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Graduate Open-Ended Air Columns: Natural Freq of Cylinder?

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Undergrad Creating Paints/Colors outside of Visible Range?

  • WWGD
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High School Ideal cells in parallel combination

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Undergrad Is Sonoluminescence Research Allowed on This Site?

  • Ben Johnson
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High School How can the Doppler equation be rearranged to solve for other variables?

  • Zoey Brown
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High School Accuracy Defined: What Does 10% Mean?

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Insights Frequently Made Errors in Equation Handling - Comments

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Undergrad What affects the linear mass density of a string?

  • Samurai44
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Graduate Are Time Periods of Combined Vibrations Always Commensurable?

  • NRa
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Undergrad Switching between distance variables in a simple seismograph

  • shanepitts
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Undergrad Cofactor Matrix Confusion: Solving for Minor Determinants

  • Wminus
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Undergrad Why does resonance only occur when objects have the same natural frequency?

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High School How Can Understanding Basic Physics Concepts Improve Everyday Problem Solving?

  • AshUchiha
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High School Waves traveling in all directions

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Undergrad Aluminium oxide surface and conductivity?

  • spareine
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Undergrad Can Huygens Principle Be Applied to Waves on a String with Fixed Ends?

  • DaTario
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High School What causes waves to dissipate in different mediums?

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High School The History of Ticker Timers in Physics Experiments

  • Parsa
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Graduate Scaling Interpretation for 2-D Continuity PDE: What Does UH/L Represent?

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High School Finding collected count when given average value.

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Graduate Is there a relationship between amplitude response and phase?

  • manjuvenamma
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High School Classical physics history books

  • Arlax
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High School Why does the meniscus radius increase when capillary tube length is too short?

  • Joel Jacon
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High School Why does humming at a certain pitch echo loudly in a tiled bathroom?

  • kay
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Undergrad Understanding Solitons: How are they different from standard waves?

  • gentsagree
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Undergrad Solve Physics Puzzle Problem - 200 Puzzling Physics Problems

  • c++guru
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Graduate Guitarist in search of practical answers

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Undergrad Is F in P=F/A an average or a sum of all microscopic forces?

  • Greg777
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Graduate Structure of orbits at a tornado, whrilwind, etc.

  • luckis11
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Graduate Rayleigh bubble collapse pressure integration derivation

  • bksree
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Graduate The Standard Deviation of a Brownian Force

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Undergrad Are waves always the sum of sine waves?

  • Nick Jackson
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Graduate Deriving the formula for sine waves

  • Nick Jackson
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High School A little question I want to ask

  • Sundown444
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Undergrad Standing Waves and Resonance in Fixed-End Transverse String Vibration

  • ofeyrpf
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Undergrad Components of standing wave between harmonic frequencies

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Undergrad What is St. Elmo's fire enrgy source?

  • Stanley514
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Undergrad Can a wave pass through a slot twice its amplitude wide?

  • britney999
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Undergrad What defines density of chemical substances?

  • Stanley514
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Graduate Can the Larmor formula explain the stability of electron rotation?

  • MickaelPC
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Graduate Reference for Learning About Waves

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Undergrad What Does Azimuthal Symmetry Mean in Physics?

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Graduate Does quality factor of a resonator depend on the excitation signal?

  • shpongle
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What would crack easier? An iPhone 6 or an iPad air?

  • Jbeats245
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High School Symbols for physics, geometry, calculus ext

  • Simon = Mc2
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High School Physics Experiments to Do at Home

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Undergrad Suggestions on research paper on artificial satellites

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High School How Fans Move Air: Propeller vs. Blade Shape

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Graduate How do macroscopic brownian ratchets extract energy from random vibrations?

  • parsec
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Undergrad How is an emission spectrum measured and does it vary with time?

  • rwooduk
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Undergrad Understanding Standing Waves and their Velocity on a String

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High School Gravity flow rate through a tube from pressure difference

  • Ruckus
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Graduate How to Fourier transform this expression?

  • Steve Drake
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Graduate Measuring Viscosity of Materials with Dynamic Modulus

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High School Teaching Error in Measurement Lab

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Graduate 2D Harmonic Oscillator example

  • fog37
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High School Why does air release differently from a slightly open versus a wide open mouth?

  • kartikwat
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Graduate How Is Reynolds Stress Calculated from RANS Equations?

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High School Experimenting with CD: Making Bubbles with Physics

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Undergrad Does Young's Modulus Vary with Changes in Size?

  • gkiverm
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Graduate Aether Experiments: What's Your Take?

  • user1
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Undergrad Difference between wavenumber and wave mode?

  • sawer
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High School Progressive Wave Nodes: Why Don't They Exist?

  • desmond iking
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Undergrad Can I equate a variation δA with the differential dA?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate What are free energy flows in multiphase fluid dynamics?

  • Shishir_93
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Graduate Capillary meniscus height in coaxial tubes and with beads

  • Alfred1
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Undergrad Why does diffusion happen at the molecular level?

  • Oomph!
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Undergrad Why does less dense liquid float above more dense liquid?

  • Oomph!
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High School Why Does Pepper Move to the Edge of the Plate in the Soap Experiment?

  • Oomph!
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Graduate The formula pV=1/3Nm(c_rms)^2 in non cuboids

  • GeneralOJB
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High School Why Does Water Rise in Empty Glass When Using a Paper Towel?

  • Oomph!
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Undergrad Transformation Y-Δ with matrix?

  • Jhenrique
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Graduate Can someone explain these equations?

  • pierce15
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Undergrad Oscillator driving frequencies

  • Saado
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Improving Cooling Efficiency: Two Effective Strategies

  • arash karimi
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Undergrad How do glucose meters measure blood sugar levels?

  • Nerdydude101
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Graduate When to use e^i(-kx+ωt) versus e^i(kx-ωt) for waves?

  • 122520253025
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Passive flapping butterfly garden ornament?

  • Stephen Tashi
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Undergrad Why cylindrical coordinates need three unit vectors

  • PsychonautQQ
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High School Difference between physical property and physical quantity?

  • christian0710
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Graduate How to compute the energy of scalar wave equation

  • xortdsc
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Undergrad When to use gradient and when to use only one coordinate

  • FaroukYasser
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Graduate Orienational order parameter in isotropic systems

  • Liam79
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Undergrad Explain Poiseuille's Law - Learn Quickly

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Graduate How Can We Design a Solar Drone with Long Duration Flight and High Payload?

  • yuiop
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Graduate Where can I find the derivation of the Group Velocity formula?

  • PsychonautQQ
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Undergrad Maximizing Power Output with Piezoelements: A Comprehensive Guide

  • Coldy
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Undergrad Doppler effect, source and receiver in different media

  • nikolafmf
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What is program used in ray tracing simulation?

  • einstein1921
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Graduate Diffusion: Concentration profile for point sink in infinite plane

  • anvoice
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Undergrad Would wind tubine on moving automobile pomote inlet efficiency?

  • kandyho
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Graduate High Repetitive Photocathode RF Gun

  • parazit
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Undergrad Resonance feedback loop on guitar

  • Normalization
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High School Why Does Fundamental Freq Have Largest Amplitude?

  • Jimmy87
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Undergrad Understanding resonance curve symbols and transmissibility

  • haisydinh
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Graduate Relationship between intutions on energy

  • leo.
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Graduate Stability of the Classical Rutherford Atom: A Hydrogen Example

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Undergrad Do Standing Waves Occur for All Frequencies?

  • tyneoh
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Graduate Complete Removal of Matter from Space

  • brookssp
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Graduate An exact solution for the Navier-Stokes?

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