Coordinates

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Undergrad Understanding Dot Product: Identity and Unit Vectors

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Free Airflow Simulation Software: Find the Right Solution for You!

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High School What is chaos in simple terms?

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Undergrad Ion Sputtering: Finding Resources for Knowledge

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Graduate What Makes Slow Waves Crucial in Guided Wave Structures?

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High School What is the name of the physics law

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Undergrad Name of principle for multiplexing signals by phase difference

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Undergrad Why did a drinking glass shatter into fine powder in a circle?

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Undergrad Why Does Air-Lock Reduce Fluid Flow in Tubes?

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High School Find the Formula for Bulk Modulus

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High School Liquids with different densities

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Recommendations for an affordable gyroscope

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Graduate What is the definition of a density function in cartesian coordinates?

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Is True Levitation Beyond Our Reach?

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High School How do i write mathemtical formula

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Graduate What's the hypostasis of wave?

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Simulate Physical Objects with Computer Program

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Screen door won't close when main door is shut

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High School How Can I Determine Speed and Frequency with Only a Wavelength Component?

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Undergrad Varying densities and wave propogation

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