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High School How to describe complicated dimensions?
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High School Units in exponentials and logarithms
- mixj
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Undergrad How is the damping of sound (over distance) affected by air properties?
- daanisrael
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High School Physical meaning of mass divided by velocity squared
- simplemind
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Undergrad Method for experimental results analysis
- miraboreasu
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High School If I double sound on my PC, how would the sound intensity increase?
- Lotto
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High School How to calculate a random measurement error?
- Lotto
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Undergrad Why is there no frost below a certain temperature?
- gary350
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Undergrad Why is length considered a fundamental (base) quantity?
- Ahsan Khan
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High School How does a bathtub/shower diverter valve work?
- barryj
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High School Causation: substance or event?
- sayetsu
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Undergrad Resonant frequency in damped oscillations: f or ω
- sinus
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Undergrad Difference between two percentage uncertainty equations
- homeworkhelpls
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Undergrad About Bernoulli's equation for fluid flow
- samy4408
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High School Doppler effect when source and observer move at an angle
- abdossamad2003
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Undergrad I found 2 formulas about surface tension -- which one is correct?
- samy4408
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High School Can deductive arguments be sound if observations may be flawed
- Chenkel
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High School Why do air bubbles in water suddenly merge when they get close?
- Hornbein
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Undergrad Why doesn't wood have high elasticity if it resists volume change?
- samy4408
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Undergrad Brownian motion of charged particles?
- Suekdccia
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Graduate Can skeletal models and physics explain pain perception?
- Grn_Model_Maker
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Undergrad What Causes the Initial Acceleration Phase in Molecular Behavior?
- ndvcxk123
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High School Why doesn't helium have any effect on the sound of my voice?
- Vincentjacobprice
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High School How and why can multiplication combine physical quantities?
- Haris045
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Undergrad Number of Sig Figures and Precision
- fog37
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Undergrad Can Magnets Provide Infinite Energy for Weight Training?
- yungman
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Undergrad Understanding Sound Waves in Fluids: Pressure and Velocity Fields
- Delta2
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Undergrad Electromagnetic effects in the brain
- Arceus
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Undergrad Does gravitational energy travel like electrical energy?
- Orthoceras
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Undergrad Can you find velocity by dividing maximum frequency by transmitter frequency?
- Chenkel
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Undergrad What is the Order of Integration in a Double Integral?
- Chenkel
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High School Swimming at the same Reynolds number as sperm
- ergospherical
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Graduate Why do we assume harmonic time dependence in wave equation solutions?
- Enjolras1789
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High School A flip of the Earth on its axis
- arydberg
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Undergrad What units does the conversion factor 0.023901488 represent?
- bumblebee77
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Undergrad Formula for Doppler effect in moving medium?
- xxxyyy
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Undergrad Gas molecular attraction in the sense of Newton's law
- Bernadette
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High School Why is sea surface water relatively constant?
- jaumzaum
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Undergrad Converting N/cm² to kg/cm² with correct unit factors
- kasnay
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Undergrad Physics behind making a mango milk shake
- starpower1824
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Undergrad Energy spectrum equation for Coolidge tube X-ray emission
- samy4408
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High School Artificial gravity rotating on two axes
- DaveC426913
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Undergrad Does high humidity air transfer sound better than dry air?
- gary350
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Undergrad When is a water surface not dispersive?
- Daniel Petka
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Undergrad An interesting question from Veritasium on YouTube
- Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Acoustic wave properties and momentum
- mohamed_a
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Graduate Resonant frequencies of liquid in a cylinder
- member 428835
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Graduate Brownian Motion (Langevin equation) correlation function
- Tim667
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Undergrad Estimating Vertical Wind Speeds: T_a, T_s, & P_a
- jones1234
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Undergrad Shallow Water Wave Equation Simulation: Reverse Shoaling?
- person123
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Undergrad How to deal with these +- values in an equation?
- Martyn Arthur
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High School Does there exist a metal that is 100% unrustable?
- LightningInAJar
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Undergrad How do humming tops produce multiple tones from side holes?
- Anachronist
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Undergrad Surface tension and water (the smallest hole water will flow through)
- LT72884
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Undergrad Why does thicker stainless steel pipe produce higher frequency?
- Daimion
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Undergrad Possibility of PCB Oils in old Diffusion Pumps?
- jasonlee112
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High School Fundamental Units and Supplementary Units — What are the differences?
- Mr X
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Undergrad Changing the tone of a wind chime using slits or cuts
- twincam
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High School How to explain weight gain to students when mass is conserved
- Darrencc
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Undergrad Can ground albedo near a highway refract noise upward?
- Mike S.
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Undergrad Projector location in Cinema Theater
- akerkarprashant
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Undergrad Open channel flow: derive function for energy slope on friction?
- MrS
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Undergrad Do longer limbs make a compound bow more powerful?
- kingofjong
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Undergrad Uncertainty in measurements of the thickness of a pile of pellets
- nuclearsneke
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High School Standing wave definition: is fixed displacement only at antinodes?
- kasheee
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Undergrad Conversion factors derivation.
- akerkarprashant
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High School Stability of Droplet Climbing on a Needle with Varying Contact Angle
- chingel
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Graduate Calculating the mechanical index of applied ultrasound
- rwooduk
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Undergrad Calculating an increasing angle in Spherical Coordinates for a curve
- Peter-
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Undergrad Can Graphite Sheets Replace Carbon-Loaded Teflon in Millimeter Wave Dosimeters?
- cuallito
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Graduate Is Betz law applicable to submerged hydrokinetic turbines?
- aladinlamp
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Undergrad Geometric Interpretation of Turbulence
- George444fg
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Undergrad General physics question -- How can massless photons have momentum?
- spacecadet11
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Undergrad Explain how soil is not frozen after 3 weeks of below freezing weather
- gary350
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Undergrad Second Tonga shockwave - why a drop in the pressure?
- Borek
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High School Why do all physical quantities fit the vector or scalar framework?
- JackFyre
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Graduate Is aerodynamics still actively researched or largely complete?
- Jurgen M
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Undergrad Equivalent formula for a Sound wave in a medium like an EM wave
- chowdhury
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Undergrad Resonant Frequency Formula for a given object
- btb4198
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Graduate Does gravity affect Brownian Motion?
- dedocta
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High School What type of wave is described by y'' = -k*y^2
- jaydnul
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High School White noise frequencies and Audio Speakers
- arivel
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Undergrad Designing a tuning fork resonance box with variable length
- KedarMhaswade
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High School Thought experiment (debate with friend)
- Joe seki
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Undergrad What Specifications Are Needed for a Plasma Device Power Supply?
- naviakam
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Undergrad What is the orgin of Gauss' law?
- feynman1
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Undergrad Classical particle in a Penning trap
- kelly0303
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High School Creep and its effects on a material
- Aurelius120
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Undergrad Uncommon coordinate systems used in physics beyond Cartesian and spherical
- Falgun
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Undergrad Color Theory - What does blue + yellow make?
- jaumzaum
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Undergrad How does Fourier analysis apply to non-periodic music?
- Pattern-chaser
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Undergrad How is the popular estimate of the Earth's atmospheric mass correct?
- Dreksler
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Undergrad Can ultrasonic sound be directed at one person so only they hear it?
- LightningInAJar
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High School Fundamental Questions about Atoms
- Sciencelad2798
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Undergrad Sound and apparent wind -- Any Doppler effect?
- Kairos
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Undergrad Are Newton's Laws of physics compatible with thermodynamics?
- Thytanium
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Undergrad Does sound refract at matching impedance interfaces with different sound speeds?
- snorkack
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Undergrad How Does Surface Tension Balance Small Objects on Water Surface?
- Dario56
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Undergrad Du Nouy Method for Measurement of Surface Tension
- Dario56
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Undergrad Can We See the Moon From 238,900 Miles Away?
- gary350
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