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Undergrad What software can I use to visualize transformations of the plane?
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High School Creating Cells with Household Materials: Ideas?
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High School Why does a passing car's music get louder and clearer as it approaches?
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Graduate Overdamped vs underdamped Langevin
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Graduate Understanding Negative Energy in Earth-Satellite Systems
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Undergrad Are Oblique Coordinate Systems More Useful Than Orthogonal Systems in 2-D Space?
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High School Why Does Ice Float in Water at 9°C?
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High School How can I calibrate my Ohaus cent-o-gram model 311 balance scale?
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Graduate Fair and unfair N-sided dice in principle.
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Undergrad Is the Conservation of Energy a Law or a Fact?
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Graduate Drawing a gravitational field inside a planet
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Graduate Where Do Sections 3.45 and 3.46 in Goldstein's 3rd Edition Originate?
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Graduate What is the physical difference between compression waves and longitud
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Graduate Why this solution to the 3D periodic Navier-Stokes?
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High School Why are ice cubes not really cubes, but trapezes?
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Graduate Vortices, Resonators, and Foam sleeving
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Undergrad Is there an algorithmic way of drawing phase portraits by hand?
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Graduate Complex Fourier series of sin (t)
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Graduate Solving 1D wave equation for a flag (not attatched at both ends)
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Graduate Predict timbre from First Principles?
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Undergrad Fourier Transform of this function
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Graduate Can we write icap-jcap=pi/2 ? why or why not?
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Undergrad Is a Sine Wave Defined by Its Physical Shape or Graph Representation?
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Undergrad Doppler Shift as Function of MUSIC
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Fictitious forces in classical mechanics
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High School Lower energy level more stable why?
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Undergrad Constraint-prof V balakrishnan video
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Undergrad What are the Recommended Texts for Understanding Kepler's Laws?
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Graduate How Much Mechanical Stress Can an Antimatter Drive's Loop Handle?
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Graduate Choosing hue for colormap with linear perceived luminance
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Undergrad Normal modes of a string thought experiment
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High School Name of the formula phi cos²θ + phi sin²θ
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High School Roughly, how many kg of fuel do we need to get x lbs into space?
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High School What is the meaning of interaction in science?
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Undergrad Why does resistance change in fluid flow from laminar to turbulent conditions?
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Graduate Why can k in the Delta Function equation be both positive and negative?
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Graduate What do you think of the terms used in this article?
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High School Doppler Effect: Speed Relative to Ground, Source, or Listener?
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High School Finding north with copper wire
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Graduate Functions dependent on a greater number of parameters
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Undergrad Relative to What? An Energy Conundrum
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Undergrad What is the relationship between intensity and amplitude in a wave source?
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Graduate How does radius of point spread function affect reconstruction errors?
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Undergrad Do batting gloves reduce slipping and energy loss when hitting?
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Undergrad How does a two open ended pipe resonate?
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Undergrad Relationships between frequency, amplitude and acceleration
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High School How can 2 signals go thru copper wire?
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Undergrad Time for gas to flow from pressurized chamber to vacuum
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Graduate Why is V=fl a dispersion relationship ?
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Undergrad What Causes Conductive Film on the Surface of Glass?
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High School What psi can be achieved from a 60mph wind
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Graduate Unity hypotenuse model with worldline and Pythagorean treatment
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Graduate How does the Eötvös experiment achieve such high precision
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Sensitive barometer indicating altitude
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Graduate On the nature of vacuum and questions thereof
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Undergrad Explanation of the discrete fourier transform
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Undergrad Why Do Bounded Mediums Have Specific Eigenfrequencies?
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Graduate Tracing seismic rays - possible intersection
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Undergrad Why does perspective skew some lines and not others?
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Undergrad How does air temperature affect wind turbine noise levels?
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Undergrad Basic physics understanding. Could someone explain?
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Undergrad Why does summing three Fourier components not equal the square wave amplitude?
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Undergrad Assignment problem applications in physics or chemistry
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Undergrad Sphygmomonometers energy storage?
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High School Why is one mole of oxygen 16 grams and how does Avogadro's number fit in?
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Undergrad What Are the Uses of RC Filters in Advanced Circuits?
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Undergrad Longitudinal Wave Equation meaning and derivation
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High School Designing a rope-climbing robot for a 2-meter climb
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Graduate Modal energy distribution in closed pipe resonance
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Graduate Standing wave equation phase shift and boundary conditions
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Undergrad Trying to understand granular physics (includes fluid physics)
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Undergrad Guitar oscillations? How do they look?
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Undergrad Are the Frequencies of a Plucked String and the Corresponding Sound Wave Equal?
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High School How many significant figures in 110 km/h?
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Graduate Standing waves - Wave Equation
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Undergrad Why does a harmonic plane wave have that mathematical form?
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High School Pole vibrations without obvious wind or external cause
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Graduate Equation - Wave Equation Derivation Question
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Undergrad Is gravity strongest in center?
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Undergrad What are the potential uses for ferrofluids in interactive museum displays?
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Undergrad Equal probability principle
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Graduate Why do frequencies exceed the beaded string limit in the continuum model?
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High School Science Fair Ideas - High School Level Ideas Needed
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Undergrad Where to find sample fluid stirring data?
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Graduate 2D Doppler Shift / Relative Velocities
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Graduate Oxygen Flow Through a Concentration Gradient
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Undergrad How to find the phase shift and amplitude ratio
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Can an astronaut push a space shuttle off course with one movement?
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Undergrad A Few Questions about Resonance
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Undergrad Purpose of natural log in gibbs free energy equation
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Graduate Studying Longitudinal Oscillations of a Stick
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Undergrad What do you know about ion thrusters?
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Graduate What is the correct way to calculate streamlines of a vector field
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Undergrad Can someone verify a computational result for me?
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Undergrad Vacuum chamber for filling bee comb
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Graduate Transverse Wave equation for a string of changing length?
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Undergrad Classical spin system. Ising model.
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Undergrad Mathematical model for hookah air flow
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High School Downloadable incandescent spectrum
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High School Why does air density decrease as we go higher in altitude?
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