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High School How to calculate a random measurement error?
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Undergrad Why is there no frost below a certain temperature?
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Undergrad Why is length considered a fundamental (base) quantity?
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High School How does a bathtub/shower diverter valve work?
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High School Causation: substance or event?
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Undergrad Question about Waves -- "frequency" versus "angular frequency"
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Undergrad I'm confused on which equation gives percentage uncertainty
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Undergrad About Bernoulli's equation for fluid flow
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High School Understanding the Doppler Effect at an Angle
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Undergrad I found 2 formulas about surface tension -- which one is correct?
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High School Question about inductive and deductive arguments in science
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High School Rice Field Bubbles: Gotcha! Why?
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Undergrad Question about elasticity to help my understanding
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Undergrad Brownian motion of charged particles?
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Graduate How Can Skeletal Models and Physics Help Us Understand Pain Perception?
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Undergrad What Causes the Initial Acceleration Phase in Molecular Behavior?
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High School Why doesn't helium have any effect on the sound of my voice?
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High School How and why can multiplication combine physical quantities?
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Undergrad Number of Sig Figures and Precision
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Undergrad Can Magnets Provide Infinite Energy for Weight Training?
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Undergrad Understanding Sound Waves in Fluids: Pressure and Velocity Fields
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Undergrad Electromagnetic effects in the brain
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Undergrad Does gravitational energy travel like electrical energy?
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Undergrad Does dividing maximum frequency by sound frequency give accurate velocity?
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Undergrad What is the Order of Integration in a Double Integral?
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High School Swimming at the Same Reynolds Number as Sperm: A Reflection on Purcell's Talk
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Graduate Why do we assume harmonic time dependence in wave equation solutions?
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High School A flip of the Earth on its axis
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Undergrad Which units is this conversion factor for (molar volume)? 0.023901488
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Undergrad Formula for Doppler effect in moving medium?
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Undergrad Gas molecular attraction in the sense of Newton's law
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High School Why is sea surface water relatively constant?
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Undergrad Converting Units: How to Convert 1.6*10^7 N/cm^2 to kg/cm^2
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Undergrad Physics behind making a mango milk shake
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Undergrad Question about X-ray power emitted by the Coolidge tube
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High School Artificial gravity rotating on two axes
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Undergrad Does high humidity air transfer sound better than dry air?
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Undergrad When is a water surface not dispersive?
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Undergrad An interesting question from Veritasium on YouTube
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Undergrad Acoustic wave properties and momentum
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Graduate Resonant frequencies of liquid in a cylinder
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Graduate Brownian Motion (Langevin equation) correlation function
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Undergrad Estimating Vertical Wind Speeds: T_a, T_s, & P_a
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Undergrad Shallow Water Wave Equation Simulation: Reverse Shoaling?
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Undergrad How to deal with these +- values in an equation?
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High School Does there exist a metal that is 100% unrustable?
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Undergrad Humming Top Acoustics: Unearthing the Mystery
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Undergrad Surface tension and water (the smallest hole water will flow through)
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Undergrad Sound Frequency & Pipe Wall Thickness
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Undergrad Possibility of PCB Oils in old Diffusion Pumps?
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High School Fundamental Units and Supplementary Units — What are the differences?
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Undergrad Changing the tone of a wind chime using slits or cuts
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High School Does Gaining Weight Affect Mass?
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Undergrad Can ground albedo near a highway refract noise upward?
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Undergrad Projector location in Cinema Theater
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Undergrad Open channel flow: derive function for energy slope on friction?
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Undergrad Maximizing Compound Bow Power: The Role of Longer Limbs Explained
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Undergrad Uncertainty in measurements of the thickness of a pile of pellets
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High School Is the Definition of a Standing Wave Accurate?
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Undergrad Conversion factors derivation.
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High School Stability of Droplet Climbing on a Needle with Varying Contact Angle
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Graduate Calculating the mechanical index of applied ultrasound
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Undergrad Calculating an increasing angle in Spherical Coordinates for a curve
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Undergrad Can Graphite Sheets Replace Carbon-Loaded Teflon in Millimeter Wave Dosimeters?
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Graduate Betz Law & Submerged Turbines: Is it Applicable?
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Undergrad Geometric Interpretation of Turbulence
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Undergrad General physics question -- How can massless photons have momentum?
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Undergrad Explain how soil is not frozen after 3 weeks of below freezing weather
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Undergrad Second Tonga shockwave - why a drop in the pressure?
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High School A doubt regarding vectors, scalars and their role in physics
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Graduate Is fluid mechanics (aerodynamics) still being discovered?
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Undergrad Equivalent formula for a Sound wave in a medium like an EM wave
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Undergrad Resonant Frequency Formula for a given object
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Graduate Does gravity affect Brownian Motion?
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High School What type of wave is described by y'' = -k*y^2
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High School White noise frequencies and Audio Speakers
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Undergrad Help Designing a Resonance Box for Tuning Forks
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High School Thought experiment (debate with friend)
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Undergrad What Specifications Are Needed for a Plasma Device Power Supply?
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Undergrad What is the orgin of Gauss' law?
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Undergrad Classical particle in a Penning trap
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High School Creep and its effects on a material
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Undergrad What Are the Uncommon Coordinate Systems in Physics Beyond the Basics?
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Undergrad Color Theory - What does blue + yellow make?
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Undergrad What is the role of frequency in music?
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Undergrad How is the popular estimate of the Earth's atmospheric mass correct?
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Undergrad Micro Sound Waves: Can 1 Hear What Only Another Can?
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High School Fundamental Questions about Atoms
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Undergrad Sound and apparent wind -- Any Doppler effect?
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Undergrad Are Newton's Laws of physics compatible with thermodynamics?
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Undergrad How does sound reflect from an interface at an angle?
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Undergrad How Does Surface Tension Balance Small Objects on Water Surface?
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Undergrad Du Nouy Method for Measurement of Surface Tension
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Undergrad Can We See the Moon From 238,900 Miles Away?
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Graduate Free boundary conditions on vibrating rectangular membranes
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Undergrad Escape of Hydrogen from the Earth's Atmosphere
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Undergrad Behavior of a curved 2D sheet and a curved 1D wire under acoustic wave
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Undergrad Phase Speed of Wave in non-relativistic Doppler Shift Derivation
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Undergrad How does the Lota Bowl water experiment work?
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