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Undergrad History of brachistochrone and catenary
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Undergrad What is the significance of bandwidth in hydraulic transmission lines?
- CyberneticsInside
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High School Why does end correction in pipes change with radius
- Tyrone Sawyer
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Undergrad How many degrees of freedom does a swan's neck have
- mani m
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Undergrad How does laminar jet flow develop?
- member 428835
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High School Walter Lewin videos -- why ± 0.5 cm uncertainty why not ± 0.1?
- benny91xp
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High School How Can You Reattach Broken Glasses Without Reheating the Atoms?
- Blue Scallop
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High School How to specify direction in 3 dimensional world
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High School Hammer / feather moon drop clip
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Undergrad Dissolved gas concentration in undersaturated liquid column
- MarkBurg
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Undergrad Thin film around circle and ignoring curvature
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Undergrad Measurement precision question
- calinvass
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Undergrad Streamlines around a sphere (qualitative)
- member 428835
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High School Some questions about terminology
- AndyCh
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Undergrad Why Does a Fluid Jet Become Unstable at Wavelengths Exceeding Its Perimeter?
- larsa
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Undergrad What is the significance of calculating the average value of cos?
- srhelfrich
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Undergrad Original references for Hertz's experiments
- qnach
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Undergrad Quick brainteaser - Unknown objects and liquid volume/height
- rwooduk
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Undergrad Can a Non-Conductor Function as an Antenna for 1 cm Waves?
- qnach
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Graduate Can someone explain this plot of the Orr Sommerfeld equation?
- Navier-Stokes
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High School Is energy transferred as a wave or particle in classical physics?
- Naman Jain Kota
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Graduate Viscous fluid in granular material (DAPL)
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Undergrad Shrunk and thrown into a blender
- tommy01
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Undergrad Equal a priori probability and phase space distribution
- Getterdog
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Error with a Single Measurement in Physics Lab Reports?
- Derik
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Undergrad Gravitational force at the Earth's centre
- Grahame1
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High School Clear definition of microgravity?
- Logerah
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Graduate Stream functions and flow around sphere/cylinder
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Graduate Head Injury at Swimming Pool: Are Pool Tiles at Risk?
- meni2222
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High School Difference between note, tone and mode
- donaldparida
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Undergrad Why do rubber boots get stuck in deep mud?
- Lightsyn
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High School Explaining vectors and scalars with coordinate invariance
- Frank Castle
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Undergrad Are there always multiple copies of you walking just beside you?
- Happiness
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Undergrad Can two opposing vacuum exhausts create a vortex between them?
- Keith_McClary
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Undergrad So is all energy a function of one of the 4 forces?
- ebos
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High School Struggling to understand a consequence of Pascal's priciple
- Johnls
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Graduate Deriving the Young-Laplace equation from surface energy and work
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Undergrad Where to learn the mathematical tricks in Morin's problems
- RubinLicht
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Undergrad What is “normal” about normal frequencies and normal modes?
- AntonPannekoek
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High School I don't understand how this was manipulated
- Saippo
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Undergrad Physical Meaning of complex wavenumber?
- snejburg
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High School What is this physics classroom object?
- roger ryan
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Undergrad Is a compression pulse always followed by rarefaction in a longitudinal wave?
- abhinavjeet
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High School Whatever Happened to the Bell V Interferometer for Gravitational Waves?
- houlahound
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Undergrad Meniscus Formation: Increase Free Surface Area of Water
- abhinavjeet
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Undergrad Why Do Standing Waves Form with Two Free Ends?
- huyhohoang
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High School What is the relationship between the labeling system and resistivity of pencils?
- houlahound
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High School How many joules expended for a push up?
- wannab
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Undergrad Understanding Poiseuille Equation
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Graduate Why are vibrations so common in nature?
- larsa
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Undergrad If fields fill all of space, how do they have room to move?
- Pjpic
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Undergrad How can we distinguish classical physics and modern physics?
- Aafia
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Undergrad Does a more energetic particle have to be larger in size?
- Pjpic
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Undergrad Crum's shell effect - visualisation needed
- rwooduk
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Graduate Dye behavior around a rotating cylinder in water
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Undergrad What is "making the time integration redundant"?
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Graduate Ondes Planes : Explication et Signification
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Insights Frequently Made Errors in Vectors - Elementary Use - Comments
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Undergrad Bubble cavitation - what does a dash mean?
- rwooduk
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Undergrad Simplifying an equation with the same value inside and outside an exponential
- Amany Gouda
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Undergrad Is it possible to suck air out of drilling hole completely?
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Graduate The Wiedemann Effect: Magnetization Inducing Torsion?
- vin300
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Undergrad Where Does the Energy in a Standing Wave Go?
- Mr Davis 97
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Graduate Landau's Books - Vibration - flexible string
- diamon76
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Graduate Normalization of a pair distribution function
- Korbid
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Undergrad Definitive measurement that determines state of matter?
- curiousoldguy
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Undergrad Area of Ring Element: Puzzling Out dA
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Graduate Wave Equation for Circular Waves
- greswd
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Graduate Does a cube planet follow Kepler's laws in orbit?
- james_dear
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Undergrad Who Plays Saxophone? - Questions on Resonance Modes
- Anton Alice
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Undergrad How do I determine the exact shape of an airfoil blade for my wind turbine?
- Frankie.S
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Undergrad Why can't vectors be defined by magnitude and direction alone?
- hokhani
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Undergrad When is pressure energy minus gravitational potential energy in fluid dynamics?
- BobP
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Video of guitar strings from inside guitar
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Graduate Why does spin-spin coupling cause splitting in NMR spectroscopy?
- BobP
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Undergrad Diffusion = sedimentation at 1g?
- twall11347243
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Undergrad Why Does Distance Not Affect Frequency in the Doppler Effect?
- JeremyG
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Undergrad Location and intensity prediction of wave energy
- OTed
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Undergrad How do you calculate a thickness dependant impedance to a so
- rwooduk
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Graduate Is a line observable(in real life)?
- hackhard
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Graduate Can vacuum store potential energy and drive universal expansion?
- Docak
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Graduate How do two stripy k-space images reconstruct a white circle?
- BobP
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Graduate Analytical Exp[((-i Phi)/2)*h3]
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High School Can there be an equation for coins?
- teachmind
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High School Is that definition of waves correct?
- Cliff Hanley
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Undergrad What exactly does 'x-vt' mean in the wave equation?
- Jayxl
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Graduate Bifurcation between two oscillations
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Graduate Can MRI Fringe Fields be Mapped in a 3D Space?
- arashazizi
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Undergrad Gas solubility in gas versus liquid
- rwooduk
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Undergrad Calculating Copper Density: Is My Bar Pure?
- CuriousMister
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Graduate What species form when a gas ionizes into plasma?
- rwooduk
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Graduate Face Probabilities of Archimedean Solids
- Spinalcold
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Undergrad Why is the wave equation a second order differential?
- thegirl
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Graduate Harmonic oscillator derivation
- pabilbado
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Undergrad Heads or tails? (Question from Feynman lectures)
- #neutrino
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Graduate Can quantum physics explain the workings of transmitters and receivers?
- ghost313
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High School Phase difference between two points in a stationary wave
- Janiceleong26
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High School Are reversible processes real or only mathematical abstractions?
- Jimster41
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Undergrad Is Propulsion Physics Part of Nuclear Physics?
- robbie.kpm
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High School Is Newton's Concept of Space Still Relevant in Modern Physics?
- thinkandmull
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